The Outer Worlds Has 38 GB Update On Xbox One, 18 GB On PS4, Will Support PS4 Pro

The Outer Worlds has a massive day one update for those who are getting a retail copy on Xbox One or PS4. It will also support the PS4 Pro.

[ElementX]

Well the Pro owners will get 1440p. That's the resolution I use on PC and X. At least pro owners will get something

[darthv72]

In the last piece I kept saying the Pro was still going to be the better version than the base model. It was like people thought Pro would be the exact same as the base model. That is a technical impossibility just like them thinking the Pro would have the same enhancements as the X (again a technical impossibility).

X will be the best console version followed by the Pro as the best PS4 version. It was pretty easy to understand.

[Larrysweet]

Thats not always the case at all. Theres plenty ps4 games exact same resolution and everything as base ps4

[UltraNova]

Lets wait for DF's analysis and see if this is real Pro support and not just a a rez boost.

[KillBill]

Do we know what the base model is going to be? We know the Pro upscales from 1440p to 4K but what is the base model resolution... we have not heard that yet as far as I know? Anyone got info?

[boing1]

@Larrysweet

Not entirely true because Pro has boost mode. So even if game doesn't support Pro directly, you are still getting benefits of faster hardware like more stable framerate. Very noticable in GTA 5 and BF4 for me.

[SyntheticForm]

It's not technically impossible at all - why do you keep saying that? They could 'technically' put the game on Pro with zero enhancements. The only thing they may not be able to avoid is a more stable frame rate.

The Pro will have the same shadow quality, AO, AF, etc as the base model unless the developers specifically target these areas - you've got to stop saying it's impossible for the Pro not to be enhanced. Lol.

In any case, I'm glad it's getting something. Would be pretty lousy otherwise.

[SyntheticForm]

@Boing

I believe boost mode only applies to some games released before the release of the Pro model CUH-7000. Boost mode won't just make any game perform better.

[badz149]

38GB update?? that is basically the whole game, right?? they tried to distance themselves from Bethesda, but apparently they are inheriting one of Bethesda's worst practices. it looks like devs and publishers are trying really really hard to make physical copy buyers feel bad about their purchase now with these ridiculous gigantic patches. why not just put the download codes in the box next time and be done with it, ha?

[UltraNova]

Its a full on assault on physical these days. The sad part is some "gamers" support this war.

[DarXyde]

That's more than basically a whole game. I remember long PS2 games being about 1/7 of that.

[Edgelordsupreme]

It's the nature of the beast, it's not going to get any better.

@UltraNova

Rise up "gamers", only real "gamers" buy physical and the realest "gamers" buy games with little to no patching. Personally I buy all my physical games from the farmers market, I dont like all the pesticides EB Games and Walmart spray their games with, it really adds to all the patches. Am I right "gamers"? "Gamers" rise up 2019, no more patches we are under assault!

[xander70769]

It really is getting bad. The industry is slowly but surely killing off physical. Almost every release has a day one patch, and even then, more will inevitably come. Games seem to always release in a broken state and need patches to function properly.

Even more egregious, we are seeing more and more that re-releases, like game of the year editions that release a year or later, promising to include all content, will release with just the base vanilla game and all DLC and patches still needing to be downloaded. For no other reason than to make your physical purchase meaningless. The industry wants you to rely on digital downloads to play games.

Retro gaming in the future is going to be a bitch, and a digital-only future is going to be bad for gamers.

[Traecy]

Guessing they had a last minute change of plan for PS4 Pro version.

[Spurg]

Or its was just misinformation being spread around leading to needless finger-pointing

[Atom666]

Yep. Read it was just a mistake in the PR person's email.

Shame so many people canceled those nonexistent preorders because of that misinformation...They were able to dust off their pitchforks though, so not a total loss.

[Traecy]

Possibly.

[BadElf]

Why did you say "or"?

[Christopher]

Just misinformation. Definitely affects the credibility of Windows Central and their people inside.

[rainslacker]

They had credibility?

[pwnmaster3000]

.

[MasterCornholio]

So is N4G going to ban that site anytime soon?

Assuming that they did this on purpose and it wasn't just an accident.

[UltraNova]

Then I'd like you Chris to put your money where your mouth is. I mean look at what happened in the comments of yesterday's WC's derailment of a post...

Forbes is equally bad.

