Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Obsidian's Avowed impressed us at launch on Xbox consoles and especially PC - and now, finally, we have ports for PlayStation 5 and its Professional counterpart. The verdict? Minor differences aside, it's a good game - just rather short of actual PS5 Pro upgrades. Still, as things stand, a well-executed Unreal Engine 5 game is a winner regardless of which console you own.
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00:00 Overview
00:38 Series X recap
03:25 PS5
08:45 PS5 Pro
12:10 Concluding thoughts
Digital Foundry is now fully independent! Join the DF Supporter Program and support the team: bit.ly/3jEGjvx
Obsidian's Avowed impressed us at launch on Xbox consoles and especially PC - and now, finally, we have ports for PlayStation 5 and its Professional counterpart. The verdict? Minor differences aside, it's a good game - just rather short of actual PS5 Pro upgrades. Still, as things stand, a well-executed Unreal Engine 5 game is a winner regardless of which console you own.
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00:00 Overview
00:38 Series X recap
03:25 PS5
08:45 PS5 Pro
12:10 Concluding thoughts








![DF Direct Q+A: Will Path Tracing Go Mainsteam? Will Oblivion Remastered Ever Get Fixed?
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Some excellent questions from Digital Foundry Supporters this week. Does the F1 25 PS5 Pro path tracing demo and ReSTIR optimisations mean that path tracing is going mainstream - maybe for next gen? Is there still untapped potential in PS5 and Series X? Is Microsofts new We Are Xbox strategy document just a massive balloon of hot air? Is Nvidia making path tracing an exclusive feature and what do we think about that? And... a year on from release, why Oblivion Remastered still broken?
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00:00 Introduction
01:54 Supporter Q1: Will path tracing efficiency improvements bring PT to current gen console games?
13:49 Supporter Q2: Is there still untapped potential in PS5 and Series X?
20:44 Supporter Q3: Have we hit the peak of ML image reconstruction?
29:04 Supporter Q4: Why is path tracing exclusive to Nvidia in so many recent games?
34:13 Supporter Q5: Will Oblivion Remastered ever be fixed?
41:16 Supporter Q6: Would games really run 30% faster if they were optimized for Intel CPUs?
46:50 Supporter Q7: Do Microsoft’s recent Xbox promises mean anything? DF Direct Q+A: Will Path Tracing Go Mainsteam? Will Oblivion Remastered Ever Get Fixed?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LHUIqy_mK4A/mqdefault.jpg)

