Sony continues to show its support for bringing its PlayStation titles to PC, with first-party studio Nixxes announcing the system requirements needed to run the PC port of Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut and revealing it is the first PlayStation PC port to use a new overlay.
In the latest PlayStation Blog, Nixxes Software Online Community Specialist Julian Huijbregts revealed that Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut is the first PC port from PlayStation Studios to use a new PlayStation Overlay. This UI, which you can see in the image below, lets users access their PlayStation profile, including their Friends List and Trophies. The blog post notes that this feature is available to Windows PC players who use the "SHIFT+F1" shortcut on their keyboard.
The announcement itself is part of PlayStation's growing embrace of PC ports, which started in 2020 with the release of Horizon Zero Dawn. Since then, Sony has ported other first-party PS4 and PS5 titles and acquired Nixxes Software to assist in some of these PC ports.
More interestingly, Sony is also taking its PC ambitions into the VR space, announcing last February that it would roll out PC support for its PlayStation VR2 gaming headset sometime this year.
Alongside confirmation of a new PlayStation overlay for Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut, Nixxes Software also provided the system requirements needed to run the PC port. As you can see in the image below, PC players who want to run the game at the highest settings (4K resolution at 40FPS) will need an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 or AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card, in addition to an Intel Core i5-11400 or AMD Ryzen 5 5600 CPU.
The system requirements also note you will need 75GB of free space on your PC, with an SSD recommended for installing the game. Though it notes on the minimum specs that you can use a hard disk drive (HDD), PC players may want to use an SSD if they have it, considering Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, another Nixxes PC port, noted that an SSD was recommended but not required. But as many have pointed out, most notably Digital Foundry's John Linneman, the PC port of Rift Apart was borderline unplayable if the game was installed on an HDD.
Sony announced last month that Ghost of Tsushima was headed to PC, with the port slated to release on Windows gaming rigs on May 16. As Nixxes confirmed during the initial announcement, this port will support supersampling technologies, Nvidia DLSS 3, FSR 3, and Intel XeSS. Additionally, the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima is optimized for different displays, including ultra-wide monitors and triple-monitor setups.
IGN's Ghost of Tushima review returned a 9/10. We said: "Ghost of Tsushima is an excellent action game and its open world is one of the most gorgeous yet."
Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.
