Fans of Capcom’s new action role-playing game, Monster Hunter Wilds, are arguing between PS5 Pro and PC as the best platform to play the game.
The PC version of Monster Hunter Wilds launched in an unoptimized state, and PS5 Pro players are arguably calling Sony Interactive Entertainment’s mid-gen console the best place to play the title. Upon experiencing performance issues with Monster Hunter Wilds on Steam, one player ended up claiming a refund and instead opting to purchase it on PS5 Pro. According to them, the game somehow looks and runs better on the console than on their high-end PC. They pointed out that Capcom’s other recent open world action role-playing game, Dragon’s Dogma 2, suffered from similar issues.
Upon seeing the discussion surrounding technical issues with the PC version of Monster Hunter Wilds, one individual with access to an NVIDIA RTX 3080 and AMD Ryzen 5800X3D equipped system as well as a PS5 Pro wondered whether they should get the game on console and deal with slight blurriness rather than dealing with hitching and crashing on PC. In response, they were reminded that Digital Foundry highlighted PS5 Pro as the best console version. Another user recommended that they should stick to the PS5 Pro version for now, as they issues with the PC version will likely that quite some time to get fixed.
In one fan’s opinion, there are only two ways to properly play the action role-playing game right now. One is a high-end PC with top-of-the-line components, and the second is a PS5 Pro. According to them, both offer the extra horsepower to brute force performance over their respective lower-end counterparts. Conversely, another player seems to believe that no version of the game is playable. They criticized PC users running it on mid-end systems for claiming their game looks and runs fine, saying they are either lying or don’t know what “fine” stands for. On the other hand, they were also critical of PS5 players for claiming that the console version, which looks like a PS3 game in their view, is “fine”.
In its analysis of the PC version, Digital Foundry pointed out that a high-end GPU you will only be able to brute force the game’s technical shortcomings to a degree. These findings were supported by a PC player, who said that running Monster Hunter Wilds on an NVIDIA RTX 4090 will yield a high frame rate, but it will not get rid of stuttering issues, which will occur on all PC configurations running the game. Despite this, they opted to play on PC because they can “stomach it”.
Meanwhile, one player argued that there’s no doubt Monster Hunter Wilds will look better on PC, but if frame time consistency is the primary concern, as it is theirs, PS5 Pro is the currently better choice currently. A PC player responded by saying that their frame times are “very good” when targeting 60 fps. As per them, PS5 Pro is a choice, but not the defacto best in any way.
