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Well this thread is....

Some stuff - those screens are straight pulls from the frame buffer.

Temporal injection is a different approach ban checkerbording to get to 2160p that gets you AA too. We think it looks better.

The game is designed to run at a locked 30 so making frame rate changes was never in the cards. Sorry

It looks even better in HDR.

The engine tech was developed on our current stuff first and then we ported it back here.

Hey everyone. Ratchet & Clank on PS4 marked the first appearance of our long-running heroes on the console. It’s a galactic space adventure filled with exotic planets, wild villains, and an arsenal not fit for this world.
We’re pleased to be rolling out a free software update to the game to support the additional power that PS4 Pro offers. This patch should be available on or prior to the launch date of PS4 Pro.

For users with a 4K TV, you’ll be able to play Ratchet & Clank at a much higher resolution, and if your TV supports it, in HDR using an HDMI 2.0 cable. PS4 Pro users with a 1080p TV will see a big increase in gameplay image quality as well. The technique we’re using to get to those better resolutions is something we’re calling Temporal Injection. This allows us to not only hit a much higher resolution, but also to do it with jaggie-eliminating anti-aliasing as well. The extra resolution and HDR’s ability to display even more of the colorful Solana Galaxy should combine for the best image quality you’ve ever seen in a Ratchet & Clank game.
We’re really excited about the potential of the PS4 Pro and what it means for our games. From Ratchet & Clank (PS4) to our upcoming game with Marvel Entertainment, Spider-Man (working title), PS4 Pro gives us the power to release our best-looking games ever.

And for those with an HDR-enabled TV but still using a regular PS4 or PS4 Slim, our patch will also enable HDR for Ratchet & Clank as well.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/11/03/ratchet-clank-ps4-pro-update-coming-soon/

 

[Sjefen]

so much Pro love, cant wait

 

[maquiladora]

Temporal Injection?

 

[bombshell]

This should look wonderful in HDR, for those lucky enough to have such a TV... (not me...)

 

[Spukc]

Temporal Injection AKA

 

[Bitch Pudding]

Cool! The game is currently discounted on European PSN by the way (€17w/ PS+).

 

[shinobi602]

"Higher resolution" doesn't really tell me much. I know it'll look better but I love to know the details too.

 

[chadskin]

Screenshots:

Gorgeous game.

 

[thesonovabeach]

Come on... A game like this should have been 60fps for the Pro. That's a shame.

 

[Caayn]

Wait... I wasn't aware that Ratchet & Clank is receiving a Pro patch. This'll speed up my Pro purchase.

Ratchet & Clank in HDR dear lordy.

Any info on if it'll be 60FPS on Pro?

 

[YuriLowell]

Come on... A game like this should have been 60fps for the Pro. That's a shame.

I wonder if they have animations or something weird tied to framerate.

 

[NEO0MJ]

Come on... A game like this should have been 60fps for the Pro. That's a shame.

Yeah. Like if Nintendo got Mario running 60 FPS on Wii U why not this? It's not even real 4k.

 

[Putty]

Come on... A game like this should have been 60fps for the Pro. That's a shame.

Clearly Insomniac have missed a trick, tell them what they should do to get 60fps when Steve'o arrives to the thread...

 

[Dio]

Come on... A game like this should have been 60fps for the Pro. That's a shame.

Insomniac said in a press release they will no longer make 60fps games, just 30fps with graphics up all the way they can go.

 

[R1CHO]

Come on... A game like this should have been 60fps for the Pro. That's a shame.

Too hard probably. There is a lot of stuff on screen.

Game plays pretty great at 30

 

[Vashetti]

Come on... A game like this should have been 60fps for the Pro. That's a shame.

Insomniac don't make 60fps games anymore. How many times does it need to be said?

 

[User 479360]

I don't think I'll bother replaying any older games with these patches. It'll take a while to download them and I already have too big of a backlog. It will be nice to see 4K going forward, though.

I need to try to beat Ratchet & Clank before I reset and sell my PS4. I don't feel like downloading it again, although it is good.

 

[GarciaHotspur]

So i played the inferior version... Thank you Sony.

Great game though

 

[Inceptional]

Too hard probably. There is a lot of stuff on screen.

Game plays pretty great at 30

Would've re-bought for 60fps. I loved the game but 30fps just didn't feel right for R&C, shame.

 

[Always-honest]

Nice. though i hope more devs will also tackle some other aspects. Shadow quality, more thinghs on screen, better effects, etc.

But will play again to see the difference.

 

[gundamkyoukai]

Come on... A game like this should have been 60fps for the Pro. That's a shame.

Why ?
It's one of the best looking games on PS4 .
It would be rather hard to double the framerate if the game cpu bound or both.

 

[pretty done]

Yeah. Like if Nintendo got Mario running 60 FPS on Wii U why not this? It's not even real 4k.

lol

 

[PLASTICA-MAN]

Glad they added a PS4 PRO support. What is the higher resolution they achieved? Checkerboard 1800p or checkerboard 2160p or native 4K? Will the PS4 PRO version pack increased graphical fidelity like with Horizon: Zero Dawn?

