The highly praised and previously exclusive to the Playstation 4 and Playstation 5 action role-playing game Ghost of Tsushima, which was developed by Sucker Punch Productions and first published by Sony Interactive Entertainment on July 17, 2020, is being ported for the PC by Nixxes Software and is already being released on May 16th on Steam and the Epic Games Store. The very extensive feature set already promises extensively improved graphics, which is now also reflected in the official system requirements that Sony is now issuing published has.
4K/UHD requires powerful hardware
As in Horizon Forbidden West, which is also like Ghost of Tsushima Ported to the PC by the Dutch development studio Nixxes Software, resolutions in the ultra-wide formats 21:9, 32:9 and 48:9 are supported on up to three displays. The higher resolutions and an even higher level of detail take their toll, especially in 4K/UHD, and require powerful graphics cards of the latest generation to achieve 60 fps.
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The extensive feature set, which includes all relevant upscaling technologies with intermediate image calculation (“frame generation”) as well as the native image enhancers and AA filters such as AMD’s FSR 3 Native AA and Nvidia’s DLAA on Tensor cores, is absolutely “state of the art” and will offer a significantly better graphics experience on the PC than on the Playstation 4 and Playstation 5.
Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut hits PC on May 16th
The highly praised action role-playing game Ghost of Tsushima, previously exclusive to the Playstation 4 and Playstation 5, will soon be released for the PC.
But again from the beginning. Ghost of Tsushima, developed under the direction of Nate Fox, was graphically absolutely impressive when it was first released on July 17, 2020 on the venerable Playstation 4 and Playstation 4 Pro and, as the last major exclusive title, represented an extremely worthy conclusion to this game console generation. In August 2021, the game was released as a director’s cut for the Playstation 5 and was significantly spruced up. The announced PC version will go even further.
Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut (PC)
The PC version of Ghost of Tsushima will be “tailored to an extremely wide range of hardware” from “high-end PCs to handheld PCs, with a free choice of frame rate” and a variety of graphics options, Sony said . A dedicated graphics preset for the Steam Deck, like that offered by Cyberpunk 2077, is also expected.
DLSS 3, DLAA and FSR 3 Native AA promise a lot
In addition to the pure, partly AI-supported upsampling using Super Resolution and the intermediate image generation (“Frame Generation”), the PC port will also include the two technologies DLAA (“Deep Learning Anti Aliasing”) and FSR 3 Native AA, which are designed for image quality Apply algorithm to native resolution without upscaling, support. The feature trailer provides impressions.
In terms of quality, as with Horizon Forbidden West, a first-class PC port can be expected, while the game as such has already received excellent reviews.
Ghost of Tsushima on Steam and the Epic Games Store
Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut is already available for 59.99 euros Steam and in Epic Games Store can be pre-ordered and will be released on May 16, 2024. Those who pre-order can look forward to the following bonuses. Some pre-order bonuses require players to link their Steam account to a PSN account.
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Sources: Sony