Returnal, One of This Gen's Best Games, Gets a Massive PS5 Pro Upgrade 1
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Returnal, still one of the finest games of the current generation, has received an unexpected PS5 Pro upgrade to celebrate its fourth anniversary.

The all-time Housemarque roguelike classic now features up to 2.5x more pixels on Sony’s supercharged system than it does on the base machine.

The original game used a number of nifty tricks to boost its image quality without compromising performance, using temporal reconstruction to resolve a 1440p resolution, which then utilised checkerboarding to get to 4K.

It’ll take a fair amount of testing to understand exactly how Housemarque is taking advantage of the PS5 Pro here, but the end result should be a much crisper, cleaner image overall.

This should all bode well for the Finnish outfit’s PS5 Pro support in its upcoming Saros too, which we’re expecting to look absolutely spectacular on the upgraded hardware.

We’ll update with more information once we’ve had an opportunity to test the patch ourselves, and have seen some analysis from experts like Digital Foundry.

But in the meantime, the patch is rolling out now, so if you’ve got a PS5 Pro, be sure to give it a go.

[source x.com]