Digital Foundry || Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: PS5 vs Xbox Series X/S Tested - A Tech Evolution Over Borderlands 3?

[ILikeFeet]

This next outing from developer Gearbox takes what we know and love about Borderlands' shooting and looting and takes it to a new fantasy setting. Both PS5 and Xbox Series X are in the limelight here; both sporting 120Hz modes and 4K and 60fps options. Meanwhile it's again the case that Series S gets left behind - with a solitary 1440p mode. What else has been cut? And how do the three compare? Tom finds out.

Click to shrink...

• not an open world, more old-school jrpg with an overworld and separate areas
• resolution mode - 4K/60
  • 1800p to 2160p
  • Series S - 960p to 1440p
• performance mode - 1080p/120
  • typically fixed
• Series S has no mode toggle
• no difference between Series X and PS5
• Series S loses grass density
• framerates is mostly smooth, can drop when there's lots of alphas to the 50s
• Series S has more frequent drops
• VRR helps Xboxs
• splitscreen drops framerate into the 50
  • in performance mode, on a 60hz display gives you flat 60
• performance mode caps to your tv refresh, so only 60fps on 60hz tvs
  • 90-120fps in solo
  • frame rates are higher on average on Series X, it really doesn't matter tho
• PS5 has faster loading
  • 8 seconds on ps5
  • 11 seconds on xboxs

 

[ehhsobee]

Was wondering when they would get around to this. It has straight up the worst performance mode visual quality I've ever seen.

 

[Bengraven]

Series S looks and feels like Blands 3 on my PS4P. I'm actually a bit angry I paid $10 extra for the X/S version.

 

[Linus815]

Was wondering when they would get around to this. It has straight up the worst performance mode visual quality I've ever seen.

Click to shrink...

the art style doesnt really play well with the lower resolution, but 120 fps makes the gunplay feel so much nicer.

 

[Lukemia SL]

Borderlands 3 in 1080p mode was a blurfest on my 4KTV so I would have expected the same here even with the highest frames.