i'm not much of a console gamer but
thankfully we've got david he's not technically a writer here but he was
instructed to self-isolate at home which worked out great because he needed
something he could do all day and i needed a giant playstation fanboy to
plop himself on the couch and play as much ps5 as humanly possible then tell
me about what sony did right and where we'd like to see them do
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one of the most next-gen things about the ps5 is something that it doesn't
share with its competition the new xbox controller is same same but better while
the dual sense controller is a huge step forward for sony it manages first and
foremost to feel like it was designed with humans in mind rather than tiny
frog people and while the d-pad feels slightly mushier than the dualshock 4
it's not so bad as to stop you from playing precision retro titles and it's
definitely not enough to distract from the magic that lives inside the rumble
has also been updated and it's now so detailed as to
differentiate your footsteps on different surfaces and also give you a
sense of directionality in your hands which is pretty neat but nothing
compared to the adaptive resistance triggers these allow developers to more
directly simulate the trigger pull of different guns the tension of drawing a
bow or the way a gas pedal will fight you as you lose traction on a muddy road
the feedback is strong immediate and
surprisingly immersive so much so that you might actually find your fingers
getting a little tired after an extended play session with certain games wow
really david took this assignment very seriously anyway his suggestion is to
treat it like super cool visual effects in a call of duty title enjoy it for
what it is in single player then turn it off for any kind of competitive gaming
his one real complaint about the controller is a relatively minor one but
it is a good point white really sony
transferring your data from playstation 4 can be done via Ethernet or you can
start fresh by using the on-screen prompts on the playstation app and then
that's it you're logged in if you've got ps plus your ps4 cloud saves are ready
to download then you can pop in a disk to install a game or download any game
from your library and much faster than on sony's last gen console in fact the
whole console feels much quicker in part due to the ps5 brand new ui it's still
fundamentally a refined version of the ps3's cross media bar but there are some
new features like remote play which allows you to stream ps5 games to your
playstation 4 in another room and the game switcher that looks like sony may
have plans for some kind of quick resume like option
and then of course there's a fresh 4k HDR veneer over everything which helps
give the ps5 a way more next-gen feel compared to the trusted if
it ain't broke don't fix it approach of the xbox and the same can kind of be
said of the launch titles on both sides am i right
sony put together one heck of a well-rounded lineup to the point where
only the most devoted xbots are talking about a couple of extra teraflops at
this point part of the problem for microsoft might be that they reportedly
sent dev kits out later than sony giving developers less time to optimize or it
could be the care that sony put into making creating games easier for the ps5
either way it's a clear benefit to gamers who go team sony right now unlike
the hyped up SSD contrary to what the marketing might have suggested loading
times have not suddenly disappeared at least for the time being but the good
news is that they have trimmed down very significantly when you load up something
like demon souls and transfer between gorgeously detailed worlds in just a
couple of seconds you are waiting but it's a short next generation kind of
waiting and i truly believe that it will continue to improve speaking of demon
souls the game is absolutely lovely the
amount of detail and clarity in it feels
next-gen in a way that no other game currently does and that may be because
it's one of two launch games that is only on the playstation 5 meaning that
it has no legacy baggage to carry along now some of the npc faces might evoke
craig flashbacks but overall it looks awesome and is also a rewarding if
challenging play spider-man miles morales looks feels and
plays great but unfortunately when it's put next to the previous gen version i
mean yeah the ps5 version is sharper and
the materials and hair look more realistic but those ray traced reflections whiz by
so fast that you probably won't really appreciate them unless you slow down and
smell the rays next up is astrobot it's not as good a
bundle game as wii sports but like wii sports it manages to be both a great
technical showcase of the controller and its features and more than that with a
surprising variety of gameplay segments each with their own unique gimmicks that
make you want to keep playing and find out what's coming next there's no gritty
realism no life lessons just plain fun remember that remember fun NVIDIA
games i do in a similar cuteness overload vein sacboy a big adventure is
