Tecmo Koei has confirmed that the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of Bladestorm: Nightmare will run at 30fps.
Speaking during an interview with PSU earlier this week, Akihiro Suzuki, series producer on Dynasty Warriors and Bladestorm, said the team actually had the title running at 60fps, but decided to scale it back.
Speaking via a translator, Suzuki-san commented, “So, talking about frame rates, originally when the development started for Nightmare, it was actually running on 60 frames; there weren’t any issues.
But having said that, the team wanted to make sure the graphic, in terms of the units, the enemy units the players can see on any given single screen, he wanted to make sure the entire battlefield could be seen in one screen. So, they actually brought back the frame rate to 30 frames, just to make sure that what we call the ‘pop-up issues,’ they wanted to make sure that was eliminated, so that’s why we brought it back to 30 frames for Bladestorm.”
Bladestorm: Nightmare is out on PS4, PS3, and Xbox One in March. Stay tuned to PSU for the full interview with Suzuki-san in the next few days.