Next-generation consoles are arriving in less than a month and a half. Yet surprisingly there’s been relatively little focus on how thePlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X’s upcoming games truly take advantage of next-generation hardware. A recent update to PlayStation’s official website is trying to correct that absence of information, however. InRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart’s case, a “PS5 features” section of the game’s listing details just how the next-gen game is pushing the PS5’s hardware to the max.
Five separate features are discussed inRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart’s PS5 features section on the PlayStation 5 website. But it’s just the first two that are particularly exciting. The first two focus on how the PS5’s hardware will improveRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart’s performance and visuals in specific ways. Namely, the bullet points deal with frame rate, resolution, loading times, and visual features.
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It’s those visual features that are particularly exciting. The listing confirms thatRatchet & Clank: Rift Apartwill indeed feature ray tracing. Ray tracing being the new lighting and reflection technology that makes for a more realistic visual presentation by tracing paths of light. This feature was speculated on early afterRatchet & Clank: Rift Apartwas announced. That first trailer showed what appeared to be ray-traced reflections in water and metallic surfaces, so it’s nice to have it officially confirmed.
As for other important performance features, the listing also confirms thatRatchet & Clank: Rift Apartwill supportdynamic 4K resolutionwith HDR. These features require a TV or monitor that supports them, of course. The listing also states thatRatchet & Clank: Rift Apartwill offer a Performance Mode with a targeted 60FPS frame rate. Note the language here, however. 60FPS in a performance mode heavily implies that the non-Performance Mode, the mode that prioritizes visual fidelity, very likely won’t have 60FPS.
The last important feature listed for overall performance isRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart’s loading system. The listing notes that Insomniac is creating “near-instant loading” using the PS5’s SSD. Fans have seen examples of this inRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart’s trailers so far, as Ratchet and friends shoot between dimensions with very brief, dynamic loading sequences.
Other PS5 features listed inRatchet & Clank: Rift Apart’s profile include adaptive triggers via theDualSense controllerthat make each weapon respond in unique ways, the DualSense’s Haptic Feedback that creates rumble for in-game explosions and movement, and support for Tempest 3D AudioTech for 3D audio. These are features that players will have to feel and hear for themselves. Needless to say, though,Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apartwill be a step beyond anyRatchet & Clankprior.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apartis coming to the PS5.
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