BraveLilCrumpet

This weekend I'll probbaly be playing the Tales of Arise expansion and then Mario Wonder with my girlfriend.

Mario Wonder got my GOTY vote with how much fun it is and how happy it's making my girlfriend playing in co-op.

@Dr-zoidburg I can confirm there are no new trophies with this update. I've already platinumed it so I will likely delete it from the PS5 now.

I feel £25 for the expansion is reasonable for another 20+ hour worth of story content.

I put roughly 60 hours into the main game and got the Platinum so I'm looking forward to this.

@somnambulance I see you are a man of culture as well

I loved the first game. I even got merch which is rare for me including the Art Book that was limited to just 300 copies worldwide.

I was looking forward to the sequel but there was just something missing and it took my nearly a year to finish it. I got the DLC but only played the opening section where you get to the main hub island and haven’t touched it since.

I felt the same about GoW:R too. I hope I don't feel the same way about Spider-Man 2 next month...

I'll admit I've watched the first 2 seasons of the anime and I plan on watching the other 2 eventually. Would I play this on my PS5 or anything else for that matter... No.

A little bit of a disclaimer, I own the Kill La Kill, Made in Abyss and JoJo games but this does not appeal at all.

@number1024 I apologize, in your message I responded too, it sounded like you were speaking about the console as a whole and not just the gaming aspect.

As for the update, it’s just part of the world we live in today. I get updates for my Xbox, Switch, PC, Light Bulbs & even Lego! Most of the time they seemingly do nothing also.

From my experience when Sony updates the PlayStation with the generic ‘Stable’ or ‘Performance’ patch note it can mean they’ve patched an exploit somewhere or readying for a new feature.

The letter in the article however is in response to DF. They did a recent video where they theorized how Atmos worked on the PS5, I assume this letter was to clarify.

@carlosthedj Thank you, however it's not there unfortunatly. The Beta shows up as 'Redeemed' in my account, it's just not being pushed through to the console for some reason.
I'll probably speak to a rep tomorrow about it, I've not had this problem before while trying to install a Beta update.

@number1024 The PS5 did have Atmos playback at launch but only for 4K Blu-Ray movies that had those audio tracks. Just games didn't have Atmos support.

As for the update, the Atmos support is for the Beta firmware which is out now, you usually get an email with a code to redeem. Once done that opens up an option in the Firmware settings to download it.
You can use each code up to 5 times, you may use mine if you like if you did not receive your own.

Another minor update for the current Firmware was released this week that didn't do much.

@Olmaz I have a similar setup and with Dolby active on the PS5 there's a very noticeable delay even though it sounds better.

The LG OLED I have has built in Atmos speakers. I got a delay using them in pretty much everything with Atmos enabled which I understand is an LG problem.

I decided to get a 11.4.1 sound system and setting it to 'Passthrough' resolved the delay - except on the PlayStation.
Setting it to LPCM fixes it and looking at countless forums I've concluded it's the PS5 that has the problem.

@Weebleman Thank you dude, but I've already tried this, and the option just isn't there. I've tried resetting the console, restoring licences but it just won't show.
I redeemed the code after the new Firmware update last week so I'm wondering if that's the problem.

@Grimwood I felt the Sony Pulse to be serviceable for the price point and on bar with the Gold headset from the PS4 that I also had if not slightly better.

In my experience the Pulse sound much better turning off the Spiritual Sound and just using them as a pair of Stereo phones.

I wanted to try this but after redeeming the Beta Code the option to download it hasn't showed up.

@BeerIsAwesome Of course it will mate, it's a bus. Whatever it hits will be flatter than the Earth at a conspiracy theory convention.

This is my next big one, then Starfield, Cyberpunk DLC and finishing the year off with Spider-Man