PlayStation 5 - Next gen is expensive

[5R7]

14 minutes ago, moosegrinder said:

* puts hand up * can someone simplify this sound thing for us idiots? Because it sounds like Sony are trying to make a proprietary surround sound software thingy. Is that right?

 

that is exactly what it sounds like, as opposed to using, i dunno...dolby atmos headphones? Which comes with xbox one X's, and you can get on PC right now, and....is really good!

 

But, considering they didn't support it on ps4, apart from with one set of stupidly expensive headphones i think it was, its not really surprising.

 

You can even try it for free, the app costs about £11, well worth it if you watch movies, or play games on the system and regularly use headphones!

https://www.dolby.com/us/en/apps/access/pc-xbox.html

[alex3d]

50 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

It had PS3 at the top and PS2 at the bottom one slide earlier.

 

Wow, that would be one hell of a back catalogue. Shadow Hearts on PS5!! 

[Alex W.]

1 hour ago, 5R7 said:

 

that is exactly what it sounds like, as opposed to using, i dunno...dolby atmos headphones? Which comes with xbox one X's, and you can get on PC right now, and....is really good!

 

But, considering they didn't support it on ps4, apart from with one set of stupidly expensive headphones i think it was, its not really surprising.

 

You can even try it for free, the app costs about £11, well worth it if you watch movies, or play games on the system and regularly use headphones!

https://www.dolby.com/us/en/apps/access/pc-xbox.html

 

Yeah, that's it. It's going to be baked in to the system and they're adding a bunch of audio hardware to make it easier for developers to actually use it. It's really overdue.

[PaB]

6 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

 

Yeah, that's it. It's going to be baked in to the system and they're adding a bunch of audio hardware to make it easier for developers to actually use it. It's really overdue.

The platinums with 3D positional audio are great. .. For the 3 games that actually support it.

[Superunknown]

3 hours ago, rgraves said:

That would seem sensible - my problem is, if it was the case he went a really long way around NOT saying it. He had the perfect chance to just say "it'll play everything, and make some stuff better", but he didn't. He, pointedly, said "testing has to be done on a title-by-title basis.".

 

All I'm saying is, they've confirmed nothing - despite having a perfect opportunity to do so. It's likely it works as you think, but we absolutely, 100% do NOT know that at this point. It's not "clear" at all.

 

Surely the reason for that is because, as Cerny alluded to previously, when you run a game on technically different hardware, even with down-clocking etc. there can be cases where the game doesn't run properly. i.e. you cannot guarantee compatibility without testing.

 

Microsoft test everything too.

[teddymeow]

This chap wrote Dead Space and the English script for Binary Domain.

 

I think "totally unrelated" may be a misdirection.

[df0]

Obligatory Dead Space 4: Binary Domain 2 confirmed comment?

[teddymeow]

13 minutes ago, df0 said:

Obligatory Dead Space 4: Binary Domain 2 confirmed comment?

 

Ooh, a crossover. I can get behind that!!

[df0]

43 minutes ago, teddymeow said:

This chap wrote Dead Space and the English script for Binary Domain.

 

I think "totally unrelated" may be a misdirection.

Not sure why he's writing a story for Ridge Racers Remastered/Ridge Racer 8 but ok.

[MansizeRooster]

I'd prefer either a reboot of the Dead Space franchise, or a from-the-ground-up do-over of Dead Space 2. The first was practically perfect, the second not so much and the third was an absolute disaster.

[Vemsie]

I always prefered the second, more varied entry. GamesTM's (RIP) first 10 if I'm not mistaken.

I'd love to see a new Dead Space or spiritual successor, but I doubt we'll see that today.

 

Perhaps he wrote the new Silent Hill or Housemarque's new game, which is apparently a launch title. Or perhaps he's just hyped.

[teddymeow]

10 minutes ago, df0 said:

Not sure why he's writing a story for Ridge Racers Remastered/Ridge Racer 8 but ok.

 

Let's not forget that R4 had some heartfelt human drama in it.

[glb]

Dead Space 2 had one of my favourite trophies (Clever Girl).

 

Would love a new / rebuilt Dead Space. Played the first two in the dark, with headphones on and had a ball with them. So surprised they haven’t had an HD polish... yet.

