Respawn Leisure’s Stig Asmussen has mentioned that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor‘s PS5 model will take full benefit of Sony’s {hardware}, and the developer is particularly “digging into” the DualSense’s haptics. Following months of rumors, Digital Arts lastly unveiled the brand new Star Wars Jedi sport yesterday, confirming stories that it’s subtitled Survivor and it’ll skip last-gen consoles.
How Star Wars Jedi: Survivor will benefit from current-gen consoles
In an official interview, Asmussen mentioned the largest benefit of latest consoles is ray tracing and real-time lighting.
I believe the largest factor [about PS5 and Xbox Series X] is ray tracing, or lighting. That’s permitting us to do real-time lighting, on a regular basis, at a constancy that’s effectively past something that we’ve ever produced earlier than. Because it’s real-time, we get to see the modifications as we tweak the lights — instantly, primarily. That implies that we’ve got extra time to shine, that implies that we are able to iterate extra, and we are able to get higher outcomes that really feel extra filmic.
Asmussen then went on to reward “blazing quick” drives on the PS5 and Xbox Collection X.
We now have these blazing quick drives on these consoles which might be permitting us to load tons of content material actually shortly. I’ve at all times labored on streaming video games — video games that don’t have load screens. The truth that these consoles have such quick storage has made it even simpler. These are in all probability the 2 largest advantages. PlayStation 5 has some actually fascinating haptics on their controller that we’re digging into, and it’s simply a better course of typically.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor doesn’t have a launch date, however it’s concentrating on a 2023 window.
In different information, it appears like the brand new PS Plus classics are performing fairly poorly on the PS5, and a PlayStation State of Play has lastly been introduced for June 2nd.
