Death Stranding 2's system requirements have washed ashore, and they're pretty reasonable

Ahead of a nice March trip to the seaside

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach now has a big table detailing its System Requirements: On The PC. The good news is that, aside perhaps from needing a fairly beefy amount of storage space, Kojima and co's game about babies/Norman Reedus/walking shouldn't require you to invest in a space age rig ahead of its arrival on March 19th.

As outlined by Nixxes comms manager Julian Huijbregts in PlayStation blog post DS2 comes with the usual low to high range of graphical presets, plus an extra "Portable" preset aimed at getting the most out of it on a handheld. At the minimum end, an old mid-range graphics card and budget CPU will get you up and running on low settings, provided you've got the fairly reasonable 16GB of RAM and much less easily hand-waveable 150GB of SSD storage space.

Beyond that, upscaling tech in the form of NVIDIA DLSS 4, AMD FSR 4 and Intel XESS 2 is supported, so you'll be able to draft it in provided your kit also supports it. Support for ultrawide aspect ratios is also included. Full specs as follows:

Returning to the upscaling front, Huijbregts made a point to emphasise that DS2's the PC first game to offer Guerilla Games' "Progressive Image Compositor" (Pico) upscaling tech for the Decima engine, this being the same tech used to upscale the PS5 version of Kojima's beach adventure. "Pico upscaling can be used with all supported graphics cards and can be combined with the various options for frame generation offered in the game," he wrote. Yo, we heard you like upscaling and frame generation, so now you have multiple options via which you can upscale and frame generate your upscaled frame generation.

How swanky will those upframed and scalegenerated beaches look when DS2 arrives on March 19th? We shall see, but at least outside of the storage these specs aren't the sort to lead you to have a panic about the economics of being forced to upgrade a usually decent setup.