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In a recent interview with GamingBolt, the series’ franchise director Tymon Smektała said, “We’re just starting to discover the full capabilities of PS5 Pro, but it’s already exciting as it gives us a lot more flexibility with graphics and performance. The boost in GPU will allow us to push visual fidelity, especially with complex environmental details like weather effects, which are very core toDying Light: The Beast’s experience.”

“This kind of power also means generally smoother gameplay at higher resolutions, and that’s something very important for a game like ours, where the highest level of immersion is of utmost importance.”

However, he feels that PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) could be “even more important” in the long run. The proprietary AI upscaling solution is a major factor in hitting 4K (and, in some cases, 8K) resolution for titles at 60 frames per second.

As Smektala notes, “Sony’s PSSR is a substantial push for the supersampling tech that other companies are experimenting with. It’s a great initiative as, in the future, this can allow developers to focus slightly less on performance and have bigger creative liberty. If what Sony is proposing will become a new standard, then PSSR could potentially turn out to be even more important than the direct increase in GPU power that the console delivers.”

PSSR Could Potentially Be More Important Than Direct Increase in GPU Power – Dying Light: The Beast Dev

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[Senua]

 

[Radical_3d]

 

[Self_Destructive]

Cerny magic

 

[TheRedRiders]

Nvidia pioneered AI driven upsampling, Sony and AMD are playing catchup as usual.

 

[kazuyamishima]

I hope he's right, but a lot of Devs are praising PSSR.

It seems that Sony is playing the long game with the Pro.

 

[Wooxsvan]

yeah after about 3 hours in the MH Wilds beta today I definitely agree. The performance mode on the base PS5 looks horrendous particularly the hair and grass

 

[Luipadre]

1 week (and 2 days) gents

 

[Represent.]

this can allow developers to focus slightly less on performance and have bigger creative liberty.

Would you look at that - As I have been saying forever, focusing on performance limits developer creativity. Doesn't get any more clear cut than this quote right here.

 

[ZehDon]

I mean, yeah, DLSS showed that around two years ago. DLSS is basically standard on PC now. Hitting a button to basically double my frame rate and get decent AA with good temporal stability is one of the best features NVidia has ever offered.

 

[FrankWza]

Sony is playing the long game

-Mark Cerny

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[Digital-Aftertaste]

the real question is if this kind of tech will lead to poorer optimization practices down the line?

 

[Schmendrick]

First and foremost: Gaining access to more GPU resources via DLSS/PSSR/XESS whatever is cheaper than more powerful silicon.

 

[Melon Husk]

Yeah, graphics horsepower is wasted when used for ever higher native resolutions. I want *fun* features.

 

[PaintTinJr]

IMO the real long term benefit of PSSR is that it will help drive down development costs and team sizes and allow smaller teams to make games at the Gamecube level where PSSR will do a lot of the heavy lifting to take the core of fx at poor fidelity and make them look fantastic, and thereby letting devs waste less time on optimising heavy processing fx, and instead allow them to get back to gameplay and performance concerns as they did in better earlier gens.

 

[sendit]

Baby steps. What needs to happen next is frame gen working at 30 FPS like Lossless scaling provides on PC.

 

[Dorfdad]

Naw I’d rather duck around with every pc setting I don’t understand and update and downgrade my drivers on a per game basis. Overclocking my cpu / memory and GPU while troubleshooting game crashes and hoping some third party person will release a stutter fix patch or workaround while logging into 15 launchers and accounts to game on…

That said I love my 4090 but pc gaming is a pain in the ass unless you play very few games!

Long live #PSMR

 

[Lucifers Beard]

PSSR is probably the most interesting and important feature for the console. FSR is not good enough and this clearly shows in games where it is enabled. PSSR and the additional GPU power will squeeze a lot of extra frames into games that are GPU bound whilst buffing out some of the rougher edges.

After seeing some comparisons, I've gone from 'The Pro can fuck off! I'd rather spend £2000 on a GPU' to 'Hmm my 3080 is still going really strong, I wonder when the PS5 external disc drives will come back in stock...'

I'm definitely interested in seeing how some of the games I own run on it. I may even end up grabbing one nearer the holiday if those disc drives come back in stock.

 

[MikeM]

Yeah, graphics horsepower is wasted when used for ever higher native resolutions. I want *fun* features.

You can always stick a Dualsense up your ass. All those unique vibrationssssssssss.

/s

Sorry- felt appropriate.

 

[Crayon]

A good amount of the 45% could be going to cover the cost of pssr.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Go easy on them. They have to explain it to normies.

 

[EN250]

Nvidia pioneered AI driven upsampling, Sony and AMD are playing catchup as usual.

