MattSilverado

@Ichiyama of course, backwards compatibility is one of the key features.

I'm most happy with the rumored hardware specs (cpu, gpu, sdd, etc), and specifically the ray tracing acceleration. Can't wait for Naughty Dog, Guerrilla, Sony Santa Monica, and other genius studios to deliver their magic...

I've just read the wired article. The most important part for me, and I think it's important enough to have it's own bullet on the list above, it's the confirmation of GPU hardware accelerated Ray tracing.

As amazing as this looks for a PS4 Pro game, I hope ND can turn this into a PS5 masterpiece only with a couple of config settings. This one seems like a real candidate for some kind of ray tracing, but anyway we don't even know what kind of hardware support PS5 will have, nor if ND can do something about it with their engine.

I don't play any games since God of War. I was thinking of selling my Pro now and then getting a PS5... But I NEED to play this one on launch. On a side note, how it happened I don't enjoy gaming anymore? I only foresee playing Tlou2 , hzd2 , gow2 and whatever Uncharted game comes along.

@Imagremlin yes, the one first launched in the arcades? I loved that one. But then... All crap I think. I remember one for PC, and FPS around 1993... Then another on PS2..

Why on earth can't we have a good Terminator game? This one doesn't look too good...

Does anyone need to see anything from TLOU2 ? I can think 99% of gamers may or will buy this game day one no matter what. No gameplay? no screenshots? no nothing? It's ok for me, I can't imagine it being a bad game coming from ND.

@deepspace5d that's exactly what I was thinking... Just wait for ND to do their job.

@JayDub Kotor and we're done.

Oh God. Proper lightsaber action.

Amazing game... As long as I can play it offline, I'm mostly fine. Althought challenges were fun.

AMAZING !! and... that male voice, sounds a lot like our old friend, Max Payne.

I just can't get how NFS went from a nice arcade racer to all these weird incarnations... I loved NFS1 with it's point to point racing, with incoming traffic, why we can't get some kind of NFS1 reboot ? Or a StreetRod reboot ? ; )

Of course it is. Light is the only reason we can "see". Because of historical limitations or constraints in faithful lighting reproduction in real-time (say hardware raw power or whatever), other factors were pushed as "more important than lighting"... Now if some kind of real-time ray tracing can be done, I'll take it hands down before any other "feature" like 8k or 120fps... All considering that what can be done today with real time ray tracing is a little bit hacked but anyway impressive vs baked lighting.

@Dange my take is that azure is globally available and can't really be compared to gakai in terms of power/ scalability because it's on another galaxy.

Full VR support is what I want...

I think Alan Wake was the only Xbox exclusive I've enjoyed. The soundtrack was awesome, and altogether was like playing a movie.

It's correct, not terrific. Something about the combat feels strange. Still can be fun if controls are intuitive (letting the combat flow naturally, say). Then, lightsaber hitting multiple times on a spider without any visible damage doesn't look fine. I had a good time with Force Unleashed , and haven't played a StarWars game since , so I might have this...

Seems like a partnership of some sort. I would love a sequel to Alan Wake (loved it on my unfaithful times on xbox360) or some new IP.

@Knuckles-Fajita you haven't seen what a PS4 is capable of until you play HZD. ; )
And God do I dream about HZD2 on PS5... Literally since I started playing HZD day one.

@invictus4000 same here. Bought it last week.

Interestingly, I've started to dislike how much "guns" are around us. Kids play with guns, games have guns, you must kill people... I used to enjoy all that also, but... Yesterday I watched a video of Sniper Elite VR, and it has this kill cam that shows how the bullet goes through your target's head... not very confortable for me. I think I'm just getting older.

I don't have interest on PS Now, but certainly PS Plus needs to be improved... I don't know, maybe giving access to more games/all games for 48 hours each, so you can play/test them before buying or just not buy them if you beat them.

