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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart comes to PC July 26, as Nixxes Software collaborates with Insomniac Games to bring the interdimensional adventure to ultrawide screen monitors everywhere.

• No Denuvo
• Support for 4K, Ultra Widescreen up to 21:9, 32:9 and up to 48:9 resolutions for triple monitor setup.
• Support for DLSS 3.0, FSR 2.0 and XeSS

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is coming to PC on July 26

PC features and pre-purchase details revealed.

blog.playstation.com

Hey everyone, the intergalactic adventurers Ratchet & Clank are making their debut on PC this summer! At Nixxes Software, we are all very excited to announce our next project in collaboration with Insomniac Games.

The Ratchet & Clank franchise recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. We are thrilled and honored to bring this iconic franchise to a new audience. If you haven’t played a game from this series before, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is an excellent one to start with. The game is a visual spectacle that is perfectly suitable for newcomers thanks to a standalone storyline and the introduction of two brand new characters: Rivet & Kit.

We can’t wait for you to meet these intergalactic heroes and start your multidimensional adventure when the game launches on July 26. Today I can share the first details on the PC features for Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart that our team has been working on and tell you more about the pre-purchase bonuses.


The PC version of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart features ray-traced reflections with a variety of quality levels to choose from and newly added ray-traced shadows for natural light in outdoor areas. This enables realistic shadows with natural gradients in softness*.

We know many PC gamers enjoy playing on ultra-wide monitors. For those, we added support for 21:9, 32:9 and up to 48:9 resolutions for triple monitor setups. Both gameplay and cutscenes are optimized for ultra-wide screens. This is possible thanks to our engineers, artists and QA team who have analyzed the game and adjusted all cinematics to ensure compatibility with panoramic aspect ratios.

The game supports unlocked framerates and includes the latest performance enhancing upscaling technologies. You’ll be able to choose from NVIDIA DLSS 3, AMD FSR 2, Intel XeSS and Insomniac Games’ Temporal Injection. NVIDIA Reflex and image quality enhancing NVIDIA DLAA are also supported.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart on PC offers full mouse and keyboard support with customizable controls. Controllers are also fully supported, and when using a DualSense controller on a wired connection, you can feel in-game actions coming to life in your hands with haptic feedback and dynamic trigger effects.

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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will be available on Steam and in the Epic Games Store, head over there now to Wishlist or pre-purchase the game. If you pre-purchase ahead of launch, you’ll get access to the following in-game items early in your playthrough:

· Pixelizer Weapon

· Carbonox Armor set

The PC version includes the five armors of the Digital Deluxe Edition and the 20th Anniversary Armor Pack, with another five armors inspired by previous games in the series.

In the coming weeks we will reveal more details about the PC features of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Follow us on Twitter to stay up to date on the latest news.

Developed by Insomniac Games, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was originally released for PS5 in June 2021.

 

[analog_future]

4K/60/RT should be really nice with this one on PC.

 

[feynoob]

Next is demons souls, forbidden west and ghost of Tsushima.

 

[GHG]

It's a Nixxes port. We might be blessed here.

 

[Warnen]

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Sony is so weird. They just had a showcase last week. Why not announce this in there? The exposire would be much bigger?

This also means The Snitch was right 2 days ago (or was it tom Henderson?) about Playstation releasing a PC port in July. This is the game.

 

[Leonidas]

Can't wait to run this on my PCIe 3.0 SSD

 

[bender]

Next is demons souls

 

[BlackTron]

Holy shit. I don't need to get a PS5 anymore.

 

[BlackTron]

Sony is so weird. They just had a showcase last week. Why not announce this in there? The exposire would be much bigger?

Showcase was about supporting Playstation. They prefer to release this quietly to the PC neckbeards for extra revenue while the masses don't even realize there is less reason to get into their ecosystem

 

[TrebleShot]

Will be amazing on a 4090, enjoy if you havent played it before and i will def double dip, sony knows what they are doing.