[Ausbo]

It’s not window centrals fault. It was the PR for private division

They posted the email the PR team sent them. Plainly says that there are no pro enhancements

[UltraNova]

Ausbo,

Show me where WC mentioned they've reached Obsidian or MS for comment on that PR email then... I did not see any due diligence on their part.

[rainslacker]

If WC was the only one that posted the email, then did they follow up to make sure that that was the case. Information like that is usually more press release related than it would be from a random email to a single publisher. Enhancements for better consoles are typically part of the marketing process since the mid gens, so while i won't say WC did anything wrong in the sense they made it up, it's rather unprofessional to report on something based on single email, with no other information out there to use. either that, or it does put their credibility in question....as Christopher mentions.

WC is chock full of misappropriated information, often used to put MS on a pedestal, and make PS look bad. I don't think they do this because MS is paying them, just that they are a crap site, that cares more about clicks, then ethical behavior.

To all those making a call to action to Chris, I do agree with the desire to clean things up around here, but lately, I'm starting to feel that if we did that, there wouldn't be any news left, because all the community reacts to now seems to be opinion pieces, or major news stories....the latter of which are pretty few and far between.

[tontontam0]

It's a good thing that they've realized that nobody will go buy an xbox one x just because it is not enhanced for ps4 pro.

A last minute change of plan out of fear that a good chunk of ps4 pro owners will skip the game.

[NeoGamer232]

Ummmmm no.

Anyone thinks that all they have to do is "flip a switch" and all of a sudden they get higher resolution on the game does not understand game development.

It takes at least two years of dedicated development to get a AAA game engine working and running on the platforms it is developed for. To think that they can just flip a switch a week before the game releases is not true. The minimum would be 2-3 months to up the game's resolution because you have to do a ton of testing and tuning the game engine to ensure it maintains frame rate everywhere all the time. That would be an absolute minimum.

[Sm00thNinja]

No excitement for this game paints a bleak picture. Hope I'm wrong. I just havent heard anything about this game and were a week from release

[Poopmist]

I've heard a lot of hype for this game. Just not on this site.

[on_line_forever]

Guys I have questions for you

If we have backwards compatibility feature on ps5 & PS6 on future and we can take our games from ps4 & ps5 with us why we can't get PS6 after 3 or 4 years so we can get new powerful hardware very soon ?

[xX-oldboy-Xx]

on_line_forever - because game development takes about that long, consoles need to represent good value.

If you want to upgrade that often - just go the PC route. You'll always find something to spend your money on there.

[Tapani]

@on_line_forever

Your question is actually really good. We already got PS4 Pro within that time-frame so what you probably won’t get is PS6, but PS5 Pro or a similar upgrade which will be compatible with PS4&PS5 games. Who knows they might even brand it as PS6 due to cloud gaming push from competitors, and possibly launching the PS5 Pro model with the base PS5. Things move faster nowadays!

[Christopher]

They've had a ton of gameplay a few weeks ago. Tons of people talking about it. You gotta be hiding under a rock to not see it, IMHO. Or, just not following game news outside a certain circle of games.

[pwnmaster3000]

Tbh This was one of my most anticipated games when it came out but now I might pick the new COD over this. The hype For me hind of died down when I saw the gameplay. Looked kind of dull and don’t get me wrong I love exploration and all that but something doesn’t hit me with this game. Hopefully I’m wrong because I love obsidian and their games.

[Sm00thNinja]

Well maybe you're just a harder corer gamer than me who knows but the hype for this has been nonexistent especially this close to launch. I have watched some recent gameplay videos but wasnt impressed with some of the Fallout-like interactions with NPCs. I have the game preordered for Xbox One SO HOPEFULLY IM WRONG. Game could turn out to be phenomenal, but again... havent seen any in depth previews from IGN or Gamespot that were glowing or foretelling of an instant classic

[Christopher]

***havent seen any in depth previews from IGN or Gamespot that were glowing or foretelling of an instant classic***

Well, let me help you out as far as videos. But, "glowing or foretelling" seem to be reserved for very few games. Doesn't mean the rest that don't get it are bad or not worth playing.

Game Informer
https://youtu.be/8uYMmdr0wp...
https://youtu.be/3EDoXlulh-...

