The upcoming 2D Prince of Persia reboot from Ubisoft not solely appears to be like good, but it surely additionally has glorious efficiency. In keeping with Ubisoft, Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown will run at 60fps on all platforms, together with the Swap, and also will assist 4K/120fps on some consoles, too. After a string of ugly, unhealthy, and stuttery Swap ports, that is nice information.
Introduced in June 2023, Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown is a colourful metroidvania-like platformer that takes the sequence again to its old-school 2D roots. Trailers and gameplay movies of Misplaced Crown have offered a slick-looking motion platformer that had me excited to play when it releases on January 18. However now I’m much more fascinated by testing Ubisoft’s newest sport, because the writer has confirmed that Misplaced Crown will run at 60fps (or extra) on each platform beneath the solar.
In a latest weblog submit revealing the sport’s PC specs—that are shockingly subdued—Ubisoft additionally offered extra particulars in regards to the numerous console ports of Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown. That is normally the half the place you anticipate the Swap port to have a 30fps cap (and hope it hits that, even). However that’s not the case this time round. As an alternative, each single platform—even the older, base consoles just like the Xbox One and PS4—will assist a silky clean 60fps.
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Even higher, PS5 and Xbox Collection X assist 4K/120fps. Whereas there are some video games on the market that assist native 4K or 120fps, not many can do each. As somebody who owns an enormous, dumb 120HZ/4K TV, I’m very excited to see Misplaced Crown in motion. Oh and PC gamers, excellent news: Ubisoft has confirmed that the sport helps framerates above 120.
How did Ubisoft pull this off?
So what’s happening right here? Did Ubisoft make some bizarre black magic cope with the satan to squeeze further efficiency out of older platforms? In all probability not.
As an alternative, Misplaced Crown’s spectacular efficiency stats are seemingly a results of Ubisoft’s give attention to Swap. Reporter James Galizio confirmed last year that Ubisoft informed him that it was treating the Swap as its lead platform for the sport. So specializing in a weaker and older platform probably compelled the devs to optimize extra, and people optimizations in flip offered extra headroom for the sport on newer and extra highly effective machines, permitting the sport to run even higher at greater resolutions.
No matter why Misplaced Crown is ready to run at 120fps at 4K on some platforms and 60fps on every little thing else, it’s good to see builders ensuring new video games don’t run like rubbish on Nintendo’s growing old hybrid machine. That’s very true after final 12 months.
Plus, it distracts us all from the truth that Ubisoft’s different Prince of Persia sport—a remake of Sands of Time–-is nonetheless caught in improvement hell. Oops. I simply remembered.
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