Hitman HD Enhanced Collection Runs Higher Than 1080p on Standard PS4

Have they said a price yet? If it's more than $40 I'm probably going to wait for a flash sale.

Interesting that the PS4 Pro version is still at 1440p 🤔

@3Above You'd think they'd be able to get more out of it than that, considering the base PS4 resolution.

@get2sammyb 10 more minutes for you UK folks. 1 hour and 10 more minutes for europe mainlanders like me... (50 and 1:50 when you commented that.)
Just hold on a bit 😜.

Hang on, if the standard model can do more than 1080p then how have they only managed 1440p on the Pro? That's poor no matter how you look at it

Dam that pro support is underwhelming

why didn't they add the other 2 hitman games to this collection

Does anyone know the price for this collection?

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@Splat According to a Twitter user I saw it's $90 Australian, so full priced. I won't be getting it if that turns out to be true

it's not even on the UK store atm, no show so far and it comes out tomorrow supposedly.

but yeah the price will be quite steep for this one so it's best to wait for a flash sale.

At £49.99 I really can't see this selling very well at all. Also, Okami HD on PS3 did the same downscaling as these games.

I'm hoping to see a Digital Foundry analysis cause I was pretty surprised to hear 60 fps. Absolution was pretty demanding on PC back then. I can't imagine they turned up everything.

@Orpheus79V yeah exactly, unless they didnt try 🤷🏾‍♂️

@Shigurui Hitman has a loyal following of core fans who I've seen counting down to the release of this all week, and many of them don't mind the price at all. I'll be spending £50 for it on Monday (gonna spend some time with Silent Assassin and Contracts on PS3 over the weekend first).

Whilst I think it's a perfectly fair price (£25 for a full, top-spec remaster of a beloved classic PS2 game and £25 for one of the finest examples of a PS3-era, narrative-driven blockbuster) you have to understand why IOI are doing this. They were dumped by SquareEnix last year and it's a miracle that Hitman 2 released back in November. They didn't break the game up into episodes, nor did they fill it with microtransactions, which would've been such an easy thing to do (the game's tailor-made for them, yet they're nowhere to be seen) and they'll continue to deliver truckloads of free content for it every month.

They're doing this to raise funds, pure and simple, to ensure that they can continue working on Hitman 3 and successfully complete the new trilogy's storyline in a couple years. This is essentially the equivalent of donating towards a Kickstarter except that here, instead of a gushing email and the promise of something intangible, you're getting two absolutely fantastic games for your donation. I find that way more honest.

But you're right, once those core fans have delivered the cash injection they need over the next couple weeks, this'll likely be dramatically reduced in price, just like Hitman 2 has been.

I consider myself a big Hitman fan, have been since Codename 47 but even I can’t justify paying £50 for this when I’ve got both on backward compatible on XB1. I’d definitely get it at £25 but until then nah.

£50 way to much

@3Above maybe they'll update it in the future

@RogerRoger - I'm one of those fans, have been since Agent 47 came out almost 20 years ago, I own every Hitman game, most of them multiple times but I'm not willing to pony up £50 for these games, it's a ridiculous asking price IMO.

Also let's get this right, it is nothing like backing a Kickstarter. IO are now being backed by Warner Bros, one of the scummiest money whores out there, this is WB trying to wring every last bean out of the loyal Hitman fanbase, nothing more.

@Shigurui WB Games' deal with IO Interactive is a one-time deal for the lifespan of Hitman 2, and it doesn't infringe on IO's independent studio status or their rights to the Hitman brand, which will command a much larger slice of the pie than WB will get for fronting some advertising cash and a factory to print discs. IO will probably want to renegotiate and renew that deal in future (better the devil you know and all that) but, given how Hitman 2 dropped out of the charts soon after launch, it's likely that WB (who are, as you say, not exactly shy about profit-chasing) won't wanna continue. Hitman 3 is genuinely at risk right now.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I want to say that these two remasters were submitted to the ratings board before the deal with WB was finalised.

All that being said, however, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle of all this, with a little from Column A and a little from Column B. It always is, so thanks for the balanced reply (because I have a tendency to be optimistic and always see the good in any given situation, even corporate business ones).

@get2sammyb it finally turned up on the UK store on the 12th but it's £50! yikes, no thanks lol

@RogerRoger your mad, you know for a extra £3 you could buy resident evil 2 deluxe edition, right?

@huyi Yes, except that I don't like Resident Evil.

I like Hitman.