The technical prowess of incoming open-world role-playing game Crimson Desert is exciting, but for every impressive video we’ve seen of the game, there lurks a background concern: we haven’t yet seen it running on standard console hardware – on a base PlayStation 5. Now, however, we have.
PlayStation Japan this morning shared an extended look at Crimson Desert running on a PS5, in the first of what I believe will be a series of videos showing the game running on base PlayStation 5 hardware – that’s what the Google-translated text seems to suggest. Across 20 minutes we see many different areas of the game, narrated by developer Pearl Abyss.
It’s hard to judge from an encoded YouTube video exactly what the final quality of the game will be on PlayStation 5. The video only scales to 1080p for me and it’s not at 60 frames-per-second. Digital Foundry, for reference, has already provided a detailed analysis of the PS5 Pro version of Crimson Desert. “We’ve yet to see anything on the base PS5 or Xbox Series consoles,” DF said. “Even so, the signs are looking good – and certainly for PS5 Pro owners, Crimson Desert delivers a phenomenal experience.”
PC specifications for Crimson Desert have already been released, incidentally, and don’t seem outrageous to my mid-range PC-owning eye.
Crimson Desert arrives this Thursday, 19th March, amidst swelling expectations. We played it a while ago now, last spring, and weren’t sure Crimson Desert had enough of its own vision to stand out. Have things changed? We haven’t long to wait to find out.
