Whereas the rerelease of Pink Useless Redemption by way of a brand new port on August 17 of 2023 was nice information for followers of the unique and those that missed out when the sport initially shipped 13 years in the past, it was lacking some fascinating options. At $50 bucks with no choice to run at a extra trendy 60 frames per second, the rerelease felt a little bit missing. After a current replace, nevertheless, the PS5 model of the RDR port now gives the choice to play at 60FPS.
Followers of Rockstar’s open-world Western have lengthy needed a extra trendy approach to play the sport on present {hardware}. Initially on Xbox 360 and PS3, the sport launched in 2010 and in contrast to its celebrated sequel, Pink Useless Redemption 2, had not seen a launch on PC or extra trendy consoles till the current digital rerelease on PS4 and Change in August. That rerelease sells for $50 (a bodily model is predicted on October 13) however lacked the choice to run at a better framerate, and likewise doesn’t embrace the unique launch’s multiplayer modes. The rerelease doesn’t appear to be headed to PC or Xbox consoles, and solely works on PS5 by way of backwards compatibility as a PS4 title.
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In 2010, console efficiency typically hovered round 30 frames per second (although extra demanding video games typically introduced that quantity far decrease on Xbox 360 and PS3). Right this moment, cutting-edge video games like Starfield, for instance, nonetheless goal to hit a dependable 30 frames per second, however rereleases and remasters of older video games continuously embrace choices to run at larger framerates. Pink Useless Redemption’s lack of an choice to reap the benefits of the upper processing energy of newer consoles set it aside from different such rereleases.
In fact, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than {hardware} lovers have been in a position to show that it very effectively may have included such an possibility. Working on a hacked Nintendo Change, Pink Useless Redemption was greater than in a position to reliably attain 60 frames per second.
Fortunately, getting such efficiency out of John Marston’s epic journey isn’t restricted to these with cracked consoles anymore. The sport’s current 1.03 patch on PlayStation contains an possibility within the sport’s settings for 60FPS on PS5.
Sadly, there doesn’t appear to be any indication of extra options or future releases for the 2010 open world basic.