Except... it's not live lol. It's pre-recorded since 3 weeks ago.

Understand that the digital version would mean you cannot play any of your physical PS4 games.

So for those who cares about backwards compat and has a lot of physical PS4 games, best to get the disc version. Of course you can just rebuy your owned games too.

80% of the games shown were using ray tracing. If you cannot see the beauty in that, then that's not much else to say.


Yup. Pushing forward is a good thing instead of always dwelling on the past.

Giving options is the way to go and I'm pretty sure the digital version will come up as the best seller instead of the disc one, assuming the digital version will be much cheaper that is. I'm expecting $50-$80 cheaper.

The PS5 may not even launch on the same day in Malaysia compared to the US or EU. I'd be surprised if it's even in the same month.

Unless you have money for a Sony BVM X300 (only 35k USD), good HDR for monitors don't actually exist.

1) That's not a 2160p monitor.

2) HDR on that monitor is not what I'll call "good". Its brightness is okay, but the tone mapping curve Asus implemented is horrendous.

3) At 11k, just buy a 48" LG CX instead. Would be cheaper and actually gives you good HDR.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Jun 15 2020, 04:21 PM

A monitor at RM2.5k price range won't even get you barely acceptable HDR unfortunately. My opinion? Just don't play in HDR.

Well a monitor with good HDR at sane level prices for the average consumer doesn't exist....

So what's the solution? Either get a display that is sufficient for HDR or don't play in HDR at all.


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Not necessarily so. Until very recently, many games used a maximum of 10,000 nits as its peak maxCLL output. Devs did this because they didn't even understand HDR to begin with. No consumer displays has the capability to be that bright.

This is where tone mapping comes in and it is why it's the single most important thing for a HDR capable display to be able to do well. Unfortunately, most displays even the highest OLED flagships hasn't perfectly nailed the right balance when it comes to tone mapping. This is important because if a scene from the game is showing, say example - 4000 nits, your display cannot show that specular highlight/detail. What does it do then? Just clip it. Meaning that detail is practically loss. Not so much of a "great details" now is it?

Some games in the last year has allowed users to control the peak brightness and the paper white value for their games, so the game's engine does the tone mapping instead of the display. However these games are few and far between and I do not expect it to be a standard option for gamers in the next couple of years. There are games that's coming out this year that still doesn't have such an option.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Jun 15 2020, 05:23 PM

IMO until devs understand what HDR is and displays are better at tone mapping, HDR for gaming is not really a big deal. It adds to the experience, but it isn't very significant IMO.

Funny thing is, HDR has been designed to be viewed in a dark room.

It's both sides fault really. Consumer displays can't do HDR properly, devs who make the games are using said consumer displays that doesn't do HDR properly in the first place. Shit in and shit out.


Ask again in 6 months time.

Games still limited to 30fps.....

Not a good idea under the table. The PS5 is going to be a hot system even in open air. Put it on the ground, tucked away in a corner of the table - you're asking for trouble.

Sigh.

When the PS1 was first unveiled, people said it looks like a cramped boombox with a disc player.

When the PS2 was first unveiled, people said it looks like some weird cut out of a building.

When the PS3 was first unveiled, people said it looks too big, too glossy and people hated that they went with a Spider-Man font.

When the PS4 was first unveiled, people said it's a copy of a PS2 just slimmer.

Guess where we are at now?

The battery in Dsense is apparently only 1526mAh.

Get your wallets ready for 2 extra controllers again.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Aug 23 2020, 11:48 PM

Both, but it's really more of a cost issue.

Yes, selling more peripherals is what will make up for the loss in the console's hardware cost. Pretty sure both Sony and MS will be losing money on their console this time around just like they did before in the PS3/360 days.


It's not that simple though. The light bar hasn't been "minus" off, it's just been moved to within the touchpad area. There's still light on the Dsense.

I think the feature to take the most battery life is the haptic feedback along with the standard vibration motors. Sony will probably say that the Desense will support quick charge anyways with the help USB C, so you shouldn't have as much of a downtime as you would with the DS4.

Optical is dead. Move on guys.

TOSLINK (optical) is simply an outdated standard, it was made in 1983. Yes, it's nearly 4 decades old now.

The standard has been supported more than long enough already.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Sep 6 2020, 03:45 PM

USB and optical are just audio signal transports, in a digital form. They have no difference in "sound quality" if all else being equal. In fact, USB is theoretically better because it can transmit higher bandwidth than optical. The only advantage optical has is that it can be used for very long runs where as USB are usually limited to no more than 5m without a signal booster.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Sep 7 2020, 04:28 PM

$399 for digital.
$499 for disc.

Maybe.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Sep 13 2020, 03:37 AM

At this time, neither. Probably going to quit console gaming altogether considering how underwhelming it's been this entire generation.