Mark Cerny has mentioned what’s subsequent for the PS5 Professional, together with one thing “similar to FSR 4’s upscaler.”
Cerny, who served because the chief architect of the PS5 and has been the face of Sony‘s PS5 Professional advertising rollout, spoke this week about his plans for the way forward for the system.
Cerny spoke within the wake of stories that Sony and AMD have partnered on the Challenge Amethyst initiative, which is concentrated on delivering AMD’s equal to Nvidia‘s DLSS. This know-how is much like Sony’s personal PSSR tech which is a machine-learning primarily based upscaler.
“The neural community (and coaching recipe) in FSR 4’s upscaler are the primary outcomes of the Amethyst collaboration,” Cerny instructed Digital Foundry. “And outcomes are glorious, it’s a extra superior method that may exceed the crispness of PSSR. I’m very happy with the work of the joint crew!”
PlayStation 5 Professional was launched on November 7 for $700/£800. Over 50 video games subsequently obtained updates with graphical upgrades and different efficiency enhancements.
“Our focus for 2025 is working with builders to combine PSSR into their titles; in parallel, although, now we have already began to implement the brand new neural community on PS5 Professional,” stated Cerny.
“Our goal is to have one thing similar to FSR 4’s upscaler accessible on PS5 Professional for 2026 titles as the following evolution of PSSR; it ought to take the identical inputs and produce primarily the identical outputs. Doing that implementation is slightly bold and time-consuming, which is why you haven’t already seen this new upscaler on PS5 Professional.”
Sony has not launched official PS5 Professional gross sales figures. Nevertheless, its newest earnings outcomes included Professional gross sales for the primary time, and confirmed that launch-aligned, PlayStation 5 is now simply 1.5 million items behind PlayStation 4 throughout the identical interval of its lifecycle (75m vs 76.5m).
In line with knowledge from Circana, shared by analyst Mat Piscatella. Nevertheless, it’s value noting that PlayStation 5 Professional retails for considerably greater than PS4 Professional did ($700 vs $400), and Circana’s reporting interval can also be one week much less.
