
We’re now just three days away from the release of Sony’s PlayStation 5 Pro on November 7, and today the company shared a list of over 50 games that will be enhanced for its new console. While PS5 Pro reviews are likely coming very soon, we’ve also learned a bit more details about the console’s specs today.
PlayStation architect Mark Cerny previously explained that the main purpose of the PS5 Pro is to make the choice between “Quality” and “Performance” modes less of a dilemma for console games. “The console enables graphical enhancements like advanced ray tracing, PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, and silky smooth framerates of 60hz or 120hz through an upgraded GPU (depending on your TV),” Sony emphasized today.
The PS5 Pro aims to run existing and upcoming games at higher frame rates with a “Quality” level of graphics settings. However, it’s ultimately up to developers to choose if they still want to offer Quality and Performance modes on the PS5 Pro versions of their games.
Here’s the list of 50+ games that will be enhanced for the PS5 Pro at launch:
It’s worth pointing out that this list includes two Microsoft-owned Activision Blizzard games, Diablo IV and the freshly-released Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. There are also several PlayStation first-party games plus many high-profile third-party games such as Alan Wake 2, Dragon’s Dogma 2, and Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth. Sony said that “many more” PS5 Pro enhanced games are already in the pipeline.
In addition to these PS5 Pro enhanced games, the console will also be able to improve unpatched PS5 games and over 8,500 backward-compatible PS4 games thanks to a new “PS5 Pro Game Boost” feature. This seems to go beyond Microsoft’s recent backwards compatibility efforts such as FPS Boost, which is currently only available on 100+ Xbox One and Xbox 360 games.
Lastly, the manual for the PS5 Pro that’s included in the box has just revealed more hardware details about the new console, thanks to Digital Foundry: The PS5 Pro features a 8 cores/16 threads AMD “Zen 2” CPU and its RDNA-based GPU delivers 16.7 teraflops of computing power (compared to 12 for the RDNA2-based Xbox Series X GPU). The PS5 Pro also comes with an additional 2GB of DDR5 memory, likely reserved for running the PS5 OS, and a 390W power supply (up from 340W on the PS5 Slim).
The PlayStation 5 Pro is priced at $699.99/£699.99/€799.99, and while it comes with a 2TB SSD, the disc drive needs to be purchased separately. The vertical stand is also a separate purchase, just like with the PS5 Slim.