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Re:PS5 by bitwize on Thursday June 11, 2020 @04:13PM (#23492889)
It's Gran Turismo! Graaaaan Turismoooo!

Can't wait for the Sony marketing hot takes, like "PS5 will allow you to live in the matrix!" Or "The game characters on PS5 are like real living, breathing people with their own lives and backstories. When you play a PS5 game it's like interacting with another living person."

Re:PS5 by microcolonel on Thursday June 11, 2020 @04:37PM (#23493058)
LoL, well that's par for the course. Though the hardware really is interesting, particularly the storage. Having more priority queues on the in-built flash storage, and having guaranteed flash storage to begin with, really do change the game. For the first time in a long time, a console is actually offering something that is not really doable on the vast majority of PCs. It's something like gaming with 128GiB of RAM and four extra cores, and running vmtouch on the whole game directory before playing.

A lot of that breathtaking Unreal Engine 5 demo (the one that is so visually rich that you really have to watch it on Vimeo rather than YouTube to get the experience, because of excessive YouTube compression) hinges on the PS5's huge storage advantage.

Re:PS5 by nafey on Thursday June 11, 2020 @04:42PM (#23493097)
They might push the pc market to value ssd more. PS5 will demonstrate the effectiveness of having large ssd for immersive experience. Pc gamers will demand this feature as well.
Re:PS5 by harshalizee on Thursday June 11, 2020 @05:14PM (#23493349)
Personally, the console looked a tad ugly, like it's trying too hard. But immensely optimistic about how games will be leveraging the hardware itself. Can't wait to see the Unreal 5 demo being brought to life in a AAA game!
Re:PS5 by stunt on Thursday June 11, 2020 @06:04PM (#23493767)
Yeah! also looks low on practicality without flat surface
Re:PS5 by haunter on Thursday June 11, 2020 @04:52PM (#23493187)
1m viewers on Twitch. Pretty crazy https://www.twitch.tv/playstation
Re:PS5 by chemmail on Thursday June 11, 2020 @07:50PM (#23494441)
1m viewers is like your average youtuber eating a sandwhich.
Re:PS5 by Thaxll on Thursday June 11, 2020 @07:58PM (#23494510)
YouTube was over 2.5M
Re:PS5 by spookybones on Thursday June 11, 2020 @08:34PM (#23494744)
Is there a name for this aesthetic? It feels like the future as envisioned in 1995.
Re:PS5 by seaghost on Thursday June 11, 2020 @04:52PM (#23493184)
This might be the most disappointing Sony event I've ever watched.
Re:PS5 by OtterGauze on Sunday June 14, 2020 @07:01AM (#23516738)
I'd have to disagree with you, they showed a wide diverse selection of games, and anyone who expects to love every game in a selection like that frankly has unrealistic standards.

One thing I will criticise, it's the lack of information. We don't still know the price, the release date, whether it will support backwards compatibility, etc.

Re:PS5 by klipklop on Thursday June 11, 2020 @05:44PM (#23493597)
I agree. I wanted to preorder, but now I feel like I can wait.