Video: Is Spider-Man Remastered At Its Best on PC?

Best and cheapest way to play Sony First Party Games will always be on PC from now on.

Not gonna purchase it myself, but really glad to see PC players getting a really solid port with some good options and optimization.

I guess Spider-Man puddle drama is finally resolved.

@IonMagi

If you have the rig necessary for those settings.

That’s the kicker with PC. The up front costs.

Once you get past that, it is generally cheaper on the software side; sales happen much more frequently than on console digital stores.

@IonMagi By cheapest are you completely forgetting about the £1500 worth equipment to play the game to get that level of detail and framerate??

Really wish I had a Steam Deck to play this on!

@solocapers building a PC thats capable of running the Game better than on PS5 does not cost that much haha. An Gaming Laptop with an RTX 3060 costs 800€ and will play this Game easily above 60 FPS. And since you will save 40+ Euro on every Sony Game on PC its way cheaper in the long run

If it’s not then they messed up the port lol

@TrickyDicky99 Well Spiderman Remastered for example is still locked behind Miles Morales so no used physical copies here. And PC Games drop to below 30€ way faster than physical Console Games

More people playing this masterpiece the better.

@IonMagi Couldn't disagree more.
I have 10900k with 3090 pc, but choose to play consoles over pc every time.
Even if these were released day and date Id always pick the ps5 version and would happily pay extra to do so. Theres no beating sitting in an armchair and playing the game at optimum settings within 30 seconds of power on.

Im delighted those who love to tinker with their PCs will get a chance to play this fantastic title, the more people who experience games of this quality the better! Its also nice to see its a proper pc port with all the bells and whistles, which should always be the case, but so often isnt.

@IonMagi well, you can get spiderman miles morales ultimate edition, which has spiderman remastered, for the ps5 $49. Which is cheaper than pc and you get two games. Or you can buy a used spiderman miles morales, then go into the ingame store and purchase spiderman remastered for $20, which comes out to $45 for two games. So there's that.
PC or console, one isnt technically better than the other. It's all about preference.

@Titntin Imagine owning a PC with a 3090 and not wanting to use it lol

@PhhhCough Most be nice to live in NA with those Games prices lol, SM Miles Morales Ultimate Edition is usally 80€ here lol and even the physical is still 70€

PC, the best place to play PlayStation games.

@IonMagi You are seriously the most obnoxiously negative person on this site. Miles Morales Ultimate Edition is 52 euro from the PS store right now. Also a 800 euro laptop with a gimpy mobile 3060 isn't even going to outperform a Ps5 so you're paying more money for no reason. And I can tell you don't even PC game because no PC game sales are not as great as you claim. Horizon Zero Dawn has never gone below $25 on Steam yet it's been $10 on PS and given away for free on PS+. It's just funny how some of you act like your PS5 version is inferior because some of us spend an insane amount of money on a PC. If Sony put out a super powerful more expensive Ps5 you wouldn't even pay for it so it's complete hypocrisy. You want $2000 PC performance from a $500 PS5 which is just something impossible to do.

@Dudeman1 MM Ultimate Edition is 59,99,€ atm if you try to Sound smart at least put some effort into it and actually look it up And my Gaming Laptop with its very old 2080S already outperforms the PS5. Again, dont try to sound smart if you dont actually know anything.

And a HZD Key from a 3rd Party site is 14,36€ right now. Of the wonders of PC Gaming

@IonMagi 😬ouch, then pc game away!

Looks like two of the best games on PC this year will come from Sony! I personally think it's great they get to play both these masterpieces! And of course they get the best version, if you'd spent £2k on a rig you'd want it to be better than a mass market home console.
After years of spending thousands on PC'S keeping them upto date, I love the performance I get from my PS5 on my big 4k TV.

Do these PC ports have the same DualSense features as the PS5 (when using a DualSense controller)?

Edit: Googled it - seems they do 👍

@IonMagi I checked before posting it's 52 on the GB store. Also you said a laptop with a 3060 earlier and now you change to a 2080 which is much more expensive and gonna come well over twice the cost of a PS5. And lastly you seriously trying to argue 3rd party sellers against official stores and the PS store lol? Good lord you are reaching so hard. Might as well pirate if you're going to use gray market sites. At least now we know you're just a troll that isn't even here for PlayStation news.

