Fallout 4 Next Gen Update Performance Review (PS5 vs Xbox Series X|S) 

Its really embarrassing that they market the series x as the worlds most powerful console, yet their own 1st party owned studio consistently puts out better versions of their own games on ps5 😳

"Everything just works." "It just works." - Todd Howard

My game crashed again 🗿

Microsoft buys Bethesda Game Studios and they still release the more stable patch for PS5 😂

Bethesda will release a patch that breaks the PS5 version for parity.

90% of the traffic to this game is because of the TV show right now

So to summarize: They basically released a PC version for the current gen consoles, that broke existing and essential quality of life improvements/mods. This version is currently not even working properly on Xbox. There is no HDR, no motion blur or new post-processing (not even in the 30/40fps modes which is madness) no ray tracing, no graphical improvements, apart from minor tweaks to LOD, volumetrics, shadow resolution that PC version already had... Also, why is there a 30/40 fps mode in such an old game? This game is almost 10 years old and Xbox and PS5 are still dropping frames to 50s. According to John's standards, we could easily call this game "retro" in just few months. Ultrawide screen stretches HUD from 16:9 and simply zooms in the whole FOV - there is no proper widescreen support. (this is what mods fixed ages ago) Locked to 60fps and if you unlock it, the game falls apart. Now compare this "next gen" update to Witcher 3 real next gen update, which was also free, that shipped with perfect HDR, ray tracing and plethora of other visual improvements. 🤦

Is anyone else having issues with seeing random red exclamation points in world as well and the brightness constantly changing since the new update?

It's rather comical in hindsight to go back to the time of the Bethesda acquisition and see people thinking that it'd mean Bethesda would stop doing dumb things - even now that they're Xbox first-party developers, they managed to make the Xbox version of their game the worst.

60fps is nice but in also happy they decreased the load times!

Like the picture in the Office, "ITS THE SAME THING"

No native HDR and poor first party performance blows my mind.

Has Bethesda formally announced a time frame to put out a patch to fix the Next Gen Update?

Playing this as we speak now. Maybe this is an update, but I’ve never realized that those ghouls were that quick. Jesus

what we need atm is a patch to the next gen update cuz its full of bugs. textures missing, npc hands randomly sticking up in the air.

Since he brought it up, Starfield is getting 30/40/60fps modes in 2 weeks.

0:27 dogmeat no! 💀

Dogmeat getting launched was gold

Does the awesome unofficial patch still work with this?

Weird one..i noticed reticules on scoped weapons seem to be missing on ps5..

Have they fixed the quality performance mode bug on Xbox yet ?

Honestly if your bothered that much load quality mode and download 60fps ultra mod there you go problem sorted plus download vivid fallout aio then and bettter weather and you have next gen fallout 4

The mods menu is greyed out on my XSX. Any ideas on how to fix?

My performance mode on PS5 when turned off gets me 1440p with 120fps weird to get that when performance mode turn off crazy.

Been using mine with 120 hz 40 fps on ps5. Looks nice considering its age.

All the item on the when pigs fly quest are invisible for me anyone know how to fix that?

60fps update when the games been out almost ten years is a joke

So again, the PS5 version is better than the Xbox version for a game produced by Microsoft's own 1st party studio? How shameful and disappointing...

Also in steam deck it’s bricked. Zero issues before patch, and after patch content crashes

Why is my frame rate still atrocious in Boston… anyone else despite the update? Any recommendations?

0:45 Fallout 4 has a option for “Auto HDR” on Xbox One X and up ??

I'm starting to think no one wants anything at all, they just want to be complain to complain

So no ray tracing? Not improved textures? Witcher 3 implemented all of those features a long time ago and it's an older game.

Ps5 Performance mode for me.

There's no quality mode on Xbox. You can turn performance mode off but the image and frames don't change.

This update didnt keep it from crashing on me 4 times in one play through which is the reason why it got deleted after the 4th crash

I'm I the only one who thinks all the clips look exactly the same?

can’t even use mods on my current play through unbelievable how you haven’t fixed it yet

Too many games look or perform better on ps5. There is something wrong with Series X. My bet would be the split memory.

Some nice improvements but the FR drops on Series X are really intrusive for me.

What about hdr?

Tried it a few days ago. Got to concord, listened to Preston going on about settlements and uninstalled it. It was fine for a one time play through but not again when there are other better games and I'm not sure what they actually did to improve it anyway

So does the performance mode on the series x update work?

The quality mode (or non-performance mode, there's an on-off switch for some reason) on Xbox series x has horrible frame drops.

The load in distance is laughable, game looks great for about 10ft in front. And don’t get me started on the lack of sliders for fov brightness and hdr settings

Crashes & lag exist in the game that never existed before?!?!?!?

