One of the PS5’s biggest games won’t be getting a PS5 Pro upgrade

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One of the biggest third-party games on PS5 has been confirmed not to receive an upgrade patch for PS5 Pro consoles. Following the launch of the PS5 Pro earlier this month, a number of popular games on the platform were immediately updated to run at a higher level with the new PlayStation hardware. On the third-party front, some of the most notable PS5 games to upgrade are included Baldur’s Gate 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Alan Wake 2, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Resident Evil 4and Hogwarts Legacy. Since then, PS5 Pro users have been making it known far and wide which PS5 titles they’d like to see upgraded next. Unfortunately, these requests have since resulted in a developer shooting down the idea for his own game.

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In a recent interaction on X, developer CD Projekt Red confirmed that it does not plan to release a PS5 Pro upgrade for Cyberpunk 2077. After the launch of its Phantom Liberty expansion in the past year, CD Projekt has largely moved on to other projects, especially with The Witcher 4 and its Cyberpunk 2077 successor. As a result, work on Cyberpunk 2077 has largely been completed, and CDPR has no intention of returning to the project to improve the experience for the latest PlayStation console.

“We currently have no plans for (a) PS5 Pro patch,” the studio said in response to a fan’s request.

By all accounts, Cyberpunk 2077 would have been one of the most high-profile third-party games to be upgraded to the PS5 Pro in the PlayStation library. To date, the sci-fi RPG has sold nearly 30 million copies. While that sum has obviously been spread across PlayStation, Xbox and PC platforms, it still has a large enough audience on PS5 that a PS5 Pro upgrade would have been something millions would have loved.

Considering the rough condition in which Cyberpunk 2077 launched back in 2020, it could also be argued that the game would benefit far more from a PS5 Pro upgrade than many other titles would. Although the base version of Cyberpunk on PS5 now performs far better than it once did, there is still quite a bit of room for improvement with the game on consoles compared to its PC version. Still, it seems that CD Projekt Red will not choose to do anything further with Cyberpunk 2077 to optimize it for PS5 Pro unless something changes in the future.