CD Projekt Red has dropped a free PS5 Pro update for Cyberpunk 2077, pushing the game's visuals even further on Sony's mid-gen hardware. According to Game Informer, the patch is available now and includes advanced ray tracing alongside other graphical improvements.
The update is the latest chapter in what has become one of gaming's most remarkable redemption arcs. Since its disastrous 2020 launch, CDPR has systematically rebuilt Cyberpunk 2077 from the ground up - squashing bugs, overhauling core mechanics, and delivering the Phantom Liberty expansion that gave Night City a proper second life.
Five-plus years of post-launch support is genuinely impressive, and the fact that this upgrade is hitting PS5 Pro owners for free is the kind of goodwill gesture that studios don't always extend this far into a game's lifecycle. Most players who are still running through Night City have long since earned their copy's value, so a no-cost visual bump is a welcome surprise.
The PS5 Pro has been positioned as the premium way to play current-gen titles, with its enhanced GPU muscle designed specifically to handle more demanding ray tracing workloads without tanking frame rates. Cyberpunk 2077 has always been a showcase title for cutting-edge rendering tech, so the pairing makes sense.
For anyone who shelved the game after the launch disaster and hasn't revisited it, this might be the nudge worth paying attention to. Between the 2.0 overhaul, Phantom Liberty, and now hardware-specific visual upgrades, the version of Cyberpunk 2077 available today is a fundamentally different game than what shipped in 2020.
Game Informer notes an overview trailer is available for the update, giving players a look at what the PS5 Pro enhancements actually deliver in practice.
