Because PS5 won’t have games running at 120fps

Sony’s new PS5 console from Japan and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X from the United States are capable of running games at 120 fps. However, the Sony PS5 will have fewer games capable of running at 120 fps.

One of the main benefits of the latest generation consoles, such as PS5 or Xbox Series X, is support for games that run at 120 frames per second on TVs and monitors that include 120Hz modes.

Although a number of new Xbox and PS5 games have appeared running at 120fps, some existing games are updated at 120 frames per second for the Xbox Series X only, not Sony’s PlayStation 5 console from Japan.

For example, Call of Duty: Warzone and Rocket League can only run at 120 fps on the Xbox Series X console. Activision didn’t reveal why Warzone only supports 120 fps on Xbox Series X, but Rocket League developer Psyonix revealed to Eurogamer that enabling 120 fps on Sony PlayStation 5 is a more complex process.

“120Hz enablement on the Xbox Series X | S requires a simple patch, but activation on the Sony PS5 requires a full native port due to the way backward compatibility is implemented on the console, and sadly it was not possible because we focused on other aspects “, specified the Psyonix developer in a statement for Eurogamer.

The PS5 is capable of running existing Sony PS4 games at 120Hz, but the developers will require some work to enable it. In the short term, this could mean that games running on the Sony PS5 console will run at 120 frames per second, while the Xbox Series X will run game productions at 120fps.