Sony Santa Monica’s God of War Ragnarok will indeed get a PS5 Pro Enhanced update after the first-party PlayStation Studios game skipped the announcement of the $700 mid-gen upgrade.
Push Square spotted the PlayStation Store listing for God of War Ragnarok now includes the ‘PS5 Pro Enhanced’ label. Neither Sony nor Sony Santa Monica have announced the game’s PS5 Pro support yet, and there’s no detail on what it will involve, but of course the hope is Ragnarok’s resolution will be boosted while maintaining 60 frames per second.
God of War Ragnarok joins the likes of Blizzard’s Diablo 4 in a list of over 60 games with confirmed PS5 Pro Enhanced updates, according to eagle-eyed fans who’ve been keeping an eye on the PlayStation Store (IGN has a list of all the PS5 Pro Enhanced games so far).
PS5 Pro has an AI-powered upscaling feature called PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) that can automatically improve the image clarity of games, but PS5 Pro Enhanced games take particular advantage of the beefier console’s features.
At a recent PS5 Pro preview event, we spoke with the technical leads of some of PlayStation’s biggest games, including Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and The Last of Us Part 2, to discuss the improvements we can expect to see now there’s a more powerful PS5 on the market.
In an interview with IGN, Saber Interactive Chief Creative Officer Tim Willits said he’s hopeful the PS5 Pro will improve Space Marine 2 by default via PSSR, but did not confirm a PS5 Pro Enhanced patch. PS5 Pro itself launches November 7.
Just days after God of War Ragnarok launched on PC to a ‘mixed’ Steam user review rating over its forced PlayStation Network account linking, a mod was released that bypassed the requirement entirely. The creator of the mod eventually pulled it offline out of fear of reprisal from Sony.
The PC port includes the long sought after ability to tone down puzzle hints from companions. Sony has said this will soon to be added to the console version, but we don’t have a release date yet. Perhaps it will arrive alongside the PS5 Pro Enhanced update.
Though God of War Ragnarok met with critical and commercial acclaim, selling a whopping 11 million copies in less than three months on sale and earning a 10/10 in IGN’s review, one gripe players had was with the companions throwing out puzzle solutions before players had a chance to solve them.
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