- crimson desert It will reportedly use the updated PSSR enhancement technology on PS5 Pro.
- The PS5 Pro is said to be able to reach 4K resolutions at higher frame rates, with ray tracing
- The PS5’s SSD will also be “key to transmitting the huge world”
Pearl Abyss has confirmed that its upcoming open-world action game, Crimson Desert, will use Sony’s updated PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) AI upscaling technology on PS5 Pro.
crimson desert It is perhaps one of the most anticipated games of 2026 and will be released in less than two weeks. Early but positive gameplay trailers from a select few have already been released to the market, and we’ve seen plenty of in-depth gameplay trailers and reviews; however, they have all been on PC.
The game will also be coming to current-gen consoles, with the developer previously stating that the game will be compatible with PS5 Pro with PSSR enhancement. But until recently, no PlayStation images had been released.
The studio responded to the concerns, saying it will “reveal things before launch to give people enough time to pre-order the game for themselves. We say it openly… Are we going to cook?”
Now, in a new PlayStation blog post, Sony has confirmed that crimson desert will use the latest version of PSSR, after contributor Phil Hornshaw played four hours of the game.
The hands-on deep dive is also accompanied by a series of gameplay clips, finally giving us a look at the game running on the console, but it’s unclear whether they’re captured on the base PS5 or the PS5 Pro.
“For starters, the PS5’s SSD is key to conveying the huge world, and developers will make heavy use of the PS5 Pro’s high-frequency CPU mode to make seeing and moving around the world as fluid as possible,” Hornshaw wrote.
Pearl Abyss also confirmed to Hornshaw that the game is “optimized” for PS5 through several features that help maintain the details of the large-scale project, including Geometry Shader Oversubscription and NGG Culling, “to render many elements without losing details.”
As for PS5 Pro, the recent update to PSSR is said to “make it possible crimson desert to achieve 4K resolutions at higher frame rates, and its ray tracing capabilities make lighting effects more realistic and natural.”
crimson desert launches on March 19 for PS5, PS5 Pro, as well as Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, and PC.
Last week, Sony confirmed that Resident Evil Requiem was the first game to use its new PSSR technology on PS5 Pro, and announced that the update “will roll out globally to PS5 Pro players in the coming weeks.”
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