Something ‘very similar’ to FSR 4 is coming to PS5 Pro in 2026
PlayStation’s Mark Cerny has big plans for the future of Sony’s upgraded machine
Mark Cerny has discussed what is next for the PS5 Pro, including something “very similar to FSR 4’s upscaler.”
Cerny, who served as the chief architect of the PS5 and has been the face of Sony‘s PS5 Pro marketing rollout, spoke this week about his plans for the future of the system.
Cerny spoke in the wake of news that Sony and AMD have partnered on the Project Amethyst initiative, which is focused on delivering AMD’s equivalent to Nvidia‘s DLSS. This technology is similar to Sony’s own PSSR tech which is a machine-learning based upscaler.
“The neural network (and training recipe) in FSR 4’s upscaler are the first results of the Amethyst collaboration,” Cerny told Digital Foundry. “And results are excellent, it’s a more advanced approach that can exceed the crispness of PSSR. I’m very proud of the work of the joint team!”
PlayStation 5 Pro was released on November 7 for $700/£800. Over 50 games subsequently received updates with graphical upgrades and other performance improvements.
“Our focus for 2025 is working with developers to integrate PSSR into their titles; in parallel, though, we have already started to implement the new neural network on PS5 Pro,” said Cerny.
“Our target is to have something very similar to FSR 4’s upscaler available on PS5 Pro for 2026 titles as the next evolution of PSSR; it should take the same inputs and produce essentially the same outputs. Doing that implementation is rather ambitious and time-consuming, which is why you haven’t already seen this new upscaler on PS5 Pro.”
Sony has not released official PS5 Pro sales figures. However, its latest earnings results included Pro sales for the first time, and showed that launch-aligned, PlayStation 5 is now just 1.5 million units behind PlayStation 4 during the same period of its lifecycle (75m vs 76.5m).
According to data from Circana, shared by analyst Mat Piscatella. However, it’s worth noting that PlayStation 5 Pro retails for significantly more than PS4 Pro did ($700 vs $400), and Circana’s reporting period is also one week less.
