Concrete Genie is so gosh darn glitzy that we’ve taken to describing it as HDR: The Game here at Push Square Towers. Consider our surprise, then, when creative director Dom Robilliard informed us during a recent preview event that the title doesn’t even support the nifty new television technology at all. Red faces all around, we assure you!
“Here’s the thing: one of the tricky aspects of being a small team is that you have to really pick your battles, and so when we were embracing the PS4 Pro, we had a certain amount of chips to spend and we were looking at the options in front of us,” he said. “Do we go for the 4K mode or do we go for a true, proper HDR mode?”
Robilliard added that it opted to support 4K first and foremost because the release already pops on modern screens. “One of the things we found with this particular artstyle is that because there’s such high contrast, when you play it on an HDR TV you get a lot of the benefit anyway. So, we decided to go for 4K support.”
Of course, there’s every possibility that Concrete Genie could support HDR in the future, but Robilliard stressed that PixelOpus “can’t commit to it right now”. Is this news disappointing to you? Wave your magic paintbrush and make HDR happen in the comments section below.
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its a first party game, it should support hdr.
@Amppari I agree, but they're also a very small team.
why are they pretending like it's a decision between 4K and HDR? i guess they mean they need additional time to implement proper HDR.
Guess I will have to wait to buy it. But I am looking forward to it. Looks beautiful and unique.
That's disappointing as it looks almost made for HDR. I'm not sure what he's trying to say about playing it on a HDR TV will give you a lot of the benefit anyway, as that simply isn't going to be true and makes it seem like he doesn't really know what he's talking about. I would definitely have taken it over 4K support and I don't really see why it's an either or situation
they "can't commit to it now" this is a sony first party title all major things like this should be supported.
I will buy it when it is fully supported then, I'm sure it will have loads of updates post launch anyway.
At least we get 4K mode which is okay with me! Otherwise hopefully they'll patch HDR at some point in the future.
It’s absolutely insane that this doesn’t have HDR support at launch.
@carlos82 Because there a very small team that they can't commit to doing both features at the same time as well as everything else. Remember there doing VR a photo modes too.
I like the honesty if they bring me a quality game im still in and i was waiting for the game already so bring it on. Plus i agree with Flopsy Sony help them out.
Yikes, that's really disappointing! IMO they could've left out VR support, I think that's what they indicated caused the delays in the first place. And the preorder avatars and themes could use some more love too.
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