Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--

@JJ2
I need one.. but something tells me these will sell out in under a minute of going on sale.

Hope it is nothing to worry about but a few youtubers have reported that their PS5 review consoles have died on them. Eeek.

@JohnnyShoulder I reckon it’s just the teething problems every console has. You’d like to think they’d have caught any major problems beforehand!

@nessisonett Yeah hopefully, just last minute jitters. I see a there has also been similar issues reported with the series x too.

And this is totally different to the youtuber that did a video on his series x dying, and it turned out MS bricked it cos he broke NDA. 😂

@JohnnyShoulder Oh man, that’s brilliant! He agrees to the terms when he’s given the console but you can just imagine Phil Spencer with his finger hovering over the kill switch 😂😂

Fanboy cheering aside, this is actually really interesting. I’m wondering if the Sony strategy to clear IO roadblocks that Cerny mentioned earlier in the year has helped out, and perhaps also what has been speculated about it being hard to take full advantage of extra CU’s in parallel.

It annoys me that people are getting PS5's tomorrow and I have to wait a week even though mine is most probably sat in a warehouse all packed and ready to go!

Official - no RT in the game - 4k/30 with a few other improvements or 1440p reconstructed to 4k/60 for performance mode.

Interesting watch....

RT I could care less about. Souls games are always far more fluid and comfortable at 60fps. the existing Dark Souls games and Sekiro getting optimized to be locked at 60fps based on DF's findings also makes me ecstatic

Yeah, I love the impact Ray Tracing has on games but 60FPS is too good to pass on. I hate that these sorts of choices need to be made to be honest, I was looking forward to Ray Tracing more than 4K and would take checkerboarding in games if they included RT. Demon’s Souls honestly wouldn’t really have benefitted as much from RT as much as other games just due to the art direction. I’m not too fussed.

It was about the fact that its been somewhat confusing as far as the messaging has been with Demon Souls and RT. Sony had it listed as having RT and there was some reports saying it did and others saying it didn't - now they have clarified both the resolution in both modes and the fact that RT is not being used here.

It also doesn't take away from the interesting chat in that video...

@BAMozzy It was confirmed last week by David Gavin, the director of Bluepoint Games' remake of Demon's Souls that there was no ray tracing, so there has been no mystery really since then...

Happy PS5 testing, US gamers!
Do your best to report all the issues so in just one week Sony will prepare and release the firmware update we all want.
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He didn’t talk about Demon’s Souls using the dual sense... was curious if they bothered.

@Mega-Gazz I think the point of the video was probably doing a technical analysis in regards to the game's visual and performance metrics itself, not necessarily touching on what hardware aspects of the console the game will utilize because those are seperate and meant for player enhancement

@BAMozzy What are the other improvements? I don't have a 4K TV, but may want those improvements instead of 60FPS. I would watch the video but don't want any spoilers.

@andreoni79 I'll gladly test and report on the PS5 a week early for you.
@Mega-Gazz Bluepoint has said they used those features.

Admitedly a fair bit of it was computer jargon that went over my head but it still was a pretty interesting watch with regards to the physics engine, how they utilise the memory, the original code being used and blended with new code and even stuff like the motion capture animations @BAMozzy

A few new clips of footage sprinkled through it too I think? Was a pretty cool watch either way!

@Jaz007 The extra frame time is being used to increase the tessellation and reflection settings a bit - as well as boost the resolution to native 4k. The high frame rate mode is running a lower res 'per' frame but reconstructing a high res image - like Chequerboard 4k vs Native and on a 1080p TV, you probably won't see much difference - looks difficult enough in the video until they zoom in on some patch on the ground and flick back and forth to see the difference in tessellation - the area around it looks incredibly similar.

At the end of the day, you can flick back and forth yourself and see if you can see a difference...

After months of my inner dialogue being “I’m not going to play this ridiculous game of hovering over every site also every store trying to get a PS5 when I’ve got an enormous PS4 backlog to keep me busy for many months until I can easily find plenty of stock” has now changed to “I must have my browser open to 10 different store sites and constantly refresh every 5 minutes so I can be sure to grab one of the few available that haven’t been pre-ordered! I want this now!”

I’m pitiful. Also, I came into an extra couple hundred dollars so I have the funds now anyways. If I can’t find one tomorrow, I’ll survive, but if I can’t get one in the next 2 months, I might go crazy.