● The PlayStation 5 Thread - Astro's Playroom sells 10m copies

Wedgie wrote:Anyway, I hope this is true. Especially if you can download all your PS3 digital purschases.

I got rid of my PS3 ages ago, but have been adding the PS3 games every month in the hope that one day the PS4/PS5 would add PS3 support.

Moggy wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:If Sony aren't at E3 when are you all expecting the initial announcement?
Maybe about October so they can have 12 months to get people interested in PS5?

After winning this generation, Sony will become so arrogant that they will not even announce the PS5. We will just wake up one morning to find a PS5 on our doorsteps and an angry Japanese man demanding £500.

I'd be fine with that .

Peter Crisp wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:If Sony aren't at E3 when are you all expecting the initial announcement?
Maybe about October so they can have 12 months to get people interested in PS5?

After winning this generation, Sony will become so arrogant that they will not even announce the PS5. We will just wake up one morning to find a PS5 on our doorsteps and an angry Japanese man demanding £500.

I'd be fine with that .

Yes but that's because you are used to angry men demanding money from you in return for letting you play with their joysticks.

Moggy wrote:Yes but that's because you are used to angry men demanding money from you in return for letting you play with their joysticks.

Well obviously.
It's doing it on the doorstep that makes it so much fun.

Wasn't sure which thread to put this in, but here's a next-gen tech demo for Unity Engine

twitter.com/SUPERSONIC4k/status/1110916566231773185

Bear in mind this looks similar in styling to the PS4 devkit controller, the final version was more PlayStation in style.

Hopefully this doesn't push battery use too much, already disappointed with the Dual Shock 4 battery life.

If it's a colour E-ink screen it may not use all that much power but considering how almost zero games make use of the touch feature on the ps4 pad I'd rather they just get rid of it. It's a great feature in theory that just adds cost and power usage to the pad for almost no benefit.

The speaker is good though I like that when it's used well.

Speaker is good, rumble is good, otherwise get rid of the gyro and the light and the touch pad and make the controllers somewhat affordable so I can play multiplayer without asking people to bring round their own controllers.

A screen on the controller is just another gimmick that will go unused by the vast majority of games.

OrangeRKN wrote:Speaker is good, rumble is good, otherwise get rid of the gyro and the light and the touch pad and make the controllers somewhat affordable so I can play multiplayer without asking people to bring round their own controllers.

A screen on the controller is just another gimmick that will go unused by the vast majority of games.

If it's to be backward compatible with PS4 games then they can't remove a single one of these features.

I rarely ever look at my controller when playing, that isn't going to change unless they have naked ladies dancing on the little screen.

Good to see the dedicated share button (if that is what it turns out to be) is still there

NickSCFC wrote:If it's to be backward compatible with PS4 games then they can't remove a single one of these features.

Good point.

If it supports full backwards compatibility across the whole PlayStation family then I may well consider picking up a PS5 as my first Sony console since the PS2.

There has never been quite enough to tempt me into buying the PS3 or PS4 at the time but if I can pickup a PS5 and get access to the catalogue for all of those machines then I will be very interested.

Jenuall wrote:If it supports full backwards compatibility across the whole PlayStation family then I may well consider picking up a PS5 as my first Sony console since the PS2.

There has never been quite enough to tempt me into buying the PS3 or PS4 at the time but if I can pickup a PS5 and get access to the catalogue for all of those machines then I will be very interested.

In my least Sony-fanboy-voice possible - the PS4 is an awesome console and has a fantastic catalogue of exclusives, you're really missing out.

A removable battery pack and better build quality would be my only alterations to the Dual Shock 4. A controller really shouldn't be creaking but it's been a staple of Sony controllers since certainly the PS2. The Xbox One controllers feel a bit cheaper as well compared to the 360, but at least they don't creak.

Preezy wrote:

Jenuall wrote:If it supports full backwards compatibility across the whole PlayStation family then I may well consider picking up a PS5 as my first Sony console since the PS2.

There has never been quite enough to tempt me into buying the PS3 or PS4 at the time but if I can pickup a PS5 and get access to the catalogue for all of those machines then I will be very interested.

In my least Sony-fanboy-voice possible - the PS4 is an awesome console and has a fantastic catalogue of exclusives, you're really missing out.

Oh I know it does, that's one of the reasons why I can see me getting a PS5 - access to the PS4 library!

Right now I have very little time available for gaming and have more than enough of a backlog across PC and Switch to keep me going for a good long time so I simply can't justify a PS4 now. But undoubtedly I will gain more free time at some point, or finally run out of stuff to play on the platforms I have available, and in that case I can see something that offers all of the games from PS1 through to PS5 in a single package being a very attractive prospect!

Regarding the PS5 controller above, Jason Schreier of Kotaku -

Asked a couple of people who would know. They both said it's fake.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/next-g ... t-19278503

OrangeRKN wrote:Speaker is good, rumble is good, otherwise get rid of the gyro and the light and the touch pad and make the controllers somewhat affordable so I can play multiplayer without asking people to bring round their own controllers.

A screen on the controller is just another gimmick that will go unused by the vast majority of games.

Light and Gyro is essential for a number of VR games and makes it possible to "see" your controller in-game. Astro-Bot made great use of this.

Made good use of the touch pad as well.

So they need to stay.

But then I'd settle for the DS4 again with a better battery.

I like the DS4; a better battery life and perhaps slightly bigger Share and Options buttons would be cool. I'd be very reticent about a mini screen being added as the cost would rocket and battery life impacted.

NickSCFC wrote:

OrangeRKN wrote:Speaker is good, rumble is good, otherwise get rid of the gyro and the light and the touch pad and make the controllers somewhat affordable so I can play multiplayer without asking people to bring round their own controllers.

A screen on the controller is just another gimmick that will go unused by the vast majority of games.

If it's to be backward compatible with PS4 games then they can't remove a single one of these features.

True, although it'd be backwards compatible with the vast majority without them. If the console is backwards compatible with the controller then its not an issue anyway.

Doesn't matter as it's not going to happen!

Cheeky Devlin wrote:

OrangeRKN wrote:Speaker is good, rumble is good, otherwise get rid of the gyro and the light and the touch pad and make the controllers somewhat affordable so I can play multiplayer without asking people to bring round their own controllers.

A screen on the controller is just another gimmick that will go unused by the vast majority of games.

Light and Gyro is essential for a number of VR games and makes it possible to "see" your controller in-game. Astro-Bot made great use of this.

Made good use of the touch pad as well.

So they need to stay.

But then I'd settle for the DS4 again with a better battery.

The light is presumably one of the biggest detriments to the battery life. Yeah those things might be needed for VR, but I'd assume VR is better with its own dedicated designed-for-VR controllers anyway.