{"id":155453,"date":"2025-09-23T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155453\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:15:09","slug":"ps5-pro-users-starting-to-feel-a-little-shortchanged-after-poor-or-absent-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/155453\/","title":{"rendered":"PS5 Pro Users Starting to Feel a Little Shortchanged After Poor or Absent Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"PS5 Pro Users Starting to Feel a Little Shortchanged After Poor or Absent Support 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/0627b416b87b1\/ps5-pro-users-starting-to-feel-a-little-shortchanged-after-poor-or-absent-support-1.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ps5-pro-users-starting-to-feel-a-little-shortchanged-after-poor-or-absent-support-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"PS5 Pro Users Starting to Feel a Little Shortchanged After Poor or Absent Support 1\"\/><\/a>Image: Push Square<\/p>\n<p>The PS5 Pro launched just under a year ago, promising AI-enhanced upscaling, smoother performance, and improved ray tracing.<\/p>\n<p>The $700 console is more powerful than a standard PS5 and generally runs games better; there are some particularly good examples, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/final_fantasy_vii_rebirth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/horizon_forbidden_west\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Horizon Forbidden West<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/stellar_blade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stellar Blade<\/a> that look and run better than ever.<\/p>\n<p>However, as time goes on, it&#8217;s becoming clearer that PS5 Pro&#8217;s capabilities aren&#8217;t being utilised consistently across developers and publishers.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, there have been several examples of games releasing with poor PS5 Pro support, or even none at all, leaving those who invested in the pricey console feeling miffed.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/silent_hill_2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Silent Hill 2<\/a> launched with support for the console, but it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2024\/11\/konami-quiet-as-ps5-pro-players-report-issues-with-silent-hill-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extremely messy<\/a>. Improvements have been promised, but have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/05\/silent-hill-2s-proper-ps5-pro-patch-is-still-in-the-works\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yet to fully materialise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/metal_gear_solid_delta_snake_eater\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater<\/a> arrived with purported PS5 Pro enhancements, only for analysts to find it actually falls below the regular PS5 in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/08\/metal-gear-solid-deltas-dismal-ps5-pro-support-could-use-a-rethink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">current state<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a similar story with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/silent_hill_f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Silent Hill F<\/a>, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/09\/silent-hill-f-is-another-game-that-stumbles-on-ps5-pro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched with issues<\/a> relating to PSSR, the machine&#8217;s AI-driven upscaling tech.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just Konami games, either; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/borderlands_4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Borderlands 4<\/a> has caused some irritation because it&#8217;s launched with some pretty severe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/09\/quit-game-and-restart-borderlands-4-runs-worse-the-longer-you-play-on-all-consoles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tech issues<\/a>, and doesn&#8217;t seem to have support for PS5 Pro at all.<\/p>\n<p>Enough major games have come and gone with some sort of issues on PS5 Pro, and it&#8217;s an emerging pattern that players are hoping doesn&#8217;t continue.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty of evidence of the console working as intended of course, but there&#8217;s a growing number of examples where it isn&#8217;t, and that&#8217;s a potential deal-breaker for enthusiasts expected to pay over the odds for the privilege.<\/p>\n<p>Are you a PS5 Pro user? Have you been left a little disappointed in some recent games with lacklustre support of its tech? Discuss in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p>\tSee Also<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758592752_728_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Stephen Tailby\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Stephen has been part of the Push Square team for over six years, bringing boundless enthusiasm and a deep knowledge of video games to his role as Assistant Editor. Having grown up playing every PlayStation console to date, he&#8217;s developed an eclectic taste, with particular passion for indie games, arcade racers, and puzzlers. He&#8217;s also our go-to guy for Sonic-related matters, much to his delight\/chagrin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Push Square The PS5 Pro launched just under a year ago, promising AI-enhanced upscaling, smoother performance, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,112,113,622,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-155453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-ps5","10":"tag-ps5-pro","11":"tag-sony","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}