Next! Crash Team Racing Gets Unofficial 60fps Patch on PS5

For some reason , I thought it was already at 60fps? Hmm .. looks really sharp tho!

You mean to say ive played this game ages ago and it wasnt 60fps, oh the shame 🤣

@KaijuKaiser even hotter take.. Crash is my childhood but nothing can beat Mario Kart.. I’m not too familiar with a lot of the Crash characters

Please keep reporting these stories. The more we salivate over 60fps gameplay, maybe these developers will wake up. Why wouldn't you want your likely multi-year project running better than ever? If you are producing a current gen only game, it's fine to run 30fps with cutting edge visuals but if your project is last gen... do it, duh. I don't get it.

@KaijuKaiser

Diddy Kong Racing would wipe the floor with both of them.

That game is crying out for a modern graphical remake.

The title for this article is severely misleading
Here I was, ready to boot my PS5 to update CTRNF just to try it out, and it's not a patch at all but some individual's personal achievement. Although the content of the article would have gotten my attention anyway, this was very disappointing. Shame on you for writing it like that /:

@JJtheTexan the game came out on the PS4, but it should have been 60fps nonetheless…

@4UDIOTAPE

Haha exactly the same for me... I'm sure we're not the only ones

It´s getting more and more tempting to modify my PS5. I wish the developers could implement this. At least like an unsupported experimental option!!

Cmon Sony, give these guys a job and let them do the official PS5 game patching.
They've obviously got a process now so invest in them and see what else these clever people can do.

Amaz8ng how the pirates consistently end up with a better platform experience than paying customers.

People seem to not understand why companies don't do the thing 2 guys in their basement can do. It's simple economics.

Let's say you are a big manager at Activision Blizzard. You see engagement on social media about a potential 60fps update for CTR on PS5. (this is the first hurdle : will your social media managers report this to you, especially in a time where acquisition from Microsoft is going on... this could be seen as some kind of opposition to the buy-out from the employees...).

So now you know some fans would like it. So you put up to the task a planning manager or something : someone who will be able to give you a detailed plan of what should be done to make it happen.

In this plan there are :

• marketing costs (if you do it, you have to advertise it - this will have a cost, even if it's a few post on social media and a press release to media outlets, with graphical design, content writing and so on)
• development costs (how long will it take? which team will do it? what are the current devs of this team doing? is it going to be paid as extra hours or will the devs doing it be taken from their current jobs? all of this has a cost)
• quality control costs (when 2 amateurs guys can do it on their own and don't care about the end results, Activision has to make sure the 60fps is constant, especially if there's not a toggle between 30fps and 60fps modes. If a toggle must be present because 60fps is unstable, that means more coding. So quality control has to be here and will take time... and money).
• deployment costs (every update on the PSstore cost money, and not a small amount)

All of this will amount in minimum, I'd say, 10.000$ (and this is being veeeery optimistic!).

So then you ask the planning manager if this will result in an increase of sales of the game that could create profits. Most probably not. People interested in the update are generally fans who already own the game.

So unless you need some good publicity at the moment, or a new game in the franchise is coming soon, I see absolutely no reason for a publisher to do this.

I know it sucks, but we gamers back in the day always wanted our hobby to become big, now we pay the price of success with this kind of BS, and microtransactions, and season passes, and so on...

The more pressing issue that needs fixing (and likely will never come) is the broken online. If anyone in the party is playing on PS5 and a person skips the track intro sequence, the race will never start, and there's a 50/50 chance someone will be impatient and skip it. It's bad enough having a low player count.

We should not be highlighting modders on gaming forums

@RobynAlecksys
why not?

I genuinely wish this game would release on PC. I love it.