PS5 Pro Owners Only: How Satisfied Are You with PS5 Pro?
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Guardian Monkey
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I did. I use that in the projector room for couch co op etc.
mgcemir85
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Sorry for the necro, but this seems like the best thread to get some answers.
I currently have both an Xbox Series X and a PS5 Pro (birthday gift from my wife — bless her), and I've been playing them on the ASUS TUF Gaming VG27AQ monitor:
27", WQHD (2560x1440), IPS, 165Hz, 1ms, G-SYNC Compatible, HDR10, etc. (yeah, I just copy-pasted that from the specs).
Before this, I was gaming on a Sony X90H TV, but that thing was a huge disappointment. The local dimming doesn't work with VRR, so you have to pick between stuttery gameplay or a washed-out image. Major letdown.
Anyway, here's my question:
When I play Horizon Forbidden West on the PS5 Pro with this monitor, it's hands down the best-looking game I've ever seen — like, individual face hairs on characters level of detail. But then I boot up something like Oblivion Remastered on Series X, or Cyberpunk, and it looks like hot garbage by comparison. Helldivers 2 is somewhere in between.
So what's going on here?
Are these consoles downsampling from 4K to 1440p, and is that why Horizon looks so insanely good on this monitor? Or is it just that Horizon is an 4K outlier, and most other games this console generation just don't hold up when viewed on a monitor at close distance?
I'm considering switching to a 4K OLED monitor, but I'm wondering if there's really any benefit for current-gen consoles. Will it make a noticeable difference, or is 1440p basically the sweet spot for these consoles, especially if you're sitting close?
Would really appreciate any insight!
I currently have both an Xbox Series X and a PS5 Pro (birthday gift from my wife — bless her), and I've been playing them on the ASUS TUF Gaming VG27AQ monitor:
27", WQHD (2560x1440), IPS, 165Hz, 1ms, G-SYNC Compatible, HDR10, etc. (yeah, I just copy-pasted that from the specs).
Before this, I was gaming on a Sony X90H TV, but that thing was a huge disappointment. The local dimming doesn't work with VRR, so you have to pick between stuttery gameplay or a washed-out image. Major letdown.
Anyway, here's my question:
When I play Horizon Forbidden West on the PS5 Pro with this monitor, it's hands down the best-looking game I've ever seen — like, individual face hairs on characters level of detail. But then I boot up something like Oblivion Remastered on Series X, or Cyberpunk, and it looks like hot garbage by comparison. Helldivers 2 is somewhere in between.
So what's going on here?
Are these consoles downsampling from 4K to 1440p, and is that why Horizon looks so insanely good on this monitor? Or is it just that Horizon is an 4K outlier, and most other games this console generation just don't hold up when viewed on a monitor at close distance?
I'm considering switching to a 4K OLED monitor, but I'm wondering if there's really any benefit for current-gen consoles. Will it make a noticeable difference, or is 1440p basically the sweet spot for these consoles, especially if you're sitting close?
Would really appreciate any insight!
Skifi28
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I'm also on a 1440p VRR monitor and I find it to be the sweet spot for modern consoles. Many games are in the 1440p range on performance modes so they runs at the native resolution which is great. When occasionally a game runs at 4k it's still great, you get supersampling which makes image quality look pristine. I don't think jumping to a 4k screen will be an upgrade by itself, probably the opposite, but OLED will certainly look better with the downside that 30fps games will feel even choppier and by some reports "unplayable" .
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Bojji
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Console is downsampling from 4k to 1440p. Game could be 1440p internal resolution but it will still go to 4k and then downsampled to 1440p output. Horizon has one of the best image reconstruction techniques so far so no wonder it looks really good.
I got disc drive, looks like it's a new model that mentions Pro already. Maybe it will match console color, lol.
I have to apologize to T Three , he was right. Where I live (Poland) market was saturated few months after launch and now disc drives are everywhere with MSRP price. In january big ass retail stores were still scalping them...
Overall Pro is decent upgrade, I didn't expect mindblowing things. I planned to buy it few months from now (Q4, GTA6?) but decent deal persuaded me now.
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Zacfoldor
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Oblivion, Indiana Jones, Clair Obscur are all PS5 Pro enhanced.
I told you to get one, lol. It's only going to get better on Pro. The time to get one was at launch. Us launch proers will enjoy a huge part of the generation under this pro umbrella and are not subjected to all the jank of the OG ps5.
Every game that releases makes the pro better.
Remember when they said the pro wouldn't get support and now almost every game that comes out is pro enhanced, many with better fps than it has on vanilla ps5?
It's just so delicious. This was literally a great buy and Sony hatred screwed it up for a lot of you. Look at what XSX 2gb costs or Switch 2 costs vs this. If you have gone all this time and don't know what I'm saying would be true before this thing even came out, I don't know what to tell you. Get a few more years under your belt I guess, and wisdom will come in time. If you can't afford it that is another matter entirely but for those who could easily afford it but balked, you played yourself. If this poll was reran today approval would be even higher and will tick up with every banger that is best on Pro. The UE5 shakes(stuttering) that goes on on PC ports was just an added bonus for pro. We've also seen our first glimpses of corporatism peering into the PC space, dreaming of making it woke and planning for an all PC future where the current PC space is locked down, woke, and owned by Microsoft. No issues with UE5 on pro. Pro haters better just hope GTA gets delayed. Honestly, if this hadn't been one of Sony's worst software gens the pro would be the only legit place to play. Sony got lucky that MS fell apart but the industry got lucky the sony gaas push did too. If Sony was releasing banger after banger, what then? It would be a monopoly. Wow, I bet Sony is looking at this landscape and deeply regretting those pipeline mistakes. They could have ran away with it.
I told you to get one, lol. It's only going to get better on Pro. The time to get one was at launch. Us launch proers will enjoy a huge part of the generation under this pro umbrella and are not subjected to all the jank of the OG ps5.
Every game that releases makes the pro better.
Remember when they said the pro wouldn't get support and now almost every game that comes out is pro enhanced, many with better fps than it has on vanilla ps5?
It's just so delicious. This was literally a great buy and Sony hatred screwed it up for a lot of you. Look at what XSX 2gb costs or Switch 2 costs vs this. If you have gone all this time and don't know what I'm saying would be true before this thing even came out, I don't know what to tell you. Get a few more years under your belt I guess, and wisdom will come in time. If you can't afford it that is another matter entirely but for those who could easily afford it but balked, you played yourself. If this poll was reran today approval would be even higher and will tick up with every banger that is best on Pro. The UE5 shakes(stuttering) that goes on on PC ports was just an added bonus for pro. We've also seen our first glimpses of corporatism peering into the PC space, dreaming of making it woke and planning for an all PC future where the current PC space is locked down, woke, and owned by Microsoft. No issues with UE5 on pro. Pro haters better just hope GTA gets delayed. Honestly, if this hadn't been one of Sony's worst software gens the pro would be the only legit place to play. Sony got lucky that MS fell apart but the industry got lucky the sony gaas push did too. If Sony was releasing banger after banger, what then? It would be a monopoly. Wow, I bet Sony is looking at this landscape and deeply regretting those pipeline mistakes. They could have ran away with it.
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thatJohann
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I got the PS5 Pro around December and honestly it's like whatever, it's fine. Not blown away.