Diablo IV Will be PS5 Pro Enhanced - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 November 2024 / 5,031 Views

Rod Fergusson, the senior vice president and general manager of the Diablo franchise at Blizzard, has announced Diablo IV and the Vessel of Hatred expansion will be PlayStation 5 Pro enhanced.

"I've been getting this question quite a bit recently and I'm happy to say that Diablo IV and Vessel of Hatred will indeed be PS5 Pro Enhanced!" said Fergusson.

"Very proud of our hardworking team to make this happen. More details at a later date."

PlayStation 5 Pro will launch on November 7 for $699.99 / £699.99 / €799.99 / ¥119,980.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

36 Comments

G2ThaUNiT (on 04 October 2024)

This really shouldn't surprise anyone. Outside of being incorporated in Game Pass and MS ownership, ABK still operates like a third-party publisher. Which was always the plan.

Hardstuck-Platinum G2ThaUNiT (on 04 October 2024)

Bandorr Hardstuck-Platinum (on 04 October 2024)

I think it reads far more neutral than that.

More "they want it enhanced, because they want it sold".

Hardstuck-Platinum Bandorr (on 04 October 2024)

G2ThaUNiT Hardstuck-Platinum (on 04 October 2024)

............how you come to the conclusions that you do, I'll never know.

Anyway, we all know MS promised throughout the entire FTC hearings that ABK would continue to operate as a multiplat publisher. That's what they legally promised and how they got the deal to pass. So like I said, this shouldn't surprise anyone. A lot of people just kept fear mongering that MS was going to try to make ABK exclusive. Plus, Diablo 4 was already a fully muliplat game, so why wouldn't they continue to support it in any way they can?

DroidKnight Hardstuck-Platinum (on 04 October 2024)

It's another platform that Diablo IV can be sold on. It will likely also appear on the Switch 2, the next generation Xbox systems, and the PS6.

Imaginedvl Hardstuck-Platinum (on 04 October 2024)

Man you need to stop... For real...

Imaginedvl G2ThaUNiT (on 04 October 2024)

yah no surprise there. I expect any developpers out there to take advantage of the Play Station Five Pro. It would be weird not to. I am planning to get one (I was shocked by the price at first but oh well, I got a good year so why not ;)); so I'm pretty happy about this. Playing mostly on Xbox when I play on console but it will be nice to try it out of the Pro for sure!

method114 Imaginedvl (on 04 October 2024)

From what I understood you are forced to if you release a game after September or maybe November. I could be wrong though but I remember reading that.

Imaginedvl method114 (on 04 October 2024)

I do not know but I doubt it very much.
Because it would also imply that everyone would get an access to the dev. kit for the Pro (or they would not really be able to do that) and Sony never send those for free.
I also did not see anything like that anywhere.

method114 Imaginedvl (on 06 October 2024)

Ok I looked in it more. It is mandated that devs support it the same way it was for the ps4 pro. It doesn't require you to take advantage of every single feature though. PSSR though should be more than enough and from what I understand its very very simple to enable it over FSR.

Jumpinbeans (on 05 October 2024)

free update - great. Still won't save the game, it doesn't come close to d2 (original not the resurrected rubbish) nor d3. Its boring, the open world kills the story and the game just feels empty.

rapsuperstar31 (on 04 October 2024)

The definitive place to play Microsoft's Diablo 4 on console.

Azzanation (on 06 October 2024)

This is good to see. All developers shouldn't be lazy and support as much hardware as possible. Good on Blizzard for going out of their way with this.

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Hardstuck-Platinum (on 04 October 2024)

G2ThaUNiT Hardstuck-Platinum (on 04 October 2024)

Most likely will be. You seem to be the only one that thinks MS is still trying to compete directly with PS even though they announced a long time ago that they gave up the "console war" lol

Chazore G2ThaUNiT (on 04 October 2024)

I think to him, that war ends when Xbox fully dies or something?.

