Bungie to PS5 house owners: Cease enjoying the outdated PS4 model of Future 2 already

Future 2 developer Bungie says a “notable” variety of PS5 house owners are nonetheless enjoying the worse-looking PS4 model of the sport on their high-end console {hardware}.

Bungie first provided a free PS5 replace for the PS4 model of Future 2 in late 2020, shortly after the console’s launch. To reap the benefits of that replace, although, PS5 house owners have to undergo a number of steps to search out and manually obtain the PS5-specific recordsdata, as outlined in a Bungie help web page and a PlayStation Help web page.

With out that obtain, the PS5 merely performs the PS4 model of the sport within the system’s backward-compatibility mode. Digital Foundry’s write-up goes into element on the “true 4K decision” and 60 to 120 fps gameplay provided by the upgraded PS5 model of the sport. Bungie’s newest “This Week at Bungie” replace additionally explicitly notes that gamers on the PS4 model are lacking out on enhancements in body charges and graphics.

That is in distinction to the Xbox Sequence X/S, which makes use of Microsoft’s “Sensible Supply” system to robotically obtain the model of the sport greatest tailor-made to the consumer’s {hardware}.

A seamless drawback

This sort of versioning confusion is not a very new drawback for PlayStation house owners. Simply after the PS5 launched, some Name of Responsibility: Black Ops gamers on the PS5 reportedly ended up by chance downloading the PS4 model of the sport as effectively and launching that underpowered model unknowingly when it was time to play.

In December, Sony rolled out a system replace to make this distinction extra obvious. Now, the system can pop up a “affirm sport model” warning when gamers load the PS4 model of a sport that additionally has a PS5 model accessible.

Sadly, this warning does not appear to use to Future 2 for some purpose. For that sport, gamers with the PS4 model nonetheless need to know to dive into the sport’s product web page and manually select to obtain the improve recordsdata.

The distinction could also be particularly obscured for gamers who bought Future 2 as a bodily disc. That bodily bundle has been labeled as a PS4 sport since its launch in 2017 and has but to obtain an up to date bundle noting the provision of an enhanced PS5 model of the sport.

It is unclear simply what number of Future 2 gamers make up the “notable” minority that aren’t taking full benefit of their PS5 {hardware}. Nonetheless, the truth that Bungie feels the quantity is price noting in any respect means that this continues to be an issue for the developer and for Sony normally.