IGN
https://youtu.be/LFzjIK-_na...
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
https://www.youtube.com/wat... (Creation Tips video)

Also, did you miss the whole Xbox Insider event last month?
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Giant Bomb
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Kotaku
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[Sm00thNinja]

Thanks actually. This place hasn't been hyping this game I'll assume for obvious reasons I'll definitely watch all of these I know very little other than creators of Fallout New Vegas... but then again that was enough for me

[Christopher]

@Sm00th: Probably the only thing missing from this is Chris Avellone. But I'm excited to see what they do with their own IP regardless of the similarities to other RPGs they've worked on.

[ReadyPlayer22]

There was excitement for this game. I remember the trailer dropping shortly after Fallout 76's disaster of a launch and people were excited for a Fallout style single player FPS.

Might be why Bethesda is releasing that remaster collection on the same day perhaps.

[nucky64]

i watched the game informer gameplay from a couple weeks ago - i wasn't impressed at all.

[GOODKylePS]

Your wrong so rejoice

[BenRC01]

Looks like a fallout clone. Long past staring at badly animated faces and have long boring conversations. On gamepass isn't it?

[yoshatabi]

Have you been living under a rock? Game has been everywhere

[Sm00thNinja]

Absolutely it has not. I mean gameplay videos but no impressions from big sites. I'd love a link saying the game will be amazing? I just havent seen anything overly positive

[Kribwalker]

1440p on the PS4 Pro and 4k resolution and 4k textures on the OneX plus included with gamepass.

Well my decision on the version to play is easy.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

I'm sure your "decision" was made a long time ago.

[Christopher]

Not going to lie, so was mine. Got the $1 upgrade of my XBL to Game Pass Ultimate. I don't know how long I'll use Game Pass, but right now? It's a no-brainer. The Outer Worlds is my game to play until Cyberpunk 2077 as things stand right now. Otherwise I'm working on backlog stuff and revisiting some PS3 titles.

[Neonridr]

and? Doesn't mean his decision isn't further reinforced with this news.

[Kingthrash360]

If you have gamepass your decision was made for you.

[Kribwalker]

it really was. You can’t turn down something included in the sub. and if you like it you could buy it 20% off on top of that

[NarutoFox]

What if you have gamepass on PC 🤔

[TKCMuzzer]

Well, considering you probably only have Xbox X I think it was.
@Christoper
He bleeds green my friend, Microsoft could burn down his house and he would still send them a Christmas card.

[jairusmonillas]

Clearly the no ps4 pro support fake news was intentional, They can't build a hype for this low budget mediocre game and this game will be buried by Call of Duty Modern Warfare anyways. lol

[CaptainCook]

Did you play The Outer World? You just said you've played it.

[xX-oldboy-Xx]

jairusmonillas - it truely does look trash.

[Edgelordsupreme]

What does enhancement on the Pro have to do with hype? What does the sales of Modern Warfare have to do with the quality of either of them? Of course CoD will sell more, it doesn't mean The Outer Worlds will be bad.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Yes, clearly the creators of Fallout, KOTOR, and some other great RPGs over a number of years, used your sensibilities for PS4 Pro to manufacture hype for this crappy game. It makes so much sense now.

[ziggurcat]

Well, good. Glad the other story was not true - it's going back on my list since they're actually going to offer some enhancements over the base model version.

[Pickledpepper]

@ziggurcat
Be honest, you was still going to buy it anyway, with or without the enhancements.
You just wanted to throw you toys out of your pram

[ocelot07]

Nice that Pro is getting a bump. But ill rent it on PC. If I enjoy it ill get it once it's dirt cheap sometime down the line on the PS4 to support the devs.

[ReadyPlayer22]

The other page was EXPLODING with unnecessary hate, then Obsidian just comes through and says "relax, it's getting a Pro update."

[_LarZen_]

4K and 4K textures on the X...and it’s included with GamePass. Oh la la..... :D

[Battlestar23]

Good for you I'd rather purchase the disc version of the game and support the developers and not rent them. Anyway the game will still sell the most on PS4 as have all 3rd party titles so 4k textures aren't seem to matter to most gamers.

[_LarZen_]

Good for you. I care about good looking games so I’ll play it on my X :)

[galmi]

what your saying makes little sense, just the higher sales but thats also a maybe

[Pickledpepper]

Yes your probably right, it will sell more on the ps but who owns obsidian! Win win

[Neonridr]

I remember a couple of years ago when 1080p over 900p was a big deal..

