Microsoft recently bought developer Bethesda Softworks, which could mean preferential treatment on Xbox for franchises like Doom, Fallout, and The Elder Scrolls. And cross-platform must-play games like Call of Duty and Cyberpunk are still being released on last-gen consoles. Now, major franchises like Yakuza have expanded beyond Sony to Xbox and PC. PlayStations have always has exclusive collections of masterpieces, but that advantage is not as obvious with the PS5. But even without that feature, the DualSense feels right, and Sony was correct to focus its efforts on getting the most important component correct. One is Deathloop, which can block the trigger when your gun jams. But the most compelling use cases for this function are coming. In my testing, the effect wasn’t as magical as it was for other reviewers. In Astro’s Playroom, for example, when you become a spring, you can feel the tension increasing or decreasing in your index fingers. While most controllers just vibrate to tell you that you’re taking damage, the DualSense’s shoulder buttons use coil actuators to adjust their resistance. The DualSense’s triggers add a feedback variable. For longer fingers, like mine, the extended handles are a big help.
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After months of using the excellent (and $180) Xbox Elite Series 2, the DualSense felt more comfortable. The joysticks’ placement, the buttons’ feel-everything that has made PlayStation controllers fantastic is present in the DualSense. Quick sessions during a work-from-home lunch break are easier because of what Sony has done with its hardware. But for now, the console’s performance shines when you can go from booting up to actually playing. Besides, great games don’t need realism-take Among Us, Minecraft, Animal Crossing.Īs more titles come out, we will see developers wring more out of the PS5’s hardware. Besides, I think most of us would rather see performance bumps manifest in smoother animations and no-lag rendering. If we go any further, we’ll start approaching Polar Express levels of eerie realism. But I wasn’t in awe, not the way I was going from PS1 to PS2, or from Standard to High Definition. In some scenes, it is difficult to distinguish the cutscene from the start of actual gameplay. In Spider Man, you can see miles of detailed Manhattan skyline.
Not mind-blowing, but enough to make a difference for anyone with a narrow window to play. With Spider Man: Miles Morales on the PS5, the time from Rest Mode to my last checkpoint was just under 25 seconds. On my Xbox One X, loading my Witcher 3 save takes over a minute, enough time for a few email replies. In practice, the PS5’s load times are quick.
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Besides, if raw performance were the undisputed priority for most people, we would all would already be playing on a $2,000-plus PC build. I/O throughput, SSD speed, 8K support-bigger or smaller don’t mean better, especially if you are, like me, not playing on a brand new top-end TV. Storage: 825 GB solid state drive (SSD)Īfter months of comparing specs and reading expert takes, I realized: Stop sweating the numbers.Exclusive titles: Spider-Man: Miles Morales Horizon II: Zero West Gran Turismo 7 Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart.Graphics: 4K resolution at 60 fps up to 8K resolution up to 120 frames per second ray tracing.
Dimensions: 15.4 inches tall, 10.3 inches deep, 4.1 inches wide.Price: $499 ($399 for PS5 Digital Edition without a disc drive).But if video games are or have ever been a reliable source of joy for you, that beginning is already thrilling. Playing several pre-release games a few weeks before launch is circling the block with a car that I-and millions of gamers-will be driving for hundreds of thousands of miles.Įven months after these arrive in customers’ homes, it will help to remember that this is the beginning. Because Sony designed the PS5 to thrive and evolve for at least seven years, until the company comes out with the PS6. As long as you can find a shelf for it, how could you not? The games, the graphics, and especially that controller hit the balance of futuristic and familiar. In the few weeks I’ve been testing the PS5, it has met the high expectations I had for it. The PS5’s performance increases don’t mean hyper-realistic graphics, but load times and rendering are appreciably improved from last-gen consoles.
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The Takeaway: Unless you have a TV with HDMI 2.1 and variable refresh rate, the graphics boost will be subtle.