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SvennoJ on 30 November 2016
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d21lewis said:
Maybe it's my old eyes but I bought a Pro on launch. Before launch, actually. And just before my Pro arrived, I bought a 4k TV. Do the games look better? Yes. But at the same time, it might be the TV. It might be a placebo effect.

In my game room, connected to a Sony XBR49800XD (Bravia) are a PS3, PS4 Pro, PSVR, Xbox 360, an Xbox One with Kinect (soon to be an Xbox One S when it arrives from Amazon), and a WiiU.

In my living room connected to a 1080p Vizio LED are and Xbox One with Kinect and an original PS4.

I go between both rooms, often playing the exact same games, on a regular basis. There's a lot of money invested in my gaming setup because I'm fucking insane with no sense of the value of the dollar. I can't, with a clear conscience, encourage somebody or make them feel jealous because the improvement the Pro offers is there but it's not THAT BIG.

I have inFamous SS, inFamous First Light, Ratchet and Clank, RotTR, Bound, TloU, Uncharted 4 a few VR games, and some other games I'm definitely forgetting. I had an image in head of what the Pro would look like and, to be honest, the games just look like PS4 games. Even with RotTR, I spent an hour jumping from mode to mode trying to spot the differences. You really have to look to see them. It's not night and day.

I've been switching between modes too on Rottr playing to unlock the VR mission. I can see the picture going slightly sharper between 1080p and 4K downsampled mode. Not a lot sharper, you don't notice the difference while playing, if anything it makes it look a bit more like computer graphics instead of a softer filmic look. The extra anti aliasing it brings is nice though, but not a world of difference.
The difference to high frame rate is very clear, a shame it doesn't lock to 60 as the variability is also pretty noticeable.
But for the life of me, I can't spot the enhanced visuals? Maybe the hair moves a bit more while casting sharper shadows, that's all I think I could spot.

There's a much bigger difference between the colors my ageing 3LCD projector produces and the OLED PSVR headset. You're better off getting a new TV than a ps4 pro tbh. Unless you use it for PSVR or HDR. On a regular 1080p screen, don't expect much. Maybe later pro enhanced titles will actually bring some more noticeable differences. It's still early, let's see what Horizon zero dawn does with the pro.