Xbox Series X just beat PS5 in the hottest game of the year

Xbox Serial Ten just beat PS5 in the hottest game of the year

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Cyberpunk 2077 finally arrives this week, putting an cease to an extended production wheel and countless delays. The question now is, of course, which side by side-gen panel plays information technology the all-time?

Well, we have some good news or some bad news, depending which side of the panel war you're on. Because information technology turns out that the Xbox Serial X has an reward over the PS5.

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VGC has uncovered one fundamental departure between the PlayStation and Xbox versions of the game when you lot're playing on a next-gen panel. The PS5 has a performance manner in the settings, and when activated the resolution takes a pocket-size hit to give the console what it needs to endeavour and hit 60 frames per second.

The Xbox Series X has this too, but it has an extra "quality way" that does the exact opposite. If you're willing to play at 30fps you tin boost the resolution to its uppermost limit.

A lot of people would fence that frame rate is more than important than resolution, and they make an first-class betoken. But non everyone's the same, and at least the Xbox Series Ten gives you the pick of choosing between prioritizing resolution or trying to hit that sugariness 60fps cap.

As for the PC version, it seems similar it performs better than the console versions. According to Tom's Hardware yous'll need the latest Nvidia RTX 3090 GPU if y'all want any chance of hit 4K 60FPS. Even downgrading to 1440p 60FPS is going to need something akin to an RTX 3080. That said, it seems like you tin become ane or the other with slightly less advanced hardware.

1 thing we should notation right now is that the electric current version of Cyberpunk 2077 is a last-gen game, playing on the PS5 and Xbox Serial X via backwards compatibility. A next-gen upgrade isn't due until sometime side by side year, which means it hasn't been optimized for the more than avant-garde hardware and tin't accept full reward of what'south on offer.

The only question is whether it will be plenty to hit the coveted 4K60FPS level. Or maybe even 120FPS at lower resolutions. Nosotros won't know for sure until someone at CD Projekt Red gives united states more information.

Of course, right now the question of which next-gen console to buy is mostly arbitrary. And no nosotros're not going to exist the annoying people that insist all games should be played on PC. No, the truth of it is that since the Xbox Series 10 and PS5 are in such brusque supply, the console wars are basically expressionless right now. When a few seconds is all it takes to fail at buying a console, you tin can't beget to be that picky.

Plus, nosotros're nonetheless technically in the pre-release window and we know Cyberpunk is getting a big day one patch. That may well unlock quality mode on the PS5.

Tom is the Tom'south Guide's Automotive Editor, which means he can ordinarily exist found knee deep in stats the latest and best electric cars, or checking out some sort of driving gadget. Information technology'southward long mode from his days as editor of Gizmodo United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, when pretty much everything was on the tabular array. He's usually found trying to squeeze another behemothic Lego set onto the shelf, draining very big cups of coffee, or complaining that Ikea won't let him buy the stuff he really needs online.