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For those worrying nigh how the quality of Horizon Forbidden West volition be on the PS4 compared to the PS5, fear not. Guerilla Games has released photographic evidence of the game looking and playing nigh as well on the 8-year-one-time piece of hardware as it does on the PS5.

Guerilla Games tweeted four screenshots from the PS4 version of its upcoming sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn, which is gear up to release on the same day as the PS5 version, February xviii, 2022. Whether these screenshots were captured on the base PS4 model or the PS4 Pro is unknown, only they prove that the graphics of Aloy's globe have almost equally much depth and beauty on the aging console as it does on its successor.

Previously, much of the footage nosotros've seen for Horizon Forbidden West came from the PS5 version, leaving many curious as to what information technology would look like on the erstwhile-gen panel. Every panel generation has proven to provide higher visual allegiance to the games' characters and their environments than the generation of consoles that came before it, but Guerilla's in-firm software, the Decima engine, was a graphical powerhouse when Horizon Nil Dawn came out on the PS4 in 2022. To that end, the studio made sure to examination Forbidden W on both the PS4 and PS5 so that the former version comes out uncompromised.

"Nosotros really developed and tested the game simultaneously on both PlayStation four and PlayStation v, considering it's very of import to the states as a studio to ensure PlayStation 4 players get an equally immersive experience," Bastien Ramissee, Guerilla's atomic number 82 character artist, told PlayStation Blog back in September. "With our knowledge from Horizon Zero Dawn, we knew that nosotros still had some unexplored resources that could push the realism and quality of our character avails frontwards; it's corking to now be able to tap into that knowledge and experience for the sequel."

In the past, whenever a game was made for current-gen consoles and previous-gen ones, studios end upward watering down the graphics using engines for the older consoles considering they were incapable of handling the processing power of engines created for newer consoles. Now that Horizon Forbidden Due west is coming to both the PS4 and PS5, the Decima engine is expected to run on an equal amount of ability.