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There are vanishingly few 8K games on PS5 Pro, but Pure Pool Pro is aiming to extract every drop of juice from Sony’s supercharged system.
According to developer Ripstone, the release will run at 60fps in native 8K, with no upscalers like PSSR used. The base PS5, meanwhile, will run at 120fps in native 4K.
Here’s what Ripstone’s George Holland told us:
“We know this sounds like a tall claim, but the nature of the pool being fixed around the table, our relatively lightweight proprietary engine, and our initial pre-alpha testing before any optimisations leads us to believe it’s achievable.”
You can check out some native 8K gameplay, captured on a PC, in the video embedded below.
The full game will build on Ripstone’s long-running mastery of cue-based games, with “hyper-real lighting and frame-perfect physics”.
In addition to seamless crossplay and a dynamic AI system that “feels” pressure, there’ll also be a career mode across 8-Ball, 9-Ball, Blackball, and more.
There’s no release date attached to this one just yet, but a beta test is planned for PC in September. We’ll update when we know more.
[source youtube.com]
As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.