It seems the upcoming Wolverine is going to both look and run great as developer Insomniac has confirmed that it will run at a locked 60 FPS on the base PlayStation 5. In a recent interview with IGN, the devs have said that Wolverine is going to run with Ray Tracing along with a silky smooth 60 FPS, which translates to a highly responsive and smooth gameplay experience for all players.
“From early on in development, we knew we wanted to make this 60 FPS, working on the base PS5 in performance mode,” senior project director Jess Reiner-Reed said. “And we’ve definitely been able to accomplish that. The game feels super smooth.”
Mike Fitzgerald, head of technology, added the following: “We’ve always had these fidelity and performance modes, and then we always sort of last minute get the performance mode with ray tracing and like, ‘But this is pretty good…’ And so for this game from the start, we said, ‘You know what? We know we’re confident we can ship this now. This is going to be a 60 frames per second game with ray tracing as the PS5 should have. We’re going to build the game around this and towards this.’ And it’s the default mode for the first time for us in one of our games. It’s important for the presentation.”
Of course, 60 FPS and Ray Tracing is actually much easier to achieve for a game like Wolverine as it’s not an open world experience like Insomniac’s previous Spider-Man games so the overhead is much less for both the CPU and the GPU on the PS5.
The devs also said that Wolverine will feature highly destructible environments, while integrating real time physics to make it all the more believable:
“Logan’s a really destructive character. The aftermath after you fight a big battle, we wanted to make sure you didn’t feel like you were defeating a bunch of The Hand and then walking out of this pristine market that you happened to be in. So most of the props in the game are destructible, react in physically accurate ways. We invested a ton in that technology. So market stalls and tables and everything around you is splintering and flying off as you’re doing combat.”
Wolverine is slashing his way into the Playstation 5 on September 15, 2026.
