Guerrilla On PS4 Pro Native 4K: “It’s Not” But “It’s Acceptably So”

Native 4K rendering is possible on Sony's PS4 Pro, but only some titles volition do so. The upcoming Horizon: Zero Dawn from Dutch developer Guerrilla Games won't exist i of those titles, but according to Guerrilla'southward managing managing director, Hermen Hulst, it'due south close enough.

Sony announced the PS4 Pro during its PlayStation Coming together a few weeks agone. While some titles will return at native 4K, well-nigh of the titles volition be rendered at a resolution very close to "real" 4K. Co-ordinate to Warner Bros. SVP of production and development, Peter Wyse, players tin "expect resolutions that are upwards to ninety per centum close to 4K".

Following the PS4 Pro announcement, a lot of development studio's pledged their support for the console through championship updates or support out of the box.

1 of those studio's is Horizon: Nothing Dawn developer Guerrilla Games, and in a contempo interview with VentureBeat, managing manager Hermen Hulst talked well-nigh developing for the PS4 Pro, and rendering in 4K.

Co-ordinate to Hulst, compared to the standard PS4, the visual departure will be "massive", but the difference in how Guerrilla makes games is not. In fact, they simply have one or two developers looking at the PS4 Pro'due south specific hardware.

"The big matter about the Pro is it can handle 4K and HDR. First, I can tell you that it's massive in terms of the visual divergence, but it's not massively different in how nosotros make games. Our games have been running HDR since Killzone 3. But only now practise we take displays that tin actually show that", Hulst explained.

"It's not similar we have dissever teams working on different versions. We have maybe one or two technicians looking at the specifics of the hardware, but everybody's making the game."

Like most PS4 titles that take advantage of the PS4 Pro, Horizon: Zero Dawn won't render at native 4K, but co-ordinate to Hulst, the upshot will be close enough.

"At that place'south a lot of magic happening. Information technology'south all very complicated and Marking Cerny has a fantastic seminar planned in a couple of weeks where he goes into the nitty-gritty of it. It'due south non native 4K, but every bit you've seen for yourself on the screens, it's acceptably then. It's shut plenty that you can see the divergence with normal human eyes".

From what we've seen, Horizon: Zippo Dawn is hands one of the best looking PS4 Pro titles to engagement, and nosotros tin't wait for the game to release next yr.

Horizon: Zero Dawn is slated for a release on February 28, 2022.