Many are the PlayStation 4 titles that haven't been patched to take advantage of the PlayStation 5 power, and some users have grown tired of waiting for developers to update their titles and have started creating unofficial 60 FPS patches for titles such as Red Dead Redemption 2.
As shown on Twitter by Illusion, the open-world game by Rockstar Games can run at 60 FPS with no issue on a hacked PlayStation 5 console, alongside other titles such as Gravity Rush 2, The Last Guardian, and The Order:1886. The fact that users can manage to do so without official documentation shows how easy it is and how baffling it is that developers and publishers aren't doing it themselves.
Red Dead Redemption 2 60 FPS on hacked PS5 (Firmware 3.00-4.51) pic.twitter.com/BsXoAVBguo
— illusion (@illusion0002) August 7, 2023
Went back and tested Gravity Rush 2 on my 4K TV, 60 FPS at 4k!https://t.co/1Uzvcp4vWH
— illusion (@illusion0002) August 5, 2023
The Last Guardian doesn't freeze if you updated to 1.03 and managed to unlock the framerate on PS5. (For comparison, here is 1.00 at this section https://t.co/zhRgVUYkBv) pic.twitter.com/qqTWudvNfg
— illusion (@illusion0002) August 10, 2023
There it is! My first contribution directly with Digital Foundry! More to come soon. https://t.co/osXtlsQyaI
— illusion (@illusion0002) August 9, 2023
Among the games that can run on PlayStation 5 at 60 frames per second is Bloodborne, whose unofficial 60 FPS patch by Lance McDonald was recently ported. As opposed to Red Dead Redemption 2, which can be enjoyed at 60 FPS on PC, Bloodborne's case is considerably worse, as the game is only available on PlayStation 4 and in a rather shoddy state, as the game suffers from uneven performance and frame pacing issues that were never fixed.
While for games like The Last Guardian and Gravity Rush 2, the ball is in Sony's court, it would be up to Take-Two and Rockstar Games to update Red Dead Redemption 2 to run at 60 FPS on PlayStation 5. The publisher apparently shelved the game's current-gen update plans a while back, but it wouldn't be surprising for these plans to be revived to release a native PS5 and Xbox Series X|S version that users would have to pay for.
About the author: Francesco De Meo has been covering video games and technology since 2012, starting his career at small outlets like Gamersyndrome and GeekSnack. After joining Wccftech gaming section in 2015, he quickly expanded his video gaming coverage with in-depth reporting, interviews with iconic industry figures such as Grasshopper Manufacture founder and No More Heroes creator Goichi "Suda51" Suda, Resident Evil series creator Shinji Mikami, Team NINJA's president and Nioh series director Fumihiko Yasuda, and Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama, reviews and on-the-ground coverage of major industry events such as Gamescom and E3. When he's not reporting or reviewing, Francesco can be found playing the genres he loves most, spending time with his six cats, reading, writing music, playing guitar and drumming for his progressive rock band.
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