Both Sony and Insomniac Games swore upon the release of Ratchet & Clank: A Dimension Apart that it was an impossible game outside of PlayStation 5 because its transitions, integral to its gameplay, would be absolutely impossible without an SSD hard drive of the console’s integrated quality. We believed it because we have no reason to distrust it. Now, with the PC version very close to its release, we have the minimum, recommended and superior technical specifications of the game, which besides giving us the image of a very demanding game, also shows us that perhaps Sony and Insomniac Games did not tell us the whole truth.
Asking for a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or an AMD Radeon RX 470, an Intel Core i3-8100 or an AMD Ryzen 3100 and 8GB of RAM, and for a recommended NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or an AMD Radeon RX 5700, an Intel Core i5-8400 or an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 and 16GB of RAM, these are relatively modest specs for gaming. Something similar happens as long as we want to stay in 4K 30FPs, with or without raytracing, for which the mid-high range will still be able to keep up, but if we want to play in 4K 60FPs with raytracing we better have a latest model computer and a good cooling system, both for the computer and for our room, if we do not want to end up living the end of Oppenheimer even before its premiere.
In any case, the striking thing is in what it asks for hard disk space. Particularly in minimum. Asking for 75GB of hard disk space, it demands only an HDD hard disk, although an SDD hard disk is recommended. This is doubly problematic. On the one hand, it shows that the SDD was not necessary to move the game. On the other hand, that there are no specifications for what the SDD should look like in higher configurations, shows that the importance they placed on its release on PlayStation 5 was perhaps not as much as they intended to sell us.
This is not a drama. In fact, it’s a good thing that you don’t have to upgrade your computer to play Ratchet & Clank: A Dimension Apart. But being a game that was used to sell the goodness of the PlayStation 5’s SDD, it’s questionable to say the least that the hard drive wasn’t really necessary to move it.
Ratchet & Clank: A Dimension Apart will be released on PC on July 26, 2023. And while you won’t need an SSD to play it, even if Sony and Insomniac Games said otherwise in the past, it’s still recommended that you have one.
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