@IonMagi and how much was your gaming laptop with a gtx 2080 in? The gtx 2080 only released in 2018 and they were a lot more expensive than a ps5, and that's just for the card.
Digital foundry have done a few tests rating against different cards on roughly the same settings. They generally say it's equivalent mostly to a 2070, but sometimes a 2080. They were very expensive bits of kit. Much better than a laptop 3060.

why wouldn’t it ? PC gaming the best

@TrickyDicky99 actually the cheapest way is to download the cracked version on pc lol

@Dudeman1 a 2080 is not more expensive lol, its a 4 year old CPU. And I choose this as another example because I own one 😌

@IonMagi Go and try to find a RTX 2080 laptop for less than $1300. You can't, 2080 mobile version came out in 2019 and either way it's high end and still extremely good. Also it's a GPU, do you even know what you're talking about?

@Dudeman1 Laptops with an 2080 arent in production anymore since 1,5ish years, thats why I named that one with the RTX 3070 🙂

@IonMagi And 3070 laptops are slightly less powerful than 2080 but they're just as expensive. Either way it's still 3x the price of one PS5.

@Dudeman1 800€ is not 3 times the price Bro

@IonMagi There is no place on the planet you can buy an 3070 laptop for $825 which would be the USD equivalent. You are just talking nonsense at this point.

@Dudeman1 ASUS TUF Gaming F15 with an 3060 is 849€ here atm : ) Getting an decent PC is really not that expensive lol, even less if you dont want an Laptop

@IonMagi

GPU possibly. Although PS5 can match 2080Ti performance in certain games like Death Stranding.

CPU? Probably not unless your Laptop has the best cooling system on the market. Heavy thermal throttle is why I always built rigs. Not laptops.

@OrtadragoonX My HP Omen stays pretty cool (50-65 Celcius for GPU and CPU), even when playing 1440p Games at 100+ FPS. Getting a cooling Pad was a good idea

@IonMagi Want to list the site? You're either full of it or don't understand the specs. A TUF F15 with a 3050ti is $1200 so there is 0 chance a 3070 is cheaper. Keep digging yourself deeper though.

If you have the money to burn on a rig that plays playstation games that good then hey good for you...personally i'll stick with my cheap ass ps5 and not have the energy bills you'll end up with powering up those beasts..enjoy working double shifts to pay for the experience..

@Dudeman1 Sure:

https://www.alternate.de/ASUS/TUF-Gaming-F15-(FX506HM-HN223)-Gaming-Notebook/html/product/1806110

@Dudeman1 i wouldnt waste the time arguing with the pc "master race." I've thrown the gauntlet down to a few of these monkeys that have said you can build a gaming rig for the same price as a ps5 but i'm still waiting for one of them to produce the system for all to see..still waiting..

@IonMagi that link just brings up a 404 error..in german..

@Northern_munkey you need to copy the whole link, cant post it any other way lol. Probably bc the link is too long

@IonMagi nope still a 404 error...still german..

@IonMagi That's a 3060 homie. Try again. It's also some weird ass reseller site with tons of bad reviews.

@Northern_munkey Well yeah, Its a German Site mate. And I just tried and it worked for me. : )

alternate.de/ASUS/TUF-Gaming-F15-(FX506HM-HN223)-Gaming-Notebook/html/product/1806110

Just copy this then

@Dudeman1 Its one of the biggest German Hardware Shops and not a Resellers Bruh, and I wrote that its an 3060. A 3070 is only 150€ more tho so still far from "3 times of a PS5" haha

@IonMagi you do realize that’s got half the ram, almost half the storage, is on sale, and has a much worse processor than the ps5 right? Plus, you can get a digital ps5 for about $400 usd while that is over twice the price. A decent laptop with one of those in it is about 3x the price of a ps5

@FindMeCampin Buying another 16 GB Ram or so is super cheap so not an issue : )
If you are so dumb to buy a digital PS5 you will be forced to only spend money in Sonys overpriced Store so you will easily spend the amount you would have needed for an decent PC

@IonMagi yeah that worked fine..still a lot more expensive than a ps5 plus its a laptop too..i dont see the point in spending all that money to play a game thats old news now on a teeny tiny screen and yes i know you can pump it through your your big ass tv but i just dont see the point..enjoy..

@IonMagi So you're paying 800+ for worse performance than a Ps5. Good move. Like FindMe said it has a gimpy i5, half the RAM, and less storage. Even if you upgrade the RAM the CPU will bottleneck it. Imagine paying that much money for 1080p only gaming.

IonMagi got half the site against him in the comments lol is it really that serious?
Even with the high upfront cost of a PS5 comparible PC this game will sell like all the other Sony ports. Who are you guys trying to convince? I really don't get it.

