The team over at Digital Foundry are here to potentially spoil the NieR: Automata party with their latest video, which we've embedded above. Based on final code of the upcoming release, the publication has put Platinum Games' action role-playing game through its paces - and the results are actually pretty mixed.
Automata targets 60 frames per second on both the standard PlayStation 4 - at 900p - and the PS4 Pro, and a lot of the time, it hits the mark. However, as the video shows, both version are prone to drops, with the frame rate dipping rather dramatically at points. The standard PS4 comes off worse, but the Pro also has its ups and downs, which is disappointing to see. What's more, Digital Foundry notes that the title suffers from bouts of bad frame stuttering in some areas, leading to an especially choppy experience at times.
While we doubt that these performance issues will be enough to turn most fans off, it's still a real shame that the game isn't able to run better given how smooth and stylish the action looks. Here's hoping that all of this can be tweaked for the better with a future patch.
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A patch or several will fix it. No big deal
It'll be fixed by the time I pick this up and get around to playing it.
Wow this looks incredible. I was excited for it before, but this video has stuff I'd not seen before that just looks fantastic.
A day 1 patch will probably fix these issues, and if they don't, we always have boost mode to try and smooth things out.
I don't have problems with performance of the demo so it doesn't bother me, not every studio can be as good as guerilla games.
Maybe sony should license decima for others so they can focus on performance and gameplay rather than making a new engine.
@chiptoon That's what I thought as well. If I ever had a slither of a doubt in my preorder it is now gone.
Lol who gives a crap digital foundry? As long as it doesn't dip to like 10 or 20 fps, who honestly cares?
The music sounds really good in this. The music in the demo reminded me of FFXII.
@NinjaWaddleDee Agreed, however can't help but think that Digital Foundry may help the industry in the end, they are making people focus on performance, graphics too, but I like their emphasis on framerates etc., we really all want a smooth gameplay, kudos to them for highlighting issues, indirectly helping with the right things being patched up (I hope). Either way, people will be putting that pressure to have playable games day 1. Having said all that, Nier is definitely up there, I will be very happy with this level of performance.
@NinjaWaddleDee A 60fps game dipping to 40fps is still pretty bad, though, even if it's not as noticeable as as a 30fps game dipping to 20fps.
@ShogunRok Sssshhh, let me be hype for this game, its all I have.
Yeah I mean honestly it looks like the Pro runs things pretty well--The only thing that does look genuinely disconcerting is those frame-time spikes in the open-world. Those aren't gradual "drops," I mean look at them--The game is hiccuping. That doesn't look pleasant. But, as they said, hopefully it's limited to a few select areas.
Seems strange that they wouldn't optimize something that striking, but maybe a patch later? Who knows.
I'll be waiting a bit till I'm done with Horizon but hopefully those issues are fixed.
More good work DF. Can't say I'm not disappointed but t doesn't look too terrible on the Pro. Can't say how much it'll bother me until I get it...
I love when they pause the video to show you that little detail you'd never notice... Bayonetta 2 framerate was as stable as Charles Manson but I've never had the time to notice it because I was too busy playing that gem!
Ouch. Might wait to see how the PC version performs.
That's really no surprise, Yoko Taro games have always had performance issues and Platinum usually never hits a locked 60fps, they have drops too.
Even though I am a Pro owner, I don't think it acceptable for the framerate to drop more on the standard PS4. Sure it will all be patched though.
It wouldn't be a Platinum game if it didn't have a few rough edges.
I had high hopes based on the demo...
Sigh.
Glad I didn't intend to buy it day one then (: I'll wait for it to be on sale and pick it up cheap and patched
"The standard PS4 comes off worse, but the Pro also has its ups and downs"
Well that's a big problem for me. Was going to get it near release but that makes it easy for me to wait this game out.
I noticed the UI looks almost exactly like MGR lol.
It'll probably get patched out by the time it releases here.
This is my favorite next gen game i love it more than any thing i played from last 4 yers! And yeah that's it can't wait to play it
I don't give a f**%* about problems for sure if i saw that is not working i could buy a pspro
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