PlayStation 5 gamers furious over updates making their games look worse

Those who opted to purchase Sony’s latest console, the PlayStation 5 Pro, have been voicing their disdain for some of its purported “enhancements”, as one of its main selling points is being viewed as somewhat of a downgrade when compared to the PlayStation 5’s base model.

Shout out to Lloyd Coombes over at Daily Star for originally covering the story!

In a recent thread over on the r/PS5 subreddit, several PlayStation 5 Pro owners detailed their disappointment with several games’ new default graphical “upgrades” on the system.

As user Cappuccino2000 explains, as the new graphical upgrades on PS5 Pro override and replace the standard settings for several of the system’s enhanced titles, this has actually resulted in users having “less” options “than owners of a standard PS5”.

“I wanted to continue playing Star Wars Outlaws in the 40fps mode until I found out that Ubisoft removed all previous modes with the Pro patch”, they noted in the thread.

“Was quite annoyed when I discovered that. PSSR is amazing, but it is not the magic bullet that fixes all image quality problems that some games have if you just replace the previous upscaling solution with this new one.”

Check out our thoughts on Star Wars Outlaws below.

Turns out, the fact that these settings override and replace the ones that were previously available on standard PS5s has even affected the performance of some games too.

“This is on third party developers for being incompetent,” replied user ThumYerk. “No excuse for the Jedi Survivor or Alan Wake 2 situations as Digital Foundry showed.”

“I think Sony needs to step in to get this sorted because it’s making a mockery of the Pro. Jedi Survivor runs worse than the base version and if you have the Pro, you don’t even get the choice to play the base version,” they continued.

As many of the commenters in the thread have already stated, it seems it would be best for Sony to either force third-party developers to include base PS5 settings as standard or to alternatively disable the need to update certain PS5 Pro-enhanced titles entirely.

Here’s hoping some kind of big system update is released to address the problems at some point in the near future.