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The announcement of the release of Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart on PC, which will be available on July 26, is overshadowed by the fact that some users were offended by the fact that Sony said that this was only possible on the PS5 SSD. However, the announcement of Ratchet & Clank was accompanied by controversy on social networks: the words “PS5 SSD” became a trend, users remembered the game’s advertising campaign, and Insomniac Games emphasized that the game is only possible “with an SSD in the PS5.”
It’s unlikely that this controversy will get much resonance, but there are those who took it to heart, writing something like “Sony sold you a lie” or recalling headlines from 2020 and 2021 in which the power of an SSD for the popular interdimensional jumping mechanic presented as a demonstration of the power of the “new generation”.
The argument is absurd for several reasons, the first of which is that no one believes that a PS5 SSD (SSD, not HDD) will be any different than a PCIe Gen 4.0 (or higher) SSD that you can install in your computer, especially two and a half years after the release of the console. And Digital Foundry analysis showed that the game runs perfectly even on the worst external M.2 SSD, which is much slower than the console’s internal SSD. At the same time, one of the developers, John Burton (founder of TT Games), believes that the dimension jumping mechanic could be perfectly implemented on PS4, and even on PS3.
Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart will release on July 26 on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. No minimum or recommended specifications have been announced at this time.
So we’ll still have to wait for the minimum specs and see if the game will support some HHDs (and how it works on them), but we already know that it will support NVIDIA DLSS 3, AMD FSR 2 and Intel XeSS to improve image quality and performance.
