Comment by ffsm8

Comment by ffsm8 3 days ago

You got a very "interesting" history there, it certainly not particularly grounded in reality however.

PS3s edge was generally seen as the DVD player.

That's why Sony went with Blue Ray in the PS4, hoping to capitalize on the next medium, too. While that bet didn't pay out, Xbox kinda self destructed, consequently making them the dominant player any way.

Finally:

> PS5 has been practical, it's just the technology/approach ended up adopted by everyone, so it lost its novelty later on.

PS5 did not have any novel approach that was consequently adopted by others. The only thing "novel" in the current generation is frame generation, and that was already being pushed for years by the time Sony jumped on that bandwagon.

MindSpunk 3 days ago

You've got your history wrong too.

The PS2 was the DVD console. The PS3 was the bluray console.

The PS4 and PS5 are also bluray consoles, however blurays are too slow now so they're just a medium for movies or to download the game from.

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ffsm8 3 days ago

You're right, I mixed up the version numbers from memory. I'd contest the statement "the history is wrong" though, that's an extremely minor point to what I was writing.

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musicale 3 days ago

> PS5 did not have any novel approach that was consequently adopted by others

DualSense haptics are terrific, though the Switch kind of did them first with the Joy-Cons. I'd say haptics and adaptive triggers are two features that should become standard. Once you have them you never want to go back.

PS5's fast SSD was a bit of a game changer in terms of load time and texture streaming, and everyone except Nintendo has gone for fast m.2/nvme storage. PS5 also finally delivered the full remote play experience that PS3 and PS4 had teased but not completed. Original PS5 also had superior thermals vs. PS4 pro, while PS5 pro does solid 4K gaming while costing less than most game PCs (and is still quieter than PS4 pro.) Fast loading, solid remote play, solid 4K, low-ish noise are all things I don't want to give up in any console or game PC.

My favorite PS5 feature however is fast game updates (vs. PS4's interminable "copying" stage.) Switch and Switch 2 also seem to have fairly fast game updates, but slower flash storage.

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