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PS5 and Xbox Series X/S Will “Probably” Get Mid-Gen Upgrades, Take-Two CEO Says

Shubhankar Parijat — Thu, 18 May 2023 11:26:14 +0000

We’re over two years into the lifecycle of the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and though it feels like the console generation is only just getting started, there are some who have started wondering whether there are more powerful variants of the current hardware waiting in the wings. After all, it was around this point in the previous generation that we got the PS4 Pro and the Xbox One X- so could something similar be in the cards for this generation as well?

Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, certainly seems to thinks so. When asked recently by GamesIndustry.biz whether he thinks we will see a PS5 Pro and similar mid-gen hardware upgrade for the current crop of console, Zelnick said, “We probably will”, before adding they one way or another mid-gen refreshes don’t “affect [Take-Two’s] business very much”.

Though Zelnick’s answer was brief, it does seem to be aligning what recent reports have claimed. Allegedly, Sony is currently at work on a PS5 Pro with a target launch window of late 2024 in mind, while developers will allegedly begin getting developer kits for the more powerful hardware in the near future as well. Reports of a similar Xbox upgrade have been few and far in between, but it wouldn’t be surprising to see both consoles coming out with new and more powerful hardware in the coming couple of years.

The Surge Could Have Run In 4K and 30FPS On Xbox One Scorpio, Developers Say

Pramath — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:14:19 +0000

The PS4 Pro and the Xbox one Scorpio (especially) are pretty powerful systems- so powerful, that Frankfurt-based studio Deck13 Interactive’s upcoming science fiction take on the Dark Souls formula, The Surge, doesn’t even come close to tapping out all of the resources that they offer.

“We’ve already utilized half precision floating point arithmetics on the [PS4] Pro for a couple of shaders and the gain was clearly noticeable,” Deck13’s Benjamin Glatzel said in an interview with WCCFTech. “These optimizations were one of the many steps we had to undertake to break the 60 FPS mark in ‘Performance Mode’. We’re planning to improve upon that in the future as we are permanently improving our engine and we’re also pretty confident that we’re not remotely close to what the PS4 Pro can actually handle.”

But the PS4 Pro itself pales next to the Scorpio- something that even Deck13 realized during development. “Given the current state of our rendering backends and given the specs of the Scorpio, 4k @ 30 FPS might be really close. Sadly we didn’t have the chance to touch the Scorpio – yet.”

So yes, if you like high end performance and graphics on your consoles, the PS4 Pro and the Xbox one Scorpio especially are the way to go for you. The Surge will launch on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.