PS.. is it 5? I think we're on 5 now. PS5

i mean, wow?
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/a-first-look-at-unreal-engine-5

Knack 3 will be phenomenal

wow!

i got bored after 10 minutes but it does look nice

UE4 demo for comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD9CPqSKjTU

I don't have a PS4 but I guess it took a bit for PS4 games to get as good as the demo?

never believe the demo is a good rule of thumb, but that UE4 looks worse than god of war honestly.

never believe the demo is a good rule of thumb, but that UE4 looks worse than god of war honestly.

I can't tell if this is a put-down or not (honestly!). Because I just (barely) started God of War a couple of weeks ago, and not only thought it looked great, but thought that PS5 Unreal 5 demo was maybe technically better quality, down to the little programmer details, but not to my maybe weak eyes radically better, good as it looked.

i got bored after 10 minutes but it does look nice

Um, isn't the video 9 minutes long? No wonder you got bored.

the demo should be reasonably representative for what constrained area/camera games like god of war or whatever will look like, open world games have more technical hurdles obviously

Looks fantastic

https://kotaku.com/playstation-5-game-showcase-happening-next-thursday-1843754372

https://blog.playstation.com/2020/06/08/updated-time-this-thursday-see-the-future-of-gaming-on-ps5/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

will be watching.

give us a fuckin price sony

Not buying until gta6 comes out

well duh

(been my rule for the past two ps machines)

I have a PS4 Slim and I've been very happy with it, so much so that I'm not sure what a PS5 would give me that I don't already have or want in a machine. Besides exclusives, I guess, but that stuff is totally under wraps, given that hyped heavy hitters Last of Us 2, Cyberpunk 2077 and Ghost of Tsushima are coming out for PS4.

there is no point in buying a new console until there are games worth playing on it, idk why people even humor the thought of buying near launch

clout

fanboys + people who didnt have the previous box

I have Gamespot gift cards and GS is near death and my PS4 optical drive is dead. First time I’ll be buying a new system ASAP.

GTA though? Man, that’s been downhill from 4 on.

It would be be Spider-Man 2 for me. But I don't know, something about the general anxiety of this year might lead to just get this and maybe the MS one too

So just caught the Demon's Souls remake, what else have I missed/

HZD sequel so you better play the first one sooner than later!

Eh, I've got a couple of years before I even consider PS5.

FUGLY

better have good cooling because that's going in a drawer

that is seriously rank

looks like a router

We didn't get a price, right?

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSRLTTP_t9wdIH4DSZkdDTRhcsTe32JKmHqg7pVKQ1gMu4CCOYr&usqp=CAU

only $1.00, nice!

im predicting it'll be usd450 for the digital only one and 500 for the one with the drive

damn that's one ugly console, can it even lie on its side

The one with the drive looks worse than the other one

almost seems... intentional...

xp it looks way better on its side

https://i.ibb.co/Lvz1zCn/Ea-Qt-TQ-Ws-AEpej-P.jpg

well, maybe not 'way' better. ya I kinda like the design but it's huge and I hate the white

also looks very breakable
that said, Spider-Man: Miles Morales fuck yeah i think they got me

should have sniped the xbox's hajj aesthetic

so you need a stand to lay it flat?
yes v breakable white plactic labia lol

looks like a venue at the qatar world cup

looks like a robot's vag

great so we'll all have filthy looking consoles after a year

white plactic labia lol

lol, I'm glad I'm not the only one whose mind immediately went there.

hasn't been a nice looking console in years idk what everyone was expecting

i think the fat ps2 (laid on its side) was the last design i actually liked

Dammit which thread are we using?

great so we'll all have filthy looking consoles after a year

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i feel like the wii managed to stay pretty clean looking for an all white console

360s otoh would like shit after a month

wow this playstation fucks

glad everyones on the same page about this

ime what the actual modes or buttons are called on different TVs is totally unhelpful, and I operate on the "try different shit until you're happy with how it looks" principle

I was going to peacefully accept the settings on my parents' new television over the holidays when I was visiting in December because they were mostly watching football and random television shows, but when we sat down to watch that new Knives Out movie I was going nuts with the smoothing to the point where it was giving me a headache and making me question if I have undiagnosed sensory issues. Turns out that specific tv has an app where you can change the settings without grabbing the remote and alerting your family you're messing with the tv :)

yeah i was visiting a friend last year and his wife and kids were watching an animated movie and the motion smoothing was on and i couldnt believe that no one could see it, as bad as it looks with live action stuff it is 10x as obvious with animation, all the linework becomes mushy and slimy every time a character moves.

