Irdeto Says Denuvo Will Not Impact Gaming Performance, But Many Doubt
Irdeto has announced that Denuvo game protection has become available to game developers for the PlayStation 5 platform. This means that PS5 games with the so-called Denuvo anti-cheat may appear soon.
Denuvo Defense will appear in PlayStation 5. Gamers split into two camps
Irdeto CEO Reinhard Blaukovitsch commented on Denuvo’s arrival on the PS5 platform: “Fraudsters are destroying the gaming experience of honest players and reducing the revenues of game publishers. We are honored to help the world’s most talented developers and provide gamers with a rich gaming experience on PS5 . ”
Irdeto noted that PS5 protection is “anti-cheat” for online games and, at the same time, is designed to ensure the safety of user files (for example, saves) while playing offline. The company also focused on the fact that Denuvo does not in any way affect performance and does not disrupt the game development process. But if users do not care about the process of developing games, then there are certain concerns about performance.
In general, after this news, users were divided into two camps. Some took Denuvo with hostility, fearing that performance would suffer (at least on PCs this phenomenon is recorded ). At the same time, doubts are expressed in general about the need for such protection for a closed platform, because PS5 is not a PC, and you simply cannot edit the files in it. Others consider the problem far-fetched, since Denuvo for PS5 implements only an “anti-cheating” mechanism and does not use Anti-Tamper technology, because of which the performance of PC games suffers.
Be that as it may, Denuvo on the PlayStation 5 platform is, but the developers themselves will decide whether to use this protection in their games or not. According to the source, several games in development are already using it.