I think Sony may have made a mistake.
Not by pricing the PS5 Pro at $700 or ditching the optical drive — that could always lower the price or bundle — but by trying to showcase the PS5 Pro’s graphical improvements with a limited bandwidth, compressed video on YouTube.
I say that because I’m currently looking at a native 5.3GB video file of Sony’s presentation right now, on a 4K OLED screen, and I think the company really can. tell the difference in some of these games. That’s not necessarily true of YouTube.
But I don’t want you to take my word for it. I want you to download the lossless PNG screenshots I just captured, so you can decide for yourself.
Important note: Do not right click to download the images you see below, don’t even left-click them — they’re just visual aids so you know which image to get. Left-click the link in each caption to load images, then download them; each must have a file size greater than 4MB. Ideally, you should be able to display them on a large 4K screen, like you might use on a PlayStation.
The examples above are the PS5 Pro versus the PS5’s faster framerate “performance” mode, and they’re designed to show how you don’t have to sacrifice graphics for a smooth 60fps speed. But if you’re willing to put up with the lower framerates of the “Fidelity” mode, the advantage is less obvious:
Sony doesn’t offer comparo images for each title, but here are images from other games it used to represent the PS5 Pro’s graphics, too:
If you are indeed dedicated, I suppose you could also try to find the same moment in the same game on your own PS5, take your own screenshot, and use Nvidia’s ICAT tool to pore over the pixels like a pro.
Is it funny that we have come to this? Maybe! But I don’t want you to think that there is no difference between PS5 and PS5 Pro graphics at 60fps:
There really is a difference — maybe not one that costs you $700.