a very competent level-based 3d platformer that you can play with up to
four players on one screen maybe more games should start to use the extra
horsepower of next-gen for more couch co-op right
well okay that game is also on the playstation 4 but it doesn't matter it
has a delightful crafty look and the levels look so tactile you can almost
feel them the last of the exclusive launch games or well exclusive to sony platforms
anyway is bug snacks
we don't talk about bug snacks here in terms of multiplayer releases though
the worst thing i can say about the playstation 5 is that support for the
dual sense controller is a little hit or miss call of duty black ops cold war
included unique tuning for the trigger pull of every gun which is cool
supposedly i mean i couldn't really tell the difference and then assassin's creed
valhalla put no effort into it whatsoever no actually i lied the worst
thing is how many multi-platform games including ea's entire library are
included with microsoft's dirt cheap xbox game pass for which sony has no
direct competitor in the longer term companies with deep pockets like amazon
facebook and google are likely going to continue to invest in game studios which
is probably going to thin microsoft's offering here but for the time being
sony's 400 value diskless offering loses a lot of
its sheen if you consider that four game purchases for it could have gotten you a
series x which is a more powerful machine and a year and a half of game
pass ps now does have a growing library of downloadable games to go along with
the 800 plus streamable ones but its
technology built on the ps3 cell chip is
definitely starting to show its uh tooth lengthiness
720p sony really and it suffers from in
my opinion too much focus on the quantity versus the quality of the
included titles then there's sony's other service the ps plus collection
it's only got like 20 games but they are really high quality so it's a great
booster shot for your playstation game collection but it raises the question
why not just combine the two fill in the gaps in first party previous gen titles
and then have a real game pass competitor a formidable one
that would also help address another big xbox advantage backwards compatibility
microsoft offers support all the way back to select games on the original
xbox not to mention unofficial emulated
support for nintendo and sony consoles meanwhile the sony
team is stuck with no real ps1 to ps3
compatibility outside of streaming select games from psnow the dumbest
thing about this is that they sell individual ps2 games on psn that are
clearly just running in an emulator like look at the ps2 logo here you guys gotta
fix this it's especially frustrating because outside of nintendo
nobody has as deep a back catalog as sony does a way to effortlessly run
older games on modern displays would be a huge boon to loyal fans in fairness
though the support for ps4 titles at least ranges from fine to really great
the most fine games like last of us 2
load slightly quicker and manage to maintain an absolute 30 FPS where even a
ps4 pro would drop a frame here or there but they otherwise play and look exactly
the same the good games are the ones that had
dynamic resolution but wouldn't hit 4k consistently or had a performance mode
that wouldn't hit 60 frames per second all the time and are now much smoother
or sharper god of war 2018 is a perfect example of this maintaining a steady
pace on ps5 even if it's at 1080p which looks much less sharp than
the resolution mode so that's a win but a small one and finally the great ones
are games like ghosts of tsushima that got a ps5 specific update to unlock the
frame rate and run closer to their 4k target the result is spectacular fluid
and so sharp that it actually feels more next-gen than some games that were made
specifically for the ps5 i really hope more games get that kind of an update
rather than a paid remaster like we saw so often last generation bundling them
in a subscription service where the developer gets paid out by playtime
would go a long way towards making that economically viable
you know but if i was a betting man i'd say soon
enough you'll be able to pay thirty dollars or more to play last of us two
remastered for the ps5 which you will like a sucker this leads me to some of
the real problems that we have with the system itself when microsoft announced
their smart delivery system that ensured that you got the best version of a game
available on your console it honestly sounded like kind of a silly marketing
term i mean doi right
so we thought until david loaded up the playstation store and somehow managed to
download both the ps4 version and ps5 versions of call of duty without
realizing that almost half of the poor little SSD was full turns out it's a new
sony invention called dumb delivery and while you can move and play backwards
compatible titles off of an external drive you cannot move actual ps5 games
off of the console yet and the m.2 expansion slot is not yet activated so
if your internal SSD is full i really hope you enjoy deleting games and
