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Norion on 06 March 2026
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Otter said:
Norion said:

Yeah this decade really is a transitional period for this stuff. There's growing pains right now but it's gonna be amazing once RT performance and upscaling gets so good that even mid-range GPUs can do high quality RT and still keep a good frame rate while at the same time looking almost as good as native 4K even when upscaled from 720p or even lower.

Honestly it's kind of a shame because the upscalling technology was there when PS5/Series X launched, it just wasn't part of AMDs roadmap. Given PS4 Pro was already built with check board upscaling in mind, it's a shame the actual next Gen hardware didn't have any hardware based solutions to deal with the image quality topic. I wonder if Playstation could of steered AMD a bit more towards their needs.

As a result image quality genuinely feels like a step down gen on gen... But I'm bias having began last gen with a Pro console where 1440p was common. For people who came from a base PS4/Xbox One maybe it's not as notable.

Yeah those consoles being bad at RT is unfortunate but not that a big of a deal since developers will just keep RT on those versions of their games light but them being bad at upscaling is a big issue and is gonna be the biggest aspect that ages the hardware in the coming years. The image quality of demanding cross-gen games will get outright atrocious at times whereas the PS6 and the next Xbox will probably be able to upscale from like 720p to 4k and still have good image quality. This is why the PS5 Pro is going to age fairly well I think.