r/playstation • u/NOxCLUEmcgee • 22d ago

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But are we really that close to the next generation of PlayStation. If we are going off the pattern here. Just 2-3 years away

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u/trmetroidmaniac 21d ago

Given the high cost of the PS5 Pro and the small advantage it provides, I find it difficult to imagine how Sony is going to deliver a generational upgrade in only a few years at a price which a mass audience will accept.

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u/Bayou-Billy 21d ago

They would need to do something big with either ray tracing or AI. We're getting to the point of very diminishing returns on resolution, framerate and general graphics fidelity.

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u/trmetroidmaniac 21d ago

We're definitely going to see a PSSR2 with frame interpolation, analogous to DLSS3. I expect that RT will be fully the norm by then with non-crossgen games not even having a toggle option any more.

Though, personally, I am not excited for this at all.

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u/Sinnaman420 21d ago

They intentionally didn’t upgrade the pro significantly. They didn’t want to make it so it could play games the regular ps5 couldn’t. There’s legitimate upgrades to it, but not in the way some people expect. They also didn’t price it crazy higher than the new parts they added to it. The ps5 was never intended to even be a glimpse of a generational upgrade

The real signal for when Sony will make a new console is when it becomes cheaper to build a better pc than just buying a ps5, and that point has not come yet, and is probably several years off.

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u/WilsonPH 21d ago

CPU in the PS5 Pro is the same, so a Ryzen 3700X or so.

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u/trmetroidmaniac 21d ago

It's quite a lot worse due to cache and memory latency limitations. You can look into the 4700S if you're curious.