Haven't played any Sniper Elite games before, but I might get this one and an Aim controller also... I think it's about time ; )

I don't mind paying 500, 600 or 700 if the machine has not only "top" hardware, but smart/custom design to allow devs to do wonders with it during the lifespan of the console. I think hardware custom design (which a PC of course cannot have) is key for a console, like having those smart "tricks" that every dev would love to have without spending too much budget from every frame (like ray traycing for example). PS4 had a bit of those, like the unified ram, some custom GPU commands and stuff...

Obviously, Sunset Riders HD remix collectors edition at just $59.99... it doesn't includes anything but just the original ROM and an eye catching upscale to 340x220.

Decent... Nothing more. The worst this g about this game is not having lightsaber dismemberment, bodies cut in two , environment interaction like Sparks, deformation, etc. Isn't that the best of using a lightsaber??

They should schedule a monthly announcement per "PS5 relevant feature" ; ) , starting now... say "June reveal: PS5 has 24GB RAM DDR7..." : P

@Gumbopudding well, for sure the least impressive was the jump to PS4. But I remember seeing Winning Eleven 5 (the first for ps2) and I was amazed. As you pointed out PS4 and Xbox one are almost PCs, but with fixed hardware and a somewhat not so bloated OS eating resources, that's why we can get games like Horizon zero Dawn on such a "crappy" hardware. I guess the fact of "learning" how to max out a new architecture will be always present. Ps2 was a very custom hardware (hard to program but flexible and powerful, remember it had 32mb system ram), so as ps3 and even x360 (easier to work than ps3)... And then here we are with almost PCs. Funny thinking about the first Xbox, I remember when it was announced, something along a Celeron 700mhz CPU paired with ~GeForce 3 graphics... Nothing groundbreaking, in fact any PC gamer at that time would run away from a celeron CPU. But PS4 was to my eyes more or less the same as the original Xbox... unimpressive hardware specs, but with the hope of developers extracting every bit of performance from it. I do like to read game development post mortems, there you can learn many tricks they use for that. Anyway, a console is not a PC, even if they share a lot in common. PS4 gpu has a couple of custom mods that allows to shield more performance than a comparable desktop part, the whole system has an unified memory architecture (something PCs can't dream of, right?), and Xbox one had that embedded sram that didn't worked out but those "little" things are what can make a console last many years and still allow devs to squeeze a little more performance as time goes by. For example, I had a couple of chats with the engine developer at sucker punch (at that time the game was infamous second son) and he said the GPU compute power of the PS4 was barely used because it was so new etc, and they already had a lot of clever ideas on how to use the hardware... I guess ghost of tsushima will squeeze almost everything PS4 has to offer. But then if they release a ps5 version of ghost of tsushima, it will look nicer but "nothing else". Other improvements are not for free. I think you can get for free things like better resolution and frame rate, even texturing ... but it will still be a PS4 game. Improvements on gameplay that a new generation of hardware brings will not be available until say, HZD2 (with luck). I'm hoping the PS5 architecture to have a couple of smart design hacks to allow things really not possible on "standard comparable" hardware (say a powerful PC). Oh, I just remembered the Ray tracing stuff... That would be a real generational leap for fidelity, but you know that is so taxing that the first question is "how on earth raytracing is possible on a 500 dollars box with CPU, ram, storage, graphics, etc... Could it really do decent RT ??"
Ok. Lengthy post : P.

This is the usual comment we get before a new generation arrives. Every single time... Then launch games are not sooo incredible. The last time I was amazed was with the jump from PS1 (or PC for that matter, even with 3d accelerators) to PS2. Gran Turismo on PS2 was something else. Then you have an Uncharted 4 or Horizon, but not launch titles.

I'm hoping Microsoft unveils their next gen machine, because we already know something about PS5 and MS will need to show some strength there... more or less how they have done with Scorpio. And knowing how MS will build their machine can give more clues on PS5. Then hoping to see some good games, also.