 

[antyk]

Screenshots:


Gorgeous game.

Well, you can definitely see the resolution bump on geometry, but the textures and AF look very poor in comparison

 

[grendelrt]

Come on... A game like this should have been 60fps for the Pro. That's a shame.

I wonder if they have animations or something weird tied to framerate.

I would like 60FPS as well, but insane image quality is a really nice second best for a game that already reviewed extremely well with 30FPS gameplay and a very cartoon aesthetic.

 

[zoukka]

Come on... A game like this should have been 60fps for the Pro. That's a shame.

You have unrealistic hopes for how powerful the Pro is.

 

[leng jai]

High fiving myself right now for random dropping the game after 2 hours.

 

[23qwerty]

So i played the inferior version... Thank you Sony.

Great game though

You knew the ps4 pro was coming when you got it, no one to blame but yourself. would you rather they didn't improve upon it for the ps4 pro?

 

[Jacob4815]

Aliasing is a big issue in R&C.

This is a great news!

 

[robotrock]

Screenshots:


Gorgeous game.

Is this what checkerboard 4k looks like? Looks a lot better than I expected for upscaling.

 

[f@luS]

Too bad I sold it. Finished it totally. Will buy again when it will be less than 10

 

[FunkyDealer]

You know what would actually qualify as "temporal injection"? 60 FPS.

 

[jWILL253]

I don't get why Insomniac hates 60fps.

 

[simatron3000]

Insomniac said in a press release they will no longer make 60fps games, just 30fps with graphics up all the way they can go.

Yer because reviewers weren't even noting the fact their old games were 60fps and deduced that most people care about the shiny shiny, a fair assumption I guess. But for me personally I'd take 60fps, especially in a platformer.

 

[Vashetti]

I don't get why Insomniac hates 60fps.

Because it's harder to advertise than turned up graphic settings you can easily display in screenshots.

 

[simatron3000]

I don't get why Insomniac hates 60fps.

They don't, it's Joe Public that hates it http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=378382

 

[Vitor711]

Come on... A game like this should have been 60fps for the Pro. That's a shame.

PS4 Pro has a 2.3x GPU power increase. The CPU increase is 1.3x.

Any games that were barely hitting 30FPS will not get a double-up to 60. Don't see it coming for Uncharted, Bloodborne or anything intense.

It'll only work for games with variable FPS that were in the mid 40s already (Like Tomb Raider or many remasters of last gen titles).

 

[leng jai]

IQ was an issue for this game anyway, so it should look insane with a Pro mode that runs at 30fps.

 

[Chamber]

Yeah. Like if Nintendo got Mario running 60 FPS on Wii U why not this? It's not even real 4k.

 

[CaptainSmirnov]

Looks ridiculously good. Glad I held off playing this much when I got it on release.

 

[Rymuth]

Gonna be fun to go back in order to Platinum this.

 

[Serious Sam]

Quickly resized 4K images to 1920x1080 so you can approximate what to expect of how it will look like on your 1080p TV.

 

[Inuhanyou]

Come on... A game like this should have been 60fps for the Pro. That's a shame.

Insomniac literally does not care about 60fps regardless of whether or not it was possible or not.

Yeah. Like if Nintendo got Mario running 60 FPS on Wii U why not this? It's not even real 4k.

What does Mario have to do with this game? And "real 4K" is a meaningless statement if the resolution is still far beyond the original base res.

 

[Blackmarsh63]

Yeah. Like if Nintendo got Mario running 60 FPS on Wii U why not this? It's not even real 4k.

It was 60fps but at 720p.

 

[Elios83]

Really looking forward to try this.
This game probably features the same rendering techniques alternative to checkerboard rendering that will be used for Spiderman as well.

 

[thesonovabeach]

Clearly Insomniac have missed a trick, tell them what they should do to get 60fps when Steve'o arrives to the thread...

Well, I mean the game is already insanely gorgeous, so framerate was the only improvement that would matter in my opinion.
I have zero clue about how to do that and know nothing about the pro, and I guess it's impossible to do it, but as an average video game consumer, I care more about stuff I know like framerate than stuff I don't, like their new lighting technology or whatever.

 

[thesonovabeach]

You have unrealistic hopes for how powerful the Pro is.

It seems like so. It's the first time I actually care about the Pro "improvements", since I have the game and like it. It's really hard for me to understand the meaning of this new console, since it does not improve one of the only technical things I care about. Framerate.

 

[viHuGi]

Yeah. Like if Nintendo got Mario running 60 FPS on Wii U why not this? It's not even real 4k.

What the heck??

 

[Wereroku]

It seems like so. It's the first time I actually care about the Pro "improvements", since I have the game and like it. It's really hard for me to understand the meaning of this new console, since it does not improve one of the only technical things I care about. Framerate.

Some games are getting improved framerates just not an Insomniac game. They decided that 60fps was not worth the trouble and put out a press release stating none of their games would be 60fps. Their own market research showed that consumers prefer prettier games at 30fps.

 

[jack....]

Oh man, I just bought this and played through it. Such a great game.