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Official PlayStation Next-Gen plans (2020, Wired Exclusive Article) [ Ray Tracing, BC, SSD, & more]
- Thread starter Wollan
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No, legit raytraced audio is something different. No games currently have it, only a few tech demos.
Definitely. Hard to believe this is basically an official reveal.
So you are saying Cerny is lying?
As Cerny points out, "I have an SSD in my laptop, and when I want to change from Excel to Word I can wait 15 seconds." What's built into Sony's next-gen console is something a little more specialized.
To demonstrate, Cerny fires up a PS4 Pro playing Spider-Man, a 2018 PS4 exclusive that he worked on alongside Insomniac Games. (He's not just an systems architect; Cerny created arcade classic Marble Madness when he was all of 19 and was heavily involved with PlayStation and PS2 franchises like Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, and Ratchet and Clank.) On the TV, Spidey stands in a small plaza. Cerny presses a button on the controller, initiating a fast-travel interstitial screen. When Spidey reappears in a totally different spot in Manhattan, 15 seconds have elapsed. Then Cerny does the same thing on a next-gen devkit connected to a different TV. (The devkit, an early "low-speed" version, is concealed in a big silver tower, with no visible componentry.) What took 15 seconds now takes less than one: 0.8 seconds, to be exact.
That's just one consequence of an SSD. There's also the speed with which a world can be rendered, and thus the speed with which a character can move through that world. Cerny runs a similar two-console demonstration, this time with the camera moving up one of Midtown's avenues. On the original PS4, the camera moves at about the speed Spidey hits while web-slinging. "No matter how powered up you get as Spider-Man, you can never go any faster than this," Cerny says, "because that's simply how fast we can get the data off the hard drive." On the next-gen console, the camera speeds uptown like it's mounted to a fighter jet. Periodically, Cerny pauses the action to prove that the surrounding environment remains perfectly crisp. (While the next-gen console will support 8K graphics, TVs that deliver it are few and far between, so we're using a 4K TV.)
Microsoft: Big plans at E3 for our next console !
Sony: Here's a tweet of a Wired article with lots of details lol
Sony: Here's a tweet of a Wired article with lots of details lol
Is it possible the new consoles will come out Spring 2020? It seems so early to be talking about them if they come out Fall 2020.
Oh damn, they're actually doing ray-tracing. Though it's surprising to see Sony talk next-gen this soon.
Nope. It sounds exactly like what we have heard from various sources.
I remember when ps4 was announced with 8 gb of gddr5 ram and how everyone was saying it would be so expensive. I hope the same applies here and we are all chuckling at the thought of it being a super expensive console.
What an anti-climactic way to officially announce your new system, haha. A far cry from the PS4 reveal event.
Hallelujah. The wording of "at least" gives me hope that the PS Classics store and PS1/PS2 support are coming back too.
Hallelujah. The wording of "at least" gives me hope that the PS Classics store and PS1/PS2 support are coming back too.
There's a big difference between saying vague specs in an article, and announcing details + actually showing what it will look like in a conference though.
The Ps5 isn't announced and we are still 1 year and a half away from it.
That load time improvement is effin bonkers
My expectations for next gen have been kinda destroyed. This is going to be a massive jump.
My expectations for next gen have been kinda destroyed. This is going to be a massive jump.
Not really. This is in line with what everyone anticipated. The speed of the SSD is the only real surprise.
Maybe releasing in spring then? Crumbs now. Full reveal in fall or early early next year like switch did.
PS4 BC is awesome, assuming it plays those games at the PS4 Pro spec and not the base settings.
Just like this gen:
Sony: We ain't gonna announce first
Also Sony: FUCK THAT NOISE HERE WE GO
