Sega offers up our second Xbox Series X game for analysis. Yakuza Like a Dragon swaps out the 3D brawling action for more traditional RPG combat - but keeps its richly detailed city open to explore. It's everything you know and love the series for is here, but now on the next generation of hardware with some key benefits. Xbox Series X, in this case, offers three unique modes - allowing 4K resolution, up to 60fps performance, and also rapid loading times. Tom explains all.
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon on Xbox Series X - how next-gen hardware delivers a cross-gen experience
Yakuza: Like a Dragon has Sega's much-loved series taking to the new generation in style, an Xbox Series X launch title…
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Three modes are on offer: normal, high resolution and high frame-rate. Tackling normal mode first, Series X renders this at native 1440p, with no dynamic resolution scaling. The trade-off for not going for a true native 4K is that everything targets 60fps with full v-sync. Meanwhile, resolution mode aims for a native 3840x2160 but does so with a half-rate refresh, busting down the action to 30fps (with rare frame-pacing issues). Lastly, we have the frame-rate mode; this returns us to a fluid 60fps - though the resolution drops to a native 1080p in this case. The idea is it takes the resolution down even further than the normal mode, in a bid to smooth over some of its performance drops.
The article does not mention anything about Series S's resolution profiles.