Developers at Insomniac Games have confirmed that Spider-Man 2’s ray tracing feature will be running as standard/by default within the PlayStation 5 version—a player’s adjustments of graphical performance settings will have no bearing on this being turned on or off. Mike Fitzgerald, Insomniac’s director of core technology, shared technical information in an interview with IGN, although he stopped short of making any promises for an inevitable PC conversion—gamers on that platform will likely be waiting another 18 months post-October 20. It is possible that Nixxes Software has been contracted to work on a port, given their recent-ish track record. The Insomniac dev cites advanced experience gained by working on past titles—notably Spider-Man Remastered, Miles Morales, and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart—as the main factor behind the confident push into implementing an “always-on” ray tracing graphical feature. Fitzgerald stated: “We’ve really gotten to leverage everything we’ve seen in developing those games.”
Love Insomniac so much. Not many companies have such a stellar track record. And there’s never been a single mtx in any of their games that I’ve played.
Somehow I was convinced that Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart was Insomniac’s first always-on ray-tracing game and that non-raytraced graphics had been added to the PC port but I was completely wrong.
I’m so excited for this game
