Crysis Remastered will beat next-gen consoles to the punch with ray tracing on Xbox One and PS4
Image: Crytek We already knew that Crysis Remastered would support ray tracing if you had the PC hardware to run it. However, ahead of the release on PC and current-gen consoles, Crytek announced this week that, for the first time, in this console generation, the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X will offer ray-tracing support - because it'll appear in the current-gen console versions of Crysis Remastered.
Crytek's CryEngine provides software-based ray tracing, allowing current-gen hardware to support the feature. Back in 2019, the game studio showed off the Neon Noir Tech demo, which, according to Crytek, was developed using a modified version of CryEngine 5.5. Software-based ray tracing isn't remotely new; most recently, Nvidia added the feature to GTX cards...