Comment on Kotaku Asks: How Soon Is Too Soon For A Video Game Remaster Or Remake?
520@kbin.social 11 months agoThey aren't limited to unlocked framerates and higher resolutions though. Some games also add additional graphics effects.
it does not give you access to most of the graphical and audio capabilities of the modern platform
Except where it clearly can. For example, Witcher 3's next gen update adds features like ray tracing.
And also about how it’s petty to go and press the downvote button on someone’s posts when you’re having a conversation with them.
I press the downvote button because you are demonstrably incorrect. Go look at Witcher 3. Go look at Cyberpunk 2077. These developers are doing what you deem to be impossible.
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
this is a new SKU release for next gen systems, it’s not a patch. it’s a new version of the game.
520@kbin.social 11 months ago
No, it is a patch:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/12/23505545/the-witcher-3-next-gen-update-ps5-xbox-pc-hands-on
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
…playstation.com/…/EP9000-CUSA10249_00-THELASTOFU… this game has a next-gen patch for ps5 to get higher framerates: ref blog.playstation.com/…/the-last-of-us-part-ii-per…
note how it says [ps4]
…playstation.com/…/EP4497-PPSA10408_00-0000000000… this game has a next-gen SKU for ps5, to access ps5 feature sets, that they misnamed as a “patch”. note how it says [ps4] [ps5]
520@kbin.social 11 months ago
You're mixing your terminology, bud.
SKU is a shipping and retail thing. It's a unique identifier for products shipped. It has nothing to do with software patches and so forth.
Witcher 3 has a seperate entry for PS5 because they also ship a separate PS5 version.
Thing is, if I put the PS4 version of the game into the drive, and download the updates, the game I have is exactly the same as the PS5 physical.
It is a patch. Not a completely different version of the game.