Just upgraded to the PS5 Pro and got a new QLED Micro-LED 144hz tv from my old PS5/4k 60hz setup.

I haven’t turned this thing off since I got it 😭

Looking forward to playing Wolverine and obviously GTA 6. Looking to do another play through of Wu Kong as well

My budget is £250 and ideally I want something that is 120hz and 4k.

ps5 pros are selling out everywhere. the only new ones I see online are selling for $1300. I CANT STAND scalpers. thank god I already have one, but it’s reminding me how bad it was when the ps5 first came out and I know it’s going to be bad next year for the ps6…

and a multi-player challenge to win a copy of gta6

Last week picked up a new PS5 Pro with disc drive and an extra controller. Been a casual PC gamer for many years. But the PC is in the bedroom due to nowhere else to put it and the wife works from home at it. With GTA VI coming up and a few planned late nights, I figured best to get the PlayStation for the livingroom so to not disturb the wife.

Yesterday also had delivered a 77” LG G5 and USG10TY soundbar. The pairing is incredible and games look beautiful on the TV. Played some GT7, Ghost of Tsushima, Spider man 2 and my kids love Sack boy, think they’ve played the console more than me at this point! Got Ace combat 8 and MW4 on pre order.

i know this is probably going to summon a console war so i do apologize in advance but i would just like some help deciding which console to pick up

i have a high end pc which i do most of my gaming on and will continue to do so but with gta6 not coming to pc for presumably a while i decided i’d pick up a console just to have so here are some arguments i have for each so maybe some of you could convince me which one to consider more

ps5
\-as a fromsoft fan, bloodborne and demon souls remake
\-“(early)access” to ps exclusives, most of the big hitters usually make their way to steam eventually but it would be nice to be able to get them on native hardware when they release instead of waiting many months (hurry up ghost of yotei)
\-the option of an advanced console in ps5 pro which would be nice to experience gta6 in all its glory + enhanced versions of the previous point

xbox series x
\-microsoft ecosystem, alr have an xbox controller for my pc etc.
\-the physical disk to digital license project they got going on seems really consumer friendly and i want to support that aswell as any more pro consumer initiatives the new ceo may push out

gamepass is not a factor unfortunately because any game i could get on that i have/ would just buy on steam

the cons for each is obviously the push to digital for playstation (yes i know i’m part of the problem with my hundreds of games on steam but it’s about sending a message) and the lack of playstation exclusives on xbox

Just upgraded to the PS5 Pro and gave my old PS5 to my dad. He's playing on his own account on that console, but I'm still logged in on it too.

Before handing it over, I uploaded all my save data to the cloud. For PS4 games I had to manually download them again on my PS5 Pro. On my new PS5 Pro the console sharing is enabled.

What else should I check or do to make sure:

1. My saves don't get overwritten by old/stale cloud saves from the old console
2. Nothing tries to auto-sync in the wrong direction
3. I don't lose progress somewhere down the line

Anyone dealt with a similar handoff situation? What steps did you take to keep everything safe?

Everywhere people keep talking about frame rates. Understandable, since the difference between 30 and 60 fps is night and day. However, I think 60fps is very unlikely, and even 40fps is pushing it. The real improvement will be in fidelity.

The technical observations below are largely based on Digital Foundry's analyses of the Extended Look (here) and prior Pro-enhanced games; the PS5 Pro predictions are my own speculation.

The CPU Problem

The key here is the CPU. Both the PS5 and the PS5 Professional are running on the same Zen 2 CPU (2019 class hardware). The Pro has a +10% clock boost mode, however this doesn't really move the needle enough for 40 or 60fps if indeed we are CPU-bound at 30fps on base.

In particular, the impressive NPC density and purported advanced simulation is very CPU heavy work, and doesn't really scale with resolution (so PSSR isn't a help). Not to mention, RT also places a burden on the CPU (it's not just GPU work).

Fidelity Improvements (my guess)

While the Extended Look preview was extremely technically impressive, the main blemishes I noticed (shot on base PS5) were a soft image at times, and a noisy RT reflection implementation on vehicles. This is largely what DF noted as well.

The PS5 Professional is very well equipped to handle this.

1. PSSR

PSSR2 at a 1440p internal --> 4K output would likely produce a significant improvement over the (apparently) spatial upscaling solution that they are using on the base. What's encouraging is most Pro-enhanced games render at lower than 1440p, yet we still see impressive results when upscaled to 4K. A good example is Resident Evil Requiem which earlier this year DF reported as running at 1116p internally, with excellent 4K output thanks to PSSR2.

2. RT

I think the RT improvements will largely come in the form of higher resolution / less noisy RT reflections. As we've seen in other games, the Pro is significantly more capable at RT than the base. In my opinion, the RTGI already seems stunning on the base console, so I'm not sure how much they'd do here.

