Whereas the rerelease of Purple Useless Redemption by way of a brand new port on August 17 of 2023 was nice information for followers of the unique and people who missed out when the sport initially shipped 13 years in the past, it was lacking some fascinating options. At $50 bucks with no choice to run at a extra fashionable 60 frames per second, the rerelease felt somewhat missing. After a latest replace, nonetheless, the PS5 model of the RDR port now gives the choice to play at 60FPS.
Followers of Rockstar’s open-world Western have lengthy wished a extra fashionable method to play the sport on present {hardware}. Initially on Xbox 360 and PS3, the sport launched in 2010 and in contrast to its celebrated sequel, Purple Useless Redemption 2, had not seen a launch on PC or extra fashionable consoles till the latest digital rerelease on PS4 and Change in August. That rerelease sells for $50 (a bodily model is anticipated on October 13) however lacked the choice to run at the next framerate, and in addition doesn’t embrace the unique launch’s multiplayer modes. The rerelease doesn’t appear to be headed to PC or Xbox consoles, and solely works on PS5 by way of backwards compatibility as a PS4 title.
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In 2010, console efficiency usually hovered round 30 frames per second (although extra demanding video games usually introduced that quantity far decrease on Xbox 360 and PS3). As we speak, cutting-edge video games like Starfield, for instance, nonetheless purpose to hit a dependable 30 frames per second, however rereleases and remasters of older video games steadily embrace choices to run at increased framerates. Purple Useless Redemption’s lack of an choice to reap the benefits of the upper processing energy of newer consoles set it aside from different such rereleases.
In fact, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than {hardware} lovers have been capable of exhibit that it very properly may have included such an choice. Operating on a hacked Nintendo Change, Purple Useless Redemption was greater than capable of reliably attain 60 frames per second.
Fortunately, getting such efficiency out of John Marston’s epic journey isn’t restricted to these with cracked consoles anymore. The sport’s latest 1.03 patch on PlayStation consists of an choice within the sport’s settings for 60FPS on PS5.
Sadly, there doesn’t appear to be any indication of extra options or future releases for the 2010 open world traditional.
