Future Sony PlayStation games will use AI to imagine new frames

Does this mean the PS6 is getting AI frame gen? Or will it come to PS5 Pro?Does this mean the PS6 is getting AI frame gen? Or will it come to PS5 Pro?Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro, told Digital Foundry that ML-based frame generation tech is coming to “PlayStation platforms” in the future, letting the game console use AI to imagine new frames between the ones it’s actually rendering, which can create smoother perceived image quality while (typically) introducing some amount of lag. At least, that’s how it works on PCs, where critics call them “fake frames.”It’s not clear whether Cerny means he’ll bring it to the PS5 Pro, which just got better AI upscaling with an upgraded PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) technique, or whether it’ll have to wait for the possibly-delayed-due-to-RAM Sony PS6, which Sony already teased would include some next-gen dedicated ray tracing hardware called Radiance Cores.Cerny previously suggested the PS6 wouldn’t arrive before 2027 at the earliest, and that’s also true of this ML-based frame generation. “All I can say is that we have no more releases planned for this year. And that I look forward to discussing this more in the future,” he told Digital Foundry.But if the PS6 is delayed, Sony might want to try to get more out of the existing PS5 Pro in the meanwhile.This won’t be the first implementation of frame gen on console. The PS5 already offers AMD FSR3 frame generation in some games, but FSR3 doesn’t have the machine learning support. It’s interpolating between real frames, rather than AI imagining what should be between them.Nvidia and AMD typically warn that frame generation isn’t a solve for low framerate, because you need a relatively stable framerate to begin with for the technique to work. I don’t typically use it on gaming handhelds, where I might only get 30 to 40fps to begin with on a title, and on my desktop where I can easily get 90fps on higher settings, I usually prefer leaving it off. There are some edge cases where I enjoy it, though.A free daily digest of the news that matters most.This is the title for the native ad