The Touryst Runs at Native 8K/60 FPS on PlayStation 5

[Tsing]

Image: Shin’en Multimedia



Shin’en Multimedia released The Touryst, a new action-adventure puzzle game with a cute and blocky animated art style, for PS4 and PS5 consoles last month. The PS5 version happens to be a pretty big deal because it’s the first next-gen console game to genuinely support 8K. As showcased in a video analysis by Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry, The Touryst internally renders at 7680×4320, and it does so without any trickery such as checkerboard rendering. What’s even more impressive is that the game is able to maintain 60 FPS at this extreme resolution.









There’s a major problem, however: despite the shiny logo that Sony placed on the front of the box, the PlayStation 5 doesn’t actually support 8K output yet. Still, what Shin’en Multimedia pulled off with the The Touryst remains enticing for players, in that its native rendering resolution...

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[Brian_B]

Well looking at the screenshot... 8K would be about the only bragging right they could claim

 

[Zarathustra]

It shouldn't be surprising that a title with very low polygon counts might be able to render at higher framerates or resolutions.