I for one am glad I can finally delete the game off my PS4 and save some space, meanwhile I'll get to enjoy it on my PC, laying in bed, controller in hand thanks to Steam remote play. Good luck @IonMagi looks like you walked into the fire with this one 😆

@ryanburnsred the problem is not that he prefers a pc/laptop (each to their own) its more that he is on a playstation site (which granted is allowed) and telling all the ps4/ps5 owners how much better the pc is and how its cheap to get a pc/laptop to game on etc...nobodys slating him for owning a pc or choosing that as his prefered platform..but if he chooses to poke the pitbulls he's no right to complain when he looses a finger or 10..

@IonMagi

Maybe, but my experience on the PS5 is playing it on a 55 inch OLED tv. I feel like that isn't the typical experience for PC users.

In my opinion that is the best way to play Sony's more cinematic single player games.

@IonMagi lmao Sony’s store isn’t even that overpriced. It’s comparable to Xbox’s and isn’t much worse than steams. Also, you’re still cut short on both storage and cpu even if you upgrade the ram. Not to mention you’ll already be pushing $900 at just that, making it more than double the price of a ps5 digital. Even if you compared the physical, that laptop can’t play discs so you can’t make use of used games and places like GameStop where you can trade them in like you can with ps. Unless you want to spend hundreds more on a better laptop, you’ll still be well under the ps5 performance wise

@FindMeCampin i agree with almost all your points apart from sonys store pricing..yes it has great deals that are comparable to steam etc..but those day 1 game prices are disturbing to say the least so i cant agree with that..

If they just released Spiderman Remastered on PS5 as a standalone I'd be happy. Ridiculous that you can't buy it that way yet.

WOW the comments against PC here are quite laughable! as for playing from the comfort of your sofa it's like they have no idea Big picture mode exists, the game will run and look better on PC, better RTX implementation (higher quality reflections etc), the game will be much cheaper than console in due time, It will forever be BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE (maybe PS6 will be able to play it but what about future consoles?!?!) for those of us that own a PS5 and PC you can use the PS5 controller......or Xbox controller haha, I'm also looking forward to play this on Steam Deck which will be insane. (Owner of a PC and PS5 btw)

It is Verified for Steam Deck, I expect to got not one productive thing done this weekend.

@IonMagi Cheapest? I guess, if you're not counting hardware costs.

If you're turning on all the bells and whistles people are talking about, you'd better have a $4k video card and some money sunk into the rest of your setup, too. If a $4k+ rig can't beat a $500 PS5, y'all should be embarrassed.

But I've got a UHD Blu-Ray player that plays some great games which I'll enjoy even if they're not quite as shiny as on your setup, for a fraction of the overall price. I'm okay with that.

I might consider a gaming rig again some day in the distant future - but I don't miss the constant hunt for the next component to upgrade to keep it all running the latest stuff at the highest settings. PCs can easily be bigger money pits than consoles.

Lmao... I'm gonna need some more popcorn for this comment section..

@Titntin No offence but something tells me that you haven't really played anything on that PC (assuming that you do indeed own it), and it's 2022 so the whole "sitting on the couch and play" thing is a non-argument, and 'optimum settings' is frankly a laughable joke considering that most games would be able to gauge them for you based on your PC's specs. It's okay if you're this used to gaming on a console that you straight up refuse to use the PC for gaming or set it up with your TV, but if I were you and if I have no other uses for the PC like content creation, CG, CAD/CAE work then I'd either let another member of the family to use it or sell it.

Now that the comment section has chilled out a bit. I'm super excited to replay this on PC after beating it on PS5 and PS4. I recently picked up a 3080ti founder edition, so I can hear that 4k@60 with Ray Tracing calling my name.

