Final Fantasy XV Will Support PS4 Pro at Launch, but Team Is Optimizing for Standard PS4

During an Active Time Report Event at Tokyo Game Show, Final Fantasy XV Director Hajime Tabata talked a bit about the PlayStation 4 Pro and Final Fantasy XV.

[phoenixwing]

very happy to hear this, considering this is one of my most anticipated games and was worried about how things would go down with the pro being introduced. Glad to hear my original ps4 isn't getting left behind.

[Killz4Twinkies]

No worries, seems like that is going to be the norm outside of 1st party titles

[The 10th Rider]

Granted many open world games already see fps drops into the low/mid-twenties. I doubt the PS4 Pro (and eventually the Scorpio) will have much effect as devs will still optimize for the regular consoles, but for open world games I imagine that we'll continue to see 25-30fps.

[Aura7541]

Well, the standard PS4 and Pro, while different in power, are still very similar. They both use the Jaguar CPU and 8GB of GDDR5. If the Pro is using the Zen CPU and 12GB of RAM, in contrast, then we will definitely see a bunch of problems. However, because the overall setup is similar, developers can make the standard PS4 the lead platform and scale up the settings for the Pro without compromising either version.

[MasterCornholio]

That's good to hear.

[Wartime-novelty]

I hope they manage to fix the frame rate. It seems to get worse with every new video they put out even as the draw distance gets worse which should be improving things

[kingdomtriggers]

Almost every impression has said that the frame rate is getting smoother and smoother even just from Gamescom to Pax to now TGS. You can even see how much smoother it is in the newest videos. And the draw distance is getting better, not worse. Are you just making this stuff up? lol

[nitus10]

You can even play the demo (see PSN - it's free) and gameplay wise it appeared very smooth to me.

[Snookies12]

What are you watching? Because compared to the Duscae demo, things have gotten better in terms of both frame rate and draw distance with just about every video. It's clear they're working their butts off in the last stage of development to make this run as smoothly as possible without sacrificing too much in visual fidelity.

[gamer7804]

framerate better be good, since you spend a lot of time driving your Audi.

[Dan_scruggs]

Sure they are (hand makes jerking motion).

[Snookies12]

Yes, because I'm sure you know more than the developers do. Seriously, wait for the game to come out before making unsubstantiated claims. If it runs like crap when it releases, then you have a reason to complain. Right now, you simply don't.

[Dan_scruggs]

Every single demo so far has run like crap so why would I believer the final product would be any different. Even the Director had to comment on the horrible frame rates. Of course the game is optimized to the higher end specs but I will let you be surprised when the rest of the the world catches up to what should be common sense.

[cash_longfellow]

Don't feed it Snookies12!

[chaos999]

Hope they make a Good PS4 version. Stable frame-rate and all. Then a Pro version with better lightning and whatever they want.

Most people will play on stardard PS4.

Look at what Witcher 3 does on consoles. They still have some power to use on regular PS4.

[cash_longfellow]

I'm guessing they are all about making the vanilla version the best they can..there is the slim/game bundle coming out, so I imagine they want those to sell.

[dohji]

Thanks for delaying the game so you could push sales of a console I ain't buying.

[cash_longfellow]

Yep...because Square gets money for the console sale right? SMH!

[Sadist3]

Awesome! Distant vegetation! Now I can see grass down the street, this is the best news I heard all year! Next we'll be able to see bubbles in the water with all this optimization they're doing!