[Ricegum]

Larzen

Same, I care about good looking games too, so I'm looking forward to picking this up for PC.

[Christopher]

Eh, technically getting it on GamePass is supporting the developers. They are owned by Microsoft.

The only thing buying it on disc really does is support the publisher over Microsoft's platform.

[gangsta_red]

All of a sudden everyone is concerned about supporting the dev and buying the games. Even though if you do the game from GP the dev gets a cut.

Remember when the industry was trying ban used games and everyone was yelling about anti consumer practices?

I guess that's not a thing anymore.

[mark_parch]

I have a ps4 pro and xbox one x if a game is released on both consoles I get the best performing which in this case is xbox one x. It's not rocket science and it's no reason for people to get offended. To be fair I'm still not 100% sold on this so will most likely just play it on gamepass.

[timotim]

I'm installing right now...Gamepass Ultimate for the win!

[masterfox]

definitely the 18 GB one is the most optimized version :D

[Edgelordsupreme]

4k textures they take up a lot of space.

[psforward]

Hope this game turns out to be good. If it is I would have purchased without the pro upgrade...probably would have waited a while though. If the writing and gameplay are good then a slight graphical difference won't affect most people's enjoyment.

[gold_drake]

so, the ps4pro is getting support now?
geez, make up ur mind people, one article says it wont, this one says it will.

[Edgelordsupreme]

It always was getting support.

[AK91]

Awesome

[SkatterBrain]

my Internet is Crap 17 gigs is gonna take me hours to download, God Damn it , I can deal with 2 gigbyte downloads but some of these are ridiculous, Ghost Recon Wildlands had like a 22 gig download and Overwatch like a 27 gig download, i hope next gen thry can just send the vital stuff instead of just making me download the whole damn game

[ps3rider]

the game is bad ... a copy paste of fallout and borderlands ..

[stamps1646]

I mean they created the original Fallout, so that's a good thing unless you don't care for the series.
As for BL, not sure where you see that game in this one.

:)

[EazyC]

Going on wait for reviews... Although I loved Alpha Protocol and critics didn't like that

[mark_parch]

I'm still not sure about it so will play on gamepass

[mechlord]

these file sizes tho...

[windblowsagain]

Wow looks like a really small budget title.

Has that horrid look of stagnant no depth characters and the gameplay looks slow and boring.

Huge pass for me.

But i'm sure a few people will buy it.

[Imortus_san]

The rainbow cames after the flowed of tears from yesterday.

[Ol_Boy]

Can't wait for this game. I have a busy 6 months of gaming ahead with The Outer Worlds, Death Stranding, The Last of Us 2, Cyberpunk 2077, and Final Fantasy 7 Remake.

[Wulfer]

Pre-ordered and already installed!

[Mithan]

Unreal Engine. One negative aspect to this engine is you need to usually re-download a full module if you made changes to something in it. Kind of a pain in the ass.

[fofeseya]

hello

[Vizigoth04]

This again? Who cares? Just play the game on whatever you have.

[Abnor_Mal]

Now everyone's excited again, freaking yo-yos. Best of luck to everyone excited for this game.

[VTKC]

thats a hefty update. What the hells on the disc then? Usage rights? Trophy Installment?

[TargusX]

Looks SO boring - another Fallout clone...

[Pickledpepper]

And the trailers of death stranding looks boring, doesn't mean it will be.
@targus

[Edgelordsupreme]

This site is trash, I cant even fathom why someone would take the time to post about something they aren't interested in to begin with.

[Edgelordsupreme]

How many games are there like Fallout?

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

DAY ONE....on game pass

[Donnie81]

Glad to see pro owners get some love. They paid for their system like anyone else and should be able to enjoy it to it’s fullest

[SpineSaw]

Wow! A 38gb update now that's a ton of MTX they said they would not have to be adding at the last minute. I guess they gotta make money anyway they can plus Call of Duty releases the same day and you gotta be on point with your MTX store the minute you go live when going up against CoD MTX.

[CJLogix]

Pc and xbox have their 4k and ps4 has their 2k, everyone is happy.

[Nicknasty]

Ive been saying all along this game is gonna suck and nothing has changed. Looks even worse now, lol. Definite pass!

[DFresh]

Crappy port on PS4 confirmed.

[Profchaos]

Better than nothing