PS5 Tips & Tricks: 9 Things You Didn't Know It Could Do

3. Enhance Un-Optimised Backwards Compatible Titles

Simply because the PS5 has greater amounts of RAM and computational hardware overall, scores of older games will take advantage of it even without dedicated patches.

Any PS2 titles bought digitally - GTA 3, Dark Cloud, Ape Escape, The Warriors etc. - load in an instant, and first-party PS4 games like Ghost of Tsushima and God of War both load faster and have higher frame rates.

God of War in particular can now run at 4K resolution at 60 frames a second, and it's pretty damn gorgeous.

Alongside back-compat touch-ups we're getting dedicated next-gen patches for the likes of No Man's Sky, Watch Dogs: Legion, Assassin's Creed Valhalla and many more. These purposefully introduce new coding techniques like ray tracing or increased texture work - just know that diving into any of your old library will still see a base uptick in resolution or frame rates, automatically.