PS5 Pro Bettered as Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Reveals PC Specs, Features

Huh, a more expensive and powerful system runs the game better. The more you know.

Still curious how they plan to get this running well on Steam Deck.

Better on every PC, or just the minority of PC elite whose machine is actually a decent rig?

Pre-ordered from CDKeys for £32. Looking forward to playing it.

I thought PushSquare was going to stop with engagement bait

I bought a PS5 Pro but I never expected it to beat powerful PCs in terms of performance.
Did anyone?

Not them announcing the 50 series just as I was about to get a 4070. Tbh I'm still gonna get it cause I'm not a fan of the ai use. Definitely something to hold off on until it improves drastically

This game is definitely one of the first ones I'm gonna fiddle around with

@Hamst88 no and if who did is crazy lol but Pro is dope to me

Change my mind:

120 fps and ray tracing are gimmicks.

@Ultimapunch Ray-tracing, yes; 120fps, no.

you mean 120fps for the 1% of pc owners who have the hardware required to meet the specs? gotcha.

i find it truly strange how people refer to "pc gaming", as if that entire space is made up of gamers on cutting edge hardware, including the latest $2000 video cards and 4k displays. guess what, it's not what you think it is over there. 50%+ of steam users are still gaming at 1080p resolution with the comparable specs of a ps4.

This article ain't it chief...

I saw the spec sheet a few days ago, and they're not too crazy. Since I have a 1440p ultrawide monitor, I'll have to use a mod to get native ultrawide but the rest isn't too crazy for my PC.

@0niguy Yep, enjoying mine too. Just having that tricky conversation with the wife explaining that I now need a more expensive tv. It’s not going well 🤣🤣🤣

@Ultimapunch ridiculous statement 😂 ray tracing offers tons of benefits to art design and can help level designers with work-rate and other, creative uses when it's implemented. 120fps, while not a necessity, is far more responsive and gives you a huge benefit in fast-paced, competitive games. FF7R isn't one that choose a high framerate mode for, however.

It's cool if you don't notice any of it but to claim it's a gimmick would have a lot of people, developers included, disagree with you.

@Ultimapunch In terms of achieving real lifelike graphics, ray tracing, whether global illumination, reflection, caustics etc is going to offer far more realism than rasterized rendering.

Ray tracing can simulate how light behaves in the real world, including how it refracts and bounces of objects far more natural than can be done with baking light.

Now if you mean that some games utilize it minimally, where it cost more than is visually noticeable, then yeah i guess so. But its definitely more than just a gimmick. Its the next step forward in realizing lifelike geaphics.

Just look at some of those path traced games and imagine where this technology will be in 10 years.

Will wait for a mod that patches out Chadley (or lets you kill him). Worst part of both games. Boring, repetitive, tedious trash. Swill for lesser beings who enjoy wave survival/boss rush mode slop.

I got the Double Pack (which contains Rebirth and Remake) for ~$58.

Rebirth's new lighting is such a wonderful improvement on PC. Honestly, I feel like it brought it up to par with Remake - which I felt had way better lighting than Rebirth.

@ButterySmooth30FPS @Ultimapunch Ray-tracing is more than a gimmick - at least from a software development standpoint. It's expensive because only one company seems to actually care about it.

Tessellation used to be incredibly expensive and now it's trivial because there was actual focus on the R&D of the technology from more than a single company. It had a significant impact in terms of visuals as well as asset development improvements.

People need to stop looking at ray-tracing in terms of it making things dramatically better looking and see it as more of a viable tool for developers to not have to handcraft certain lighting details - especially as complex as environments can become.

Keep in mind, artists have had YEARS of "faking it" - and they do an incredible job of lighting scene's convincingly.

But as environmental details are getting more and more complex, it's getting harder to "fake it". Real-time RT alleviates that pain by simply turning on the light and moving it around in order to get the desired look (much like lighting a set of a movie).

But with Nvidia being the only major player who cares, it's expensive and isn't advancing as fast as other technology in the past.

@colonelkilgore better on every pc because of mods alone

This is obvious. However it still remains that the pro was a terrible mid gen upgrade primarily because they cheaped out on the cpu. Sure it helped out a few games look less blurry and provided some different crutches to makeup for technically unfinished releases, however that cpu is a major flaw in improving games that rely on a decent cpu for asset streaming.

No amount of excuse making to justify your overpriced fomo purchase is going to change that reality. As time goes on and modern day Sony treats this as they have every post gen hardware release, these shortcomings will not only be proven to be true, but also be unaddressed.

@ButterySmooth30FPS Why would they, when you keep engaging.

You do know the "PC"is not a fixed system, yes? I don't see the surprise here.
I will add to the platitudes: If you don't have a good PC, you will in fact not run it at 4K 120fps!
Cause not everyone is buying a 4-6k euro/dollar PC every year.

I am mostly curious on the Steam Deck performance. They say that they try to make the game "Verified".
Still, I am looking forward to once again torture myself by being Zantetsuken-ed to oblivion in Chadley trials.

@Mikey856 And it will still sell! NVidia's pay-pigs put Sony's to shame.

And you'll spend triple the price.

It's not terribly surprising that if you look at how much a PS5 pro costs and think "I'm going to spend more than that on just the graphics card" that you end up with a machine that runs games better than a PS5 pro does.

After seeing what FSR4 can do and new DLSS 4 PSSR is kind of a joke

Can't wait to hear from the PC crowd about how "PC" runs this game at 120 FPS whilst they sit on their potato rig

I got it ordered on steam. I just hope they finally put in ultrawide support. Squeenix do it!

@Ultimapunch I used to be with you, but any significant dip a in fps from 120 is quite jarring. Depending on the game, I tend to cap at 60 or 120fps anyway. Heck, I even capped Ghost of Tsushima at 60 but it's still running 120fps on average because PC gaming lol. That being said, no shame in buttery smooth 60fps whether it be console or pc

@TruthClaire1 I mean, they used the cost of the new cutting edge card as an example as a price point for comparison. A bit disingenuous on pushsquare's part. I spent roughly $1800 on my rig, and it's easy to upgrade should I need. But as it is right now, I fully expect it to be more powerful than the eventual ps6 aka I'll have it a long time

Damn it looks good. If I had known the PC release was this close to release, I would have held off, playing the game on the PS5 Pro.
I'm halfway through, so I don't feel like starting over again. I wish the game had cross save, so I could continue on my PC instead...

@Bamila
Yeah I saw the comparison in a DF video.
I wish that FSR 4, would come to PS5 Pro. PSSR is just mediocre in comparison.
PSSR will probably be much better on the PS6, but they should have saved the beta testing, for the actual developers, instead of the PS5 Pro users. Glad you at least can turn it off now, in games where it looks terrible.