Sony's PS5 Pro PSSR AI Upscaling Expands to 14 Games, Promises Better Visual Quality

Sony's PS5 Pro AI Upscaling Comes to 14 More Games, Rollout Starts Today

With over a decade of experience reporting on consumer technology, James covers mobile phones, apps, operating systems, wearables, AI, and more. If you own the Sony PlayStation 5 Pro, you may soon spot improved AI upscaling on some of its best games. An upgraded version of Sony's PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) feature first arrived in Resident Evil Requiem last month, and now the brand has confirmed that 14 more games are getting the update over the coming weeks. PSSR is an AI-powered upscaling tech similar to AMD's FSR4 or Nvidia DLSS, but it's not strictly the same. Sony describes this new version of PSSR as "delivering enhanced image stability, improved clarity in fine details, and more consistent performance across supported titles." You'll get access to the new PSSR features through a PS5 Pro system software update, which began rolling out on March 17. Sony says it'll be available to all players in the coming days, so keep an eye out for an update on your console. New supported games include Alan Wake 2, Control, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Dragon's Dogma 2, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Monster Hunter Wilds, Nioh 3, Rise of the Ronin, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, Silent Hill 2, and Silent Hill f. There are three more games coming soon, with a patch expected for Assassin's Creed Shadows and Cyberpunk 2077 in the "coming weeks." The upcoming game Crimson Desert, launching on March 19, will also support the tech from launch. Digital Foundry tested an exclusive look at four of the upgraded titles, and found they delivery on Sony's promises. Digital Foundry said, "With the launch version of PSSR, the quality of the image quality upgrade varied on a per-title basis and could look worse than the original base PS5 game. That is no longer the case and that's simply great news."

Sony's updated PSSR upscaling tech is finally available for even more PS5 Pro games, including Crimson Desert, Silent Hill f, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and more

"Moving forward, most new PS5 Pro titles will launch with support for this enhanced PSSR," says Sony * Sony's updated PSSR tech is now available for a collection of PS5 Pro-supported games * Some of those titles include Silent Hill f, Alan Wake 2, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and more * More games, including Crimson Desert, Assassin's Creed Shadows, and Cyberpunk 2077, will also receive the update soon Sony has released a new PlayStation 5 software patch that introduces support for its upgraded version of PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) upscaling technology across a wide range of games. Late last month, we learned that Sony had finally released its brand new AI upscaling tech for the PS5 Pro version of Resident Evil Requiem, the first game to receive the update, and that more games were expected to receive the same treatment soon. Now, in a new PlayStation Blog post, Sony announced it has rolled out the new version of PSSR to several PS5 Pro games to deliver "enhanced image stability, improved clarity in fine details, and more consistent performance across supported titles." "The upgraded PSSR represents another step in our commitment to evolving the PS5 Pro experience," Sony said. "Moving forward, most new PS5 Pro titles will launch with support for this enhanced PSSR, ensuring players continue to see improvements in image quality and performance." The titles named include Silent Hill f, Monster Hunter Wilds, Dragon's Dogma 2, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Control, Alan Wake 2, Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Nioh 3, and Rise of the Ronin. "With the latest PSSR update, Silent Hill f now delivers an even smoother gameplay experience than before," said Konami about Silent Hill f's update. "Fine details - from swaying blades of grass to shadows cast across the ground - are rendered with greater clarity, deepening immersion in the fog-shrouded Japan of the 1960s." BioWare, the developer behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect, also commented on The Veilguard update, saying, "With the new PSSR, we're delivering a meaningful improvement in image quality while still maintaining stable framerates in Fidelity and Performance modes. Your adventures in Thedas will now feel smoother and more visually refined." Remedy Entertainment also commented on the improvements to image stability and motion clarity in both its titles, Control and Alan Wake 2, with graphics technical director, Tatu Aalto, praising the upgrade. "The upgraded PSSR improves image upscaling quality and stability," Aalto said. "The improvements allow efficient stochastic sampling without sacrificing image stability. The new PSSR responds quickly to visibility changes in games, keeping motion clear while improving temporal stability." For Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, director Naoki Hamaguchi praised the upgraded visuals, saying, "Compared to the original PSSR, fine details such as characters' hair are naturally restored, and the image processing is more stable due to less flickering and afterimage feeling. Overall, we feel it allows us to create a more immersive gameplay experience with improved graphical quality and stability." Sony has confirmed that PSSR 2 will also be available in more titles soon, including Crimson Desert, which launches this week, Assassin's Creed Shadows, and Cyberpunk 2077. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button! And of course you can also follow TechRadar on TikTok for news, reviews, unboxings in video form, and get regular updates from us on WhatsApp too.