 

[StueyDuck]

gotta love how they have this whole big showcase but just fart out this news a couple of days later like it's nothing

 

[SlimySnake]

Insomniac was obviously lying about this stuff. The idea that you put a door animation of some sort (here it is a portal) to hide loading as you go from one defined area to another is hardly new. Obviously the PS5 has more and faster memory than the PS4, so you could put more/more complicated assets in each area as you move between it but it's the same fundamental idea as, I dunno, Soul Reaver on PS1.

I would suggest you wait and see the requirements at least. It's possible that the requirements are SSDs with high end CPUs.

Some of the level switching was simple like you said. They probably stored the data in VRAM and switched back and forth but the setpieces was loading entire levels that even the PS5 SSD couldnt switch immediately and took 2-4 seconds to load while they sent you flying through portals. Now, again some of that you could preload and store in vram, but then you run the risk of making the game inaccessible to everyone with under 8GB of vram.

I am not saying they didnt lie. Lord knows my disappointment with their Spiderman 2 downgrade from the original reveal. I am just saying lets wait and see the specs at least.

 

[Lokaum D+]

Just finished on PS5 last week, good game, nothing to write home about it

Visuals: 10/10 - Just fantastic
Gampley 8/10 - so much miss oportunity with Rivet, Rivet and Clank sharing the same gameplay was a dumb idea.
Story 7/10 - dumb kid plot

 

[Umbasaborne]

Great game, id love to see it on pc, but i already got the platinum on ps5

 

[LiquidMetal14]

This is going to be a day 1 buy. It's a great game. Can't wait to play it at 4k144.

 

[Fermbiz]

Theres absolutely no reason for me to buy a PS5. Out of the very, very, small, minute list of games I'd get for the PS5, this was one of them. Right now, the only thing that would get me to get a PS5 is MK1. I doubt it will have true cross play with PC and console.

 

[supernova8]

Can't wait to see someone test it with an old HDD to see if it really kills the performance (especially when warping between worlds) or if it's all a load of bollocks.

 

[BennyBlanco]

This is gonna flop.

 

[Nankatsu]

Sony is so weird. They just had a showcase last week. Why not announce this in there? The exposire would be much bigger?

Gotta capitalize on that Indie segment, no time for ports.

 

[TheDraconian]

Me:

 

[X-Wing]

Can't wait to see someone test it with an old HDD to see if it really kills the performance (especially when warping between worlds) or if it's all a load of bollocks.

Didn't DF already do that? Not with HDD but with slower SSD's and found a difference in performance? Wasn't that big of a difference and they inferred it could be thanks to the I/O.

 

[Carter Burke]

E3 recap:
0 PS5 exclusives
1 PS5 exclusives lost

 

[TheRedRiders]

Can't wait to see how well this will run on HDD's!

 

[Senua]

This is gonna flop.

It's not the game a lot of us asked for but it'll be interested in the technical side of things for sure

 

[Schmendrick]

Several year old platformer which is not exactly a genre PC gamers dig too much.
Add zero marketing on top and I don`t see a scenario where this succeeds.

 

[OverHeat]

Day 1

 

[TheRedRiders]

Didn't DF already do that? Not with HDD but with slower SSD's and found a difference in performance? Wasn't that big of a difference and they inferred it could be thanks to the I/O.

In all fairness Insomniac did say they weren't saturating the PS5's I/O bandwidth with the game's streaming.

 

[feynoob]

That is Bloodborne, which Sony can't seem to spell it. Just like how valve can't pronounce 3.

 

[SSfox]

So that's where they're putting their efforts and energy, no wonder why the last showcase was so godly awful

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Does it require SSD?

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Where's the new Rachet & Clank for PS5 as an exclusive then, Sony?

 

[saintjules]

Nice. A strange omission from what could have been on the PS Showcase.

 

[arkhamguy123]

Demon Souls is now the only true PS5 exclusive wow :/

Whatever. I’ll just get a PC next Gen. $550 on the ps5, $550 for my series X? Yeah I’ll just invest ~$1100 on a beast pc and get the next Nintendo console.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Platinumed it in one weekend and traded it in. Wouldn't play it again.

Wouldn't pick it up tbh unless it was a cheap code.

 

[Senua]

Does it require SSD?

