Pretty much. I wouldn't be surprised at more patches for other games down the line.
For Sekiro, yeah, it doesn't make a difference, but it gets iffier for older games that are no longer actively supported. Hell, going by that comment it doesn't seem like DS3 is getting patched at all.
It doesn't bode well for those games that won't be patched though. It's even weirder since it's already uncapped, meaning it should hit that 60fps easy provided that it has enough specs headroom.
This.
The way BC works on the Series X, games just automatically take advantage of the new console's power. In the case of Sekiro or Monster Hunter World, where the cap is at 60 but the game normally hovers around 30, this extra power alone is enough to lock them to 60 or close to it with no input from the devs needed. There's also the case of Fallout 4 (and presumably other unannounced games) where MS' own BC team worked on removing the game's framerate cap without the need of the dev's assistance.
It's probably the easiest way to offer BC to all PS4 games without much work. Xbox has a dedicated team for BC, they're putting in more work to make this all seamless
Of course it is. We were expecting Game Boost to automatically increase framerates on games with unlocked framerates, just like Series X does. This now calls that into question.
No game with frame rate caps at 30 is getting to 60fps without a patch on Series X either. doesn't really change anything. And what I mean by that is, it was always going to need a patch, and it wasn't going to get it.
