Bethesda has released a part of the PC system specifications for the upcoming shooter game Prey. The game will be making its way to the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 next month.
The PC system specifications that were released earlier today indicate that the studio recommends players to use a system that features an Intel i7 processor, an Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 graphics card and 16 GB of RAM memory.
The studio did not comment on why it recommends these high system specifications, but does state that the PC version of the game comes with several advanced graphics settings that can be used to tweak performance.
The advanced graphics settings included in the PC version of the game are Object Details, Shadow Quality, Texture Quality, Anisotropic Filtering, Anti-Aliasing, Horizontal Field of View, Screen Space Directional Occlusion and Screen Space Reflections.
The demo version of the game, Prey: Opening Hour, was released for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 earlier today. Bethesda did not comment on why it chose to not release a PC version.
Prey is scheduled to launch on May 5th 2017 for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
System specifications
| Minimum specifications | Recommended specifications | |
| Processor (Intel) | Core i5 2400 | Core i7 2600K |
| Processor (AMD) | FX 8320 | FX 8350 |
| GPU (Nvidia) | GeForce GTX 660 2 GB | GeForce GTX 970 4 GB |
| GPU (AMD) | Radeon 7850 2 GB | R9 290 4 GB |
| RAM memory | 8 GB | 16 GB |
| OS | ? | ? |
| HDD | ? | ? |
