Anyone else not impressed with the PS5 so far?
Discussion
Lucas Ayde said:
Jasandjules said:
There is a readily available comparison of game load times between the ps4 and ps5. Have a look, see if you still don't think it is going to make a massive difference.
For me I can't wait to see a new Fallout of Skyrim where you can fast travel somewhere and it will draw the area in seconds.
Wouldn't be too hard to beat the current generation - the PS4 load speed seemed to be pretty bad even with a SATA SSD fitted in place of the HDD. Pretty sure I read that the SATA2 interface on that was actually connected through an internal USB controller. The Pro improved data transfer speeds from SATA3 disk a bit according to reviews at the time of release but even with a hybrid SSD/HDD in mine it's still not really that great, even when the SSD part is in play.For me I can't wait to see a new Fallout of Skyrim where you can fast travel somewhere and it will draw the area in seconds.
Even the cheap 1500MBps NVMe drive I have in my PC loads significantly faster than my PS4 Pro.
I suspect the perceived difference between the ~2.4GBps of the Xbox's SSD vs the ~5GBps of the PS5s is not actually going to be 2x for actual game loading in the real world.
https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Solid-State-Drive/AORU...
Edited by p1stonhead on Saturday 13th June 22:05
p1stonhead said:
Mafffew said:
So Spider-Man; Miles Morales is in fact a DLC and enhancement over the original game, rather than a brand new game.
Disappointing.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-06-12-it-t...
Blimey. They really didn’t have anything to show did they. Disappointing.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-06-12-it-t...
Mafffew said:
Apparently the article was wrong - https://twitter.com/insomniacgames/status/12714682...
From the various info I've read and seen, I get the impression that the game is based on the same engine as PS4 Spiderman and could have been DLC or at least a short standalone like Infamous: Festival of Blood was on PS3 but Sony appear to be making it a separate title for PS5 (presumably with some enhancements) as a way to induce gamers to move.I just get the feeling that Sony are becoming arrogant and assuming that they have a captive PS4 audience that they can push to PS5 by making stuff that could also have been realised pretty well on PS4, PS5 exclusive.
It's not like the PS5 is a massively different new architecture like we saw going from PS2>PS3 or even PS3>PS4. It's just an evolution of the same AMD sourced CPU/GPU underpinnings we see in the PS4. More powerful, sure, so you can expect higher resolutions and framerates but an awful lot of stuff could work very well on PS4 too, especially PS4 Pro.
p1stonhead said:
Yep! I still can't quite believe it to be honest. Dragging it through 3 generations of console is an absolute farce. It feels like Rockstar are taking the absolute piss, and to be honest it somewhat puts me off wanting to play their games! I like a game to be a game, never been into online stuff so gta 5 came to its limits a long time ago for me
hyphen said:
Consoles are for people who dont want to use a pc for gaming.
A lot of people now have both. I quite like tinkering with the hardware and Linux on it and the gaming potential is unsurpassed, plus you can run the various software applications that you likely use at work. Downside is that you have to put a little more work into it to get everything set up the way you want.And if you get something like an Nvidia ShieldTV box (or any STB/ Smart TV that can run Moonlight and/or the SteamLink client) you can pretty much play your games on your telly, from your sofa, exactly as if they were console game - which eliminates a large reason why I might NOT want to game on it ... Too much like sitting at a work desk in front of a PC screen.
Lucas Ayde said:
hyphen said:
Consoles are for people who dont want to use a pc for gaming.
A lot of people now have both. I quite like tinkering with the hardware and Linux on it and the gaming potential is unsurpassed, plus you can run the various software applications that you likely use at work. Downside is that you have to put a little more work into it to get everything set up the way you want.And if you get something like an Nvidia ShieldTV box (or any STB/ Smart TV that can run Moonlight and/or the SteamLink client) you can pretty much play your games on your telly, from your sofa, exactly as if they were console game - which eliminates a large reason why I might NOT want to game on it ... Too much like sitting at a work desk in front of a PC screen.
turn console on > play
5harp3y said:
Lucas Ayde said:
hyphen said:
Consoles are for people who dont want to use a pc for gaming.
A lot of people now have both. I quite like tinkering with the hardware and Linux on it and the gaming potential is unsurpassed, plus you can run the various software applications that you likely use at work. Downside is that you have to put a little more work into it to get everything set up the way you want.And if you get something like an Nvidia ShieldTV box (or any STB/ Smart TV that can run Moonlight and/or the SteamLink client) you can pretty much play your games on your telly, from your sofa, exactly as if they were console game - which eliminates a large reason why I might NOT want to game on it ... Too much like sitting at a work desk in front of a PC screen.
turn console on > play
turn console on -> download game update -> Download essential system update -> give up on playing as you've run out of time.
Fastdruid said:
5harp3y said:
Lucas Ayde said:
hyphen said:
Consoles are for people who dont want to use a pc for gaming.
A lot of people now have both. I quite like tinkering with the hardware and Linux on it and the gaming potential is unsurpassed, plus you can run the various software applications that you likely use at work. Downside is that you have to put a little more work into it to get everything set up the way you want.And if you get something like an Nvidia ShieldTV box (or any STB/ Smart TV that can run Moonlight and/or the SteamLink client) you can pretty much play your games on your telly, from your sofa, exactly as if they were console game - which eliminates a large reason why I might NOT want to game on it ... Too much like sitting at a work desk in front of a PC screen.
turn console on > play
turn console on -> download game update -> Download essential system update -> give up on playing as you've run out of time.
PanicBuyingBogRoll said:
Fastdruid said:
5harp3y said:
Lucas Ayde said:
hyphen said:
Consoles are for people who dont want to use a pc for gaming.
A lot of people now have both. I quite like tinkering with the hardware and Linux on it and the gaming potential is unsurpassed, plus you can run the various software applications that you likely use at work. Downside is that you have to put a little more work into it to get everything set up the way you want.And if you get something like an Nvidia ShieldTV box (or any STB/ Smart TV that can run Moonlight and/or the SteamLink client) you can pretty much play your games on your telly, from your sofa, exactly as if they were console game - which eliminates a large reason why I might NOT want to game on it ... Too much like sitting at a work desk in front of a PC screen.
turn console on > play
turn console on -> download game update -> Download essential system update -> give up on playing as you've run out of time.
Narcisus said:
The more I look at it the less I like it... It's a bit of a monstrosity ... If it was half the size at least you could hide it somewhere ...
Controllers are wireless, you can get range extender thingies. And also long hdmi cables/repeater thingies.You could hide it in a cupboard if you wished.
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