Don't Expect Crimson Desert Xbox Series X or S Gameplay Footage Before Launch

Crimson Desert developer and steadfast Pearl Abyss won’t amusement gameplay footage of the Xbox Series X and S mentation up of its March 19 merchandise date.

The hotly anticipated open-world enactment crippled is conscionable 24 hours from merchandise (check retired the Crimson Desert planetary merchandise times present to find retired erstwhile you tin play successful your timezone), but Pearl Abyss has yet to amusement it moving connected either Xbox console, starring immoderate owners of Microsoft’s hardware acrophobic that the crippled whitethorn tally poorly.

Pearl Abyss has itself shown the crippled moving connected PC. PlayStation 5 Pro was shown disconnected via the tech experts astatine Digital Foundry, and lone this week basal PS5 footage was shown connected PlayStation Japan’s YouTube channel. But the Xbox versions are conspicuous by their absence.

Pearl Abyss pointed IGN to its confirmed Crimson Desert specs expanse erstwhile we asked astir the Xbox gameplay no-show, and said it had sent Xbox codes to reviewers wherever requested. Those specs corroborate performance, balanced, and prime mode details for each consoles, but the Xbox Series S, which lacks a balanced option.

Xbox Series S successful show mode runs astatine 720p resolution, with a people show of 40 frames per second, and raytracing off. In prime mode, the Xbox Series S mentation runs astatine 1080p resolution, with a people solution of 30fps and raytracing off.

As for the Xbox Series X version, expect improved show crossed each modes, including up to 60fps successful show mode.

Crimson Desert's console show specifications. Image credit: Pearl Abyss.

In a motorboat FAQ, Pearl Abyss said Crimson Desert needs an net transportation to implicit the archetypal setup (day 1 patch) “and guarantee they person the latest mentation of the game.” Once installation is complete, you tin play Crimson Desert offline.

As for precocious graphics tech support, Crimson Desert supports FSR 3/4 and DLSS 4/4.5 connected PC, upgraded PSSR for PS5 Pro, and FSR 3 for the PS5 basal exemplary and Xbox Series X and S. It besides features enactment for AMD FSR Ray Regeneration and Nvidia DLSS Ray Reconstruction connected PC versions. Frame procreation (FSR, DLSS and MetalFX) is lone supported connected PC/Mac, arsenic you’d expect, and Crimson Desert supports MetalFX Upscaler, Frame Generation, and Denoiser connected Mac.

It's worthy noting that galore publishers and developers bash not amusement footage of a peculiar mentation up of a game's motorboat for a assortment of reasons, but Crimson Desert's tremendous pre-release hype has brought with it an aggravated scrutiny, with Pearl Abyss accused by immoderate of hiding the PlayStation and Xbox versions anterior to motorboat — thing that sparked fears of a Cyberpunk 2077-style debacle, wherever CD Projekt's game's lesser-powered and buggy console versions were not shown astatine each earlier release.

Earlier this month, Pearl Abyss selling main Will Powers called connected fans to "let america cook" and amusement the console versions erstwhile they were ready. "We're not hiding anything, and I'm sick of having to repetition myself," Powers said. "I've repeated 100s of times that we'll uncover things up of motorboat to springiness radical capable clip to inactive preorder the crippled for themselves. We're saying this openly... Let america cook? Please and convey you. /rant"

While you hold to play, cheque retired IGN's last Crimson Desert hands-on preview, and our motorboat interrogation with Will Powers.

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