SHOUT OUT - Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is running silky smooth on all platforms, and that’s a brilliant endorsement for quality control
Frame-tacular.
By Jonathan Garrett
12/01/24
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We fully acknowledge the challenge of putting together a reasonably consistent experience across so many different SKU’s. When you’re a prolific third party publisher like Ubisoft, it would be easy (although no less frustrating for the end user) for certain ports on weaker hardware to end up being technically compromised or just run poorly. Thankfully, it seems the wider sentiment surrounding Price of Persia: The Lost Crown is almost uniformly positive from a performance perspective.
Although it’s a side scrolling Metroidvania with a stylised visual design, the fact that Ubi have managed to get it running with such a consistent framerate across weaker hardware like Series S and the Switch is a feat of wizardry. I’ve also had a hankering for this series for many years, so to see it make such a confident return is massively encouraging.
We are also in full support of any team that wants to let something cook a little longer; Focus Home’s Space Marine 2 is a perfect example of this. If a delay, no matter how significant, is going to lead to a markedly better final product, then said delay was worth taking that hit. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is available on all of the platforms on January 18th 2024.
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