More GeForce Now Ultimate content today with four recent games running with all graphics settings maxed out in 4K. Cyberpunk 2077 may not be a recent release but the path tracing patch isn't that old and we wanted to show it in action thanks to cloud gaming technology. We'll have more GeForce Now videos in the future but for now, we're going to short a short break to enjoy the weekend. This week has been pretty busy in terms of content so we do need one.

Even if we can't offer you a lot of downloadable trailers like in the good old days, this year is a bit better than usual as we have some videos showed during the Xbox Showcase in 4K. Here are Avowed, Fable, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II and Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty.

The Xbox Showcase brought us a lot of trailers, a date for Forza Motorsport which will be released on 10 October 2023 on Xbox Series X|S and PC, and a long video dedicated exclusively to Starfield.
Update : Lots of screenshots added

CD PROJEKT has just released the 1.62 update for Cyberpunk 2077 on PC, a highly anticipated patch as it brings a Ray Tracing: Overdrive preset that includes Path Tracing technology. Here is our video in 4K 60 FPS with Frame Generation and DLSS active, captured on a Ryzen 5900X and a RTX 4090.

Now that the horizon is clear for me (well sort of), I have finally found the time to try the PS5 version of Cyberpunk 2077, which finally got it's "next-gen" patch. Not everything has been fixed, mainly because it cannot, but at least the game looks better on current gen consoles now. The devs have tried to take advantage of the DualSense, and we truly appreciate the effort, but the left trigger is unreasonably resistant when you try to brake with a vehicle. It's not a big deal, some will even find it pretty cool, but it's a bit odd nonetheless.

Cyberpunk 2077 patch 1.5 is now available, but so are the Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 versions. Here is a video captured in 4K on Xbox Series X, with the Performance mode at the beginning of the video, then the Ray Tracing mode at 9min20.

CD PROJEKT RED announced today that Cyberpunk 2077 has just received its latest free update, introducing players to the next-gen Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 version of the game, and further improving the original platform releases. With Patch 1.5 — Next-Generation Update, Cyberpunk 2077 takes advantage of the additional power of the newest generation of console hardware, allowing for ray tracing features and 4K with dynamic scaling on Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, faster loading times, and a variety of other visual and technical improvements. On PlayStation 5, the game will additionally utilize the DualSense controller’s adaptive triggers and haptic feedback functionalities.

Since its release, Cyberpunk 2077 has received many updates and we had not been able to show you the Stadia version. So here is a 23 minutes video captured at the beginning of the game.

Needless to say that 2021 will most certainly see some more Cyberpunk 2077 coverage on Gamersyde as more patches will be made available to improve the overall experience, much like The Witcher 3 in its days. That being said, we wanted to finish this year's coverage with a bang with no less than 5 more videos in what is actually the 22,000th news article on the website since its creation. On the menu, bits from a mission recorded on PS5 in SDR, 2 new HDR videos (one on Sony's new console and the other on Xbox Series X in quality mode) and finally a big one on PC, with different resolutions and settings, always using DLSS (most of the time in performance mode rather than auto or quality).
PC used for capture: i9 9900K, RTX 2080 Ti and 16 GB of RAM (DDR4).
Note: What we call "Optimized settings" are those given by Digital Foundry in their latest Cyberpunk video.

Our coverage of the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 will have to wait a bit more as we're not truly satisfied with the performance we get with our usual rig. Until then, here is finally some HDR footage running on Playstation 5 with no less than 13 minutes of various clips. Needless to say encoding took forever, so enjoy it now it's available!