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PS5 'Power Saver' Mode Tested: A Taster Of The PlayStation Handheld Experience?
🕑 Added 2025-10-24 12:34:58 +0000 UTCA new power saver mode is added to select first party PS5 titles, with Demon's Souls, Day's Gone Remastered - and more - gaining compatibility this week. This eco-friendly mode is part of Sony's drive to reduce green house emissions first and foremost, and involves each developer custom-tuning each game to run at a lower power profile - often chopping power usage by 50% as a result. However, curiously, this mode's throttled CPU, GPU and memory bandwidth puts PS5 in a similar state - spec-wise - to some aspects of the rumoured upcoming PlayStation handheld. So is this our first sample of how games are being tweaked for a potential portable version in the future? Tom and Rich team up to sift through the evidence so far.
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Michael Bach
Is this something that is enabled by default?
MittenFacedLass
I believe For Honor has had one of these low power modes for a while now, as well.
