The Pro is the most disappointed I've been with a gaming purchase and subsequently with a videogame company (Sony) in my 35 years of gaming.
It's not that the console doesn't improve games, it's that the improvements are so minor due to the lack of Pro patches for many games (not just 3rd parties but many of Sony's own games) and the games that have received patches are half assed, low effort disappointments such as Silent Hill 2, SW Outlaws, Avatar etc ...most patches come down to the devs slapping PSSR on their game and calling it a day ....only a few games had actual work done on improving graphical settings (spiderman games, callisto protocol, Dying Light 2, horizon fw, sw jedi survivor tho that game has bad image quality).
As far as PSSR goes, it's jus5 not very good. It's expensive to implement, so instead of getting RT improvements on top of pssr we just get PSSR. It doesn't fix the main problem we have been dealing with all generation long with FSR- image quality issues due to artifacting and aliasing. The main reason we all wanted ai upscaling it doesn't fix! Sw Outlaws has the same noisy, ugly reflections it had on PS5. Alan Wake 2 has just as nasty of aliasing that it had. Jedi Survivor is full of shimmer. Silent Hill 2 is noisy as can be. All PSSR seems to make a difference with is for games that already had clean iq- PSSR makes things sharper in general but it doesn't "work well" for all games- sometimes it seems to exacerbate underlying issues already present in games.
Sony just hasn't bothered to patch 8 exclusives for the Pro. I think this is the most pathetic thing in the world. That the company asking us to dole out $800 for their console that's designed to give players a better experience, doesn't care that there are many disappointed owners wondering why games like Returnal and Astrobot are exactly the same on Pro as they are on PS5!
There are so many 3rd party games too that havn't received patches even though they stand to benefit from them. You can't really even blame them as its their perogative whether they think it's worth it. A sad fact of console gaming, that you need extra specific work done in the form of a Pro patch, to get a benefit. So nothing from Cyberpunk, Control, Plague Tale Requiem, ff16, and many more games.
I shocked at how bad Sony has been with their handling of this. For the insane price they needed to actually deliver something special and they've done the opposite. Again, 8 Sony important exclusives that they're just like "nah ..you thought Returnal would be improved? Fuck you. You thought we'd patch the biggest live service hit if 2024, Helldivers, a game in desperate need of higher resolution? Nah, fuck you. You thought we'd provide updates like we gave to the superior PC versions of Death Stranding, ghost if Tsushima, Uncharted 4, Days Gone, God of War, Returnal, etc? Nah, fuck you. You thought that since we said all Sony games going forward would take advantage of the Pro after launch? Say hello to Lego Horizon ...and fuck you too lol