re-downloading them also you cannot back up your saves over usb anymore only
cloud saves are allowed and get this they're locked behind a paywall because
you need ps plus in order to access them that right there is some grade a horse
and even if you pay sony's save game protection money getting your ps4 saves
to work on ps5 games can be a bit of a chore then there's the other system
level gripes the lack of variable refresh rate and 8k support wouldn't
have been such a big deal if they hadn't been talked about before the launch or
they hadn't put the logo right on the box
and then there's 1440p i mean i get it
there's no 1440p tvs and you would need
developers to go and tune the graphics settings for another resolution target
but i mean come on these are very skilled developers and this is something that i
can do manually in about 30 minutes per game and there are so many gamers out
there that are rocking 1440p 120hz
gaming monitors in their dorm rooms that would love to be able to use the system
to its fullest though arguably sony's bigger concern might be the gamers with
HDMI 2.1 tvs not getting the full experience while both next gen consoles
advertise being HDMI 2.1 compliant the ps5 is currently limited to 32 gigabit
per second from its HDMI port so if you want to use the advertised 4k 120 hertz
mode you're stuck using 422 chroma subsampling in a nutshell what that
means is ugly fringing on sharp lines particularly text sony is reportedly
working on a fix but if the rumors of the limitation being a hardware one are
true it might not be possible for them to completely fix it another
disappointment is weak dolby support no atmos and games and no dolby vision
at all yeah there's hdr10 which is good enough for now and sure games using HDR
10 do look good but they also looked good last generation and it's pretty
much accepted in the industry now that dolby vision is the future-proof choice
with support for dynamic metadata dolby vision's low latency format and over 68
billion colors versus hdr10s paltry 1
billion and static metadata for both of them sony has pulled a real sony here
and created proprietary solutions for low latency video as well as their
tempest 3d audio engine now to be fair tempest hasn't been given a fair shot
yet so it may end up being a competitive or even superior solution compared to
atmos thanks to its dedicated hardware acceleration for right now though we
just don't know the engine currently only supports headphone use though and
the current dac in the dual sense is just okay there are hardware
disappointments too and i mean other than the ugly exterior although
preliminary reports for the new cooling system were good now that the system is
in people's hands it looks like there are at least a couple of snafus one
major issue according to gamer's nexus is that due to a lack of contact between
the heatsink and one of the memory chips it reaches temperatures as high as
around 95 degrees under load now this is
within spec albeit barely but you got to remember
that it's being measured on a brand new console with no dust build up so only
time will tell if that's going to be a problem in the long run these things
along with frequent hard crashes requiring us to reset the console made
the ps5 feel a little bit rushed but there's light at the end of the tunnel
software updates are already coming fast and frequently we've got a fix for the
unreliable rest mode bricking consoles we've got faster boot up times than when
we tested even a week ago there's an end now to downloading both ps4 and ps5
versions of games by default and they've even improved performance there are
still some sticking issues like importing saves getting stuck while
updating games or just straight system lockups and crashes but if the rate of
improvement is anything to go by by the time you can actually buy one in a store
it should be mostly sorted leading finally to the question
should you assuming you can find one give sony your hard-earned money today
for a playstation 5. if i were you i'd start saving now but
i'd wait just a little bit longer to pull the trigger at 399 for the all
digital and 4.99 for the disc version it's a pretty incredible value like good
luck building a competing gaming pc for that kind of money by the way make sure
you're subscribed for the upcoming video where naturally we're gonna try
it absolutely feels like a generational jump over the ps4 but my worry is more
about sony's future the ps5 was clearly
built around the old cell individual games model that seems to be on the way
out next to nintendo's half console half
handheld vision and microsoft's play whatever game you want wherever you damn
well please approach the ps5 is like a new evolution from an ancient world with
that said it's a gaming machine first and foremost and it's a good one and as
it will only get better with its numerous upcoming exclusives it makes it
a more sensible companion to your pc
gaming rig than an xbox if you're a pc player as well so
i think go for it have fun
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