As we leave behind the PS4 era, Sony’s PS5 is the newest flagship toy for gamers. Apart from the cool extraterrestrial look of the console, the PS5 boasts shiny hardware upgrades making it capable of rendering games at 4K/60fps. Final Fantasy 16 is an exclusive title for the PS5, and it comes preloaded with two performance mode options for you to take advantage of: Graphics, and Frame Rate.
To change performance modes in Final Fantasy 16, press the Options button on the PS5 controller while in-game or head onto Config from the title screen > go to Graphics Settings > Game Performance and then change the rendering mode to either Graphics or Frame Rate. Granted, there are fewer modes than in other games like Devil May Cry 5, but even the two modes available in Final Fantasy 16 offer massive changes.
Graphics allows you to experience the breathtaking expanse of Valisthea at native 1440p which is then upscaled to 4K. The colors pop, the textures and anti-aliasing is remarkably better, and so is the lighting. However, the trade-off is that you’ll have to settle for 30 frames per second which isn’t an ideal experience in most situations.
Selecting Frame Rate on the other hand lowers the resolution to 1440p upscaled from 1080p, but in return, you play the game at 60fps. While the image quality is not sharp as in Graphics, the sweet 60fps you get in Frame Rate is hard to ignore. You should be aware that the frames sometimes dip to the 40s despite running Final Fantasy 16 in Frame Rate, but that happens occasionally and will likely be fixed in post-launch updates.
Loading screens are virtually instantaneous in Final Fantasy 16, regardless of which mode you choose to play in. In the end, the matter trickles down to personal preference. If you’ve got a gigantic screen, going with Graphics might be the better option since the upscaled 1440p wouldn’t do justice to Valisthea’s scenery, whereas if you’ve got a monitor or a decent size TV, then the lower resolution in Frame Rate mode won’t be all that noticeable.
No doubt the performance settings in both modes are contradictory to the 4K/60fps tag that Sony kept implying with the PS5, but that’s about the best it can do. If you’re not willing to compromise on both, then a PC port for Final Fantasy 16 is in the works, but it’ll be quite a while before it sees the light of day.
Final Fantasy 16 is available now on PS5.
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