The recently released PlayStation 5 Pro is supposedly a significant hardware and software upgrade over the base model PlayStation 5. However, the real-world applications of the improved hardware and AI implementation are sometimes not as significant as marketing materials might have you believe. This is visible across multiple games and the latest is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
As spotted by Digital Foundry and reported by Tech4Gamers. The PlayStation 5 Pro and its new enhanced mode yield somewhat questionable results. There are often noisy images, visual glitches and inconsistent framerates. The fabled PSSR which is supposed to upscale images to 4K and improve image rendering can sometimes have the opposite effect.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is one of a host of games that ends up looking worse than it did on the base PlayStation 5. This also happens in Alan Wake 2, the new Star Wars Outlaws and Veilguard. This could be fixed with future updates and improvements as PSSR gets refined. However, considering the price of the PlayStation 5 Pro. It’s not acceptable that such a buggy experience was shipped to early purchasers.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is reportedly suffering from visual glitches, rogue highlighting, transparency issues and small-scale pattern glitches. It’s quite surprising that the new version of the game looks worse than older versions on weaker hardware.
There’s more info available in the Digital Foundry video embedded below. If you’d like to find out more about the PlayStation 5 Pro enhanced mode then click here.