{"id":1830458,"date":"2026-03-17T10:21:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1830458"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:21:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:21:34","slug":"base-ps5-footage-of-crimson-desert-finally-emerges-and-it-looks-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1830458","title":{"rendered":"Base PS5 footage of Crimson Desert finally emerges, and it looks OK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/crimson-desert\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Crimson Desert<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">Base PS5 footage of Crimson Desert finally emerges, and it looks OK?<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">It&#8217;s real, at least.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/crimson-desert-header.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"A goblin squaring up to the camera with a leather waistcoat on.\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"crimson-desert-header.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Pearl Abyss<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/robert-purchese\">Robert Purchese<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Associate Editor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-03-17T10:21:34+00:00\">March 17, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/base-ps5-footage-of-crimson-desert?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          23 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"10cf2e53-bea5-44e6-bc6c-98d8a341d473\" data-name=\"Crimson Desert\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Crimson Desert\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Crimson Desert\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Crimson Desert\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Crimson Desert\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Crimson Desert\" title=\"Follow Crimson Desert\"><br \/>\n  Follow Crimson Desert<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>The technical prowess of incoming open-world role-playing game Crimson Desert is exciting, but for every impressive video we&#8217;ve seen of the game, there lurks a background concern: we haven&#8217;t yet seen it running on standard console hardware &#8211; on a base PlayStation 5. Now, however, we have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c9k2T0t40yY\">PlayStation Japan this morning shared an extended look at Crimson Desert running on a PS5<\/a>, in the first of what I believe will be a series of videos showing the game running on base PlayStation 5 hardware  &#8211; that&#8217;s what the Google-translated text seems to suggest. Across 20 minutes we see many different areas of the game, narrated by developer Pearl Abyss.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to judge from an encoded YouTube video exactly what the final quality of the game will be on PlayStation 5. The video only scales to 1080p for me and it&#8217;s not at 60 frames-per-second. Digital Foundry, for reference, has already provided <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalfoundry.net\/features\/crimson-desert-on-ps5-pro-this-is-how-good-it-looks-and-how-well-it-runs\">a detailed analysis of the PS5 Pro version of Crimson Desert<\/a>. &#8220;We&#8217;ve yet to see anything on the base PS5 or Xbox Series consoles,&#8221; DF said. &#8220;Even so, the signs are looking good &#8211; and certainly for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/topics\/ps5-pro\">PS5 Pro<\/a> owners, Crimson Desert delivers a phenomenal experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"\u8d85\u672c\u683c\u30aa\u30fc\u30d7\u30f3\u30ef\u30fc\u30eb\u30c9\u30a2\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30a2\u30c9\u30d9\u30f3\u30c1\u30e3\u30fc\u300e\u7d05\u306e\u7802\u6f20\u300fVol.1 \u2758 PLAY! PLAY! 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PLAY!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c9k2T0t40yY\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/crimson-desert-system-requirements\">PC specifications for Crimson Desert<\/a> have already been released, incidentally, and don&#8217;t seem outrageous to my mid-range PC-owning eye.<\/p>\n<p>Crimson Desert arrives this Thursday, 19th March, amidst swelling expectations. We played it a while ago now, last spring, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/crimson-desert-is-beautiful-and-bloody-but-lacks-its-own-bold-vision\">weren&#8217;t sure Crimson Desert had enough of its own vision<\/a> to stand out. Have things changed? We haven&#8217;t long to wait to find out.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>The technical prowess of incoming open-world role-playing game Crimson Desert is exciting, but for every impressive video we&#8217;ve seen of the game, there lurks a background concern: we haven&#8217;t yet seen it running on standard console hardware &#8211; on a base PlayStation 5. Now, however, we have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c9k2T0t40yY\">PlayStation Japan this morning shared an extended look at Crimson Desert running on a PS5<\/a>, in the first of what I believe will be a series of videos showing the game running on base PlayStation 5 hardware  &#8211; that&#8217;s what the Google-translated text seems to suggest. Across 20 minutes we see many different areas of the game, narrated by developer Pearl Abyss.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to judge from an encoded YouTube video exactly what the final quality of the game will be on PlayStation 5. The video only scales to 1080p for me and it&#8217;s not at 60 frames-per-second. Digital Foundry, for reference, has already provided <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalfoundry.net\/features\/crimson-desert-on-ps5-pro-this-is-how-good-it-looks-and-how-well-it-runs\">a detailed analysis of the PS5 Pro version of Crimson Desert<\/a>. &#8220;We&#8217;ve yet to see anything on the base PS5 or Xbox Series consoles,&#8221; DF said. &#8220;Even so, the signs are looking good &#8211; and certainly for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/topics\/ps5-pro\">PS5 Pro<\/a> owners, Crimson Desert delivers a phenomenal experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"\u8d85\u672c\u683c\u30aa\u30fc\u30d7\u30f3\u30ef\u30fc\u30eb\u30c9\u30a2\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30a2\u30c9\u30d9\u30f3\u30c1\u30e3\u30fc\u300e\u7d05\u306e\u7802\u6f20\u300fVol.1 \u2758 PLAY! PLAY! PLAY!\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c9k2T0t40yY?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/c9k2T0t40yY\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">\u8d85\u672c\u683c\u30aa\u30fc\u30d7\u30f3\u30ef\u30fc\u30eb\u30c9\u30a2\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u30a2\u30c9\u30d9\u30f3\u30c1\u30e3\u30fc\u300e\u7d05\u306e\u7802\u6f20\u300fVol.1 \u2758 PLAY! PLAY! 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