PS4 Games Will Take Advantage of PS5's New User Experience Features

I’d love to see Quick Resume on PS5, it’s one of the best looking features Xbox has to offer.

Hopefully we get a lot of PS4 features straight away and that Sony just build on top of them and improve where needed.

Can't wait till next month!!!!!!

Quick resume and time tracking on games.

Quick Resume. That's legit the single best feature that the Xbox Series has over the PS5. It would be especially great as someone who tends to start games, get more than halfway through them and then just jumps to another game, especially in the case of JRPGs lmao

Trophy tracker hopefully, although I doubt many devs will put the work in to patch old games (and Sony’s own are usually incredibly easy and straightforward anyway),
Hopefully it’s something good and not social media/streaming rubbish.

@get2sammyb I don't need five games, but it's super easy to think of how to use it. Imagine playing a game like Persona or something else where you save at certain points, or games like RDR2 where the game loads you back upto a checkpoint or some point in the world, it's not a as you left it type Elder Scrolls type save.
Then a friend invites you to play another game and you can leave it suspended while you play the multiplayer game then jump right back where you left off without losing any progress to a checkpoint or anything. Let me suspend 2 or 3 games at one time and I will be happy.

@get2sammyb Quick resume is something that once you get used to you can't game without. PS4 and X1 kind of support it with a single running game, and that was the killer feature at PS4 launch for me after having grown accustomed to that idea with Vita and 3DS (It killed me waiting forever for it to be delivered. They announced it at the Feb '13 show, then launch November came....nothing.... It took another year or so for them to deliver it!)

PS4/X1 suspend/sleep is kind of sluggish, but you can at least use the Rest mode to pick up mid-game. But if you want to switch games, that means having to get to a save point first, then waiting for the boot screen, obligatory splash screens, logos, and copy screens, loading your save, waiting for that, etc. And retracing your steps if you didn't get to a save where you left of. The idea of multiple quick resumes where you can just jump into a different game where you left off and not worry about getting to the save/beating the boss before you put it down, is a huge deal. Especially for digital gamers, but even for physical swapping the disc and just jumping right where you left off without restarting at a save and waiting for the logo/menu/story so far screens is just going to make gaming so much easier to drop in and drop out of.

For game review purposes I think you guys will get even more use out of that feature once you get used to having it (Assuming PS5 gets it. I presume it will.)

What's Quick Resume? Is that not like when you put it in Rest Mode in the middle of a game so you can go right back to it later?

Edit: Nestalgia basically answered my question while I was typing my post.

Hey look at that, Sony is finally giving out info for the PS5 instead of staying quiet.

@zupertramp Yes, except for XSX it supports save states for 5 games that way, so you can switch between any of them instantly right where you left off. And since it's an SSD save state, it probably doesn't need to stay in a power-on state all the time to do it like PS4 and X1 do (those lose the save if the power goes out for example.) The assumption here is that PS5 gets it too.

@zupertramp You can basically go to one game at the same exact time you stopped, then go back to another game and the game you were just playing pauses instead of quits.

This video explains it better: https://youtu.be/L4L9pArceAE

Quick Resume - the ability to jump through multiple games from a 'paused' state very quickly so you could use it compare how games feel - maybe 30fps last gen version with a 60fps new gen version, compare how franchises have 'changed' over a few games, get a call and pause a SP story game you don't want to be distracted from and play a racing game etc
Come back the next day and pick up from any 'paused' state of any game you have on the go - not sure what game you feel like playing, just swap between a couple and see what grabs you...
I must admit, I don't play games like that but I know some that do. Being able to suspend any game and jump straight to another without losing any progress, having to get to a checkpoint to give yourself a 'new' starting place before you close it down to boot up another is going to be 'beneficial'. Imagine doing a 24hr Le Mans simulation but don't feel like doing it all in one stint, want to play something else between, you can with Quick Resume - you pause the race what ever lap you are on, where ever on the track you are, and can jump straight into another game - that pause status is stored so you don't have to quit if you want to play something else

The feature I want to see is to be able to gift games to people like you can on STEAM. It helps for Birthdays and Christmas

@get2sammyb Quick Resume is still faster than a cold boot. Don’t need to worry about menus and such either. If there are no downsides, why not do it?