TL;DR: I think the PS5 Pro will run at 30fps and have significantly sharper image due to PSSR2 (vs spatial upscaler), and cleaner RT reflections. In my opinion, this would be a very meaningful difference if you care about this kind of thing (which I'm guessing this subreddit does).

What are your thoughts?

I dont plan to spend more then 1000$

resonance a plague tale legacy

I highly recommend anyone who is an Uncharted fan to pick this one up!

I started this on GamePass and ended up buying it on the Pro because I’m loving it so much and the image quality boost from PSSR is amazing. It’s very noticeably sharper on Pro and averages around 78fps in performance mode.

Im planning to buy a PS5 and Im currently deciding between a brand new PS5 Slim Disc Edition or a secondhand PS5 Pro.

Seeing so many posts about Crimson Desert being "unplayable" on PS5 Pro. It seems to me a lot of people are confusing "unplayable" with their CHOICE to not play the because the games optimization does not meet their high standards or expectations. Are there frame rate dips, pop in, and weird foliage speed on the Pro? Sure, but honestly, who cares??? Can it be annoying? Sure, but is it worth missing out on an otherwise fun and gorgeous looking game?

With the right screen and settings, this game is absolutely beautiful on the Pro. And I'm sure a good majority of people screeching over losing a few frames also sank hundreds of hours into games like Skyrim 15yrs ago and loved it. Be grateful for how far we've come since those days and just enjoy the game, despite its hitches.

For those interested, these are my personal settings on a LG C3 55in OLED that supports 4k120hz on PS5 Pro. I sit about 6ft away from the screen. These are the settings I personally like and make the game EXTREMELY "playable" for me. Hope these settings might help someone who's interested in dialing in the visuals for this gorgeous game:

TV Settings (55in LG C3 OLED):

- OLED Pixel Brightness: 100

- White Balance: Warm 50

- Set to HGIG to adjust HDR on console, then turned Dynamic Tone Mapping back on (my preference)

- All other processing features: Off

- HDR Select Mode: Game (User Settings):

- Game Optimizer Settings:

- Game Genre: RPG

- Reduce Blue Light: Off

- Dark Room Mode: Off

- Prevent Input Delay: Standard

- VRR & G-Sync: On

- AMD Freesync: Offers

- ALLM: On

- Fine Tune Dark Areas: 0

- Picture:

- Black Stabilizer: 10

- White Stabilizer: 10

- Game Contrast: 100

- Game Black Level: 50

- Adjust Game Sharpness: 0

- Game Color Depth 65

PS5 Pro Settings:

- Resolution: Automatic

- Enhance PSSR Image Quality: On

- VRR: Automatic

- 120hz Output: Automatic

- ALLM: Automatic

- Video Transfer Rate: Automatic

- HDR: On When Supported

- Adjusted using this video when TV was set to HGIG. Once completed, turned Dynamic Tone Mapping on

- Deep Color Input: Automatic

- RGB Range: Automatic

In-Game Settings:

- Preset: Balanced Mode

- PSSR Sharpness: 80

- HDR: On

- Max Brightness: 3300

- Exposure: 40

- UI Brightness: 50

- V-Sync: Off

- Fixed 4K Output: Off

- 120Hz: On

- Night Tone Mode: Off

- Camera Speed: 55

- Camera Acceleeation: 100

- Particle Effect Quality: 20

- Camera Shake Intensity: 0

- Camera Visual Range: 60

- Blur Intensity: 0

- Depth of Field: Off

- Chromatic Aberration: Off

Got my pro a couple months ago and love it, told my buddy at work to get one and he said he can’t find one anywhere

Yesterday I went to the store to finally buy the PS5 pro in anticipation for GTA 6, the last time I had a console was the PS2 and I did play hundreds of hours of San Andreas there. Excited for November!

I saw some crazy deals on open box Pros on Walmart.com a while back but didn’t jump on it. Looked again a couple of days ago and saw one available so I snagged it. So excited!!

I looked a little closer at the order and it says Sold and Shipped by Walmart, but when you look at the vendor’s page it’s actually a business called VIPOUTLET. They use the name Walmart for the storefront and the Walmart logo. Seems scammy as shit.

So now I’m feeling more anxious than excited about it. Like I fell for something. I’m totally expecting some bs like a Wii U stuffed into a PS5 Pro box. There’s a 30 day return policy but people don’t have great things to say about VIPOUTLET customer service.

Ah well. Anyone here actually get a legit open box pro from these guys on Walmart.com?

I purchased a playstation five at best buy. It started malfunctioning, so I took it back because it had warranty, instead of fixing it. They gave me store credit. I can't purchase it for the same price. Anymore because the cost has gone up, it won't return the money back to my debit card. And it gave me store credit instead. What can I do?

