Poll: *The Official PlayStation (PS5/PS5 Pro) Thread*

Will you be buying a PS5 Pro on release?

  • Yes

    Votes: 53 14.4%

  • No (not at £700 Lol)

    Votes: 210 57.2%

  • No (other)

    Votes: 85 23.2%

  • Pancake

    Votes: 19 5.2%
  • Total voters
    367
Fairly sure I spent £60 (or more) of my hard earned and saved pocket money on Street Fighter II Championship Edition for the Megadrive on release day when I was 11. With inflation that's £104...... I guess that explains why my parents tried to drag me back out of the shop when they realised how much the game I wanted cost.
 
So OLED owners, I just read this on HUKD.

With a thread on Reddit exploring and discussing further here:

reddit.com/r/O…smf

Basically, none of the current HDMI 2.1 panels (OLED or otherwise) have proper VRR implementation meaning that near-blacks will look washed out and/or flicker if frame rate drops below 120 FPS which is extremely likely with the new consoles, new 3000 series graphics cards and seen as a major selling point. The panel constantly outputs the right level of brightness for 120hz regardless of current frame rate meaning it will be too bright at anything less. If this drops to say 70 fps, the brightness will almost certainly be noticeably off. This looks like it cannot be fixed with a firmware update as it is a hardware issue that LG have acknowledged.

It is unknown just how noticeable this will be in reality but it is genuinely enough to stop me buying ANY new HDMI 2.1 capable TV until the next revisions and I’d proceed with caution if you’re buying in preparation for the PS5/XSX as I was. I have the funds saved for Black Friday but in light of this, can’t buy a tv that I’m fairly certain won’t be fit fo my purposes
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AS the black levels were pretty much the selling point for me I don't see any reason to go for it for a primary gaming POV. Or, does this mean only on games that run at 120hz anyway, and thus can be avoided by playing on a 60 fps mode which I'd rather use if it had improved graphics and therefore not much of an issue as 120hz titles will be very few and far between.

Seems all the manufacturers have issues with 2.1hdmi and therefore I think I'm going to wait.

 
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BuffetSlayer said:
Does not seem to be the case.

Main PS5 titles are ranging from 49.99-70.00 on the ps store. Might be £70 becomes the new standard but it isnt the case at the moment.
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Demons Souls & Godfall are the only PS5 games, and they’re both 69.99.

Everything else is cross gen so priced in the old way.
 
Chris1712 said:
Demons Souls & Godfall are the only PS5 games, and they’re both 69.99.

Everything else is cross gen so priced in the old way.
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That's a fair point. But cross gen games will surely remain the norm for a good while for many titles due to the vast number of previous gen consoles out there?

Given many titles are franchises, I'd imagine stand alone IP will be a reasonably low percentage of released titles until at least 2 years or so down the line.
 
Having secured my PS5 a few weeks ago I haven't thought about what games to pick up!!!. I give my PS4 pro to my daughter last Christmas so still got a few titles to catch up on.

Top of my list might be Ghost of Tsushima.
 
Bigpig said:
Having secured my PS5 a few weeks ago I haven't thought about what games to pick up!!!. I give my PS4 pro to my daughter last Christmas so still got a few titles to catch up on.

Top of my list might be Ghost of Tsushima.
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Enjoyed playing that, will be 60fps on the PS5 too with Game Boost
 
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JDR82 said:
Fairly sure I spent £60 (or more) of my hard earned and saved pocket money on Street Fighter II Championship Edition for the Megadrive on release day when I was 11. With inflation that's £104...... I guess that explains why my parents tried to drag me back out of the shop when they realised how much the game I wanted cost.
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That was likely with the 6 button mega drive controller, which was released at the same time.
 
Quinnaay said:
Just seen rumours 1440p won't be compatible, that's crazy if true.
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Just came here to say the same, this is reminding me of the 360 having a bundle of different outputs and the PS3 having just a couple.

Feel bad for anyone with a good 1440p monitor being forced to use 1080p on them :/
 
Quinnaay said:
For people requiring an optical cable for current headphones Astro released an adapter. Seems pricey for what it is mind.
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good news, obviously vendors will take advantage.

the good hdmi to optical units I found were just shy of £60.

Xbox boss admitted its only 1-2 usd to add the port, they think its better for people to spend £50 than them to spend a dollar :/.

Also I expect would be neutral cost if they removed a usb port instead.

Ok I checked it out, its another bulky hdmi convertor not a usb audio to optical converter.

£250 ouch.

https://www.astrogaming.com/en-gb/p...40-tr-mixamp-pro-bundle-gen-4.html#939-001661

Sometimes I wonder if the console vendors make deals with these companies as accessories seems a massive money maker in the console space. Also for some reason this unit is not compatible with xbox, so it seems its using something propriety related to the ps5.

The site doesnt mention if it downgrades the video signal (important as hdmi goes through it), so worth checking if it does 4:4:4 chroma subsampling, and can handle high bandwidth video modes. (many models on the market are 4:4:2 and max out at 4k 30fps.)

So they have separate pc4/ps5/xbox versions, no model that is cross compatible, imagine if you have both a ps5 and xbox, thats 500 notes O_o.
 
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