@RobN $4K graphics card... $4K PC cannot beat a PS5... Lol

@SweetSummerShunv
No offence, but you know nothing abiut me at all.
Ive owned multiple pcs all my life, and I was working for IBM when Personnel Computers were first rolled out, long before windows. I left IBM to develop video games and spent 20 years developing AAA titles for some of the largest development houses in the uk, including Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, EA and many more.
My home office used to comprise 6 enterprise class pcs, as well as older models for special purposes (I was running one on NT till recently.) I no longer take on such work, so Im down to just two, my previously mentioned 10900k which runs an evga 3090 ftw3 ultra, and a more generic i5 which is my plex and roon server. I use a 48binch LgC1 oled as main monitor, with a 4k 32 inch side monitor for more intensive app work.
My user name is also active on YouTube and I filmed a short clip on my pc last febuary, as ive come across people like you before, feel free to look.
In the 18 months ive had that machine, ive worked on UE5 of course, and I use intensive ai video processing which beneffits hugely from the cores in my 3090. Ive also played some civ, the ascent, cyberpunk and also Forza 5 because it dont run well on the series x for my tastes.
Despite how capable the pc is, I far prefer to play on console and have done for many years. My wife was often hogging the PS5, so I bought a second one to plug into the lg monitor. That gets used more than the pc.
I am happy to confidently state that any game I can get running on the PC and PS5, I will ultimately be able to clearly get better performance on the pc. But I dont care, I dislike the disparate eco systems, windows constant nagging and just about everything about pc gaming. When I can sit back, and get a 4k 60 experience I can dive into within 30 seconds of power on, I choose it every time, and thats how I like to game.
Im certainly not telling anyone else to do the same, people choose what they want of course. Im also delighted they get to experience this fantastic game with even more bells and whisltles than we had on console, this port is done right.
Please do not assume that because someone makes different choices to you that they are ill informed or full of bs. Thats a pretty immature view of the world. Im not rubbishing your choices, or jumping to conclussions because we want different things, and I would hope in time some more of you will learn to do similar.
Its great so many more will play this title now. Where ever people play it, I hope they enjoy one of the tightest games in a long while.

@IonMagi
"Imagine owning a PC with a 3090 and not wanting to use it lol"
I don't need to imagine mate, that's where I'm at I appreciate many people would love to have it to game on, just not me. I occasionally need all that power for other tasks or I'd sell it

@Titntin "But I dont care, I dislike the disparate eco systems, windows constant nagging and just about everything about pc gaming." then that's a purely subjective preference of yours and while I can respect that, you should realize that it's ultimately something fairly trivial for most people (indeed for many having competing ecosystems is seen as a plus though I'm agnostic towards it) and if you have a PC of that calibre (I have a 3090 too and my CPU is a comparable i9-11900k), I strongly doubt that you'd be running into issues like having a startup time of more than 30 seconds. Any imagined inconveniences flowing from these are entirely something that's unique to your psychology and quirks but hey there's nothing wrong with that, just don't think that most others would find such things to be that much of an annoyance.

As for talking about sitting back and enjoying a 4K60fps experience, you should be able to churn a heck lot more than just with those specs that if you have a 4K144Hz monitor (I have an Asus PG43UQ which is pretty much a medium-sized TV and I set it up as if it's a TV in my living room). You write as if bad PC ports are 1. norms and 2. perform worse than consoles when out of the hundreds of multiplatform games I've played, not even the worst optimized games performed or looked anywhere near to what are on the consoles, especially if one has the high calibre PCs like we two do, and that a lot of efforts are needed to play the game when almost all the games I've played already automatically adjust the settings for you before, and even if you aren't happy, adjusting a few sliders doesn't take more than a few minutes if it even comes down to that, certainly not the "tinkering" you've claimed here. You're frankly engaging in molehill mountaineering to back yourself up, and frankly I've never done any of the optional things that a typical PCMR elitist would want a PC gamer to do, and indeed I myself am quite sick and tired of the whole PCMR nonsense, just that what you wrote here is pretty much a 'you problem' thing as opposed to something that's common or actual annoyances for most people in PC gaming.

I do not have a problem with you choosing to game on a console despite having such a powerful PC, and indeed you aren't the first such person I met. I do however have to disagree with you talking about what are frankly very trivial non-issues that can only be problematic if you have very particular subjective preferences, or praise a non-existent advantage that consoles allegedly have over PCs like gaming on TV and couch when PCs can already do that for ages. Anything that makes you refuse to set up your PC for gaming in this manner is entirely on YOU, not the platform as a whole. I've taken my PCs (and consoles) to hotels on long stays and it took literally the same amount of time setting up for either. I do get that people can have counterintuitive subjective preferences all the time - I do as well, but it's another to describe them as if they are objective advantages which they clearly aren't, and doing these when you've had professional involvement in the industry makes everything much much worse.

@Titntin i just noticed your location..i'm just down the road in dawlish..what a nice part of the uk we live in..👍

@Northern_munkey
Yeah its lovely today too, almost too warm! If your ever in the area and wanna gaming sesh, drop me a message

Too nice to bother arguing with people who just wont let it go - obviously if we don't think the same then I MUST be wrong, silly me!

Have a great day in Dawlish

@Titntin you too mate..sat in the garden at the mo chilling with a cuppa..out to the golf course later this afternoon..👍

@Northern_munkey I do love the irony of your user name when you live as far south as we can! Have a great one!

@Titntin yeah i was born in not so sunny stockport..lived down here for just over 25 years..never going back..

Why would I buy a steam deck? I only play games at home. It's not like I'm bringing it to work for example.

