The upcoming 2D Prince of Persia Ubisoft’s reboot not only looks good, but also offers excellent performance. According to Ubisoft, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown will run at 60fps on all platforms, including the Switch, and will also support 4K/120fps on some consoles. After a series of Ugly, bad and stuttering switch portsThat’s good news.
Announced in June 2023, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a colorful Metroidvania-style platformer that returns the series to its old-school 2D roots. Trailer and gameplay videos from Lost crown have introduced a slick looking action platformer that had me excited to play when it released on January 18th. But now I’m even more interested in checking out Ubisoft’s latest game since the publisher has confirmed it Lost crown runs at 60 fps (or more) on every platform under the sun.
In a recent blog post, the game’s PC specifications were revealed– which are shockingly muted – Ubisoft also provided further details on the various console ports of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. This is usually the part where you expect the Switch port to have a 30fps cap (and hope it even hits it). But that’s not the case this time. Instead, every A single platform – even the older base consoles like the Xbox One and PS4 – supports a silky smooth 60 fps.
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Even better: PS5 and Xbox Series X support 4K/120fps. Although there are some games that support native 4K or 120fps, not many can do both. As someone who owns a huge, dumb 120Hz/4K TV, I’m very excited about this Lost crown in action. Oh and PC gamers, good news: Ubisoft has confirmed that the game supports frame rates above 120.
How did Ubisoft do this?
So what’s going on here? Has Ubisoft made a strange deal with the devil to squeeze more performance out of older platforms? Probably not.
Instead, Lost crownThe impressive performance stats are likely a result of Ubisoft’s focus on Switch. Reporter James Galizio confirmed this last year that Ubisoft told him that it viewed the Switch as the main platform for the game. Focusing on a weaker and older platform may have forced the developers to make more optimizations, and these optimizations in turn gave the game more scope on newer and more powerful computers, making the game run even better at higher resolutions.
No matter why Lost crown can run at 120fps at 4K on some platforms and 60fps on all other platforms, it’s nice to see developers making sure new games don’t run like garbage on Nintendo’s aging hybrid machine. This is especially true after last year.
Plus, it distracts us all from the fact that Ubisoft is different Prince of Persia Game-a remake of sands of time–-still stuck in development hell. Oops. I just remembered.
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