anyway i didn't bother making a fuss about it because i wasn't watching the movie myself but it's sad that people are conditioned by the tv makers to accept slimy tv

I am *that guy* who even at a bar that has its TV's motion smoothing turned on mention it to the bartender, because it looks like butt.

when we were watching that movie that was being motion-smoothed by the ps5 i was also high and it was really fucking with my head, it felt like i was watching a weird soap opera

I was in a hotel this weekend with my family. We watched some baseball which looked fine, then later put on some cartoons which looked absolutely unwatchable to me. Obviously since this was a hotel TV there was no way to access the settings to remove motion smoothing. My kids don't seem to care.

Motion smoothing is an abomination. I don't know if it helps video games or not though? And i can't remember if my PS5 settings have it switched on or not

I was plating Blododborne last night which everyone complains about as having a low frame rate, and I couldn't notice it at all - seemed super smooth.

i remembered that some ps4 games have a free upgrade to the PS5 version. i might do that with tony hawk 1+2, i haven't played it in a bit but it's an easy one to throw on for 10-15 minutes at a time. i never really got into no man's sky despite a few tries, and i would probably have to start elden ring over from the beginning if i was going to try and play it again.

playstation console prices are going up again from April 2nd, PS5 Pro will be $899/£789/€899
anyone want to bet what the PS6 will cost at launch?

they should genuinely cancel the PS6, throw away the current design and try again in a few years

I mean, any guess what GTA6 will cost?

I'm all for cancelling the PS6, the console model is a mess right now. Still hasn't caught up or corrected from the covid craziness. Chip shortages, inflation, few games that really take advantage of supposed improvements in performance, etc.

gta6 will be $70 i would think. doubt they will mess with standard pricing at this moment

at this rate the PS6 would just be a PS5 Pro Pro, crossgen games will last the whole PS6 generation

they are still putting out ps4 versions of some stuff

It really doesn't feel necessary to release a new console yet. I still think of my PS5 as being pretty new and powerful enough to run games they haven't even come up with yet

it's clearly just inertia since they've always been on the 7 year cycle before now but this time there's no efficiencies after 7 years. $500 worth of console tech in 2027 will be...a PS5

It's also to do with the fact hardly anyone could get hold of a PS5 for the first year or so. And then it took ages for many exclusive games to come out for it.

Looking back at the thread, I got mine in September 2022 just as they started becoming a bit more widely available. And that was, like, last year so...

(and I mostly play PS4 games on it anyway)

And of course, what the market taught Sony (and the others) during that initial wave of shortages was that actually, people will quite happily pay hundreds more than the launch RRP. I suspect they’d be a lot more cagey about continuing to push the price up if they hadn’t seen what the scalped consoles were going for back then.

They care about the number of games and services sold over everything. Number of consoles sold drives that, along with time-based or forever exclusives that drive more console sales and, more importantly, further game and service sales

I doubt the consoles selling low in the first couple years was that much of a hardship, because they're typically a loss leader on launch. If anything, they're probably kicking themselves that they didn't figure out a way to make any extra money off of the shortage/scalping

I guess they kind of did in that they did more direct sales to consumers during that time and Sony selling the PS5 at retail price is going to bring in a little more money than selling them on to a retailer who also gets a cut

yup, that sounds right to me

It has varied over time but afaik Nintendo is the only company that tries to make the console itself profitable from launch

kinda funny sony have spent so much time chasing a live service unicorn, bought bungie to make one for them, and bungie then made them a super hardcore, super brutal live service FPS in a very niche genre

I actually think marathon will find its audience and grow (getting out the cul de sac that e.g. the finals has found itself in) but it’s probably unlikely to hit CS:GO numbers. apex number would def be a success

‘probably unlikely’. sorry I mean, no chance in hell it does but I think it will steadily grow through word of mouth if it gets the support and the on boarding process is refined

Reportedly some PS4 players that have wish-listed GTA 6 have been getting notice they should finally/belatedly upgrade to PS5 in anticipation of a Nov. release date, implying (not surprisingly) that the game will not be playable on PS5. That's no surprise, other than the fact that they even have to say it nearly six years after the launch of the PS5. Insane how long PS4's been hanging in there!