Enlarge / A livestream representation isn’t a good way to show off HDR, but Sony’s Mark Cerny attempts to show it off. (credit: PlayStation)

Sony’s PlayStation 4 Pro event on Wednesday loudly trumpeted the benefits of HDR (high dynamic range) rendering as one reason to buy the new system, but in a surprise move, PlayStation’s Andrew House announced that every PlayStation 4 owner can expect HDR compatibility—and as soon as next week.

“With the proper display, all 40 million PlayStation 4 owners can join the HDR revolution,” House told the crowd after confirming that a firmware update will go out to all users next week (though an exact date wasn’t specified). However, House didn’t confirm whether that HDR spec will be locked to the Dolby Vision standard or to HDR-10.

This somewhat leaves Xbox One gamers in the HDR dust, as that system’s HDR compatibility only works for owners of the brand-new Xbox One S hardware revision. That system works only with the HDR-10 spec, which is slightly more limited than Dolby Vision in terms of color and brightness spectrum.