PS5 Upgrades God of War with Up to 60FPS Support

Hi there fellow gamers. Santa Monica Studios really wants me to play their game a third time again, but now on PS5 don´t they?
Fine by me. Absolutely love this game. Such an awesome sequel/reboot of a franchise. Can´t wait for the next one.
Cheers, stay safe out there and happy gaming to us all

I mean, that was pretty much certain since all PS4 saves work on PS5 via BC and God Of War already had an uncapped frame rate option on PS4 Pro.

Hmmm, I want to know more details about this before I can say whether I care or not.

Ultimately if the game runs at 1080p 60fps I'm not all that bothered.

Funny how they wait until PS5 launch to make changes to both this and TLOU remastered.

"Up to" are not words I like to hear

And I just started it over I’ll stop now

Well that was kind of obvious, surely all these unlocked framerate modes should get close or will lock to 60fps

@seari84 I don't think they've changed this, it already had this mode in

On my 3rd playthrough and looking to go on multiple runs on PS5 as well. By far it's my favourite GoW because it went the ND way. The art here is just so spectacular. Still stuck on the last Valkyrie on another save though lol.

@seari84 This isn’t getting an update for PS4. They’re just emphasizing that performance mode will hit up to 60 FPS when taking advantage of PS5 hardware.

I've seen the wording 'up to 60fps' more than once now, does anyone know what that actually means?

I find these kinds of tweets frustrating. Like, do I have to scale back the PS4 Pro visuals to get a higher framerate? Maybe this is wishful thinking, but I want to hear fidelity mode is 60fps locked.

@East76landS It means you're getting up to 60fps.

@East76landS it feels very much like targeting 60fps but it will not be a locked frame rate.

So expect a few drops along the way - hopefully nothing too noticeable.

Great game! When I finally catch up with all my new games I will definitely give this another go. Live the way Kratos says BOY!!!!!

Played and finished on PS4 Pro,
Not fussed at all about these mods for PS5 for older games, thought it’s good.
I’m gonna experience new games on the PS5 and doubt very much if I will download any old titles, apart from Knowledge is power decades for good indoor quiz fun.

Nice!
God of War and Spider-Man are the games that defined the PS4 for me.

I got the platinum on a 42” 1080p
tv (boy it was hard to read those menus) then recently replayed it on a 65” 4K tv with resolution mode. If I could play it at 4K with up to 60 fps then there is no doubt that I’d play it a third time before the sequel lands. Oh who am I kidding? I’ll play it a third time no matter what. My favorite game of the generation.

It's not an upgrade, the ps5 will lock down the frame rate. I have a PS4 pro and I use this Mode. Jeez maybe the guy writing this article should do some research.

@JoeyTS @Medic_Alert @koffing I do think Sony needs to clean up it's messaging a bit here. Perhaps mentioning backwards compatibility and PS5 Boost Mode would help clear up confusions.

Something like "Thanks to the power of PS5's Boost Mode for backwards compatible titles, God of War (2018) can reach framerates up to 60fps when using the 'Favor Performance' video option."

People will begin to assume [are already assuming?] that a PS5 patch will be coming to the game, when, in reality, there isn't.

I think Favor Performance is 1080p/unlocked framerate up to 60fps.

@edulanza10 Maybe you should also read the article that mentions the very mode in question?

I appreciate the bump frames although seeing as they didn't mention resolution it will probably be 1080p otherwise they would have gloated about 4K. Still I'll take this over them re-releasing it on PS5, 1080p 60fps is fine for now.

@LiamCroft This is the title you wrote: " PS5 Upgrades God of War with Up to 60FPS Support".

Also, you wrote this line "When it launched on PS4, God of War sported an unlocked frame rate in performance mode, meaning it would fluctuate here and there" It was the Ps4 pro, not the vanilla ps4.

@LiamCroft Not sure if you are hearing this from anyone else, but I received shipping notification on my PS5 media remote from Target using fedex

Just as well its coming to ps plus for ps5 in the list of games well worth playing again, ill probably play it all the way through again just for the enhancements.

@Medic_Alert That's what I thought, just wanted some clarification thanks.

So a PS4 Pro reaches nearly 60FPS more often than not in this game, or one would assume, in performance mode. Usually between 50-60FPS.

Now I'm told this game will be running at "up to" 60FPS on a PS5.

Right. Yeah, soooo excited for that. Can't wait to experience those few more frames.