I'm guessing this has to do with all those social media features they were talking about last year when they first talked about the UI.

Media Player.

@HotGoomba Looks like an ADHD gamer's dream. I'm more of a play one game obsessively until I'm absolutely sick of it type guy but hey, more features are always welcome.

@zupertramp As an ADHD gamer, yes it would be incredibly useful. I always have about 5 or 6 games on the go.

@Jaz007 Quick Resume would literally be a godsend for RPG games, especially the ones that end up coming to Xbox in light of Bethesda's acquisition, since their big name IPs like Elder Scrolls and Fallout are serious timesinkers, I'd even say they tend to be as long and engrossing in terms of content as JRPGs like Persona or Dark Souls

@zupertramp Haha, I'm probably an "ADHD gamer" - but mostly I'm a busy gamer. And I'm not always in the mood for the same thing. It probably depends on how many genres you enjoy. If your in the middle of Bloodborne right before a battle but want to do an MHW hunt tonight, and maybe a little Dreams to unwind, you could just hop from them as 3 activities to switch to rather than "games to load up." Yeah if I'm knee deep in Uncharted or something I'm likely to continue it like a miniseries marathon for 2 weeks or something.

Returning to game after trophy. If you push PSbutton while earned trophy (when trophy notification pop-ups), you are ploped into trophy list for that game. Perfect. But if you push O to go back, it won't return you to the game, but you just leave that list back to trophies and you must leave again to system menu, find your game icon and resume. What the hell they were thinking about while programing this?

@TheFrenchiestFry I have over 8000 hours across Bethesda RPG's and still find new stuff every time I play them. I have about 500 hours into the Souls franchise and have done everything there is to offer. Never played Persona.

On a side note, do people really consider DS's to be a jrpg just because it was made by a Japanese team? I've always considered jrpgs to be defined by set characteristics/stereotypes and not actually by nationality.

@get2sammyb Agreed. I honestly don't see the point of the feature. Little to no time to start games and little to no load times equals a feature that seems kind of irrelevant. No disrespect to anyone who thinks its a big deal, I just personally don't see the point.

@710King I consider Souls to be that middle ground of a JRPG with action elements that resemble other action RPGs like Tales or Ys, but with a Western mentality in terms of how the world is built or how the gameplay is designed around those action elements

Also if you've sunk thousands of hours into stuff like Elder Scrolls, I'd consider Persona or SMT to be the closest JRPG equivalent in terms of the sheer density of content available. The older games are shorter but Persona 3 onwards take at the very least 100h+ minimum if you aren't just speeding through the story beats and actually care about stuff like grinding for money in dungeons to be able to spend more of it on weapons and items, trying to increase your individual stats by doing stuff like studying and taking on day jobs, or fulfilling Velvet Room requests which is basically a whole other chunk of side content with specific objectives altogether

@NEStalgia @nessisonett Yeah certainly no disrespect intended there. I literally took Ritalin in middle school back when it was just ADD. So I definitely have those tendencies just not so much with gaming. Much of it probably is the genre thing. My gaming interests are admittedly kind of narrow.

@get2sammyb a good example for me is that I have been playing Celeste - as the levels get harder it can be many rooms between checkpoints, and hundreds of tries on the hardest levels. If I get frustrated and want to play something else, or my GF wants to use the PS4 then currently I either have to grind to the next checkpoint (easier said than done) or quit and lose my progress back to the last checkpoint (10-20+ minutes of hard earned platforming progress). With Quick Resume this would be a non-issue. Suspend Celeste, play something else, then come back to exactly where I was in Celeste before, independent of checkpoints in the game.

@Zudeo are you seriously suggesting there may not be downsides to having multiple games running in the background? Hmm, wonder if quick resume had anything to do with preview Xbox units surprisingly hot even during STANDBY

Lol what a joke. We're 5 weeks away from launch and they can't give clear information on everything PS5 related? Guess they don't need to do anything since the thing is selling like pancakes and it's not even out yet

@God_of_Nowt Xbox is bringing the features to make up for lack of games more power to ‘em

Quick Resume is just another excuse to not properly invest time and attention to a single game, so we can later complain about its messy control scheme or its convoluted story...
Multitasking is good for robots and capitalism but we are mere humans: let's focus on one single thing and get it right in the old good humanist way!
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@Nepp67 I personally don’t mind the radio silence and am confident the machine will deliver based on track record, I don’t need journalists or media to tell me what I like

@2cents says the one replying to a nobody in a news website. You don't need to be a douchebag

"and the company’s clearly saving the best until last"

Well they unnecessarily corner themselves into a tremendous wall of hype so if it isn't the best UI we have ever seen and if it doesn't blow Xbox out of the water it will be considered a disappointment.

