Bungie, the studio behind Future 2 and the older Halo video games, has a public service announcement for all of its PlayStation 5 guardians: Double verify that you’re truly taking part in the PS5 model of the sport and never the PS4 model! Don’t really feel unhealthy in case you are taking part in the flawed model although, Sony has completed a horrible job with all of these items.
Future 2’s next-gen ports launched alongside the PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S consoles again in 2020. Whereas they weren’t new video games, they had been improved variations of the old-gen originals, with greater decision and 60fps assist. They even loaded quicker and felt snappier general than the PS4 or Xbox One variations. So most gamers made the free leap to the next-gen editions of Future 2, assuming they owned a next-gen machine. On Xbox this was simple. You simply…downloaded Future 2 in your Xbox Collection X and that was that. Over on the PlayStation 5, issues aren’t as simple and it appears a “notable” variety of Future gamers on Sony’s fancy new console are nonetheless, in 2022, truly taking part in the outdated PS4 port and never the fancier PS5 model of Bungie’s on-line shooter.
In its weekly weblog submit, This Week At Bungie, the studio included a small PSA concerning the state of affairs, explaining {that a} “notable variety of PS5 gamers” weren’t taking part in the next-gen port, however had been caught taking part in the older, slower PS4 model of Future 2. To treatment this, Bungie pointed customers towards a selected webpage created by Sony to assist clarify obtain and set up the suitable model of your particular sport on PS5.
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Whereas I’m certain this PSA will assist some people out, it’s yet one more reminder of how Sony is much behind Microsoft and its Xbox Sensible Supply System. I and lots of others joked about Sensible Supply on the time. “What a foolish buzzword! Who cares!” we stated. Now, it’s turn out to be top-of-the-line issues concerning the Xbox ecosystem.
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On Xbox, I by no means take into consideration these things. I simply hit obtain and the right model of the sport installs on my machine and all of the saves and the whole lot simply…work. On PS5, I’ve to dig round to put in the right model or in some instances, I’ve to set up each video games to switch saves between them. All of it feels prefer it’s held along with duct tape and doesn’t appear to be a great way to deal with any of this. It shouldn’t take six steps to play the suitable sport on the suitable console!
And whereas this concern will turn out to be much less and fewer of an issue as fewer and fewer video games are launched throughout each console generations, it makes me nervous about how all this may work on the inevitable PlayStation 6.
In the meantime, for these nonetheless taking part in Future 2 on Xbox One or PS4, Bungie additionally shared the information that it’s shrinking the sport’s reminiscence footprint by compressing some textures. It provided up some comparability pictures to point out how little the textures are affected by the brand new system and it appears good. Something to assist make video games smaller and extra environment friendly sounds nice to me!
