well the "bad news" that its going to be expensive probably, as that recent Jim interview also seems to indicate from his words
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DF Direct - PlayStation 5 Reveal Analysis + Reaction!
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well the "bad news" that its going to be expensive probably, as that recent Jim interview also seems to indicate from his words
Or they're just waiting for MS to disclose their price first then adjust accordingly. This strat makes the most sense IMO because MS was probably expecting a Sony price announcement from this showcase.
sure, it totally looks like a "who blinks first" thing but im still expecting 500 if not 600. For the record im also expecting that from the SX so its bad news all around for me lol
As we know now Demon's Souls comes with two graphical modes which are one that favors fidelity (including ray-tracing) and another that favors framerate.
You can't do the sort of content they do without seemingly pleasing console warriors. It's something that John has commented on before. He's not a fan of it that's why he does the retro/indy vids.
This video is just their reactions with analysis thrown in.
It's the actual press conference and they just talk over it. So more actual post show reactions. They seem to think the disc slot is an afterthought given how the digital version is symmetrical, and that unless Sony take a massive loss removing the drive will only save about $30 in value for them
that's always gonna be the first thing to go. now they can better IQ while retain stable performance. it's just not worth going 4K
On the technical side, most things are 4K native, 30fps. They seemed pleasantly surprised to see ray tracing mixed in at that resolution across a number of titles, sounds like that was a surprise. Horizon and Ratchet seemed to be particular highlights for them. Among the indie games, Stray and Kena got some love.
Even after all this time. That man is emperor of the trolls.
A master of the craft, that fooled everyone.
I mostly agree with their points of view, except for one little caveat: I think this presentation would still be quite good without the heavy hitters from first-party studios. Of course, disappointment would have followed at a massive scale because it was time after a long silence from those teams to reappear. But you take the list of people invited, all the indie talent and partners such as Capcom or Bethesda, and it is a really good collection of developers. Even the weirdest game like Bugsnax has some history or pedigree behind it.
I (and I'm sure everyone) can express some disappointment in that the main stream was in low-bitrate 1080p30 but they didn't seem to mention much that the majority of games had 4K trailers (including 60fps where applicable like GodFall, Sackboy, Gran Turismo etc) uploaded after so it shouldn't be that much of a mystery what each game targets. They went through pixel counting (which must have used the individual 4K trailers) so I was a bit confused.
I'm a bit surprised though that most of the games here are 'throwing away performance' by going native 4K.
Too much 30fps targets overall. I hope several of these games gain dual graphical options by release.
Surprising amounts of games using ray-tracing in some form (again though, I would happily trade it for higher framerates).
I'm a bit surprised though that most of the games here are 'throwing away performance' by going native 4K.
Too much 30fps targets overall. I hope several of these games gain dual graphical options by release.
Surprising amounts of games using ray-tracing in some form (again though, I would happily trade it for higher framerates).
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Not sure how I feel about this. I think reconstructed could look awesome at those types of resolutions but that's probably what we'll be seeing as we progress down the road.
But the Horizon and R&C insane IQ looks reasonable with native 4K + probably some type of awesome temporal AA.
Then why even bother with new systems if you dont want devs to use it the way they want too?
There are other things to improve on. 1440p with cbr is good enough
As visually impressive games as Horizon, Ratchet and Clank and Kena in native 4K, wow! We are off to a great start next gen.
At the least I hope they offer "performance modes" that have a lower res, i.e 1440p, in exchange for higher framerates and/or better effects.
It does speak well for the headroom that might be available with reconstruction. I'm looking forward to that too, though it's hard to complain for now when the results are this good anyway, in the case of horizon and ratchet in particular.
they probably aren't using all the fancy features. or are cross gen
Reconstructed 4k30 with no RT is an incredibly low bar. I mean most current gen games are capable of that and many exceed it. Not sure why you wouldn't expect things to improve with next-gen hardware.
Honestly surprised that so much stuff is native 4k. Seems like a waste of resources to me. Rather they lower the res and use reconstruction so they have extra power to spare on bells and whistles.