The PS5 Pro boasts more powerful components and a new AI-upscaling method for better visuals, but games will needed to be updated in order to take advantage of all the bells and whistles on the pricey new hardware. So far, Sony has confirmed at least 13 games that will feature better resolutions, frame rates, or other improvements when the PS5 Pro launches on November 7.
Among them is Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, a sprawling open-world RPG that looked gorgeous at times but also struggled at points on the four-year old base PS5. Publisher Square Enix posted some new screenshots taken on PS5 Pro showing off greater fidelity, lighting, and other details, though the real proof will be in how smoothly it plays with those flourishes intact.
Here’s the full list of 25 PS5 Pro “enhanced” games that have been confirmed so far following the latest State of Play and hardware preview event:
Games that support PS5 Pro-exclusive features will have a “PS5 Pro Enhanced” label on the box or on the PlayStation Store, with Sony telling CNET it has “about 40 to 50 games” that will get patches by the time the console launches. While most games will get improved visuals for 60fps modes, some like Horizon Forbidden West will run at 60fps while in 4k, while others like Gran Turismo will have modes featuring 8k resolutions with ray-tracing effects. System architect Mark Cerny said he expects games to support lots of different options.
But even PS4 and PS5 games that don’t get updated for the PS5 Pro should see some small benefit from its more powerful hardware, including better overall stability and performance. “Other enhancements include PS5 Pro Game Boost, which can apply to more than 8,500 backward compatible PS4 games playable on PS5 Pro,” PlayStation co-CEO Hideaki Nishino wrote in a blog post. “Enhanced Image Quality for PS4 games is also available to improve the resolution on select PS4 games.”
We’ll likely see a bigger list of games getting PS5 Pro enhancements at launch closer to when the hardware releases. In the meantime, Cerny’s tech presentation showed several examples of how games will look better on the new hardware, at least if your eyes are good enough to spot the differences.
Update 9/25/2024 1:42 p.m. ET: Added new confirmed PS5 Pro enhanced games and the ways they will take advantage of the hardware.