Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Silent Hill 2, two of the first PlayStation 5 games to be enhanced for the PS5 Pro, look worse on the new console that Sony Interactive Entertainment launched earlier this month for $699.99, according to some gameplay videos and complaints that have been shared online. Silent Hill 2, per a post on r/silenthill, exhibits “weird shimmering and artifacts on some surfaces and effects” on the PS5 Pro, while Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is said to feature “problematic” and “severe” image quality issues, possibly due to Sony’s new PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution upscaling technology. “This is false advertising,” USDOT noted in their post about how Silent Hill 2 is being advertised as a PS5 Pro Enhanced title despite not actually having received a patch yet.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on PS5 Pro has problematic image quality issues, even though the return of RT in performance mode is welcome. @oliemack and @Dachsjaeger discuss this one, and we'll be tackling similar problems in Silent Hill 2 and others soon: https://t.co/4OjBayoOei pic.twitter.com/RhyMDXSuVV
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If you look at this side-by-side, you can see just how unstable the game appears now with PSSR in the Performance mode. I would personally go as far as to say it looks dramatically worse than the old Performance mode here.