Another step forward from Sony: Comparison of the power saving mode effects of "Demon's Souls: Remastered"

2025-10-20 21:54:17|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

The PlayStation 5 remake of "Demon's Souls" has been updated to support the system's power saving mode.The performance and resolution optimizations brought by this update, as well as the reduction in system power consumption, may show us for the first time how the rumored PlayStation handheld will perform when running PS5 games.

This remastered version, developed by Bluepoint Games and launched simultaneously with PS5 in November 2020, has now been confirmed to support the new power saving mode through the small leaf icon on the system's main menu.The introduction of this mode to reduce system power consumption is one of Sony Interactive Entertainment's commitments to the "Road to Zero" environmental protection plan launched in 2010, which aims to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040.

Although power saving mode has been officially enabled on PS5 as part of Sony's overall environmental protection initiative, there has long been speculation that its technical implementation and performance limitations may be a technical verification for the PlayStation handheld that is also rumored to support running PS5 games.

The adjusted performance and resolution parameters in the "Demon's Souls" remake at least partially confirm this conjecture.It can be seen from the screenshots of the game's opening taken from the first PS5 console that the resolution in power saving mode is significantly lower than performance mode and movie mode. This is clear at a glance.

Power saving mode:

Movie mode:

Performance mode:

Power saving mode:

Movie mode:

Performance mode:

Power saving mode:

Movie mode:

Performance mode:

The game's frame rate target in power saving mode has also been reduced from 60 frames in performance mode to 30 frames.A video shared by a user intuitively presents this experience - for a home console, this performance may not be ideal, but it may not be unacceptable for a handheld machine.

The power saving mode also performs significantly in reducing energy consumption.Tests by ResetERA forum user vicegold show that the system power consumption dropped from about 224 watts in normal mode to about 98 watts in power saving mode, which is a considerable drop.Although this power consumption level is still high for a handheld console, the fact that this effect is achieved through software optimization without seriously affecting game image quality provides a positive signal for the rumored handheld console - future PS5 games may require similar optimization to adapt to the device.

Test video:

Demon’s Souls Remastered is just one of the PS5 games that supports power saving mode.Other supported titles include Death Stranding 2.Considering the game's stable 60-frame performance and high-quality graphics, it will become another interesting test subject to verify the effect of power-saving mode.

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