Official Sony Playstation 5 Thread - Nov. 12 Launch, $499/$629

willdacanucker wrote: ↑ Link to tweet.
General Info:

The official name is PlayStation 5.

Releasing Holidays 2020.

Ray tracing support is hardware-based.

New SSD will help boot times, loading times and streaming.

The controller now has adaptive triggers, haptic feedback, new speakers, USB Type-C.

Physical games for the console will use 100 GB optical disks.

Optical drive also acts as a 4k Blu-ray player.

Additional Info

The dev kits (which were leaked) are actually real and developers have access to them.

A new modular approach to storing data. Finer grain access to data, as opposed to big blocks. Ex: Users might have the ability to install only Multiplayer components of the game.

Completely revamped UI.

The new controller will have a larger battery capacity and will be a bit heavier than Dualshock 4.

Haptic feedback for PS4 Pro's Dual Shock 4 could have been implemented, but was decided against.

Bluepoint studios (folks behind the Shadow of the Colossus remaster) are working on a "big" PS5 title.

The GPU has been used to power Machine learning.

zod wrote: ↑ More importantly, I wonder what the launch titles will be. It was inFamous that got me to pick up a ps4 back in the day.

mrtvgame wrote: ↑ So basically a PC.

Playstation 5, no. Thought it would be called Picadela Bravia. lol

New UI? About time. 8 years too old.

Haptic feedback? Maybe. But there are features of Dualshock 4 that many developers never used. Some were used quite well. Again comes down to the development team.

They should have made the reveal at E3 2019 with some games to get people excited.

What about Dolby vision and HDR support? Dolby Atmos and DTS-X support?

Of course someone is working on a "Big title".

As previous console reveal history would suggest, all of these wonderful specs do not mean sh*t unless the experience in the gamer's hand changes from one generation to the next. And of course the games themselves. What will the new hardware bring? Some new fresh ideas or the same recycled crap we have had for most part for the last generation and a half.

willdacanucker wrote: ↑ Bluepoint studios (folks behind the Shadow of the Colossus remaster) are working on a "big" PS5 title.

mrtvgame wrote: ↑ So basically a PC.

Playstation 5, no. Thought it would be called Picadela Bravia. lol

New UI? About time. 8 years too old.

Haptic feedback? Maybe. But there are features of Dualshock 4 that many developers never used. Some were used quite well. Again comes down to the development team.

They should have made the reveal at E3 2019 with some games to get people excited.

What about Dolby vision and HDR support? Dolby Atmos and DTS-X support?

Of course someone is working on a "Big title".

As previous console reveal history would suggest, all of these wonderful specs do not mean sh*t unless the experience in the gamer's hand changes from one generation to the next. And of course the games themselves. What will the new hardware bring? Some new fresh ideas or the same recycled crap we have had for most part for the last generation and a half.

SpicYMchaggis wrote: ↑ I feel like most of this stuff was already kind of known or could be easily predicted but I guess its nice to get confirmation. I'm still not sold yet on whether I need these new consoles day one but I won't know until I see any games or features actually being shown off whether its worth it or not.

The one thing I'm a bit nervous about is with the UI, I hope if they are building them from scratch again that we don't have to wait months/years for quality life features that were standard place in the previous generation like what happened with this generation.

Also I hope controllers are forwards/backwards compatible.
Haptic feedback (and more importantly better battery life) sounds great but not at the expense of having to re-buy controllers. The current iterations are already pretty great.



LOL, you always come off so angry about this stuff.

Redmask wrote: ↑ Sheesh man. The hardware stuff is all welcome news to me. I am skeptical about consoles doing raytracing well but the rest is gold. Just the load time improvements alone would be hugely welcome. I played some of the best games of all time this generation so I'm not sure where the recycled crap comment comes from either. Every single console generation has recycled crap but its the standout games that matter and we had some amazing ones.

The only silly part of it I don't care about is the speakers in the controllers, just don't even bother with that nonsense it was never implemented well.

mrtvgame wrote: ↑ You're kidding right? How many remakes did we get this generation? RECYCLED CRAP.

As I mentioned above, been around for many years of this, so the BS reveals do not get me too excited any more. Each generation is less and less overwhelming. Might be the ages where we ae hitting performance walls.

SpicYMchaggis wrote: ↑ I feel like most of this stuff was already kind of known or could be easily predicted but I guess its nice to get confirmation. I'm still not sold yet on whether I need these new consoles day one but I won't know until I see any games or features actually being shown off whether its worth it or not.

The one thing I'm a bit nervous about is with the UI, I hope if they are building them from scratch again that we don't have to wait months/years for quality life features that were standard place in the previous generation like what happened with this generation.

Also I hope controllers are forwards/backwards compatible.
Haptic feedback (and more importantly better battery life) sounds great but not at the expense of having to re-buy controllers. The current iterations are already pretty great.

mrtvgame wrote: ↑ You're kidding right? How many remakes did we get this generation? RECYCLED CRAP.
As I mentioned above, been around for many years of this, so the BS reveals do not get me too excited any more. Each generation is less and less overwhelming. Might be the ages where we ae hitting performance walls.

M1GOmigs wrote: ↑ I went with PS4 first this gen as a day 1 purchase, but if I decide to be an early adopter, I will likely go Xbox first for next gen since I've got like 2 years of Gamepass Ultimate queued up... and I'm guessing MS is banking on all of us who did the upgrade to do the same.

ReeGee wrote: ↑ The poor value of PS+ and awful quality of PSN sales compared to a few years ago still don't sit right with me and makes me feel like they're complacent and not competing. When they jack the price of PS+ another $20 and don't offer anything extra in return, would you guys just be OK with that?
I also don't see PS Now in the same league as Game Pass, especially since Game Pass allows me to play MS exclusives with far better visuals and free multiplayer on PC. If someone only has a PlayStation I can see how they wouldn't think it's bad but I can't imagine it winning over anyone with access to an Xbox and/or PC