Former Xbox exclusive Pentiment runs better on PS5

https://www.eurogamer.net/pentiment-director-blames-bug-as-former-xbox-console-exclusive-runs-better-on-ps5

Former Xbox exclusive Pentiment currently runs smoother on PlayStation 5 than on Xbox Series X/S, fans have realised - prompting the game's director to blame the situation on a "bug".

Social media user PeterOvo shared a screenshot from a video comparison capturing the frames per second performance between Pentiment on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. The former was running at 120fps, while the Xbox version was running at a mere 60fps.

This inconsistency was subsequently brought to the attention of Pentiment's director, Josh Sawyer. The developer replied to assure players that 120fps will be enabled for Xbox "in the next patch".

According to Sawyer, this feature being disabled on Xbox "is just a bug" that will be remedied. While this is nice, it still seems a tad unusual, given that Pentiment has been on Xbox since 2022. Either way, a fix is incoming.

Wow, the power of the PS5’s SSD at work again. Can we say the PS5 version is the definitive version, then? What are your thoughts, SW?

lolol :P

@SolidGame_basic: Pentiment? Really? I mean, I know the name of the game is oneupping a piece of plastic, but celebrating 120fps on Pentiment because is looking a bit desperate mate.

Its probably fixed now but dang its so on brand of Xbox having the most powerful console but useless due to somehow PS5 version usually performs better.

"This inconsistency was subsequently brought to the attention of Pentiment's director, Josh Sawyer. The developer replied to assure players that 120fps will be enabled for Xbox "in the next patch".

According to Sawyer, this feature being disabled on Xbox "is just a bug" that will be remedied."

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The mooaar you know. lol :P

@sakaixx: I'm still not sure why Minecraft has been 4k on PlayStation for 4 years while Xbox has been running it at 1080p even on current gen consoles.

@SecretPolice: Yeah it seems like an oversight

@girlusocrazy: so on brand 😅

@SolidGame_basic:What I read is there was a bug they discovered in the Xbox version that will be patched on the next update allowing for 120fps mode... Ps5 version will already have it at its launch.

That called for generating a thread trying to score points for a game your a year late to the table with? Lol🤷 OK...

Thread backfired before the 10th post.😂

I am curious to see what the sales numbers for these multi-plats will be on PS5.

A bug soon to be fixed totally needs a thread.

This is a common occurrence?

It's not a bug, they just didn't care to uncap it until the dev of the PS5 version did just to get people to stop whining. Who says good things aren't gonna come out of these ports? 😆

Ok, calling it a bug is fine in theory. But why wasn’t the Xbox version patched already? Why wasn’t there a 120fps patch unti the PS5 port launched? And finally, why isn’t the PS5 patch “bugged”?

Outside of all that, this game couldn’t benefit less from a 120fps patch. Will the text look that much smoother?

Wow, that's great news! Good to know!

What kind of game is Pentiment anyway?? Never heard of it.

Remember, the next time MS announces a new system (19% chance of it happening cuz they're most likely exiting gaming in 2027), don't believe their specs, its all fake. When a 9.2tflops system is destroying a 12tflops one, and for over three years now, that's just sad.

It's simply a bug, however you want to define it... It's A nothing burger hiccup that amounts to zero... Someone noticed that the extremely irrelevant 120fps mode on a game being prepped for ps5 didn't contain the same mode for Xbox and so now it will.... Amazing this thread generated a response let alone suggestions of conspiracy or fanboy point scoring. It's as if we've found the bottom of yet another barrel.

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lol :P

Oh dear god no! Say it ain't so!

@Archangel3371 said:

Oh dear god no! Say it ain't so!

It's true.... Your soul has been owned in every conceivable way over this critical news.... Taste the sweet sweet firey pain of ownage!!

@TheEroica: My day of judgement has finally arrived!

Someone noticed a mode wasn’t on Xbox? That sounds like fanfiction

The game was developed for Xbox consoles and PC over a year ago. It comes to PlayStation at a later date with better performance. As trivial as it is for a game of this type, some sort of development went into the PS5 port that didn’t happen on the Xbox port since launch 15 months ago. And you’re attributing it to a mistake? You don’t get a game running at twice the framerate on weaker hardware by accident…

Using Pentiment running at 120 Fps on PS5 for fanboy points is silly. It’s also just as silly to dismiss folks questions and to somehow come to the conclusion that the mode came to be by accident. If the game can run at 120fps on PS5 it should have been running at 120fps on Xbox in 2022.

This must have been what Xbox fans feared.

Glad they are fixing the bug!

The bug that’s existed for over a year now since it released on Xbox and PC??

I'm not attributing anything to a mistake... It's a game that doesn't necessitate the feature and wouldn't make a difference in any conceivable way towards the quality of the experience as you've stated, especially given there's a 60fps mode already established... If the dev says it's a bug and it'll have it in the next patch that's really the end of it. Going down a rabbit hole of wondering why a feature that doesn't matter isn't in the game isn't a slight against the Xbox.... If they're prepping a PS5 version and theyre patching it into existing versions, then what are we discussing?

Lol.... Wut?

You would prefer they didn't fix it?

wow, what a win

I see the master of concern has entered the thread.😂

Gamers were begging MS for 120FPS Pentiment.🤭

Why was the superior console hardware not running the game at 120fps 15 months ago. The dev stated they had the game running over 3,000 fps on PC before launch…

Why did nobody notice including DF?

Why is this even a thread? By the end of the article it's a complete non issue.

@kvallyx: Because no one cared til now.😂

What didn’t DF notice? They can only analyze what’s running in front of them…

Exactly.

Of course!

I just looked on PS profiles, PS Trophies, PSN Store and nobody is playing this game lol. Not sure why MS bothered porting this, PS people don't want to read. 😂

What I find funny is that if this was against the ps5, the comments would be VASTLY different.

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Solid wouldn't have posted it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