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 test that you’re really 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 incorrect model although, Sony has executed 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 increased decision and 60fps assist. They even loaded sooner and felt snappier total 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 straightforward. You simply…downloaded Future 2 in your Xbox Collection X and that was that. Over on the PlayStation 5, issues aren’t as straightforward and it appears a “notable” variety of Future gamers on Sony’s fancy new console are nonetheless, in 2022, really taking part in the previous PS4 port and never the fancier PS5 model of Bungie’s on-line shooter.
In its weekly weblog put up, 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 particular webpage created by Sony to assist clarify tips on how to obtain and set up the proper model of your particular sport on PS5.
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Whereas I’m certain this PSA will assist some of us out, it’s one more reminder of how Sony is way 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 change into probably the greatest issues concerning the Xbox ecosystem.
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On Xbox, I by no means take into consideration these items. I simply hit obtain and the right model of the sport installs on my machine and all of the saves and every thing simply…work. On PS5, I’ve to dig round to put in the right model or in some circumstances, 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 look like a great way to deal with any of this. It shouldn’t take six steps to play the proper sport on the proper console!
And whereas this concern will change into 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 can 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 supplied up some comparability pictures to indicate how little the textures are affected by the brand new system and it seems to be good. Something to assist make video games smaller and extra environment friendly sounds nice to me!
