Naughty Dog Wants to Ensure The Last of Us Part 2 Runs Well on Vanilla PS4

Naughty Dog tells us how it's trying to avoid the performance disparity plaguing some triple-A games on vanilla PS4s.

[Sniperwithacause]

Glad to hear that. Cause I'm not upgrading my launch PS4, until the PS5 comes out.

[Relientk77]

Same, launch PS4s work just fine. Can't wait for PS5.

[Sniperwithacause]

Yep, keep it clean! The OS can be a little slow at times, but it gets the job done for me.

[mikeslemonade]

The inferior PS4 is holding games back.

[frostypants]

This. When they enabled HDR support for the normal PS4 (awesome move by Sony, from a pro-consumer perspective) my primary reason for wanting a Pro went away.

[Shimmerbut]

Double the gpu and stronger cpu was enough for me. Playing god of war at far smoother fps was incredible.

[waverider]

Of course, because 90% or more of players got the base model. The upgrade share is very low. The premium models impact in numbers is low on both sides.

[CuVe]

Well, here in Europe, most of the people already only buying Ps4 pro, because its 349Eur and the standard Ps4 is 280Eur. Very small difference. Every one of my friends that have bought a Ps4 in the last year bought a Pro model. So I dont think that the impact is that low...

[MajorLazer]

Anecdotal evidence

[sampsonon]

compared to the OG ps4 pro sales are little to none. it doesn't matter how many people you know that upgraded.

[Ratchet75]

Working for a gamestop european branch(micromania), i can confirm that the ps4 pro is selling better than the ps4 slim for the past two years now. The sales ratio is about 70/30 in favor of the Pro.

[jonny897]

Pro owners will get some enhancements though. I think this is how it should be done.

[rainslacker]

At the launch, it was making up about 20% of the PS4 sales. It's not much more than the OGPS4, so I can see why many people would not be opposed to spending a bit more. I think with the way Sony has supported the original, and even 3rd party devs who mostly still do fine with it, one can't go wrong either way, but if one was buying a PS4 now, I'd probably say go for the Pro. Upgrading, I would say its not worth it, but if one feels they want it, they will probably not be disappointed.

[Juusterey]

Well...yeah
good
that's supposes to be the idea, the ps4 is fine and works, but the pro is better

[UltraNova]

Its probably also their last OG ps4 game too so they'd better leave it with an optimised game.

[stefd75]

Was the 1st game one of the last big games on the PS3 ???

[dazsarge]

@stefd75 It became big after release. Nobody knew how it was going to turn out as it was a new IP.

[VerminSC]

More developers need to remember that the majority of the player base has the vanilla PS4. I play borderlands 3 with my brother and he is on the vanilla PS4 and I have a pro, and he says sometimes it’s borderline unplayable.

[AnubisG]

Vanilla PS4? Is there a chocolate one as well? 🤣

[sampsonon]

the Pro. it's sweeter

[BenRoxio]

Yeah Vanilla, that's what the base consoles are called. Weird though.

[BioShockGX]

Dude anyone who plays borderlands 3 on vanilla ps4 has my full respect. Tried bl3 on 30 fps the other day, it was a nightmare. High fps mode on the pro is heaven.

[alb1899]

I would prefer that it is a next gen launch so they don't sacrifice anything but they of course need sells and that will make the game sacrifice a lot for the base ps4

[DreadfulHero]

I think it's safe to assume there's going to be a PS5 version of this game a year or two after this PS4 version is out, just like with the first game.

[Brazz]

Insiders already confirmed PS5 Backward compatible, so it's hard to imagine a "PS5 version". That said, the last of us is probably going to be Crossgen title whit many upgrades on PS5, like 60FPS/4k, better textures and perhaps minor levels of Ray tracing.

[UltraNova]

Brazz,

Calling it here and now - Nov 2020 tLoU 2 ps5 release (along with a ps5 enhanced patch for those who will have the ps4 version) with MP included.

[spaceb0y]

The base PS4 represents the majority of the userbase so it's not surprising.

[terrorofdeath]

Unfortunately the PS4 Pro is still quite pricey, so I'm sure many people have the base PS4.

[CuVe]

You can buy a Ps4 Pro every year at black friday or cyber monday for $299. Really 299 bucks is pricey? I tought that is nothing compared to a US monthly salary...

[mastaleep]

Why did you assume that he lives in the US?

[CuVe]

@mastaleep
You cam change USD to Euro and the same thing is true...

[CP_Company]

that is a big different between Sony and m$, while Sony trying to please and support base PS4 and of course Pro, m$ trying just forget base xbox or s like they never existed.

[Shimmerbut]

U done hugging ur little plastic box darling? This is why gamers are seen as children bickering over idiocy.

[franwex]

Most games work well on base Xbox and base PS4. Gears 5 runs well on my base Xbox.

The only game that has performance issues is borderlands, but I think it’s just badly optimized in general. I think Control too, but I haven’t play it.

What game have you personally played that plays bad on base Xbox?

[RedDeadLB]

PS4 Pro should never be the primary platform for development in any case. Just look at the poor state the Medievil Demo is in. It's performance is absolute horse crap on base model because of it.

[Larrysweet]

Just finished medevil on base runs fine

[RedDeadLB]

25 (or lower when healing) to 40fps. Not fine. Very inconsistent.

[Traecy]

If true Sony doesn't own the development team Other Ocean Emeryville, I'm quite sure Sony owned studios wouldn't let that happen.

[Father__Merrin]

this is completely different from the green team as they make sure the premium console sings and base console stutters

[SyntheticForm]

I'm sure Naughty Dog will take care of everyone, but I'm glad I have a Pro for this game. The Pro will be where the game shines brightest, and for this game, I need the best version.

[rigordomnic]

You will get what you desire!

[Traecy]

Pretty much.

[sprinterboy]

So it should, what is embarrassing is devs like ND having to say it.
I think the last year in particular some devs have not optimised well for the base models wether that be ps4 or xbox s.
One thing for sure though is we (90% base owners) will have a massive games library come ps5 because no doubt we will all have 4ktv then and can go bk to hzd, gts, tlou pt2, days gone, death stranding, gow, spiderman to name a few and actually play them again as the devs envisioned us too.

[alb3rt]

Are you eyeing any specific TV?

[sprinterboy]

I'm waiting for the hdmi 2.1 models to come out, I'll buy my 4ktv and dolby atmos speakers the same week ps5 launches.
So basically I'm getting the 2020 model bravia 55“

[PaulFiend]

Nice to know that they care. Something tells me we'll get full hd + 30 fps with a little bit of downtoned shadows @ vanilla PS4.

[Tross]

As any competent dev should, especially ND, but I’m glad this has been confirmed.

[banshyork]

They know what to do.

[Nitehawk]

Good, glad to hear that.

[Traecy]

Not surprising at all knowing ND is owned by Sony & of course their first party developers are going to make sure their exclusives run well on their hardware.

[Zibard]

So the optimization for this game is going as expected. For those who upgraded it will look better.

[AK91]

100+ GB game only for the SP? Highly unlikely but we'll see.