Demon's Souls Remake: PS5 vs PS3 Tech Breakdown - A Remake Worth Waiting A Generation For?

The rumours are at last confirmed with Bluepoint's incredible reveal of its Demon's Souls Remake. The project sets out to make the very most of the PS5, boasting a native 4K, vastly improved visuals over PS3, and the prospect of ray-tracing support. Tom Morgan breaks down the trailer and assets released by Sony, showing how far we've come in over a generation.

[alvybar]

It doesn’t feel like such a long time ago when I was calling PS3 and 360 games “next gen.” Now they’re getting remakes. Time flies 😰

[DigitalFoundry]

We put this video together in 4K resolution, but once again, YouTube encoders are lagging. Watch now for 1080p playback or check back later for higher quality 1080p and full 2160p quality.

[datruth]

Imagine if the world actually gets darker or lighter depending on world tendency...
Or raytraced reflections in white and raytraced shadows in dark.
Unlikely, but a man can dream.

[danielmaiz]

Fellow Companions, let us prepare to venture forth Boletaria once again “So the World might be Mended”.

[Tmob]

It's wild to me that it's been so long that PS3/Xbox 360 games can be remade

[Wayland]

Performance mode should become the norm for consoles IMO.

[metfanl]

Holy crap, has it really been 11 years since the original released? That's closer to the launch of the Dreamcast than it is to the PS5.

[Ozziw]

I hope a performance mode becomes standard with every game going forward. I would be really happy playing games in 1080p, as long as they're stable 60fps.

[ThePolyesterPimp]

If there aren’t ragdoll corpses, I’m going to shout

[vyasrushi]

So with this PS5 will become the ultimate platform for playing Fromsoft games....With Demon souls remake you can play all 6 Fromsoft games on PS5. Dark Souls 1, 2, 3, Bloodborne and Sekiro through Backwards compatibility and Demon souls through also Elden Ring in near future


Oh and not to forget Nioh 1 and Nioh 2 are also PS exclusives, best souls like out there

[Marcuscaravan]

For all of you guys expecting 4k, 60fps AND raytracing enabled.

I'm sorry to break it to ya, but a gaming rig with a 2080ti and a 9900k cant even run at those levels in most titles.

Expect something more in line with:

Fidelity mode: 4k, 30fps, Raytraced GI & Shadows.

Performance mode: 1440p-2160p, 60fps, No Raytracing.

[Estorium]

I really hope that there is a 60fps mode, even if it is 1080p

[dethskullcrusher]

Can't wait to see that last archstone.

[Simoss]

Can we take a moment to appreciate how Demon Souls look on a PS3?
It's pretty impressive on 15 year old tech

Imagine trying to farm the pure bladestone again.

[slavovitshvykhodzev]

From a technical standpoint it's a substantial upgrade for sure, but I hope Bluepoint manages to retain the original's bleak and gloomy atmosphere. Some scenes like the Storm King look great while the scene with the Tower Knight lost the dark, gloomy visuals.

[KizaruB]

I hope 9th gen isn’t a repeat of 8th gen. So many of the games we got this generation were remakes, sequels, spinoffs, and remasters. I want companies to try more new IPs.

[mistery]

I dont know it's just me or the PS3 version not only that still looks impresive at least in the cut scenes but have a more, ,cinematic '' atmosfere also ?

[ryankelley]

Can't wait for the Polygons and Kotakus demanding an easy mode.

[jarg]

Very impressive remastering but I do wonder how far they're going to go with the reworking of art/scenery. The castle at 7:18 literally looks like a completely different game. I wonder if they're looking at original concept art and trying to build the environments around that? Will be keeping an eye on this one regardless.