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Dallinor on 15 October 2020
yvanjean said:
Sony's approach is getting really freaking annoying drip-feeding of content. Obviously, they have a Nice UI and are doing something good. The way they keep hiding and barely showing anything is worrisome. Notice, how they avoid showing any load time in today's demo.

Nice take away from the demo: they seem to have a quick resume system, like the picture in picture, and being able to see what your friend is doing, the UI was very clean and seem snappy. Not really a fan of the card system, seem like it will be used to push DLC and other paid content.

Looks like both Xbox and Sony are going to give their userbase a much better player experience compared to last gen.

It keeps excitement and hype high for the fanbase. Builds momentum and is arguably a better marketing strategy overall.

I wouldn't be worried. We've been hearing reports of Sony: Caught off guard by MS announcements, overheating issues, delays to 2021 and all other sorts of nonsense since February.

Turns out they had better showcases, they're more prepared with software and have put an over the top cooling system in place.

They actually did show Destruction Allstars booting up from cold in the video. Not sure what you mean there?



 

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PotentHerbs on 15 October 2020

Loving the design!



Dallinor on 15 October 2020
Runa216 said:
FloatingWaffles said:

the PS Store no longer being an app and being just a part of the UI is the best change imo, thank god because the PS Store on PS4 is ass and is so fucking slow

You sure about that? I never had any issues with it. PS3? For sure. The PS3's store was trash, but the PS4's was speedy and zippy for me. Might have taken a couple seconds to boot, but after that, no problems. 

The PS4 store is currently too slow and unpredictable- As well as joining parties and opening friends profiles. It can take forever. There are obvious bottlenecks.

Cerebralbore101 said:
Here's what I wanna know...

Can I remove programs that I don't use from my home screen? Are streaming programs like Netflix, and Crunchyroll going to get their own space on the home screen? Or will they still be buried in the "T.V. App". Will advertised games still automatically download, and place themselves on my homescreen, without my permission?

Looks like that will go under 'Media'. So you will probably press R1 to switch a separate page for all Media apps.



 

Runa216 on 15 October 2020
Dallinor said:
Runa216 said:

You sure about that? I never had any issues with it. PS3? For sure. The PS3's store was trash, but the PS4's was speedy and zippy for me. Might have taken a couple seconds to boot, but after that, no problems. 

The PS4 store is currently too slow and unpredictable- As well as joining parties and opening friends profiles. It can take forever. There are obvious bottlenecks.

I must have gotten so lucky, then, because my storefront is nearly instantaneous like 95% of the time. Opens up within seconds and very rarely lags once it loads up. I suppose I can really only go off my own experiences, but those experiences have always been neutral to positive, never negative. 

Dallinor said:
yvanjean said:
Sony's approach is getting really freaking annoying drip-feeding of content. Obviously, they have a Nice UI and are doing something good. The way they keep hiding and barely showing anything is worrisome. Notice, how they avoid showing any load time in today's demo.

Nice take away from the demo: they seem to have a quick resume system, like the picture in picture, and being able to see what your friend is doing, the UI was very clean and seem snappy. Not really a fan of the card system, seem like it will be used to push DLC and other paid content.

Looks like both Xbox and Sony are going to give their userbase a much better player experience compared to last gen.

It keeps excitement and hype high for the fanbase. Builds momentum and is arguably a better marketing strategy overall.

I wouldn't be worried. We've been hearing reports of Sony: Caught off guard by MS announcements, overheating issues, delays to 2021 and all other sorts of nonsense since February.

Turns out they had better showcases, they're more prepared with software and have put an over the top cooling system in place.

They actually did show Destruction Allstars booting up from cold in the video. Not sure what you mean there?

I wanted to ask him the same things since very little of what he said made sense, but I figured engaging him would just make matters worse. 

I also feel that 'drip feeding' us has been pretty effective at keeping the PS5 in the cultural spotlight...and yet despite actively googling things I don't know much about the Xbox Series X. I know some, but I'd definitely argue there's more information out there on the PS5. Sony has had more positive feedback, shown more games, had more good news, and more momentum basically since day one. As soon as the 'Backwards compatibility' thing came out, it's been one bit of good news after the next. 



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PS5, Switch, XSX

PS4, PS3, PS2, PS1, WiiU, Wii, GCN, N64 SNES, XBO, 360

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melbye on 15 October 2020

I see Playroom, the UI is shit



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PotentHerbs on 15 October 2020

I'm not sure if I'm interpreting it wrong but it seems like you can jump in any mode/level from the UI. That is a major QoL improvement!

IE. Instead of going through the boot up of a game, and accessing multiplayer modes in the main menu, you can jump straight to matchmaking right from the UI.



DonFerrari on 15 October 2020

Seems very good and with potential. But will I be able to completely block interruptions to my gameplay so those notifications don't show? Also they should have show how fast it is from cold start until you are playing the game.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 15 October 2020
shikamaru317 said:

Not a big fan. UI seems quite visually crowded, hopefully you can disable those cards or whatever they're called. Game help sounds nice, but being PS+ only and limited to select games kind of ruins it's potential, would be so useful for trophy hunters if it was free to everyone and available in all games, needing to look up trophy guides online would be a thing of the past.

Devs need to make the hints so of course it will be limited, to what devs put on it.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

S.Peelman on 15 October 2020

Ehh. Looks complicated.



Zombie9ers on 15 October 2020

The video already has 4 million views- the interest in anything PS5 is off the charts!