That Sony is developing PlayStation 5 Pro is no longer a mystery. Various news and rumors have gradually overlapped about the specifications of the new console or its release date, however, there is another aspect to take into consideration: considering what has arrived so far, do we really need an enhanced version of PS5? This is what our colleagues at GamesIndustry.biz asked themselves.
PlayStation 5 Pro probably isn't necessary according to Chris Dring
The new PlayStation 5 Pro should boast very respectable specifications but above all, as suggested by insider Tom Henderson, it would feature the proprietary version of Nvidia's DLSS. The so-called PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution Upscaling should marry better with the architecture of the Sony console than AMD's current FSR 2, thus allowing better performance. The developers should be happy with this, right? Actually not really.
In fact, during the GDC, the editor-in-chief of GamesIndustry.biz Christopher Dring also participated and, speaking with various professionals, he was surprised by how none of them were really enthusiastic about these new specifications. On the contrary, none of them really feel the need, given that we haven't yet managed to exploit the current PlayStation 5 to the best of its possibilities. On top of all this, the general feeling is that this generation never really started so arriving at an enhanced console already seems too premature as well as useless.
Rather than a new console, truly new generation software would be needed and this is what Christopher Dring also supports, directly on the “GI Microcast” podcast which you can see below. We actually find ourselves in a strange limbo: on the one hand there is a desire to innovate, taking advantage of everything that technologies currently bring into play but on the other, we still have a large portion of users with the previous console who do not want to abandon but above all, we are too afraid of making mistakes. In short, everyone wants innovation but there is a risk that this may not be understood by the general public. A truly complex situation.
Source: GamesIndustry.biz