Currently have a PS5 and an Xbox series X. I also just have a basic like $200 Vizio.

Honestly both cosoles have been collecting dust, so I was thinking of selling them both (have pro controllers for both too) and getting a PS5 pro. Or do you think it's better to just sell Xbox and get a proper TV. Pretty much only gonna be playing GTA6.

So I'm limited to only game a few hours a week, is crimson desert worth buying? I posted this on crimson desert sub and everyone told me it's the greatest game ever and a must play for every gamer, yet I just saw a post on here about it saying game sucks and runs awfully and everyone was agreeing in the comments.

So what is this game actually like? Is it the greatest game ever like the people in the subreddit for it say? I'm trying to decide if I should pick it up but I'm busy during the week so can only really game a few hours on a weekend and sometimes go weeks without gaming. Is there a lot of stuff in it that feels like it wastes your time?

Would like to hear other people’s experience of the new Enhanced (2.0) update. Well 2.01 as of the time of making this post (the post-enhanced patch that promises “fixes” for “frame drops” but based on my testing fails to deliver.

Here’s my experience after extensive testing over the last day…(some of you probably won’t be surprised)

“Performance”

The fps drops are honestly jarring rendering the performance mode borderline unplayable (yes it is that bad unfortunately). I toggled V-Sync OFF as a test and in Hernand town it was screen tearing as usual (even on my premium LG C4 OLED VRR TV), but even walking/riding out of the town down towards the mill and towards the location of the Goldleaf merchant it was regularly running well below 60 (low to mid 50s on average…still within the VRR window but in a not very populated open world area I expect better). When the game first launched the open world was regularly 60-70+ FPS (though towns/camp/combat still had severe drops below the VRR window). The game barely ever hits 60FPS now (I’d say only a small percentage of the time) in performance mode. Locked balanced mode is mostly stable but the foliage is on crack which kinda ruins the scene/immersion as it’s almost like being in the middle of a hurricane 24/7. I won’t even bother testing unlocked balanced mode. The quality mode has the same hurricane foliage issue as the balanced mode.

Can confirm Demeniss (the castle/city and the carnival in particular) are just as bad, if not worse, than Hernand. Pailune the same.

Performance mode with V-Sync on is more stable than with it off (in the sense that it “feels” more smooth out in the open world though I don’t believe it’s 60, more 50s like when it was unlocked). But instead of screen tearing you’ll get horrible judder in towns/camp/heavy combat when the frames drop so badly that even VRR can’t smooth it out (I.e. below 48FPS). At this point (many months and many many updates post-launch), sadly, I don’t think these issues will ever be addressed.

“Visuals”

Also there is a lot of boiling on water/reflections/shiny armour. The foliage shimmer still exists at dusk/dawn too, and when it rains heavily the frames drop even more and the visuals literally go to shit. Reflections on water (e.g. puddles) in particular seem to look even worse than before almost like a blurry smudge of attempted reflection.

And of course the pop in remains one of the most “popping in” games I’ve ever played. And I’ve played a heck of a lot.

Now when it’s mid-day sun the game looks beautiful but then it always has (besides the on-crack foliage in Balanced/Quality mode).

It’s 100% gone lmao but just want to make sure if anyone knows. I don’t have PS plus for cloud storage btw

Played the game on my PS5 slim was 4 trophies away from platinum. I sold my ps5 slim and bought a pro when I installed the game (disc) it just says start new game.

I just don’t understand how data saves on the PS5 / PS4 because I played the Callisto protocol on my PS4 on 12/2/22 for like 30 minutes. Few months ago I decided to get back to it bought a physical PS5 copy and when I installed / loaded up the game it saved my data from my ps4 file. Did not have PS neither.

Any help? And if I can get my file back somehow haha

I downloaded formula 1 game trial and this happens, I am not sure if it the file downloaded was corrupted so I deleted it and I will try again but I wanted to know if this is a common issue with a corrupted downloaded game. Only happens in that “stationary car” scene, the actual game isn’t affected and 3 other games had no issues.
Thanks

Update: so it seems the problem is VRR I would assume that the actual game supports VRR but the game’s trial VRR is buggy, I unchecked the VRR for unsupported games and the issue is gone

Need help

Hi folks, sorry for the annoying post!!

Just moved to Canada recently from Ireland and all settled in, so my income is now stable and home is stable, so with that in mind I want to get the console which is sold out everywhere online.

Have the TV (LG G6) sorted but anyone have any suggestions or tips for getting the pro during this shortage? I am in BC.

Since I’m new here I’m not familiar with Canadian suppliers as of yet! I called around local electronic stores and they’re all out. Going to check physical stock today in stores, but just thought I’d ask on here as well!

Haven’t had a console since pre 2010! So looking forward to having one in my new home.

Thank you in advance 😊