Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered: PS5 vs Xbox Series X Head-To-Head! 

I like how he chose a green Porsche for the Xbox version and a blue one for the PS version at that head to head comparison.

Every game should ship with a maximum mode for future console generations.

The car colour matching the One X and PS4 Pro comparison was a nice touch.

The thing I loved about the original 2010 game (and Hot Pursuit 2 before it) was that they had that Outrun vibe where you're racing cool cars through beautiful landscapes, something missing from a lot of racing games and I'm glad it was mentioned here.

Burnout 3: Takedown needs a remaster so bad. I would lose my shit.

Can't make a new NFS that's decent? Just remaster an old one.

I can conclusively agree with others that the Xbox performance issue was fixed-tested it using the LG OLED VRR info box in both Career and Freeplay, at both 60 and 120 Hz output, and with VRR on and off. No matter what the game never drops frame rate now in that coastal region.

NFS Underground 1&2 deserves a remaster.

Need for Speed Most Wanted 2005 would be a great remaster.

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit II needs a remaster/remake based on the PS2 version.

These fps drops are even present on the PC. It's a bug that was present in the old version as well. The solution is to uncheck CPU core 0 (Affinity in task manager).

I love these guys at @digitalfoundry always so knowledgeable and professional they’re my go to when comparing or showing of specs for anything gaming related keep up the outstanding work. Just a fan of your channel guys. Cheers from California !!

Why in the Title there is not ""a clear Playstation Advantage"", as it would be the case if XSX was the superior version, and Digital Bias Foundry wouldn't have hesitated to put in capital letters ;""but what's wrong with the PS5 version"" or ""a clear XSX advantage"".

That classic NFS 3 Hot Pursuit soundtrack

No midroll ads! Thank you!

I remember this came out first year University and me and the floormates played this game until every single track was gold. Those were some good days.

I like how they still introduce each other after all the videos they made together. This "special guest"style shows their respect for each other. Keep on the good work guys.

1:18 I like how the music stops when Richard insults Criterion’s modern output

I love how people dislike DF videos when they hear results they are unhappy with... They legit just report their findings? Go complain to the devs/EA

If only they had of remastered Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 from 2002. It's still the most fun NFS game and could really do with a graphics & performance remaster.

"The ONE spot" but since you encounter it over and over again you could call it a "SERIES of spots"

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit: We Need Money Edition

I hope they consider an Underground remaster, the soundtrack was amazing, and it came out when the early Fast and Furious movies were out

Yesssss the background Songs you choose are legendary ! Especially the first song !

Burnout 3 is hands down one of the best racing games of all time ❤️

NFS III Hot Pursuit from 1998 sound tracks in the background ? NEEAT ! We need a follow up on the first NFS retro John !

I had a 750ti (rather an 860m) that run this game at 1080p 60fps back in 2014 easily. I really struggle to believe that the "remaster" was so intensive that the original xbox one and ps4 couldn't handle this at 60 as well.

I hope NFS: The Run can get a remaster. The landscape in that game is simply amazing

I just remember the hook of autolog! Either beating or seeing your friends overtake you on the board...

You guys forgot the photomode to find at least one little advantage over the ps5

How many looked at this and wondered when a Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition remaster would ever come?

I already had the original on PC, but I bought the remaster when it was on sale. The PC original never got the DLC that the console versions did, so if you ever only played this game on PC you are getting stuff you haven't seen before. It's still a fun arcade racer.

I played the non-remastered one at 1080p 60 fps with 4x sparse grid ssaa. It looked soooo gooood. I had a blast. I'm glad that console players can now see it in all its glory (well, the ones that were fortunate to get their hands on the new systems).

Photo mode update needed to beat PS5

Great video, just picked it up for the PS5 for that smooth 4k/60. Always awesome content.

