“Image Quality Matters More than Resolution”: Remedy Entertainment Teases PS5 Pro Version of Alan Wake 2

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Alan Wake 2, the 2023 survival horror game from Remedy Entertainment that remains exclusive to the Epic Games Store for players on PC, with Epic Games Publishing being its publisher, is currently being updated for the PS5 Pro, Sony Interactive Entertainment’s new $699.99 video game console, Thomas Puha has confirmed. Puha, who works at Remedy Entertainment as the company’s communications director, shared the news on a gaming forum yesterday in a thread that suggests Alan Wake 2 will run at 840p/60 FPS on the PS5 Pro, dropping in to say that “image quality matters more than resolution.”

Puha said:

  • “Remedy’s games and resolution discussion pops up every once in a while.”
  • “Image quality matters more than resolution, not that I’m confirming anything.”
  • “We’ll drop some details on the PS5 Pro version of Alan Wake 2 in the coming weeks with some assets too.”
  • “I think the version will be a pleasant surprise, but hard to tell these days.”

Some recent promos for the game:

Remedy on Alan Wake 2’s expansion:

Night Springs sets players on a path through the enigmatic Dark Place, a realm where reality bends and twists under the influence of Alan Wake’s frantic imagination. As Wake writes scripts for the “Night Springs” TV show—a task he hopes will lead him to an escape route—he unwittingly distorts reality even further. The expansion unfolds across three stylized episodes, transforming familiar characters and settings into something entirely new and unexpected.

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Marees

Upscaling from 847p !!!!!

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MadMummy76
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LOL, that is a big ooof. That's less resolution than DLSS performance mode, which is a superior upscaler and I can still not tolerate it on anything but quality mode.

Marees
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"MadMummy76, post: 89410, member: 1298" wrote:

LOL, that is a big ooof. That's less resolution than DLSS performance mode, which is a superior upscaler and I can still not tolerate it on anything but quality mode.


Life of console peasants forced to game on a CPU worse than zen 2

Imagine a 4070 paired to a zen+ cpu

When life gives you a lemon you got to make lemonade !!

DrezKill
DrezKill 👍 1

LAWLZ
Resolution is one of the contributing factors of image quality. A game can have otherwise awesome IQ but if the res is really low then what f*cking good does it do anyways?

"Marees, post: 89412, member: 1536" wrote:

Life of console peasants forced to game on a CPU worse than zen 2


The 9th-gen consoles use Zen 2 CPUs.

MadMummy76
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"DrezKill, post: 89415, member: 230" wrote:

LAWLZ

Resolution is one of the contributing factors of image quality. A game can have otherwise awesome IQ but if the res is really low then what f*cking good does it do anyways?





The 9th-gen consoles use Zen 2 CPUs.


FSR / DLSS made devs more lazy. "It doesn't matter if it runs like a dog, upscaling will fix it" TLOU2 on the PS4 Pro used checkerboard rendering on more out of focus parts of the scene which was also noticeable but still much better and refined solution than this full screen blur.

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