When the PlayStation 5 launched, fans expected a higher level of fidelity in games. The previous generation already pushed visuals to near Pixar-like quality and many expected that this could be the console where visuals would move up another notch thanks to ray-tracing.

Michiel van der Leeuw, technical director on all the Horizon games, shows me how much smoother Horizon Forbidden West can be on the PS5 Pro, how much sharper now that it’s sampling textures that render more crisply,