CCG writes - "Hi-Fi Rush Rush is a well-polished game and my game of the year so far. The only nitpick I have is that there are some timed quick time events. Other than that, it was a joy to play. "
Hi-Fi Rush for the Nintendo Switch has received a PEGI 12 rating in anticipation of its release. This is even though the game hasn't been officially announced.
I wouldn't play this on Switch, unless it can run at 60fps on it. I don't see that happening. Hope I'm wrong.
If players are willing to play Doom at 30fps on the Switch, I suppose it wouldn't be a problem for them to play Hi-Fi Rush at 30fps.
I suspect it will also get a Switch 2 version/patch.
Fantastic game though. Stands up there with Returnal as being one of the more unique, high quality games this gen with a still somewhat sizable budget.
I would argue that Hi-Fi Rush at 30fps is a much worse experience than Doom. It is a rhythm game at the end of the day, so extremely reliant on your input latency, which is directly connected to your refresh rate and frame rate.
It's likely not unplayable or anything close to that, but it's going to be a case where for the Switch version, not only the visuals are impacted, but so is the quality of the gameplay.
"First Hi-Fi Rush and now Beat Slayer, I'm convinced the rhythm-action genre has a ton of potential just waiting to be explored," writes Hanzala from eXputer.
Eurogamer: "Hi-Fi Rush has arrived on PlayStation 5 and it's an excellent port of the original Xbox Series X and PC games... with slightly improved shadows. Tom Morgan reminds us of how great this game is, and examines Xbox's multi-platform record so far. From Ghostwire: Tokyo's Xbox issues to Pentiment receiving 120Hz support on PS5 first, surely Microsoft's flagship console should automatically be the best place to play its games and the first platform to receive new features? Great games get a wider audience now and that's a great thing - but Xbox needs to dot all the Is and cross all the Ts a little more carefully."
Shadows are a bit higher res on 5, but they run pretty much the same. MS said recently there is a patch to address some weird glitch when set to 120hz even though the game doesn't even run at 120fps. It was thanks to the 5 that they are fixing the PC/ XB version.
I really dislike how DF is actually like Microsoft killed someone's cat by not having the best version on X ox. This doesn't even make sense given all their games are available on PC as well. There are always gonna be games that run faster on a PS5. Simply because it's clocked faster.
@eonjsy
Omfg. Did you just ssy the ps5 is better than Xbox because of higher clocks. I hope you know there is a lot more to it than that. Xbox is without doubt the strongest console that’s why they are puzzled
@optimusDK
DF is puzzled because they are a MS mouthpiece. There are a ton of games that run better on PS5, so whether series X is stronger or not, it doesn’t really matter when the multiplats games can perform better on PS5 and the PS5 first party are consistently better looking than Xbox’s. DF shouldn’t be “puzzled”at all unless they been sleeping under a rock.
We’re not going to even talk about the Dualsense features on PS5 btw. DF should be mention those if they really want to pretend to be objective, but I have a feeling they omitted that.
@Optius
You are kind of misconstruing Eonjay. He said there will always be [some] games that run better due to the higher clock rate. He's right of course. You are saying SX is without a doubt the strongest console. It has the advantage of higher TFLops. But that's not without a doubt stronger as that's one metric only and a slight improvement even with that. There are bandwidth advantages in PS5s favour, clock advantages give you many other advantages in other performance metrics. The faster IO is often a factor as well. All of this is made clear with PS5 having a better record in performance.
Maybe...just maybe...the PS5 is easier to develop for and its OS is lighter on the resources than what MS has on the Series consoles. If Windows is used as reference, you would understand why. Windows is notorious for being a resource hog and that might impact game performance. It usually does on PC.
They show many other games running better on PS5 too btw.
It’s click bait, but Xbox fans should be happy they are pointing it out, maybe M$ will do something about it for their Gamepass machine.
An extra year of Dev time let them polish it more the results are garunteed to be back ported to the Xbox.
Let's try not to blow this one out of proportion
Ghostwire Tokyo had an extra year for the Xbox port and it still looks and performs worse on Xbox.
I actually did watch it there was more speculation as to why the qa was poor more than any theory on why this game has better shadows on ps5.
I believe this was down to extra dev time
Better shadows are nice but what makes the PS5 version trully superior are the Dualsense features. A rythm game like this works great with haptic feedback.
The DualSense is one of the best things about PS5. For me it's one of the best controllers ever made.
