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Death Stranding Director's Cut on PS5 has Ultra-Wide support (update: 16:9 letterboxed confirmed)
- Thread starter nolifebr
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Was thinking the same. Definitely the first PS5 game, but is it also the first console game ever to have ultrawide support?
I still don't buy it.
If that's coming then surely 1440p support would come with the same update too I guess.
If that's coming then surely 1440p support would come with the same update too I guess.
PS5 supports 1080p, 2160p and telling you to eat shit if you're on any other resolution.
Unless a new firmware drops supporting more resolutions/aspect ratios, idk how they're gonna pull this off.
Woohoo!!!! I'm down to play all over again. 2nd place GOTG behind Zelda.
Yeah but its effectively an ultra wide resolution. Since PS5 doesn't support ultrawide output I'm really confused how they are supporting it.
Interesting that he says "if you purchased any Death Stranding digital version" explicitly in this video, not sure if that was discussed elsewhere. Hoping physical editions can likewise benefit with the $10 purchase.
They almost certainly mean that there is an option to play the game letterboxed, rather than outputting an ultra-wide image.
I expect the best they could do would be the inclusion of an anamorphic ultra-wide mode, but I don't know of any displays which support that.
I expect the best they could do would be the inclusion of an anamorphic ultra-wide mode, but I don't know of any displays which support that.
Has to be a firmware update supporting a bunch of new resolutions. I'm not sure Kojima productions is inept enough to just make shit up like this or call letterboxing ultrawide.
That might require an atomic wedgie but I'm sure Kojima can get Nicolas Winding Refn to help him.
I don't think it would be a case of being inept if its letter boxing. It would be similar to watching movies shot in cinemascope on your TV. Letterboxing just isn't an appealing marketable term.
inb4 either letterboxing or somehow KojiPro didn't know you can't output an ultrawide res from PS5.
That isn't Ultrawide monitor support, per the OP suggestion
It's basically that The Order game situation again. Also letterbox isn't going to give a standard resolution. The resoluition is also going to be pretty odd. On a 16:9 4k display letter boxed I guess 3840 x 1634 is the maximum but it will render internally less probably
On an actual 21:9 display, since PS5 doesn't support them, you'd have to do like The Order, and use the monitors zoom/aspect ratio change function to get a full screen stretched image
it's totally just letterboxing, with the UI and FOV set up so that everything still runs and looks good. an 21:9 output for the console itself would be amazing, but i think thats in sony's court. this'll be sick, and playing this letterboxed on my big screen will probably look fuckin awesome.
There are literally N64 games with 16:9 support (Banjo Tooie, DK64, Perfect Dark, GoldenEye) and they still output a 4:3 signal. You can do ultrawide support without actually outputting an ultrawide resolution. You just expand the horizontal FoV in a way that looks squished in 16:9, but correct in 21:9.
Not saying the PS5 won't be updated with ultrawide output, just that it isn't necessary.
Banjo Tooie in normal 4:3 mode:
If you enable 16:9 mode and don't set your TV (or in this case the emulator) to stretch the image to 16:9, it looks squished:
So you set your TV (in this case the emulator) to stretch the image to 16:9 and voilá, it looks correct:
A 21:9 signal is not required in order to have 21:9 support in a game.
I'm too lazy to take these screenshots on my real N64 with my capture card, but trust me it's the same concept. You just set the TV to stretch and the image looks correct.
Not saying the PS5 won't be updated with ultrawide output, just that it isn't necessary.
Banjo Tooie in normal 4:3 mode:
If you enable 16:9 mode and don't set your TV (or in this case the emulator) to stretch the image to 16:9, it looks squished:
So you set your TV (in this case the emulator) to stretch the image to 16:9 and voilá, it looks correct:
A 21:9 signal is not required in order to have 21:9 support in a game.
I'm too lazy to take these screenshots on my real N64 with my capture card, but trust me it's the same concept. You just set the TV to stretch and the image looks correct.
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PC version also has DLSS and uncapped framerate but its nice to see ultra wide crossover to consoles..
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There are literally N64 games with 16:9 support (Banjo Tooie, DK64, Perfect Dark, GoldenEye) and they still output a 4:3 signal. You can do ultrawide support without actually outputting an ultrawide resolution. You just expand the horizontal FoV in a way that looks squished in 16:9, but correct in 21:9.
Not saying the PS5 won't be updated with ultrawide output, just that it isn't necessary.
Banjo Tooie in normal 4:3 mode:
If you enable 16:9 mode and don't set your TV (or in this case the emulator) to stretch the image to 16:9, it looks squished:
So you set your TV (in this case the emulator) to stretch the image to 16:9 and voilá, it looks correct:
A 21:9 signal is not required in order to have 21:9 support in a game.
I'm too lazy to take these screenshots on my real N64 with my capture card, but trust me it's the same concept. You just set the TV to stretch and the image looks correct.
If that is their approach, I don't think it's going to look very good. You're essentially stretching a 1080p or 4k image across your ultrawide monitor, you're not adding in those extra pixels. Older games may have got away with that on CRT's, but I can imagine that looking pretty hideous on modern panels.
I have an ultrawide, and it caps out at 3440 X 1440. I can only get a 1080p signal from the PS5 because 1440p isn't supported by it. So I'd be stretching a 1080p image across the screen. Not good.
I'd say the letterboxing approach is most likely, unless Sony plan to support ultrawide outputs in a firmware update before this game launches.
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As noted by Adult Contemporary on the PS Thread, Ghost Of Tsushima Director's Cut images are on 21:9 as well:
- Letterboxing requires that you zoom and crop the image on an ultra-wide display - so the resolution might be something like 3840x1600.
- Anamorphic support requires that you stretch the image out to fill the display - so the effective resolution would remain 3840x2160, which is 35% more resolution than letterboxing.
- Ultra-wide support is a 1:1 output natively in the 21:9 aspect ratio; e.g. 5120x2160 - 80% more resolution than letterboxing.
That is anamorphic widescreen support.There are literally N64 games with 16:9 support (Banjo Tooie, DK64, Perfect Dark, GoldenEye) and they still output a 4:3 signal. You can do ultrawide support without actually outputting an ultrawide resolution. You just expand the horizontal FoV in a way that looks squished in 16:9, but correct in 21:9.
Not saying the PS5 won't be updated with ultrawide output, just that it isn't necessary.
Banjo Tooie in normal 4:3 mode:
If you enable 16:9 mode and don't set your TV (or in this case the emulator) to stretch the image to 16:9, it looks squished:
So you set your TV (in this case the emulator) to stretch the image to 16:9 and voilá, it looks correct:
A 21:9 signal is not required in order to have 21:9 support in a game.
I'm too lazy to take these screenshots on my real N64 with my capture card, but trust me it's the same concept. You just set the TV to stretch and the image looks correct.
In theory it should work, but in practice, I don't know of any ultra-wide monitors that have the option to stretch content like that.
Perfect Dark even supported ~26:9 with this method, but you lose a lot of resolution.
View this full-screen and watch what happens to the text:
