It seems fine and a reasonable step forward, unless "The last of us 2" is released as a PS5 exclusive only.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always wondered, which is better: a 7.1 system or stereo headphones with "3d audio"? And if 3d audio is so great, why doesn't everyone just use stereo speakers (maybe with a subwoofer)?
> I've always wondered, which is better: a 7.1 system or stereo headphones with "3d audio"? Stereo headphones all the way. You only have two ears; they can only ascertain direction based on a) the amplitude and phase differences between the sound reaching each ear and b) the frequency and time-domain filtering effects of your outer ear. These effects can be very accurately emulated using a physical head model or digi…
> Stereo headphones all the way.
I've done both, and (for me) it's the opposite. You're probably right for "accuracy of sound", but when gaming having a bunch of powerful speakers making sound effects gives a better "experience". :)
eg You can feel decent sized speakers with your whole body, which you're missing when using just headphones
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#33Interesting to see how/if the cable companies respond to the resolution wars - last time I checked the only one offering 4k was DirecTV, with everyone else still at 1080 Newer stuff upscaled from 1080 generally looks fine to my increasingly middle-aged eyes, but content filmed on older cameras looks awful at 4k (Law and Order springs to mind)
A good portion of cable isn’t even 1080p/i. Many cable companies squish things down to 720p/i to minimize bandwidth and shove more channels into their lineups.
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#34Interesting to see how/if the cable companies respond to the resolution wars - last time I checked the only one offering 4k was DirecTV, with everyone else still at 1080 Newer stuff upscaled from 1080 generally looks fine to my increasingly middle-aged eyes, but content filmed on older cameras looks awful at 4k (Law and Order springs to mind)
Streaming is where its at. Disney+ will be 4k hdr. All Netflix's own stuff is 4k hdr. And now stuff like F1 racing is also streamable in 4k.
Resolution isn't an indication of image quality. Just like megapixel chasing in photography. Sure it's 4k, but it's heavily compressed, just like the terrible audio quality you get still to this day. They aren't streaming you 100GB.
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#35It seems fine and a reasonable step forward, unless "The last of us 2" is released as a PS5 exclusive only.
I hope so. The first one was one of the greatest gaming experiences of my entire life. I don't want any tech watered down to support both consoles.
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#36It appears that next year Sony will be releasing a console with similar specs to the PC I purchased last year.
One key difference being that while the PS5 will be backwards compatible with PS4 games, any PC is backwards compatible with virtually every PC game ever made.
If there's a case to be made for purchasing a next gen console instead of a gaming PC - other than artificial reasons like exclusive titles - I'd like to hear it.
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#37It appears that next year Sony will be releasing a console with similar specs to the PC I purchased last year. One key difference being that while the PS5 will be backwards compatible with PS4 games, any PC is backwards compatible with virtually every PC game ever made. If there's a case to be made for purchasing a next gen console instead of a gaming PC - other than artificial reasons like exclusive titles - I'd lik…
What are the parts in that PC that can do 8K with ray tracing?
To start with, you’re probably looking at $399 vs $2k.
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#38Great to see we're finally getting an SSD by default in consoles. The only thing I'm worried about with this is the fact that high capacity SSDs are more expensive and with a push towards more digital storefronts, I'm wondering how this will work for the users. Then again, it's also a wonderful chance to push streaming, so there is that too.
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#39It seems fine and a reasonable step forward, unless "The last of us 2" is released as a PS5 exclusive only.
I hope so. The first one was one of the greatest gaming experiences of my entire life. I don't want any tech watered down to support both consoles.
Given how incredible the first game looked on the PS3, and it's performance, I have a feeling that if TLOU2 is a multi-generation release, Naughty Dog will pull it off without having to water it down technically. We've seen game-play, and it looks insane as is already, and supposedly that was on PS4...
Naughty Dog is the studio who can pull it off, on both PS4/PS5, or just PS5.
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#40The inclusion of ray tracing hardware is interesting to me, and sounds like good news to Nvidia, who has been pushing ray tracing as part of their RTX cards. Even though this uses a custom GPU, if consoles don't support ray tracing, PC games are unlikely to be designed for it, since most games have cross platform releases. It's also interesting to me that they're supporting the existing PSVR - The new hardware will r…
Ray tracing hardware being included kind of worries me actually. Unless they're selling it at a loss I can't see it being below 500 dollars with the prices of ray tracing capable cards being as high as they are.
As far as PSVR, the herculean amount of effort required to get something in the vein of backwards compatibility going between PS3 and PS4 makes me think it was designed from the ground up to work with basically everything PS4.