[englishbob]

My PS5 wishlist

 

60fps

 

MP game graphics to match the ones in the SP version

 

No stupid battery draining light on the controller (think of the environment please Sony, or have a means to turn it off)

 

No middle generation PRO hardware revision

 

USB C for charging controllers

 

Ridge Racer of anything, developed and optimised by a Japan studio, but no open world bollocks. 

 

If you can't think of a new Ridge Racer, then a complete one package HD remaster of everything Ridge Racer.

 

I'm fairly easy.

 

I'm sure the A1 game for PS5 will be the From Software/Tolkien crossover game. For normal / Pro users it'll be gimped at 27fps with framepacing issues (tm). On PS5 a uncapped frame rate, dropping to 32 when an explosion kicks in, but with framepacing of course (tm).

 

 

[teddymeow]

@englishbob

 

The pad does use USB-C (hooray) but it also has lights around the edge of the touchpad (not hooray).

[Calashnikov]

56 minutes ago, Vemsie said:

I'd love to see a new Dead Space or spiritual successor, but I doubt we'll see that today.

[BabelRich]

1 hour ago, Vemsie said:

I always prefered the second, more varied entry. GamesTM's (RIP) first 10 if I'm not mistaken.

Pretty sure Metroid Prime was GamesTM’s first 10. 

[PaB]

50 minutes ago, englishbob said:

 

No stupid battery draining light on the controller (think of the environment please Sony, or have a means to turn it off)

 

 

The light bar is drawing a tiny amount of power. If you could turn it off the difference in battery life would be barely noticable. The vast majority will be the communication with the console

[Steven]

I'd love for them to just come out and say the controller was misdirection and it's all VR from now on, suck it up or fuck off.

[Alex W.]

Guys I don’t think he’d be bragging about a big two year game project if he was just doing More Dead Space.

 

Which TBH should be how sequels are titled. 

[Dudley]

I liked "Loaded" and "Re-loaded"

[englishbob]

18 minutes ago, PeteBrant said:

The light bar is drawing a tiny amount of power. If you could turn it off the difference in battery life would be barely noticable. The vast majority will be the communication with the console

 

I know they published something along those lines, but why has it got such a shit battery life? It's telling that they would not back down on this and just give the option to turn the bloody light off.

 

I think the 360 controller was also guilty, the low battery flashing 4 circles every minute surely drained what life it had left to give

 

 

[englishbob]

16 minutes ago, Steven said:

I'd love for them to just come out and say the controller was misdirection and it's all VR from now on, suck it up or fuck off.

 

That would certainly save me a lot of money in the future. That would cut dead my gaming expenditure this gen, so would put me in the fuck off camp

[teddymeow]

3 minutes ago, Dudley said:

I liked "Loaded" and "Re-loaded"

 

Yeah, Sir Tom is the man!!

[Alex W.]

1 minute ago, englishbob said:

 

I know they published something along those lines, but why has it got such a shit battery life? It's telling that they would not back down on this and just give the option to turn the bloody light off.

 

I think the 360 controller was also guilty, the low battery flashing 4 circles every minute surely drained what life it had left to give

 

 

The light bar is the controller’s only status light. But even if they did let you use the pad blind, LEDs use almost no juice anyway. People have manually severed the light bar connections and it doesn’t help the battery life much at all. 
 

The problem is that the rechargeable battery has less than half the capacity of a pair of AA batteries.

[Ferine]

I want to live in a world where we'll see Binary Domain 2.

 

Unfortunately I do not.

[teddymeow]

2 minutes ago, Ferine said:

I want to live in a world where we'll see Binary Domain 2.

 

Unfortunately I do not.

 

I played through the first game again recently and it's just brilliant!! A seriously underrated gem.

[df0]

2 minutes ago, Ferine said:

I want to live in a world where we'll see Binary Domain 2.

 

Unfortunately I do not.

I'd settle for a Remaster. The gunplay and the way enemies react to impact is sooo satisfying.

[Stopharage]

Does Sony have a coordinated way to view this, like Microsoft does with their Mixer sessions? I know I’ve worded that badly but if I want to party up and watch this are we all doing it via YouTube on the PS4? 

[Ry]

I'm actually quite excited for this. Really want to see a price. 

 

I have basically ignored PS4 this generation (only finished and enjoyed Spiderman then sold the console) so I will be getting a PS5 for definite on launch this time.