Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: PS5 Pro vs PS5 - A Vast Improvement At 60FPS

Thus far, the PS5 Pro footage we've seen has generally concentrated on games that already looked great on the standard PlayStation 5. But what about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth with its contentious, blurred 60fps performance mode? Based on footage seen here, we're looking at a 60fps presentation that's a huge improvement over the standard PS5 *and* irons out its performance drops. And in some respects, the footage suggests that Pro at 60fps even has advantages over the base machine in its 30fps quality mode. Oliver Mackenzie has much to share here.

00:00 Overview
01:02 PS5 Pro vs. PS5 Performance Mode
07:17 PS5 Pro vs. PS5 Graphics Mode
12:25 Frame-rates and conclusion

[valk]

Digital foundary out here doing better marketing for the ps5 pro than Sony

[Roe]

Thanks Digital Foundry for understanding how to present PS5 Pro content much better than Sony or Cnet 😂

[ph]

This is a good improvement but it really feels like it was due to Square's incompetence with the performance mode not the pro's power

[ThwipThwipBoom]

I'm pretty sure FF7 Rebirth's blurry performance mode is Square's fault, not the base PS5's fault. The base PS5 runs most games at 60 FPS with non-blurry graphics.

[shyff]

The original performance mode was just unacceptable honestly.

[forresthunter]

The difference between forgetting to wear you glasses or not.

[Tragel]

They didnt show this at the reveal, instead decided to show us TLOU2 for some reason

[tonyrivera]

What Cerny couldn’t say and it’s in fact the new model’s best selling point is: “Ps5 pro will enable brute force improvements for titles that are not well optimized”.

[kkampo_]

not sure why people are getting mad at this video. They're literally just showcasing the difference between the consoles. Don't shoot the messenger

[MattyJay]

The original performance mode blur is crazy, i didnt realize it was that bad....

[leonthesleepy]

The performance mode on the base PS5 is just atrocious. There is no other way around it. Even giving the raw pixel count would have been better than the blurry mess they gave us.
I was hoping they would fix it eventually, but now that the Pro is going to be released, i'm positive that the base PS5 will forever be stuck with the shitty visual quality in Perf mode, since they can just brute force it on the pro.

[asdtyuv]

You know it’s noticeable when you can see the difference on mobile

[wishingWL]

When shown side by side Performance mode was truly a blurry mess. I only played the game in performance mode and always felt like I needed glasses because it's so blurry like you are losing vision. But I've played lower res games on PS4 that run at like 900p and these were not that blurry like FF7 Rebirth's performance mode. It's so weird.

[parsashirali]

The 1080p in rebirth still should NOT look like that. Ive seen 900p images that arent as blurry as that. That taa is still horrid. Adding even fsr2 is gonna make the game look much better, the resolution on pro being the same excepy them using pssr for it is more of an insult to anyone thats played this game in the base ps5

[NathanMichalik]

This was probably the first game I've played on PS5 that was so blurry it was actually distracting to look at.

[sirprintalot]

I am completely baffled by Sony's presentation, this video makes the difference seem way more drastic.

[kimlee]

Holy hell is vanilla performance mode blurry. You'd think the word "blurry" was exaggerated but it's literally blurry in every sense of the word. And this is UE4, not UE5!

I mean, GOW Ragnarok hits like native >1440p 60fps with dynamic resolution on performance mode on base PS5. Rebirth just didn't get the work put into it and is now gonna get carried by the much newer GPU of the Pro, of course.

[johnathanrhoades]

Looks much better. Worth $7-800 for a less blurry experience on something that shouldn’t really have been blurry in the first place? Definitely not for me.

[Matt_MR]

I think we should create a petition demanding a patch implementing FSR on the base PS5 version of Rebirth Performance mode.

[davidfox]

Being a primary PC gamer with lots of frames I ended up completing the game all in Graphics mode. I got used to the 30 FPS but couldn't get used to the blurry performance mode. This will be awesome with higher frames.