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

Right here’s one thing odd: Pentiment, a beforehand Xbox-exclusive narrative-focused recreation from Obsidian, at present runs higher on PlayStation 5 than it does on Xbox Collection X/S. It’s apparently a bug that will probably be mounted, however the entire state of affairs has set off a firestorm within the endless console warfare.

For many of February, rumors have swirled within the Xbox group and on-line that Microsoft was planning to port huge video games to PS5 and Swap. This led to an entire meltdown and finally—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 huge 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 Swap and PS5. It launched the following day. And weirdly, on PS5 at the very least, the sport runs at a better framerate than it does on Microsoft’s console.

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

In response to Obsidian studio design director Josh Sawyer, the explanation for this discrepancy is a bug. On February 26, he tweeted: “120fps will probably 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 be sure that the Xbox port of the sport was working at 120FPS earlier than launching the PS5 model.

Kotaku has contacted Xbox concerning the state of affairs.

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