How can you transfer ps4 disc version save files for ps5 ps plus version??

What’s better performance mode or quality on ps5?

so does the ps5 version support HDR?

This video makes Digital Foundry's video like a joke.

The info you really wanted to know to save time: Does creation club still bork your game? Yes. Yes it does. 1st game, 3rd crash corrupted save.

Bethesda never changes. Such an technical inept studio.

All Bethesda games have ATROCIOUS lighting issues if playing on an HDR tv/monitor with 1000nits. It's legit blinding and painful to play.

Is the Automaton crash problem fixed for PlayStation now?

You won’t hear me crying, Only time I’ve cried over a game is at the end of Red Dead 🤠

Some of the guns in my game just wont load they are invisible , and other items are just a big exclamation mark, not even FO3 did this crap hahaha

Don't know what they did but mod or not in Fallout 4 after the XS upgrade has some serious stutter issues. Didn't have any issues with Skyrim when they released the XS version. Not having any performance issue on the PS5 with Fallout 4 but don't play it on there due to the limited mod section. Xbox has many mods.

Just had to switch from my series x and start a new game on my ps5. So much crashing and freezing on series x

The business card scene in American Psycho comes to mind!....

Microsoft makes money by selling the software, so whatever platform it runs best on isn't a priority for them. Same situation with running Windows vs. Linux workloads in Azure. The OS choice also isn't priority as long as your workloads are running up the bill.

Only Bethesda can bring out a huge patch introducing performance mode with a toggle that does nothing. Quite astonishing.

Does it crash every 20 minutes like fallout 76

My game crashed twice before leaving the vault.

Why couldn’t this do 120hz?

Game doesn't save save files. Loved playing an hour to find that one out. Fix your game, it was working pre-patch!

Just restarted this game the other day on PS5. Got a game breaking bug glitch on firefight mission at Cambridge police station. Still needs work…

Need a New Vegas remaster

Looks better on the ps5 for sure!

Does anyone have issues with the ps5 overheating

Experienced my first bugs ever on my ps5 after getting stuck for a minute as a ghoul attacked me. After rasom ghouls were suspended in mid air.

They should have added a fov slider

Im still waiting for 16x the detail

Game went from like 20gb (iirc) on PC to 96gb. Why'd it need to get bloated that much?? Witcher 3 went from 30gb to 57gb on PC with it's next gen. RayTracing, HDR, even better optimization, etc, and didn't need 20gb! It's far bigger and better than FO4 Got verified on Steam Deck, but frame rate/hz don't match. Setting it to 90fps caps the gale at 60. 30fps at 60hz

0 caps outta 10

Remember what uncle Phil said .. we want games where people play the most . So if that’s PlayStation then that’s where the best performance is gonna be .

Bethesda should be embarrassed with the issues on Series consoles. The worst part is, based off of their tweet regarding the issues, they seem to think it’s working as intended.

That deathclaw was like foh dogmeat😂😂😂😂😂😂

Can’t even play on Xbox 1s without game crashing, freezing, lagging, etc.. for longer than 30 minutes. Even with minimum mods

Why no mention of the ps5 frame drops 😂😂

I'm just annoyed that the ps5 trophies are separate from my ps4 trophies version

Pip boy is making the game crash when using the pip boy and go to the map section.

Do mods still work?

The really dickish part of this was Bethesda not bothering to contact the folks developing Fallout London, which was massively popular with the fanbase, and highly anticipated. They didn't even announce this upcoming update until it released, knowing that the modding community is all that has kept this game alive until now. That's just wrong.

are they planning on fixing the Xbox version?

Been a week and we’re still waiting on a patch to fix the “next gen upgrade” on Xbox. Absolutely embarrassing.

Loving it on Xbox SX

Michael- FYI that you can play the PC version over 60fps without mods. I’m doing it right now at a 120fps on a 7600x/7900xt PC without any mods installed.

So funny Xbox is having issues when Bethesda is now exclusively Xbox, would think they’d optimize it & get it running on there properly first.

The update should of been called Much Ado About Nothing.

Xbox version is broken? Isn’t it an Xbox studios game? What an embarrassment

So what PS5 settings is best then? in simple terms!

Constant crashing on a new save and no mods on PS5.

Game works and feels great on my Xbox

dear bathesda please work on making the game not crash before you work on resolution. your games are like trying to turbo charge a car with a blown headgasket and drive it too.

PS5 version crashed going past 15 hours. But IGN HAS NEVER PLAYED A GAME PAST 10 MINUTES.

Even Xbox studios focus on PlayStation first....

Const fps = 30fps Const update = [30fps + 30fps] Return 60fps for Update That's all we waited 10 years for ladies and gents.

Don't you like me in my blue vault suit

Ah now to watch the likes roll in

They gave it a 7.