Hardstuck-Platinum Chazore (on 04 October 2024)

Imaginedvl Hardstuck-Platinum (on 04 October 2024)

What war? The one if you head?... Bud you have some issues seriously...
Those are 2 companies and 2 plastic boxes. Why on earth are you so into winning this imaginary war of yours?

2zosteven Hardstuck-Platinum (on 04 October 2024)

remember microsoft is in this for profit.

Chazore Hardstuck-Platinum (on 04 October 2024)

How would it?, because you were literally calling them "inferior" before.

By that logic, them releasing day 1 on PS would still have you here calling them inferior or "why does Xbox even exist?".

Your logic does not make sense. They either exist and do what they want or they don't and have no reason to exist.

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Hardstuck-Platinum Chazore (on 04 October 2024)

Ayla Chazore (on 04 October 2024)

I can only imagine how awesome his life is outside of these so called console wars.

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DroidKnight Hardstuck-Platinum (on 04 October 2024)

I don't think they would deliberately gimp a game on a competitor's device.

Hardstuck-Platinum DroidKnight (on 04 October 2024)

There's a big difference between deliberately gimping and actively enhancing it. They could theoretically just have the standard PS5 version run on the pro exactly the same, and that way they don't make the XBSX look inferior in the process.

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DroidKnight Hardstuck-Platinum (on 04 October 2024)

They have PS5 Pro dev kits. Lowering the performance down to match a base PS5 would be gimping it. Unless you mean they should send all the PS5 Pro dev kits back to Sony and pretend they don't exist?

Hardstuck-Platinum DroidKnight (on 04 October 2024)

If they are not releasing games on PS5 day one, that implies they are still, to some degree trying to compete with PlayStation. All I'm saying is, if your going to allow the best version of the game you own to run best on a competitor platform, why are they still releasing games exclusive/timed to Xbox? They may as well just release everything day and date if they're ok with PS having the best looking versions of their games.

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DroidKnight Hardstuck-Platinum (on 04 October 2024)

The PS will never have the best looking versions of their games. PC will always have the best looking and performing version. If you mean console, that will change as new platforms become available. At the moment the PS5 Pro is the most powerful console, and all devs, from all companies, should be striving to make sure their games look and perform the best it can on the Pro, as well as all the other platforms.

I'm not really sure on their method of competition or if they even need to compete. Call of Duty Black Ops 6 will be releasing day and date, and Playstation will likely make a shitload of money for Xbox with no competition needed. This is also true for many of the other titles that have always been multi-platform day and date releases pre-acquistion. The larger the Playstation install base, the more sales for Xbox. As far as a reason to purchase an Xbox over a Playstation, I doubt all games will be going to Playstation. The Indiana Jones game makes sense to be multi-platform.

I don't see the point in Microsoft, 100% removing the need or desire to own an Xbox. There has to remain some incentive to owning one, or what would be the point of developing the next generations of consoles?

There are currently over 60 million people gaming on Xbox consoles. In order to keep them and grow that number, there will need to be some benefits.

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Hardstuck-Platinum DroidKnight (on 04 October 2024)

Nintendo or PlayStation would never allow their games to look and perform best on a rival console. Nintendo even has gone as far as taking down all the Switch emulators, and videos on YouTube on games on Switch emulators.

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DroidKnight Hardstuck-Platinum (on 04 October 2024)

So they would gimp performance or appearance on Xbox to force you on their device for the superior version?

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Imaginedvl Hardstuck-Platinum (on 04 October 2024)

Everytime there is a new version of a console, the games that are multiplatform are most likely to look better on the new console; this is basic logic.

What you are saying makes zero sense... You are so deep into your console war things that sometime you come up with stuff that just ridiculous.

Nobody is "allowing" anything, it is just normal for any developers to take advantage of the platform they are developping the game for. Any game coming from Xbox Studios/Activision/Bethesda WILL take advantage of whatever each console has to offer and in the case of Sony's console it is Dual Sense stuff and now the extra graphical power for the Pro.

It does not make any sense for them no to do that...