This week Rockstar quietly patched its Purple Lifeless Redemption port so as to add a 60 frames per second toggle to the sport on PlayStation 5 through backwards compatibility. Now, for the primary time, Rockstar’s 2010 open-world western is formally playable at 60fps. However gamers on different platforms had been left questioning: when’s our flip?
At the moment, the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Swap port of Purple Lifeless Redemption stays at 30fps on these platforms. Xbox house owners, nonetheless, by no means received a port within the first place.
Rockstar didn’t port Purple Lifeless Redemption to Xbox, pointing to backwards compatibility with the Xbox 360 unique. Whereas that model does run at 4K decision on Xbox Collection X and S, it’s nonetheless restricted to 30fps.
Some Xbox house owners at the moment are questioning if Microsoft will use its seemingly deserted FPS Enhance to pull Purple Lifeless Redemption as much as 60fps, however that seems unlikely. Will Rockstar launch an Xbox One port of Purple Lifeless Redemption? That additionally seems unlikely two months after the August launch of the PS4 and Nintendo Swap port. With no Xbox One model in sight, no 60fps patch is feasible.
“The place’s ours, Rockstar?” requested redditor SidFarkus47. “If it isn’t attainable from the 360 model, then the place’s our port?”
“Rattling, this really sucks,” added ninereins48. “Hoping that the 360 model will get FPS Boosted, and if they’ll’t, they really want to launch the port for Xbox consoles. I’d gladly purchase this recreation once more for 60fps alone.”
Some followers now appear resigned to their destiny. “As for Xbox, I doubt it is coming,” redditor Sanctine mentioned. “Except we get a really late FPS Enhance addition. Stranger issues have occurred I suppose.”
Xbox fansite PureXbox additionally weighed in, saying “we’re now feeling a bit overlooked”. For what it’s price, IGN has requested Rockstar for remark.
Spare a thought for PC avid gamers. Rockstar by no means did launch Purple Lifeless Redemption on PC, and it’s proven no signal of fixing its thoughts.
In the meantime, followers of Purple Lifeless Redemption 2 anxiously await information of a possible next-gen replace, after final month’s massive Xbox leak steered it was as soon as within the works. With Grand Theft Auto 6 on the horizon, it appears Rockstar’s focus is veering away from the Purple Lifeless franchise, regardless of its enduring recognition.
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