I mean surely this can't be news. A game that's capable of reaching 50-60FPS on PS4 Pro reaches 60FPS on next gen.

I mean, isn't that agiven. It running significantly better or worse would be note worthy. Anything else is just common sense.

Perhaps an upgrade to make God of War 4 less on-rails...?

Picked it up again recently to go for the platinum, just going to wait now till PS5 as this is one of only a select handful of games that really make my Pro go off like a jet engine!

Can't wait to play this! Bought it in anticipation of the PS5 coming out. Sadly I will have to wait though since Demon's Souls, Cold War, and Cyberpunk will all be played first lol.

It sounds like it's not a patch or boost or anything, just advertising the existing modes and that it works.

@God_of_Nowt Exactly. It’s a little disappointing to me seeing how well Series X is handling BC vs PS5. I kind of expected it given Microsoft has been doing backward compatibility on Windows for four decades, but these announcements which are supposed to excite me, instead confuse me. There’s so much potential to take these older titles and get them running rock solid on the new hardware. Very curious to see it all in practice.

I'm kind of glad a bunch of PS5 games are sticking to 60fps. I really don't want to have to buy a new TV if I don't absolutely need to (yet).

I NEED Days Gone at 60 fps. Please.

Shouldn't it be locked 60fps on PS5 and not variable? This isn't a next gen game.

Gonna be my first time playing (I owned an Xbox One X this current generation). I'm gonna be a lucky one, seeing this game in all its glory for the first time on yours truly, Ps5!

@koffing Yeah, I guess I'm just confused how the difference between 50-60FPS versus 50-60FPS is noteworthy.

I mean it's basically running in legacy mode, and people are applauding it. Like yeah, well done Sony, you did your job of making a first party game run as it does on your previous gen.

Ah well.

I’ll just be happy to play it without a noisy fan.

@God_of_Nowt It does look extra bad when Microsoft is making most of the OG xbox, 360 and xbone games run at 4k 60 😅 I think PS5 will have the best next gen games but in terms of BC they crush Sony.

@Juanalf I can't argue with that! Haha.

@God_of_Nowt

I was thinking the same thing....even for those who have already experienced it on PS4 Pro, a few more frames isnt going to lour anybody back in. I was hoping for a DMCV PS5 edition treatment. Dynamic 4k + 60fps, or 120fps performance mode. for me personally, Ive only spent 2-3 hours with it, and in all honesty, I could take it or leave it. Seems cool but its no Resident Evil 2.

@Wavey84 Haha, it's just, if it's essentially the same experience, due to legacy, I have no problem with that. From either a Dev or gamer standpoint.

However, say there's 4,000 games, for arguments sake, that will run just like normal, abliet a little or lot faster at times on the PS5, versus the PS5.

Now, do we really need announcements for that? Like of course all these games work, we've been told they all work.

So all this news tells me is that God of War works a tiny fraction faster frames per second wise, and loads faster simply due to what it is loading from.

It's like my getting an upgrade to my PC, and being shocked my Steam library runs at least just as good as before.

I love the game, and totally want people to experience it. If I were the Devs or Sony, I wouldn't shout about the game running as it does on 4 year old hardware, and only 25/30FPS better than 7 year old hardware.

So, I guess I'm not wanting any updates or optimising of old games at all, I'm not into paying Devs like myself to work on old software, but that's just me.

With that, I'm just of the mentality that running a game like it ran years ago on new hardware isn't a selling point.

But hey, I'm the guy who paints textures, I'm not the guy who sells the hardware. So maybe my opinion is all messed up!

We can now confirm that God of War is Backwards Compatible and may run a bit better than the Pro's 'up to 60fps' performance mode... but your legacy save will work and will load faster too.

So was the 'upgrade' as mentioned in the title an 'upgrade' to make it run on PS5? Was it a game that wasn't backwards compatible before?

Thankfully, i've still got the plat to do, because we all know what it's like to go back to a game we've already platted (rolls over and pretends to go to sleep)...

I would be expecting it to be in resolution mode at 60fps on PS5. Surely the PS5 is powerful enough for this.

Like Xbox SX is doing I expect all games that have 60 FPS target but can’t reach it on current gen to be able to reach that 60fps target as standard on ps5. God of war deserves a 4K 60fps mode.

@CupidStunt they need to release a patch to uncap the game from 30fps in resolution mode. Would be nice, but probably woupd brake the experience on PS4 pro.