Final Fantasy 16 PS5 Tech Analysis - A Graphics Powerhouse?

After a ton of hype and anticipation, Final Fantasy 16 has finally arrived. The graphical improvements are massive, and the game makes good use of the PS5's additional horsepower to deliver jaw dropping vistas all rendered with striking attention to micro detail.

We get to see some great use of cutting edge rendering techniques like photogrammetry, which comes together with impressive post processing effects for a presentation that's nothing short of spectacular. While there are some rough edges in certain aspects like sky rendering and shoddy anti-aliasing, by and large - Final Fantasy 16 is a game that doesn't fail to impress.

[lukeleroy]

I still don’t see how people think the graphics are incredible, it looks flat to me? there’s something about the texture of the ground and rocks that looks crunchy

[uamsnik]

in the full version, is it possible to disable the motion blure in the settings ???

[MrSiloterio]

The glorious 720p is such a beauty to behold

[TheLastOverdueBachelorCrusader]

So it uses FSR 1.0 or 2.0 to upscale to 4k resolution on quality mode?

[ramiyohay]

The performance mode feels like it was shoehorned in. 720p is unacceptable, huge frame drops are unacceptable. Fix it. Use fsr2.0, ramp up the resolution to 1440, make motion blur optional

[MarcusSanchez]

I am glad I am not the only one noticing the resolution issues, I was playing on performance and felt like parts of the game were blurry, I didn’t know if it was me or the game. I switched it to quality mode which I think helped with the resolution but I could still see resolution drops. For example a side mission that involves the black smith, he was talking and turned his head to one of the other characters and I literally saw the resolution of his forehead drop in quality for a few seconds, I was like “Ok so it’s not my eyes!”

I hope they fix this soon because it was honestly really hard on the eyes with much of the game becoming blurry all the time. My advice to everyone is to play in quality mode unless you really need to play in performance mode for that 60 fps. I honestly couldn’t tell the difference and didn’t notice lag or stagger with the gameplay in quality mode.

[mrdadecounty]

I don't know if it's just me but after watching the digital foundry it seems like this game drops down and performance all the way down to as little as 720p and can be blurry at times which is something you do not mention at all in your review. Even the day one patch they said doesn't really help much with the performance. I figured I just want to point that out there. We got to be fair with everything and by you completely skipping over a lot of the things. I could tell that you're a fan or your end up analysis is not as detailed as I originally thought

[Cloud_Alchemy]

Do you recommend playing it on quality or frame rate mode for capturing the combat?

[thevillageyid]

Why are games still only running on 60 fps with lower graphics? Isn't the PS5 supposed to be relatively powerful?

[baodeus]

I guess that what they meant by only possible on PS5 tech. How much Sony paying SE again to say that?

[brianfenech]

My issue is that even putting motion blur aside, many parts are a bit blurry (not sure how to describe it) that after a while it hurts by eyes.

FFXV graphics may be less advanced but are much more polished / crisp and hence more enjoyable without hurting my eyes.

[modja]

Idk what is happening but this game really gotta fix their graphics, the graphics is a huge let down cuz everything else is at least good.

[thriftypsgr]

Who else came here for the motion blur section?

[maxisoulcaliber]

Its 2023, 60fps should be standard by now with consoles, but here we are. 😵‍💫

[rikastemmet]

Awesome video good Job I in joy it thanks for the video I Love it have a good day and Night ❤👌👍

[robertrice]

We were wrong about the PS5 and Xbox Series X. They don't eat monsters for breakfast. The SSD isn't anything special. Both consoles are weak!

[uriel]

This game drops the resolution to Nintendo Switch levels

[juju]

This review is completely useless. Only one true thing is framerate drops, no word about low framerate, and different resolution in and out of battle, faces are ps4 level, shadows are rarely seen in the scene because of complete lack of small details and they are not that good looking, light is really flat and light sources are barely here and they do not provide shadows even shinny skills don't much, global illumination is ps4 lvl when scene isn't light up properly, and even small particles don't look that great for next gen title (and they still do not provide real light), well you can even notice pixels in the skybox if you will look closely.
Only cutscenes are looking great, if you will ignore completely flat light

[deepblue]

The forest is amazing, in all my years of gaming I've never seen anything like it. Add in the music and it's just magic. I don't want to leave the area.

[EpicConspiracy]

Incredible how bad the frame rate is and it drops to 720P in performance mode. Jesus. It actually looks worse graphically and framerate is worse than 15. Lol. 13 actually looks better on pc.