Official PlayStation Thread

I'm a bit disappointed tbh, the graphical leap up from PS4 doesn't look that grand

The leaps were much bigger in the early console days, like from snes/megadrive to playstation, and playstation to playstation 2

What has to be considered is where the benefits are, you can actually tell when watching the streams that there have been big step ups by comparing the quality of the stream when you had the Ratchet & Clank vs Horizon. The improvements are in the details and those finer details kill streams and look awful due to the compression when streaming.

You also have that when looking purely in terms of texture resolution and polygon count you're looking at increasingly severely diminishing returns, you could increase from 4k to 8k to 16k textures but very little is actually gained from it while a lot more work is required so you're also seeing a shift towards better physics simulations whether that be more realistic hair and grass movement, better particle effects (something else that kills streamed video quality) or ray tracing, these are all things that do make games look better and more immersive but aren't always immediately noticeable.

There will be massive steps up, you just won't notice them until you're seeing them personally.

I watched a youtube video comparing ps4 versions of like horizon and spiderman to the new ps5 games ... also racket and clank and the step up didn't seem that big imo

my monitor is just standard, idk if it would look better in 4k or something but from what i saw it didn't look like a massive leap

Halo effect, having the best of the best induces people to buy your mainstream products at a higher price than they're really worth due to the association, sure they may not have the best, but they're buying from the best. It's why Nvidia have dominated the discrete GPU market despite almost always having lower value products than AMD, they've held the performance crown for must be the best part of a decade now with no breaks longer than a couple of weeks between product announcements and have essentially been an entire product generation ahead of AMD for years.

anyone want to hazard a guess how much the PS5 will cost. microsoft has announced that the series X will be £449 (or £28.99 a month with xbox all access membership) and the series S will be £249 (or £20.99 a month with all access). Both xboxes are due to be released 10th november with pre-orders going live on 22nd september.

With this in mind, how much are you willing to spend on a PS5 and how much do you reckon the PS5s will cost?

thing is with the series S, it is capped at 1440p (2k), whereas the X is 4k. both ps5 models are 4k, so i reckon the the discless would be more than the s but not more than the X.

noticed odd numbered ps' tend to be in the £400+ range when new whereas 2 was ~£300 and ps4 was £349 iirc. i would expect the diskless version to be no more than £425, although if they were aggressive, it would be £350 and disk version slightly less than series x (say £400-£425).

shame sony isnt announcing ps5 related stuff today as its playstations 25th anniversary today

amazon japan has listed all the official accessories for the ps5 will be out in japan on November 20th. Does that indicate a November 20th release date globally I wonder?

Considering today is the 25th Birthday of PlayStation, I reckon its time we launch a PS thread to discuss all things PlayStation and gaming. in terms of ground rules, make sure you dont discriminate (although banter about xbox and master race is allowed )

PS1 is 25 years old now? how time flies! the best game on that console was Crash Bandicoot, the last game I played was doom.

I preferred spyro to crash (although cortex was best badguy ps1 gen). Mgs1 and gran turismo were other ps1 greats as well

As you maybe know I did not own a PS console, just played the games when I was invited by a good friend of mine. And as he was a great ego shooter fan, I have almost played games connected to this genre.

I did not know. Now I know. I hear ego shooter is great. Ps2 for me holds greatest memories

And the greatest memories includes the Spyro games? this and Crash Bandicoot are the games I couldn't play, but I would have like to.