Rumor: Marvel’s Wolverine Will Have Real-time Damage, Even AI Upscaling

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Some leaked details for Marvel’s Wolverine suggest that the game will make use of advanced features, even features that aren’t possible on current PlayStation 5 hardware.

This is just part of the many details that have leaked as a result of Rhysida’s ransomware attack against developer Insomniac. We will discuss the leaked information below. We can’t ignore this news, but we will point out the way the information was obtained was particularly unethical.

You may want to consider this yourself before you go forward with reading this news. But, like Pandora’s Box, it isn’t possible for us to just close the box and pretend nobody found out what they did.

A screenshot was shared on reddit from one of many documents from the leak. This is what the screenshot said:

These are all very impressive technical details, but two items in particular emerged of interest.

Real-time damage and regeneration hints that the game will have a hyperrealistic depiction of Wolverine’s healing factor. We believe such a feature could have been possible in earlier generations, but current generation technology would make this look impressively realistic.

Of greater interest is AI upscaling, by way of machine learning. As shared on Reddit by user Fidler_2K,  the current PlayStation 5 hardware isn’t capable of machine learning. It doesn’t have the physical hardware, nor the capability to follow the instructions to execute machine learning as a command.

So, why would Marvel’s Wolverine have a feature that isn’t supported on its target hardware? One could say that this technology is being prepared for PC, but it doesn’t seem likely that Sony would greenlight such a feature for its smaller platform. Therefore, many fans have concluded that this is being