This game is pure arcade fun driving cool cars in a beautiful scenery and drifting at 200kph+ in tight corners. Such a blast and it reminds me of Outrun SP2 on PS3 indeed, which by the way was already running at 1080p back in the day. Other NFS games don't have that simple gameplay where you just grab a car and race at high speed and drift like a maniac through the bends. This Remastered version at 60fps and great AA/AF is amazing and all I want from an arcade racing game. It is in fact so good that cars have gained in handling (low input latency at 60fps) and I'm having no issues easily beating my old PS3 time records. This is my favourite NFS ever for what I value in an arcade racer. No grind, storyline, missions, speedlist, speed points, hiding etc. Simple, to the point. I just want to race at high speed and ideally not in cramped urban areas.

Increase the resolution = BOOOOM REMASTERED!

That music from nfs3 in the background gets me pumped!

I really appreciate the Need for Speed III music running in the background - truly the best NFS OST of all time

Been rehashing old times with this game the past few weeks. A buddy and I played today with the new update on Series X. Looks and plays great. Truthfully never noticed the slowdown area. Whatever, I'll survive. Just bought Mortal Shell, it gets a 4k/60 patch Friday. I hope you cover that one too.

I don't think that drop on Series X is a bug; the rocks are probably pushing a lot of geometry and Series X has a lower culling and triangle rasterization rate than PS5 (by over a billion, 7.3 gpolys/s vs. 8.9 gpolys/s). That might be impacting the performance because they probably didn't reduce the poly count on them and are still trying to hit performance parity with PS5 (while probably having a slightly higher resolution).

Burnout Legends and Dominator were awesome too, especially on PSP.

In reality the only time you travel that piece of road is if you’ve screwed up and missed the short cut. Thanks for the video, been playing Hot Pursuit tonight will double check for that maximum setting.

Literally, I just searched for this Kind of Video and you uploaded it 14h ago 😂😂 Thank you, DF 😊

Tools havent arrived yet

This game has the most satisfying drifting, speed boosting and drive feel.

Got this and Paradise Remastered. I hope for NFS Most Wanted Remastered, too. I didn't really get a chance to play much of any of them on Xbox 360.

the frametimes affect from xbox seems to affect pc to idk if has any issues with my 144hz monitor but the frametimes are not stable at all. the are all over the place. only way to fix it is to cap with rivatuner to 60fps and the frametimes is flat. and oh does affect the same spot on pc but everywhere

If there is a PS5 available near you get it. You will not regret your purchase. it's an absolutely fantastic console.

The back compat on xbox is clearly very accurate. Which is normally awesome but to fix it means they would have to go back to patch the OG version. My guess is they won't bother. Should've just moved SDK. Unlocked frame rate on last gen is not worth it.

We all want a criterion DF Retro video

Awesome video DF

If this is nearly running 4K60 on Last Gen, why does it have a 60fps lock now? This really should be a 4K120fps title.

Even tough I don't really care, could the frame rate issues for XBOX be within their APIs Direct X.

Did they fix the traffic that would suddenly appear in front of you when going high speed?

Great video! I'm enjoying this game on the PS5 just like the first time I played it 10 years ago.

I remember playing this game on my Nintendo Wii. It was running at 480p 30fps and I thought It looked great then.

Missing: 1.72 Tflops ,any information of its whereabouts please send to Phil Spencer

Background NFS3 music is awesome. By far my most favorite NFS soundtrack.

With how close the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X get to 60fps while running in 4k, makes me wonder why the preformance mode is only 1080p for both consoles. I feel like they could have gotten with 1440p on the Pro and about 1800p on the One X.

I actually really liked Hot pursuit. I played with mates a lot and Autolog was great to see friends beating you on tracks. Why I preferred this over many NFS is the fact it was more linear. No driving around hiding from police before you got to a race. This was just pure start to finish racing which I was drawn to. I found it cleaner without all the pottering. Having said that I love Forza Horizon which is open world but not in NFS. Don’t know why!

This looks amazing but can we PLEASE get a a MIDNIGHT CLUB 3: DUB EDITION Remaster?

This was one of my favorite racing games back then. Did they patch in DualSense support?

Can’t wait to play this on PS5 in 2025. One of my favourite racing games ever, Criterion were absolute gods of the genre.

I remember playing the crap out of Burnout 4 back in the PS2 era. Such a sweet soundtrack

I actually love this game. It is so fun and hilariously over the top.

