Hampy1972
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I would take that with a pinch of salt! Sony past with Backwards is quite a touchy subject. Remember the 1st PS3s released then they pulled the plug...I thought PS5 was confirmed backwards compatible?
I would take that with a pinch of salt! Sony past with Backwards is quite a touchy subject. Remember the 1st PS3s released then they pulled the plug...I thought PS5 was confirmed backwards compatible?
That does annoy me too (av receivers), but I’ll be very surprised if not, wait for CES2019, I’m assuming most high end TVs will have it this year.A lot of high-priced equipment is being launched soon, presumably intended to be used for years, and none of it is hdmi 2.1. I'm just a little concerned.
quote from Wired: "Sony has confirmed that the PS5 will be backwards compatible with your PS4 games"
And the inference is that you'll be able to download PS4 games onto it and install PS4 disc games onto it too, as well as download your game saves.
Ray tracing built into the GPU, support for 8K displays, an entirely new interface with the means of seeing what your friends are playing and joining them more easily and directly, a new pad with adaptive triggers and haptic feedback, SSD drive, UHD drive; it's all sounding good to me!
But PLEASE Sony, give us Atmos supported game audio!
If it launches with GTA 6 then shut up and take my money!
Oh god we don't want another boring Rockstar game do we?
Sony said their original plan was full backwards compatibility so that you can play a game on a PS4, save it, then continue playing on a PS5 and then go back and continue on a PS4 - completely seamless cross generation. This might be where they are having troubles but I'm sure they can sort it even though backwards compatibility is a very tricky thing as seen on other consoles.
Cost-friendly according to who though...?
The "justification" for the price could be along the lines of "If you have this sort of kit inside a PC it'd cost you £1000* so the PS5 is really cheap in comparison!".
* made up number
Cost-friendly to the mass market they don't want a repeat of the PS3 they learned their lesson, the mass market won't buy something that is deemed too expensive which at the time £425 for the launch 60GB PS3 was deemed too much.
Let's not forget a big percentage is parents buying for kids, that's why they went with £350 for PS4 at launch and why they will most likely go £400-450 for PS5.
I think I will stick with PC, I don't like how consoles mark up the digital side of things and the issues from a day one console.
You presume, that people all want to play UHD discs, as opposed to downloading them and / or streaming them...The Pro and no UHD.
Microsoft responds to the PS4 Pro's absent 4K Blu-ray drive
Does Blu-ray have a place in the streaming future?www.techradar.com
"Sony's preference for its own components appears to have backfired when it comes to Ultra HD Blu-ray. The simple truth is that the company's own drive simply isn't ready."
People prefer to have one box that does everything under their TV.
No I presume some people will want to play UHD disks...You presume, that people all want to play UHD discs, as opposed to downloading them and / or streaming them...
Which is also possibly dodgy thinking. A standalone player might have better quality construction, smoother eject mechanism, nicer remote, offer SACD playback etc. What it probably won't be doing is giving "deeper blacks" or whatever. A console and a standalone both read zeroes and ones off a shiny disk and then send them to the HDMI socket. That's it.A one box solution is great, but those that are AV purists will still likely go for a separate unit, at the best possible quality. In fact they'll have already had one, before the adoption into a console.
Me too. I bought a Pro and a Samsung UHD player. They sit beside each other.I was a bit pissed that the Pro didn't have a 4k BR player when I got mine (day 1), but the truth is, I don't believe I'd have actually put a 4k disc in it to sit and watch if it did have one. I get my 4k fix a different way.