Bungie to PS5 owners: Stop playing the old PS4 version of Destiny 2 already
Enlarge / PS5 owners, ask yourselves: Does this landscape truly look as good as it could?
Destiny 2 developer Bungie says a "notable" number of PS5 owners are still playing the worse-looking PS4 version of the game on their high-end console hardware.
Bungie first offered a free PS5 update for the PS4 version of Destiny 2 in late 2020, shortly after the console's release. To take advantage of that update, though, PS5 owners need to go through a few steps to find and manually download the PS5-specific files, as outlined in a Bungie support page and a PlayStation Support page.
Without that download, the PS5 simply plays the PS4 version of the game in the system's backward-compatibility mode. Digital Foundry's write-up goes into detail on the "true 4K resolution" and 60 to 120 fps gameplay offered by the upgraded PS5 version of the game. Bungie's latest "This Week at Bungie" update also explicitly notes that players on the PS4 version are missing out on improvements in frame rates and graphics.