Gaming: Nioh 3 Just Got A Steam Demo, And Given Team Ninja's History I'm...

Team Ninja is not known for its brilliant PC ports.

Team Ninja's games tend to run poorly on PC at launch. Rise of the Ronin, which arrived on PC last March after a period of PS5 exclusivity, was a mess: it stuttered, it sputtered all over the framerate gamut, it crashed a lot, and it didn't even look very good.

That was the case even after Team Ninja apologized for their previous game, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, running like crap on PC. If you cast your mind back five years ago, Nioh 2 also had a less-than-ideal launch. Ninja Gaiden 4 ran decently by all reports, but the settings options left a lot to be desired.

I'm not here to give a full performance run down of Nioh 3, but I've just spent a couple of hours running around in its newly released demo and I can confirm that I'm pretty satisfied with the way it works on my aging game laptop. It's far from a disaster!

Here are the system requirements for the demo (and the full game):

Recommended (1080p / 60fps using 'standard' settings)

Intel Core i5-10400, AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6 cores / 12 threads or higher

Intel Core i5-10600K, AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6 cores / 12 threads or higher

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 VRAM 6GB, AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (Rev. 2.0) VRAM 6GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti VRAM 8GB, AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT VRAM 12GB

Source: PC Gamer