What is the best looking racing game on ps5??? I have rivals and the NFS from like 2009. Do those play at 60fps? I also saw the crew 2 but it seems that, it is running at 30fps.

Best nfs and soundtrack ever! That area with the fps drop has always been there when I had the original on PC. I always found it weird.

The FPS hitch is fixed on that section on the Xbox Series X.

When will you guys check out halo mcc on xbox series x?

That original Hot Pursuit music (NFS III) :)

Would you guys consider doing an analysis of WRC 9 for PS5? I believe it’s 4K 60fps and may provide a really interesting example of how this performance and resolution can be accomplished and if that has any impact on visuals. Also hear it’s got great use of Dualsense rumble and triggers

the tools are coming!

I’m glad they mentioned this here for the series x because the same applies for the ps5. BC games depend a lot on the old code base, which is why ps5 performs worse with division 2 and ghost recon. Nothing to do with the console as we can clearly see on newly developed game: outriders, Valhalla, fenix risings it always performs well. Hitman 3 probably has a code base issue on the ps5 as it looks a lot like a rehash of hitman 1-2, similar assets.

16:05 Trees in the distance disappear right above the car.

Does this game has tracks from OG Hot Pursuit?

PS5 is so buttery smooth.

I have a lot of love for Hot Pursuit, but I also really enjoyed Need for Speed: The Run. I wish it was more successful so we'd possibly get a remaster of it. That's a huge long shot considering the fact that we never got a Dead Space remaster.

Wonder how the pro would do on fps if you run that mode and lock the system to 1080p output.

Runs pretty well on the Switch too. Perhaps a comparison there at some point?

It's weird that almost all xbox series x games with 60 fps enable has some spot or place or whatever that makes the frame drop. It's not a big deal but it's interesting at least.

6:41 okay but no one is gonna talk about the cop just rubber banding flawlessly to the lead for the spike?

Just got the game on Switch during the black friday sales. Only $20 aud. Had this on 360 back in the day and while it would be nice to play this game in 40k 60fps its just so cool playing this in handled mode

Rivals is also a brilliantly beautiful game, played it again on Xbox One and all it needs to hold up is 60fps. Yes, 30fps was hard to get back into, but once my eyes adjusted I was amazed by the work that went into that game. And NFS 2015 still looks brilliant, too.

Wow that frame dip is a blast from the past to me - i had that issue on the PC back then too. That exact area killed my framerate.

Xbox Series X the beast, running 2009 games at 40fps lmao

while I dont play it, I was wondering if they would at least add 60 fps to NFS Heat, I noticed a friend of mine complain about it and now they can for sure on next gen consoles.

Does anyone know if you still have to sign into EA to play this?

RU-vid reduces quality so much… when they say crisp and beautiful, I just see heh… even on 1080p 60 fps.

I have been having such a good time with this game. My favorite NFS ever.

Unrelated to this video. But will you guys do a tech analysis of what’s going on with ‘Little Devil Inside’? My god it looks good. And it all has to do with the lighting, physics and art. I’m really curious to know what’s going on with the lighting and shadows. They make a simple texture game look like a Pixar movie. It’s incredible. There are videos on RU-vid showing extended gameplay.

So even the PS4 Pro runs this at 4k60 yet Xbox Series S only runs it at 1080p/30? Why??? Just why???

Now if only EA can release the Burnout Collections Remastered.

Rich: "S TO S is Bigger than X to X" Rich in Requiem for a Dream: "SSSSSS TO SSSSSSSS"

Hey can you do an Optimized settings for PC on Dirt 5? It runs really poorly on mid range cards.

hot pursuit made me buy a new pc and brought me back to the NFS franchise after skipping some of the the games after carbon. while i still think that this remaster could've done a bit more i will always remember this game fondly

I want them to remaster another Need for Speed game. Preferably Underground.

15:08 Well, no... You can just press the home button and see if it says 'Auto HDR' in the top right corner. It's not that hard, guys.

3 quarters of the video talking about three curves, none 360 footage to compare and no resolution mentioned... both new condoles run 2160p locked?

Need For Speed High Stakes needs to be remade, that game was absolutely fantastic