Pentiment Runs At 120FPS On PS5, However Solely 60FPS On Xbox

Right here’s one thing odd: Pentiment, a beforehand Xbox-exclusive narrative-focused sport from Obsidian, presently runs higher on PlayStation 5 than it does on Xbox Collection X/S. It’s apparently a bug that shall be fastened, however the entire scenario has set off a firestorm within the endless console warfare.

For many of February, rumors have swirled within the Xbox neighborhood and on-line that Microsoft was planning to port massive video games to PS5 and Change. This led to a complete meltdown and ultimately—on February 15—a podcast from Xbox confirming that, sure, some video games had been getting ported to different platforms. However it additionally denied that massive titles like Starfield would arrive on PS5 and confirmed that the corporate had plans for extra Xbox consoles sooner or later. On February 21, throughout a Nintendo Direct, Pentiment was introduced as one of many first Xbox-published video games arriving on Change and PS5. It launched the following day. And weirdly, on PS5 a minimum of, the sport runs at a better framerate than it does on Microsoft’s console.

Pentiment on PS5 runs at 120FPS. At present, on Xbox Collection X/S, it runs at half that, or simply 60FPS. Now, to be clear, this isn’t a sport that must be working at 200+FPS or something like that. It’s a narrative-focused, text-heavy 2D sport. Nonetheless, quite a lot of already bent-out-of-shape Xbox diehards aren’t too eager on the sport taking part in higher on PS5.

Based on Obsidian studio design director Josh Sawyer, the rationale for this discrepancy is a bug. On February 26, he tweeted: “120fps shall be enabled for XBOX within the subsequent patch. It being disabled is only a bug.”

This didn’t assist a lot although, as some Xbox followers requested why the sport—which was launched in November 2022—had by no means acquired this 120FPS-enabling patch sooner. It’s a bit odd that Microsoft wouldn’t ensure the Xbox port of the sport was working at 120FPS earlier than launching the PS5 model.

Kotaku has contacted Xbox in regards to the scenario.

Whereas this was only a unusual little quirk involving a bug in an almost two-year-old sport, it is going to definitely not assist alleviate fears among the many most devoted of Xbox clients that Microsoft isn’t targeted sufficient on the platform they love.