Again they were the ones who put all this pressure on themselves, so I will be expecting to be blown away when they finally unveil it.

@nessisonett That isn't confirmed already? I thought that was confirmed already?

@TheFrenchiestFry If that's the best feature the Series X has over the PS5 then it is in some serious trouble xD

@IanAlbarn
Sony could have gave up 100% of PS5 information in Jan 2020. But then no one would be talking PS5 now. They would just be sitting around waiting for launch day. They need to save information to keep the buzz going all the way up to launch.

I dont think this has been mentioned yet or maybe it was but I missed it . Does anyone have any info on how they are handling multi users on a console ? Or i guess more specifically how primary user accounts will work. My wife and I both have ps4s so I just put my account on hers and made it my primary system so when I buy a game we both have it same as ps plus I haven't seen anything if things are going to still work the same. Has anyone else seen anything ?

@Medic_Alert I bet it is Max 16 GB per game.

@thefourfoldroot trophy tracking was leaked. Not exactly a confirmation but it's more than likely.

@djlard you can double tap the playstation button on the controller to return to the game

@FreiGuy86
Yes, but I presumed just for ps5 games.

@themightyant Uhhh I think it's one tap iirc.

@IanAlbarn @IanAlbarn.. More of a joke 5 weeks from launch and The Xbox S x is areadly heating up......

@Arugula....... It's not unprecedented...... It like buying a car or house....... You only know the specs once it's available for purchase...... Don't worry about it......... Besides if you were not planning on getting it day 1..... Knowing the full details of the system now, will not make you a DAY1 buyer which does not help Sony the least.............

@Otherbarry
Nothing has been announced yet, but deep in the terms snd conditions there is something called “offline and homeshare” which seems to be taking over from the Primary system. It sounds somewhat ominous to me, but I guess we shall see.

UI features I'd like...

Folders for video clips & screenshots that we can label as we were able to on PS3.

Video plug-ins for messages instead of having to use links that open up the browser.

Being able to share short clips and animated gifs.

The ability to host watch parties using any video streaming service/app, and if possible, any movie bought/rented from the PS Store (watch parties = sychronized video stream that is controlled by one host to multiple viewers).

Listening parties with PS Music/Spotify would be cool too.

The ability to sort trophies the way we can on trophy websites (progress, difficulty, platinum acquired/not acquired, etc.).

Better Shareplay functionality. Use your own game if you own the same game as the host, to share controller, thus eliminating input lag when assisting a friend.

Optional video chat w/ PIP functionality during gaming (choose who to share video w/ the same way you can mute audio, or verify video sharing upon chat entry).

Icon/text/notification customization that includes color, font, transparency, size, layout, etc.

PIP for a message chat conversation that allows you to scale down the window to the size of a cellphone screen on your TV, but still see pictures, video clips, etc.

Notification overlay OVER LIVESTREAMS instead of Livestreams OVERLAYING OVER NOTIFICATIONS, so viewers don't see a random giant black box every time a message is received.

Better PS Store navigation. Improved loading of screenshots (they do not load on more than 2/3 of the games listed, regardless of download speeds/bandwith).

These features would be a start. Mark Cerny already mentioned most everything else I'd want, but quick resume/save states on 3 or more games would be a bonus.

@andreoni79 All these noobs doing their hobby wrong.

@djlard if you double press the PS button it actually takes you back to the last app/game you were on. Each double tap swaps you between places. Took me a few years to figure this out!

@MetalGearBex Why double tap PS? Why it couldnt be O button?

@get2sammyb I agree. I dont see a point to quick resume. It just compounds the problems that already exist with the current resume functionality. If the system locks up, or you have a power fluctuation, or a power outage, and lose all of that progress you thought was preserved, you won't ever use this function.