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The Touryst, first released on Switch in 2019 and Xbox in 2020, has finally made its way over to PS4 and PS5. But the PS5 port of this tropical, adventure-filled puzzler carries a special distinction: It’s the first 8K/60 FPS console game ever officially released. But don’t go rushing out to buy an 8K TV just yet.
Developed by Shin’en Multimedia, The Touryst first hit Nintendo Switch in November 2019. Following that, it ended up on Xbox One in 2020, and then later a newly enhanced port became an Xbox Series X/S launch title. These newer ports looked great thanks in large part to the clean, colorful, voxel-like visuals of the original game.
It’s thanks to this clean and simple art style (and some hardware differences in the PS5) that the devs have been able to ship the first console game to render at a true, native 8K resolution. That’s right, The Touryst on PS5 can run at an internal resolution of 7680x4320, and according to Eurogamer and Digital Foundry, the devs say they’ve achieved this remarkable performance milestone with no temporal super-sampling, checkerboarding, DLSS-like upscaling, or any other fancy tricks. This game is actually, really running at 8K/60 FPS.
Digital Foundry released a video explaining how The Touryst on PS5 is able to look and run so well at such a high resolution.
The first thing to keep in mind is that while the game is running at a full 8K res, the actual game on your TV is only presented in 4K. So, what’s going on? Well, this all comes down to the fact that—at least for now—Sony’s PS5 doesn’t actually support 8K output. Now, the PS5 box your console shipped in might have advertised that, but for now, Sony hasn’t patched the console to support this higher resolution.
Read the full article on Kotaku