Spider-Man Remastered on PC may very well run/look better than the PS5 but you’ll never find a PC or gaming laptop for £450 that can look and run as good as the PS5 version. The simplicity, convenience and low cost (even with £70 games) of playing on a console far outweighs playing on PC/laptop in terms of pros and cons.

Do we know if we’re ever going to see Spider-Man Remastered being sold standalone on PS5 now that the PC version is being sold standalone?

@IonMagi

Not cheapest as a good vid card costs more than the PS5/XBSX together (minus all the rest of teh PC) but yeah..

Want the best? Go PC. Been that way forever and will never not be that way.

@IonMagi Would agree if they were released simultaneously but having to wait 2-3 years, by when the game's tech itself is fairly outdated, doesn't really sound like the best way.

@IonMagi yeah at $59?

The crazy thing is the sites that have tested the PC version on high end PCs with everything maxed don't look that much better than the Ps5 version. So for a $500 console the Ps5 port is great and you're not missing out much on graphical fidelity.

@SuperPotato316 I wouldnt even give it 2-3 years. It will already struggle to match PS5 setting/resolutions. Knowing Asus TUF gaming line of products thats GPU is probably a 90w (95w with dynamic boost)... Probably 85w max 99% of time. So it slower than a desktop RTX 2060.

To even come close to matching PS5 performance in a laptop form factor at least. You'll have to step up to at least a 3070ti/3080, or find a very high wattage 3060 laptop.

Was it worth the 4 year wait?

Unnecessary port PS games should be played on PlayStation like Nintendo.

Wow this thread had created much entertainment for me seeing one PCMR follower get absolutely roasted.
Im lucky to own poth a perfectly capable (but no where near as powerful as a ps5) PC (R5 3600, 32bg ram, pcie gen4 ssd, and a rx5700xt attached to a 1440p 120hz monitor) and I also own a ps5 this is the first time I have no allegience in my 30 years of gaming, my pc is perfect for what I primarily play on it (destiny) and my ps5 is perfect for the first person titles and some plus games and anyone who knows me knows im a huge sonic fan so I play sonic games on console too.

I think having first party games ported to PC is a great thing its bringing a wider audience into some absolute gems of games.

Imagine what TLOU or TLOU2 will look like on PC (I for one think they are 2 of the most ground breaking games of their generations (TLOU being on ps3 as a sorta last game of the ps3 generation and TLOU2 being a last game sorta of the ps4 generation)

People need to stop with the PCMR situation the huge gap that was there between home consoles and pc's is now all but closed over with most consoles being glorified pc's (bear in mind XBSX and PS5 are x86-64 based consoles and no longer using proprietary CPU & GPU).

Why is Jim Ryan diluting the PlayStation brand for??? PlayStation Exclusives should stay Exclusive :-/ Keep the brilliant PlayStation Exclusives Exclusive & put the order games on PS PLUS only & that will build up an AMAZING library of games(including the Classic PlayStation games which seem to be dead already on their new service) :-/ I HATE the way Jim Ryan is taking the PlayStation brand. Oh well.

I dont care if a PS exclusive is sold on PC, just like with XBox, im a console gamer first, and I will always prefer a console option for a game.

However, that is assuming there is some basic parity. If the PC version ends up being overall better... then why bother? I'll just wait a few years (maybe eventually just a few months) to play the games on a PC instead...

I mean, shouldn't it be? The game is what, 4 years old now?

This was down to £14 before it had been out 2 years. I'm not worried about how they look on pc, hope all that extra PC cash goes towards so amazing new IP of playstation (and future PC) games.

@Ypmud

Uh what? The XBS/PS5 is around a 2060 level of performance.

No; the PC is far far beyond what these warmed over boxes can do and will be forever unless MS/Sony want to release 1k$+ real boxes with Nvidia GFX cards and discreet CPUs.

No an old AMD all in one SOC ain't going to cut it. AMD GFX are still way behind but at least the CPU side is good.

I still play on a PS5 as I don't care to have a bunch of game devices around that I don't have time for but let's not be silly.

@Vergil7

N would be smart to port their stuff over too. Especially with the Switch being an overpriced potato.

This has to be a troll post

There's no comparison between PC and PS5.

The startup costs for PC gaming at the level of PS5 are huge.

I've been building desktops for a long time. You can't even compare components, as consoles are custom jobs and parts that are uber optimized for gaming.

You also have zero overhead regarding the system software itself in the PS5, it's all built to play games.

A windows system is doing 1000 different things while you game that have nothing to do with gaming which also affects performance in all types of components.