After nearly a decade in development, The Last Guardian is finally out on PlayStation 4. Despite its lengthy production and beautiful art design, the game arrived with some serious graphical shortcomings on older PS4 models — and tech analysis from Digital Foundry may make some people think twice about playing The Last Guardian on anything but a PlayStation 4 Pro.
Digital Foundry uploaded the tech comparison video above, demonstrating The Last Guardian on a launch model PlayStation 4 and the newfangled, high-powered PS4 Pro at both 1080p and 4K settings. The differences, as noted in the accompanying write-up, aren’t always major: The Last Guardian is an artistic marvel, but when it comes to performance, things take a serious turn.
“The only option available to PlayStation gamers in getting a regularly smooth 30 fps is to use PlayStation 4 Pro, running at 1080p,” according to Digital Foundry. The video shows that the game dips to the mid-20s on a PS4 Pro running in 4K with some regularity. On the original PS4, The Last Guardian’s frame rate often hangs around the low-20s.
Some have found that playing The Last Guardian on the OG PS4 can result in even larger frame rate dips. The video below, from PlayStation Universe, shows the game crawling along at under 10 frames-per-second. The issue was only resolved by restarting the console entirely.
For the full article, please go to:
http://www.polygon.com/2016/12/5/13843728/the-last-guardian-ps4-pro-tech-analysis
EDIT: Added video.
