The best-looking AI upscaling in PlayStation’s arsenal is no longer locked to the PS5 Pro — at least, not entirely. Sony has unveiled Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), a new AI upscaling tier engineered specifically for the standard PlayStation 5, and two games are already patched to use it.
Announced Thursday on the PlayStation Blog, QSSR arrives through game updates rather than a console firmware patch. Marvel’s Wolverine from Insomniac Games and Ghost of Yotei from Sucker Punch Productions are the first titles to ship with it, both updated today. In Wolverine’s case, QSSR becomes the default upscaler on base PS5 hardware.
QSSR is a leaner cousin of PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR), the AI upscaling library that debuted with the PS5 Pro in 2024. The original library was too compute-hungry for the standard console, so Sony rebuilt the approach around what the base hardware can actually run. The tech comes out of Project Amethyst, Sony’s multi-year AI graphics collaboration with AMD, and rests on two ideas: a streamlined neural-network architecture and code tuned by hand to get the most out of the PS5’s graphics chip.
Sony is careful not to oversell it. PSSR remains “the gold standard” on PS5 Pro, the company said — QSSR’s job is more modest: crisper edges, finer detail, and a more stable image than the base console’s existing upscaling options, all inside the limits of the standard hardware.
The developers behind the first two games are genuinely enthusiastic. Insomniac’s head of technology, Mike Fitzgerald, said QSSR brings extra pixel-level clarity to Wolverine’s environments, from the crowded streets of Madripoor to the tight alleyways of Shinjuku — a taste of the Pro experience for players on the standard console. Sucker Punch rendering lead Jasmin Patry said the upscaler resolves fine character and environmental detail with a level of temporal stability that simply wasn’t possible on the base PS5 before.
Sony says QSSR will be offered broadly to every PlayStation developer, so more games should follow — each will need its own patch to add support.
Separately, Sony pushed out a small 1.2 GB PS5 system update today (firmware 26.06-14.10.00) with the usual security fixes and stability improvements.