No requirements yet but i highly doubt that

 

[Robb]

They just had a showcase last week. Why not announce this in there? The exposire would be much bigger?

Yeah, I would definitely rather have seen that than a movie trailer during that showcase..

 

[elcapitano]

Considering how shit the showcase was they should have showed this and I'm not even a big fan of this Ratchet and Clank game.

Just played it last week and was throughly underwhelmed. It was good but nothing amazing.

All that said though they still should have put it in the showcase because it would have improved the show

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Demon Souls is now the only true PS5 exclusive wow :/

Whatever. I’ll just get a PC next Gen. $550 on the ps5, $550 for my series X? Yeah I’ll just invest ~$1100 on a beast pc and get the next Nintendo console.

That might be the way I end up leaning as well. But, I'd make 100% sure to go Linux if it comes to that.

I would like to get a console, but if I don't have FOMO and they keep bringing all their games to PC, and they get less and less 3P exclusives, you're giving me less and less reason to buy your console.

Crazy that only Nintendo still seems to understand this

 

[Holammer]

Narrator voice: "They say it couldn't be done, they were wrong".

 

[adamsapple]

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is coming to PC on July 26

PC features and pre-purchase details revealed.

blog.playstation.com

The game supports unlocked framerates and includes the latest performance enhancing upscaling technologies. You’ll be able to choose from NVIDIA DLSS 3, AMD FSR 2, Intel XeSS and Insomniac Games’ Temporal Injection. NVIDIA Reflex and image quality enhancing NVIDIA DLAA are also supported.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart on PC offers full mouse and keyboard support with customizable controls. Controllers are also fully supported, and when using a DualSense controller on a wired connection, you can feel in-game actions coming to life in your hands with haptic feedback and dynamic trigger effects.

 

[Tomi]

Megaton

 

[Represent.]

Just watched the PC trailer. The game looks the exact same. The only upgrade is the frame rate, which I personally don't give a single shit about.

Was hoping to see some added particle effects, at least. As well as higher fidelity on a whole. Time to see devs take advantage of that expensive ass hardware. Not just porting games as is, unlocking framerate, and calling that taking advantage of hardware.

As it stands, I see zero enticement to wait 2-3 years for these PC ports just to play them at a higher frame rate. Meaningless ports.

 

[feynoob]

Where's the new Rachet & Clank for PS5 as an exclusive then, Sony?

It's Jim Ryan ship. Exclusives are jumping from the ship.

 

[DenchDeckard]

I'm actually surprised they haven't done demons souls yet.

Do you think it's more due to Sony saying it wasn't coming?

 

[Senua]

As it stands, I see zero enticement to wait 2-3 years for these PC ports just to play them at a higher frame rate. Meaningless ports.

Not all of us own a PS5 mush

 

[bender]

That is Bloodborne, which Sony can't seem to spell it. Just like how valve can't pronounce 3.

 

[Represent.]

Not all of us own a PS5 mush

Well in that case eat your heart out.

But as a PS5 owner, I kind of WANT to be tempted to double dip on some of these games. They could do that by really fleshing out these ports. I want them to shamelessly seduce a graphics whore like me.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Several year old platformer which is not exactly a genre PC gamers dig too much.
Add zero marketing on top and I don`t see a scenario where this succeeds.

Several years? It's barely two years old.

It's Jim Ryan ship. Exclusives are jumping from the ship.

Guess that might be smart before the ship crashes and sinks

I'm actually surprised they haven't done demons souls yet.

Do you think it's more due to Sony saying it wasn't coming?

At this point, yep. I still remember in the original reveal trailer "PC" was listed but I bet they would have loved to bring it to PC in 2021 if they thought they could get away with it.

It's more a question of when Demon's Souls is going to PC, not if. And I'm willing to bet it comes to PC this year.

I'm still rather surprised Sony are devaluing their own console this soon. I've gone into detail what "devaluing" in this sense actually means.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

I know in the past I said I wouldn't day 1 games, but I got to try and see this in motion and I have to own it. It's a graphical masterpiece and there is a lot of fun under all the visual aesthetic. This is nice news to run into. My only question is will this utilize Direct Storage at any point?