@get2sammyb the thing is... There's no , how to say... Way to spot if something has been created with dreams or with a "propietary engine". The sounds and graphics of this creation can be easily mistaken as an EA game. I remember the early days of dreams, graphics were a bit cartoonish ... But now we have seen many different creations and it's mind bending. As you pointed, the best is yet to come... And somewhat obviously because none of the creations are "games" yet. I think Dreams is some kind of "accelerator" for game developers... you still need the talent and the ideas and everything required to create a fun game, but having this massive framework and the social aspect is awesome to start being productive from the start, and then some.

What the f€#@ !??? Sorry, but stuff like this ... What's the limit for Dreams creations? My first star wars game was XWing on PC... Seeing this made over a "game creator"... Amazing.

@Kidfunkadelic83 if you can try RE7 in VR... that's on another levelI. It's so creepy I don't have the guts to play it (and I've bought it). But being able to lean through a door, etc, is... fantastic.

@Kidfunkadelic83 ; ) Oh yes !! GT Sport on VR is amazing, also DriveclubVR and specially DirtRally VR (insane). Being inside the cockpit is something else. But please try also non VR racing games such as ProjectCars in theater mode (big screen)... there's no way back to a TV display.

I'm an early adopter of PSVR and I really like it. My hopes or desires for PSVR2 are improvements in resolution, controls/room tracking and wireless support. But having to choose, resolution is number 1. If the resolution is high enough, you can watch a movie or play any game in "theater mode" which is AWESOME but given the low resolution it's nearly useless. For example I used to play non-VR racing games with a G29 racing wheel and PSVR theater mode ... and it's literally mindblowing, and that's not even VR !!! is just so inmmersive because you only see "the screen" and plus headphones... oh god... but I'had to stop because corners can't be seen from far because of the low resolution.
Also, I guess having the PS5 more raw power will mean way better graphics for PSVR games, no resolution improvement, but higher fidelity/lighting/whatever... So I'm keeping my PSVR tight.

Seems like an action-adventure game ? I'm all in. Love the setting and ambient. Performance seems a bit shaky in the video.

Ps5 day one hands downs. BC has made that option a no brainier. A couple of months before ps5 availability, I'll sell my nearly immaculate PS4Pro and start saving for 5. Here in my country prices are ridiculously high... Expecting USD1000+ for the new bad boy...

@Dellybelly I used to love playing golf games on my PC back in the 90s, I think it was Links or Microsoft Golf... can't remember. So in your opinion this is a playable game, like... no control issues etc ? Thanks for the feedback!

Fallout New Vegas VR? 🙄

If it's Nov 2019 or March 2020, I really don't care. The most important thing is to deliver the one best games ever, again.

@Neolit that's it. End of the conversation. Then we will be ready for those ray-traced metal dinos from HZD2 !

Having BC resolved, I can sell my PS4 and pay WHATEVER Sony wants ; )

Ps5 has all the boxes checked. Maybe 12 cores sounds better but I "guess" Sony/Cerny know their business... The rest is supreme, as the psvr compat... Maybe with the power of ps5 even better experiences can be squeezed from the limited resolution of the headset ( that's what bothers me the most , and the lack of proper vr controls).

Well... Support for Ray tracing or having dedicated hardware for Ray tracing are different things. I hope there's some dedicated silicon for this. RT is a real generational leap in visual fidelity.

AMAZING. PS4 BC / PSVR BC, SSD, RAY TRACING !!! ... whish I could drop the caps, but... this is soooo right.

Not about being pessimistic, but the game should be almost "done" (all gameplay mechanisms in place, art, etc) in order to be able to ship on November... And showing no gameplay could mean it's a total crap... In my country politicians can get to elections and even win for president without ever saying what's their plan, or what's worse (and what generally happens) lying about it. Showing a game without real gameplay when the gameplay is already there really smells bad.

So it seems like the game is more or less finished... But we get no gameplay? I do want to believe, but yet can't feel the force on this one my little Padawan.

where did this came from ? amazing ! on my wishlist now...