Interesting! Why is that? Does that mean backwards compatibility on Orion can't run Pro versions of the game??
PSSR needs 300 TOPs of INT8.
Yeah, because those previous Sony handhelds really kicked the shit out of Nintendo sales-wise lmao
The matrix cores from RDNA5 are completely different from what PS5 Pro is using. Maybe they can find a way to implement BC but I wouldn't bet on it.
Idk, does Sony have a way to change a game's internal or output resolution at a system level? I know Xbox has done that for a few games.
It doesn't, but it makes me wonder if such system level feature is possible. I guess Xbox shows that it is?
If you have a 1080p screen, all 4K (and supposedly 1440p) games will work and output at 1080p (by downscaling 4k to 1080p). So yes PS5 can downscale anything at system level but not the internal resolution of the game.
It should run PSSR 2.0 / FSR4 and hopefully the games with Pro patches get a PSSR upgrade. I see it unlikely that PS6 will play games worse than on PS5 Pro (although they could try to position it in that way I think it would be more trouble than it is worth).
Last I recall PSSR is a system SDK call, not unlike how PSVR comm was implemented - ie. there's nothing saying the system must run PS5 Pro code for it. Ie. it wouldn't need 'BC' it would simply need to swap in its own upscaler - it's analogous to DLL swaps on PC.
They always had that in the sense you're referring to - lots of PS4 Pro games specifically ran different depending on resolution for instance.
I think you would have much less of a workload when internally targeting a lower resolution.
PSSR? That's PS5 Pro only.
That's exactly when competition would rise. When one company holds superiority without actual monopoly. It's not a new endeavor for Sony and the rising trend of portables will be something they will want a piece of, even if that doesn't mean global domination.
Climate cult tards?
Yeah that wasn't extensive. Preliminary sure, but extensive? Most impactful aspect to my mind was they stated they have independently confirmed the MLiD specs in general. (1:22 in the DF OT). Always good to get independent verification.
Downscaling also keeps the pixel count. So a 4k image downloaded to a 1080p resolution would have 4 times as pixels of a native 1080p image, resulting in a more crisp image due to higher bitrate. But that is the same as running the game on 4k, which wouldn't be possible on the handheld to begin with, thus the need power saving mode and handheld optimized versions of games.
The Switch consoles constitute a "vastly superior architecture for low-power devices"? Are you fucking kidding me here? Sony handhelds have historically mopped the floor with Nintendo's DS and 3DS consoles.
See you in two years.
Switch 2 is barely better than the Steamdeck, ie three years old AMD tech. An up to date variant will naturally go past what Steamdeck and Switch 2 offers. ARM and Nvidia is in theory great (Vita was much better than 3DS, and I believe every high end phone too, with ARM stuff, just the GPU being very advanced), but Nvidia cares about dollarz, and Nintendo was pushing more expensive tech the last time with the Gamecube. So the result is okay, but cheaper than it could be. Maybe ARM and Nvidia would also be nice when pushed to the limits for Sony, at an higher price, but for compatibility reasons and probably also cheaper AMD prices, it's a route that would complicate things a lot for Sony, despite having done some impressive porting work with sometimes doing all three platforms; PS3, PS4 and Vita.
Xbox is out. It's all Playstation vs Switch vs Steam now.
What? Sony doesn't care which model you buy the PS6...whether if it's the portable or the home console. As long as you are invested on their ecosystem it's all the same to them.
There is nothing magical about ARM that you can't get with X86. The Switch 2 is so power efficient because of the OS, low clocks, the development environment and it's optimized software.
The people that buy electric cars thinking they're saving the environment while charging them using fossil fuel.
Threat interactive is better in technical analysis, but their videos take time to make.
Pray tell me how Valve and Nintendo have defeated Sony in the living room home console market?
There handheld is supposed to be more powerful than the Ally X and will definitely outsell Steam Deck.
Pretty likely Canis/Orion would use PSSR 2.0 instead, which pretty likely would be better than PSSR 1.0 and would be BC with everything, maybe even with games that don't have PSSR 1.0 implemented.
What does that even mean?
I can see potential BC with PSSR 1.0, but I can't see it automatically supporting games with no PSSR. The input would still be needed as it's not a spatial post processing upscaler.
I assume PSSR 2.0 will have all the instructions of PSSR 1.0 (a better implementation of them) plus new instructions (for stuff like FPS boost).
Is that why Playstation has 123 million active users?
They disabled PSSR in low-power mode because the low-power mode targets that - there's no 'Pro low-power'.
