PlayStation 5 Pro is launches today, November 7th, priced at $700. While Sony is boasting a list of over 50 games getting day-one enhancements, there are notably few PSVR 2 titles getting a launch day bump. Here’s the full list.
Update (November 7th, 2024): with PS5 Pros now in the wild, we can confirm that more than the previously reported singular game, Kayak VR: Mirage, is getting a PS5 Pro upgrade today.
While you can look forward to 8K textures and higher Dynamic Resolution from Kayak VR: Mirage, Hello Games’ hit PSVR 2-supported No Man’s Sky is getting an update today too.
The new No Man’s Sky update not only includes cross-saves across all supported platforms, but for PS5 Pro users it now features improved graphical quality and lighting, with ultra quality reflections and higher quality ambient occlusion in all modes, PSVR 2 included.
According to MIXED, cyubeVR from Stonebricks Studio is bumping distance for maximum level of detail (LOD) of the landscape and buildings, and higher (LOD) for trees to smooth LOD changes from a distance.
We’re still waiting on word whether for Capcom’s Resident Evil Village and Resident Evil 4 are getting any improvement to their respective PSVR 2 modes, although at the time of this writing it appears only the non-VR mode is getting a graphical ‘pro’ bump.
The original article detailing PSVR 2 support on PS5 Pro follows below:
Original Article (November 4th, 2024): The ultimate expectation is PS5 Pro will allow all PSVR 2 titles to run at higher frame rates and possibly without reprojection, which supplements lower frame rates with ‘synthetic frames’ to reach a higher perceived refresh rate.
Hopes rest on the console’s new GPU that Sony says has a 67% more Compute Units than the current PS5 console and 28% faster memory, but also the new Playstation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) AI-driven upscaling feature.
PSSR isn’t coming to VR games at launch though; a patch made specifically available to PSVR 2 game developers is expected “in the future,” Sony’s lead PlayStation system architect Mark Cerny told CNET back in September.
While Kayak VR: Mirage does have the coveted ‘PS5 Pro Enhanced’ badge, making it the only VR native to do so, it’s undoubtably relying on the console’s overall increased horsepower, and not PSSR as such.
For now, there are technically three other PSVR 2-supported titles listed in Sony’s launch day list—No Man’s Sky from Hello Games, and Capcom’s Resident Evil Village and Resident Evil 4—although neither studio has made any claims as to whether their respective VR modes will see any enhancements.
A number of third-party VR games have also pledged eventual PS5 Pro enhancements, including cyubeVR from Stonebrick Studios, and unreleased titles Arken Age from VitruviusVR and Subside from A2D Software.