Sony always going to play catch up, they're not in the business strictly and depend on whatever AMD has to offer, in this case, Sony had to come out with their own AI upscaling method because AMD is always lacking

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

I dunno man, if you are not on the high end, it seems upscalers are a crutch, but IF you are on the high end, upscalers are kind of funny thing to use.

 

[balls of snow]

Yeah I look at it as Sony is preping the ps6 with pro. Work out all the kinks in pssr version 1.0 and design the entire hardware around it next gen.

 

[TacoSavage]

1 week boys!

 

[DeepEnigma]

Nvidia pioneered AI driven upsampling (in gaming), Sony and AMD are playing catchup as usual.

FTFY

Xreality has been a thing since 2012/2013 in the imaging sensor photo and film front.

 

[Imtjnotu]

1 week boys!

 

[jm89]

1 week boys!

 

[unlurkified]

Yep, I wasn’t really surprised that it seems like PSSR is up there with DLSS. Sony’s been #1 for years in TV upscaling processors.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

The boost in GPU will allow us to push visual fidelity, especially with complex environmental details like weather effects, which are very core toDying Light: The Beast’s experience.”

push some damn environment interactivity

 

[SlimySnake]

Sigh. you will always need more GPU power. AI upscaling will help but you cant stick AI upscalers in a PS4 and expect it to have PS5 graphics. thats not how any of this works.

 

[Sethbacca]

FTFY

Xreality has been a thing since 2012/2013 in the imaging sensor photo and film front.

Tv shows and movies have been magically creating sharp photos from horribly blurred pixels since the 90s. Magic!!!

 

[OverHeat]

Sony fanboys right now

Having too much expectations

 

[DeepEnigma]

Tv shows and movies have been magically creating sharp photos from horribly blurred pixels since the 90s. Magic!!!

Unfortunately you don't get pristine 35mm or the like source material on network or over the air TV, thus the need for AI upscaling that they were pioneering in the imaging sensor front.

There is a reason they're the most highly sought after imaging sensor company from top vendors, from Apple to everything in between.

We just had a thread last year where Apple was crying they couldn't have access to more of those sensors and tech for their VR solution.

It's okay to give credit where credit is due.

 

[CloudShiner]

Anyone got another plate of crow for DF?

 

[Sethbacca]

Unfortunately you don't get pristine 35mm or the like source material on network or over the air TV, thus the need for AI upscaling that they were pioneering in the imaging sensor front.

There is a reason they're the most highly sought after imaging sensor company from top vendors, from Apple to everything in between.

We just had a thread last year where Apple was crying they couldn't have access to more of those sensors and tech for their VR solution.

It's okay to give credit where credit is due.

I was being an idiot and referencing how every show back in the day had that one scene where a detective or fbi agent says “Sharpen and enhance” on a shitty photo and magic pixels appear from thin air and they catch the culprit. But yeah I get what you’re saying

 

[ap_puff]

Sigh. you will always need more GPU power. AI upscaling will help but you cant stick AI upscalers in a PS4 and expect it to have PS5 graphics. thats not how any of this works.

The problem is GPU power isn't increasing as fast as it used to, isn't getting cheaper like it used to, and stuff like pathtracing can easily scale exponentially if you allow multiple light bounces. So in a sense, AI upscaling is going to be the way forward in the short term.

 

[DeepEnigma]

I was being an idiot and referencing how every show back in the day had that one scene where a detective or fbi agent says “Sharpen and enhance” on a shitty photo and magic pixels appear from thin air and they catch the culprit. But yeah I get what you’re saying

 

[JimboJones]

Anyone got another plate of crow for DF?

What? Weren't they saying we are in a "post resolution era" for years and had a lot of GAF laughing at them?

 

[DeepEnigma]

What? Weren't they saying we are in a "post resolution era" for years and had a lot of GAF laughing at them?

Gaf was laughing at their convenient change of heart, only to fall back on pixel counting scaling solutions.

 

[JimboJones]

Gaf was laughing at their convenient change of heart, only to fall back on pixel counting scaling solutions.

Ok

 

[DeepEnigma]

Ok

Yep

 

[mckmas8808]

1 week boys!

This Best Buy?

 

[yogaflame]

And PSSR ML will continue to improve and learn and game developers will continue to adjust. It is the game changer. I just hope it does not evolve to kill human kind, be self aware ala Terminator. hehe!

 

[TacoSavage]

This Best Buy?

no clue, found it on x. its probably in warehouses as we speak and will be getting packed and shipped in the next few days

 

[MikeM]

1 week boys!

Canadian boxes? English et français.

 

[Kataploom]

I'm on with temporal antialiasing but it's also true that IQ before it also was cleaner and had it's thing. I'm ok with anything that makes games get made easier as long as it's not used as an excuse to skip optimizations

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

There's a lot of garbage optimization on games right now like FF7R and MHW......it is going to be so nice having PSSR solve many of our problems.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

1 week boys!