By “Hellblade 2 to PS5 went very smoothly”
- by Ben Kerry
Hellblade 2‘s upcoming Enhanced Edition lands tomorrow, August 12th, including the game’s debut on PS5 – just over a year after the initial Xbox and PC release. This mark’s Senua’s return to PlayStation, as the video up above mentions; and it includes some interesting discussion about the “smooth” porting process from Xbox Series X|S.
Yep, developer Ninja Theory has talked about how the team opting for Unreal Engine 5 made this new PS5 port a relatively simple one – with Epic’s built-in platform tools coming in clutch for the Microsoft dev. Here’s a bit more on how that process went for the Xbox Game Studios team:
“When porting a game between similar form factor and performance hardware, it’s more about porting the technology than the game specifically. And so, we very fortunate here that Epic had a very good platform integration for PlayStation already for Unreal Engine 5.
Ultimately, the porting of Hellblade 2 to PlayStation 5 went very smoothly.”
Ninja Theory says that Epic’s useful platform integration meant the game was up and running “from start to end” very quickly on PS5 – allowing to the team to move focus to the game’s 60FPS performance mode; a process we talked about elsewhere recently on Pure Xbox. That part of the Enhanced Edition took a little longer to come together!
Still, it sounds as though using UE5 was a good move for the team overall; allowing the PS5 technicalities to get sorted pretty quickly while 60FPS performance was worked on for both console platforms. It’s probably no surprise to see Xbox move more of its dev teams over to the Epic Games technology, then – yes, even Microsoft’s flagship Halo series is moving over to Unreal Engine for upcoming entries.
Are you planning on trying out Hellblade 2’s new 60FPS mode? Tell us your August gaming plans down below.
Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin’ in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he’s not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that’s far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.