Insomniac Talks Up PS5 Pro And PSSR While Showing Off Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Pro-Enhanced Gameplay

In less than a week from time of writing, the PS5 Pro will be in the homes of everyone who went ahead and bought-in to Mark Cerny and PlayStation’s promise behind the mid-gen refresh.

That promise being that the PS5 Pro will be the thing to kill the divide between Performance Mode and Fidelity Mode. Players won’t have to choose with the PS5 Pro, or at least that’s the pitch for why you should buy one.

But if you’re still on the fence, then PlayStation Studios has carted out Insomniac Games and a few of its developers to try and talk you into jumping off towards the side of ‘buying a PS5 Pro’ in a new trailer that showcases Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart gameplay running on PS5 Pro.

Rift Apart is of course one of the games confirmed to be PS5 Pro Enhanced, and it was already a showpiece for the console when it launched three years ago. Now, for the PS5 Pro, it’s an even greater showpiece thanks to the added power packed into the Professional model.

“As a developer, Insomniac Games is always trying to do the biggest and the best, and bring the deepest experience to players,” says creative director Marcus Smith.

“Our players no longer have to choose, and that means they’re seeing the true vision of the game that we’re trying to create. They’re able to have a much more emotional experience as they explore our graphically intense worlds, and at a extremely high, fluid frame rate. It really has opened up our ability to create worlds much truer to the vision we had originally.”

Animation lead Lindsay Thompson adds “Knowing that gamers have to choose between the two modes, of Performance or Fidelity is a little frustrating, because we want our players to have the best experience possible.”

“There’s so much that we put into this game [Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart], so many details and exciting little surprises, the player should be able to have the best experience while seeing all of those things. I think we have endless possibilities, and this new experience is going to be the best player experience possible.”

Then principle engine programmer Jahrain Jackson adds his voice to the choir, saying “What excites me the most about the PS5 Pro is that you’re basically getting both Performance and Fidelity in one package. There’s no fear of missing out on something by choosing one, or the other. It’s really a game-changer.”

Jackson’s also the only one to talk about PSSR or PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, saying “PSSR is really exciting, because it’s this game-changer for bringing our visual fidelity up to the next level. Being able to deliver all that we have to offer from that game [Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart] is going to be phenomenal.”

You can check out the full trailer for yourself, below.

Source – [PlayStation]