Purple Lifeless Redemption now has an choice to play at 60 frames per second after the shock drop of an replace.
Patch 1.03, which weighs in at just some hundred MB, provides a 60fps toggle to Purple Lifeless Redemption on PlayStation 5. The port launched on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Swap in August, and is obtainable to play on PS5 through backwards compatibility. At launch, Purple Lifeless Redemption ran at 30fps solely throughout PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Swap, disappointing many followers of the 2010 epic.
Followers at the moment are welcoming this new replace following the backlash the Purple Lifeless Redemption port acquired upon launch. Followers complained in regards to the barebones enhancements to the sport’s efficiency in addition to its $50 value level, particularly contemplating the port doesn’t embrace multiplayer or a PC launch. Plus, Purple Lifeless Redemption is already playable on the Xbox Collection X in 4K and, due to Xbox Collection X and S backwards compatibility, has been accessible on Microsoft platforms for years.
In an August interview with IGN, Strauss Zelnick, boss of mum or dad firm Take-Two, defended the excessive value of Purple Lifeless Redemption: “That is simply what we imagine is the commercially correct value for it,” Zelnick mentioned.
Take-Two’s EVP of Finance, Hannah Sage, additionally identified the port isn’t simply the Purple Lifeless base recreation but additionally Undead Nightmare. When requested if Undead Nightmare was the rationale for its $50 value, Zelnick mentioned the add-on “was a terrific standalone recreation in its personal proper when it was initially launched, so we really feel prefer it’s a terrific bundle for the primary time, and definitely a terrific worth for customers”.
Ideas inevitably flip to Purple Lifeless Redemption 2 and the opportunity of a next-gen improve. Final month’s explosive Xbox leak despatched shockwaves all through the Purple Lifeless Redemption group after a Purple Lifeless Redemption 2 next-gen replace was discovered listed by a Microsoft govt in a planning e mail. Rockstar has but to remark.
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