I'm taking the option to work from home today. Getting a lot done without all the interruptions from management and other workers. Good thing there is nothing else that could possibly distract me today.:)
My company has already sent all of us to work from home for 2 weeks. I am really excited for PS5, I hope I can afford it this time as I got all my previous Playstations as gifts (PS3 from my previous job hehehe) :D
Not sure of the length. But, if it's just the GDC presentation in video form, then chances are that it's an hour. Maybe around the 50 minute mark, as panels are usually that long. Sometimes, if they're keynotes, then they're 90 minutes, but this wasn't the keynote this year. Likely they had this presentation lined up, maybe with a little less flair than they'll do for a public viewing like this, and then a 30-60 minute mingling session where reps would talk with the devs on a more personal level.
This may be a dry presentation since GDC is a dev conference, but it is the official reveal of the PS5, so Sony may spice it up a bit for the consumer market. They've had some time to do that.
The 3rd party external drive thing kind of surprised me. But even said yesterday if they allowed it, it would require minimum requirements, and a specific form factor. You were also not expecting it, nor were many people. Not sure if I understood correctly, but sounds like it would replace the current SSD, which didn't make sense since I thought the chips were soldered onto the board. MS approach uses it as an add on to the existing SSD, so you get more space.
Was a pretty dry presentation, as I'd expect. Lot of interesting stuff if you understand the tech he was talking about. I imagine a lot of people won't understand most of what he said about 90% of the tech talk.
Was pretty obvious he's excited about the 3D audio, and while that's cool and all, and took up a good amount of the end of the presentation, it isn't something I'd put a high priority on.
While there was some good info here, especially if you're a dev or really into tech stuff and understand it, I have a feeling this deep dive isn't going to satiate a lot of the annoying, "why aren't they saying anything" criticism they've gotten the past few weeks.
Best part was his explanation of the SSD, and how it could be used to create games. The level design stuff was a perfect way to demonstrate why legacy support for the design of the game is not a good thing if you want to move into next gen.
Already called the SSD situation yesterday, and kudos for PS5 for using that idea, but it's going to be very expensive to use NVME PCIe 4 cards and they don't even have preliminary testing completed. Both are attempting to utilize that space for virtual memory, faster on PS5, much less expensive on Xbox.
@above, I believe he said they will have a list of 'officially' supported drives but otherwise if you want to use one not on the list then it must be faster because of the less number of lanes they typically use. Otherwise you know there will be a new round of drives made specifically to be used for this (with all 6 lanes). sony has mandated what the requirements need to be and right now only a few mfg can fit into that. More will likely come though, just as there will likely be other SX branded licensed memory cards and not just those from Seagate.
And rain, the M.2 expansion does not replace the internal surface mount drive. It only adds to it and is specific to PS5 games (meaning you wont be able to use USB for running PS5 games, only to hold them. PS5 requires the SSD or M.2 expansion to run games directly)
People down voted you wanting to see games. What is the world coming to. Even if they don't show games, which it's Sony so anything is possible, you shouldn't get roasted for it. lol
@ sampsonon. Dude he's stealth trolling and his comment is setting up his inevitable criticisms that will surely follow Mark Cerny's video. He knows damn well there will not be any games shown. This guy is a black belt in concern trolling, shade throwing and downplaying all things Sony-related.
I'm looking forward to know the specs and some of the cool features that the PS5 will have. Not long now
sampsonon, the downvotes might mean that they don't think many or any games will be shown today. Maybe it's just information on the hardware only. (I didn't down vote).
It wouldn't be a bad idea to show some games to demonstrate the systems capabilities. However I'm not expecting to see a ton of them. That will be saved for the launch conference.
HZD2 or Bluepoints Benchmark game would probably be great choices.
@AnubisG i ain't gonna lie I am very disappointed I didn't care about the specs I just really thought we would see something a tech demo the controller the console anythinggggggggggggg
It wasn't worth the excitement and wait. This was meant for developers, not gamers. It was so borring that I regret forcing myself watching it. I was hoping for a tech demo at least. But nothing.
Sony should be ashamed. The way they communicate their next gen system is horrible. While MS has show the system, the controller and even games. What exactly is Sony waiting for?
Because they lock the GPU at 2.33GHZ. HIs stated reason was to keep performance consistent since they're using variable frequencies to reduce power needs. There were a few points in this presentation where it wasn't clear if something he said was for explanation, or as an absolute. That was one of them, but from what I took from it was that that 2.33GHZ is the max. I imagine follow up interviews will clarify things. This is just how Cerny presentations go most of the time.
Wish the presentation was longer, those SSD speeds are really incredible!
Also, the way Cerny made it sound, CUs are MUCH more important than teraflops because it results in a faster GPU. PS5 could very well end up having better performance for most games.
3D audio itself is great exclusive feature for PS5.
Lol the sound stuffs seemed Gimmicky as hell to me. Like the fact they are talking about making tv speakers sound better and show the diagram they use and it’s a flat panel tv with speakers at the aide and how it sends sound to your ears. When there are like no tv panels made like that the speakers are all at the bottom of the display and skewed firing. It seemed really off. It’s pretty much a gimmick I think. There are already great speakers with Dolby atoms that everyone uses. This propriety stuff is all very secret saucy.
Expect the same console as x but mark using fancy words and fancy videos. Making fanboys think otherwise. Its all smoking mirrors. Hell even pc has a variety of specs from one pc to another yet over all its still similar
This presentation was apparently originally meant for GDC, in other words, for game developers. So I doubt it's just PR talk and buzz words. Also, Mark Cerny isn't even a PR person, he's the system architect.
Are you accusing Sony of using fancy marketing PR to make something that the other company has? I mean....isn't this exactly what MS has done for a good part of the gen? Like high quality pixels, whatever they used to call play anywhere or cross gen. Or what about that checkerboarding technique? Then, there was MS first talk about the XSX, where they pretty much just talked about what Sony had already talked about.
Yeah, the two system are very similar. Fancy marketing terms are just a thing that will always exist. What matters is that the information is out there in some form. Fan boys don't need fancy marketing, they will make up whatever sh*t they can to win their console war. Fancy PR just reduces the delay before they figure out how to do that. Otherwise, they need someone smart over at reddit, or an idiot on YouTube to give them their talking point for the next few months.
@Nyxus
I've been to plenty of dev reviews, and most companies still PR this stuff up.
I hope they have an affordable version up their sleeves, after corona has burned through in the world in the next years there won't be a lot of money left for expensive consoles.
i think that boost clock, it probably will run at 2.0 GHz normally so 9.2TF since Cerny mention variable frequency i don't think it will maintain that maximum clock speed all the time so github leak is probably true.
The day is finally here. Can’t wait!
Let's go!
Yes! As this reveal nears I feel more and more like a kid. Genuine over-the-top excitement.
One hour to go! Looking forward to hearing what Mark Cerny will reveal. The video is 52 minutes.
Starts at 11:00 PM here 56 minutes to go!