PSSR 2 is finally here, and the tech that made Resident Evil Requiem look so good promises a big PS5 Pro upgrade for Crimson Desert this week

Patches for Assassin's Creed Shadows and Cyberpunk 2077 are on the way We got a preview of PSSR 2 with the launch of Resident Evil Requiem a few weeks ago, but today marks the wider launch of the improved upscaling tech on PS5 Pro. The upgrade lands as part of a system-level update that can apply to all games, but some specific titles - including the likes of Silent Hill 2, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and Monster Hunter Wilds - are getting their own special patches, and arguably the tech's most notable test will be the launch of Crimson Desert later this week. "PSSR is an AI library that analyzes each frame pixel by pixel as it upscales game visuals," as Sony explains in its announcement. "With this latest evolution, image reconstruction is more precise, motion stability is improved, and developers have greater flexibility to balance performance and fidelity on PS5 Pro." The original version of PSSR often did provide major visual upgrades for certain titles on PS5 Pro, but the machine learning-based upscaler sometimes introduced distracting graphical artifacts in certain games. PSSR 2 - simply the "new" or "improved" PSSR, as Sony prefers to call it - builds on an upgraded algorithm that should both eliminate those sorts of artifacts and offer better results across the board. A new Digital Foundry analysis breaks down some of the big improvements to existing games. Silent Hill f, for example, no longer has the shimmering, pulsing visual noise it once displayed on PS5 Pro. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth offered one of the better PSSR 1 implementations out there, but it's also been improved, cutting out the soft film grain-like effect that once overlaid the screen. It's not all perfect, as DF highlights that Dragon Age: The Veilguard sometimes showcases odd, dot-shaped artifacts with PSSR 2 on certain textures. But all the games tested are definitively better under the new tech. "This is a big improvement over PSSR 1," Digital Foundry's Oliver Mackenzie believes. "So big that it justifies the existence of PS5 Pro almost on its own." Silent Hill f, Silent Hill 2, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Control, Alan Wake 2, Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Nioh 3, Rise of the Ronin, Monster Hunter Wilds, and Dragon's Dogma 2 have all been specifically upgraded for PSSR 2. The new PS5 Pro update, which launches today, also introduces a system-level setting to enable or disable the feature across all games on the console, though we don't yet know what sort of improvements - or flaws - may be introduced with this more general setting. "Moving forward, most new PS5 Pro titles will launch with support for this enhanced PSSR, ensuring players continue to see improvements in image quality and performance," Sony explains in its announcement. One of the key upcoming PS5 games with PSSR 2 support is Crimson Desert. The long-awaited open-world RPG looks so visually impressive that console players had begun to grow skeptical of how it would run at launch, but the devs finally released some PS5 Pro footage last week that looked darned impressive - and that was without the new PSSR. In theory, it should be even better with PSSR 2. Sony has also confirmed two other notable PSSR 2 patches arriving "in the coming weeks": Assassin's Creed Shadows and Cyberpunk 2077. PS5 Pro's impact was greatly diminished by a number of games - I'm looking at you, Silent Hill 2 - that straight-up looked worse than they did on the base console thanks to poor PSSR implementations. While I wish things had been different at launch, I'm glad Sony is finally making efforts to set things right. These are the best PS5 games you can play in 2026.

Sony Confirms PlayStation 5 Pro PSSR Upgrades for Cyberpunk 2077, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Even Former Xbox Console Exclusive Hellblade 2 - IGN

Sony has confirmed an array of games set to benefit from PlayStation 5 Pro's upgraded PSSR visual boost, which launches more broadly via a new system software update available later today. Supported titles include a range of third-party blockbusters, including Cyberpunk 2077, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Monster Hunter Wilds, Assassin's Creed Shadows and Silent Hill 2. Notably, the visually impressive Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 -- a game that was previously an Xbox console exclusive -- will also support the upgraded PSSR, refining the game's appearance even further for PS5 Pro. PSSR, or PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, uses AI capabilities to analyze and upscale the console's base output for a better and more stable visuals. Sony first announced the upgraded version of PSSR last month, and confirmed it would be available from launch for the excellent Resident Evil Requiem. Now, Sony has announced a list of further games set to benefit from the enhanced PSSR boost, both now and in the near future. These include: Exactly when these upgrades will arrive is going to depend from game to game, though Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red said today that its "technological update for the PS5 version of the game is coming in the not-too-distant future" and to keep an eye out for more details "in the coming weeks." In a post on social media, video game technical wizards Digital Foundry showed a side-by-side comparison of how the upgraded PSSR improves Silent Hill f, which you can see below. "We were excited to collaborate with Sony Interactive Entertainment on this advancement to their upscaling technology for the PlayStation 5 Pro, offering players the opportunity to experience Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 with improved PSSR, while preserving our creative vision for the game," said Ninja Theory studio head Dom Matthews in a statement. "In particular, we have been impressed by the quality of particle effects with this latest update, helping to bring key gameplay moments to life through enhanced visuals. At Ninja Theory our mission is to craft life-changing art with game-changing tech. Finding smart optimisations like this to sink players deeper into our worlds, characters and stories is core to how we make games." Today's PS5 Pro system update will begin rolling out from 10pm Pacific in phases, so don't be surprised if you're waiting a little while for it start downloading. What are you looking forward to playing again first?