After a year of exclusivity on PS5, Tango Gameworks’ first-person spook-em-up disappoints on Xbox Series X from a technical perspective.
Ghostwire: Tokyo released on PS5 last year as potentially one of the last ever Bethesda titles to hit the console. That’s because Microsoft elected to acquire the publisher during the game’s development, but still had to honour its status as a year-long exclusive on PlayStation. However, those 365 days are now up, allowing the Xbox port of Ghostwire: Tokyo to launch on Xbox Series X|S last week. Don’t get too excited, though, because this new version somehow runs a lot worse.
That’s according to YouTube Channel Digital Foundry’s in-depth video analysis anyway, which placed the Xbox version of Ghostwire: Tokyo through its paces and compared its technical performance to the earlier PS5 version. The team’s findings were less than kind. “The PS5 simply runs Ghostwire: Tokyo in substantially better form than [Xbox] Series X,” they said, “which is definitely a disappointment considering how poorly the PS5 ran the title to begin with”. Xbox Series S, as you might imagine, doesn’t fare much better either.
