Will Sony charge for PS5 pro upgrade patches?

No one truly knows if there's ever gonna be a PS5 Pro and even if there is, do we really need it? PS5 to me is as powerful as they come from what I've seen and played so far.

Also, no insane person is gonna start charging patches. Patches are there to fix the problem of game developers discovered by the players. You cannot simply charge patches because it's never the gamer's fault, it's the developers for not discovering bugs/glitches/framerate drops during test gaming if they still do those.

If we go by last gen PS4pro upgrades, no. but it will be interesting if sony does charge its games.

@davillain: please read more carefully. I never claimed Sony would charge for corrective patches, no one in their right mind would charge for those.

Sony is charging gen 8 game owners for gen 9 ports, I can absolutely see them charging for the privilege of playing base PS5 games at PS5 Pro specs. Starting with Spider Man 2 and God of War Ragnarok.

More than likely? Can't say I blame them.. personally I won't be upgrading any of my games unless they're free or multiplayer, because I'll have already played through them before if I had the interest, and I don't usually play through single player games more than once unless they are shorter games.

More than likely? Can't say I blame them.. personally I won't be upgrading any of my games unless they're free or multiplayer, because I'll have already played through them before if I had the interest, and I don't usually play through single player games more than once unless they are shorter games.

More than likely? That is to say if there is any significant upgrades that need actual tweaking behind the scenes and aren't just automatic... if they are automatically converted then probably not. Can't say I blame them.. personally I won't be upgrading any of my games unless they're free or multiplayer, because I'll have already played through them before if I had the interest, and I don't usually play through single player games more than once unless they are shorter games.

That said PS5 Pro day 1 either way and if the Enhanced versions for the Pro cost more from the start.. well, I'll be getting those versions.

so.... that was a thing in ps3,360 era, start of ps4 era/one....

I am shocked that Sony didn’t charge for the Valhalla update for Ragnarok. Sony is infamous for nickel and diming their customers and one solitary instance of doing something for free does not negate their many other instances of reaching and grasping for more cash.

Oh and before I get accused of Sony hate: Microsoft is a despicable reprehensible corporation that should be broken up and operated as individual entities. Nintendo rehashes its games and hasn’t had an original idea in five years. Anyone who fanboys over these corporations and actually believes that these companies care about them is a moron.

Nah i don't think they will. They did chance their arm a bit with the PS4->PS5 stuff with some games but, at the same time, that's also like giving you a remastered version of the game for a small fee. Some of the improvements over the PS4 game to the PS5 were quite substantial. Better textures, lighting, character models etc. It's not unheard of for companies to do this for those kinds of upgrades.

However for existing PS5 games, if they even do get patched, it will be more just for shader recompilation and a new settings preset. I don't think Sony will charge for that. I don't see many developers going back to their old PS5 games and doing mroe substantial rework....mainly because the upgrade to the Pro is so small anyway.

Nintendo on the other hand....hmm. I could very well see them charge a fee to unlock your existing switch purchases for the Switch 2. It's unlikely...but still quite a bit higher than 0 chance.

Seeing Sony fanboys squeal at the prospect of Dragons Dogma at 60fps on pro before realising that that 10% clock increase makes equal to a standard XSX actually made me chuckle.

Pretty sure Sony are well aware that there’s no point in a pro console at this point. The difference would be barely noticeable until you analyse it microscopically.

Next gen consoles need a CPU buff. Image quality is about as good as it’s going to get.

I think it's possible think Xbox got it right by doing smart delivery.