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
Mobius 1 said:
The dodge roll only seems useful when the enemy flashes blue ? Saying that, I’m sure you’re invincible when you dodge roll and turn red while doing so.. not sure
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Blue means you need to blink when your sword flashes blue, so dodge + forward which blinks behind the enemy.

Purple means you need to dodge + backwards.

You can perfect dodge any attack you want as well, like the rocks he chucks at you, or the charge he does at the start. If you hold triangle after a perfect dodge you teleport in front of the enemy and deal a heavy attack/minor stun, this doesn't share cooldown with your usual rush (hold triangle) ability. This is a skill which you don't start with though, but it's in the challenge mode as more stuff is unlocked there.

For standard perfect dodge I do find not using a direction and holding dodge feels better. But generally speaking if not having to dodge, I think I'd usually just parry.
 
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Uses some of your beta power though, 4 squares of it, there is a similar thing for perfect parry as well (counter port behind the opponent) but looks a little trickier to pull off for timing as you're not immune for long after a perfect parry.

The combos and moves you unlock look like you can chain together some very cool moves late game. I don't think you'll be forced to use every tool at your disposal though, but having more options is a good thing.

You can mess about with the skills via the practice mode within the skill menu, it's very handy. I didn't want to check out everything though because I wanted to keep stuff back for main game still.
 
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PS6 then maybe, be out on PC by then too hopefully lol.
 
Makes sense, the CPU is too weak and it probably won't have the GPU headroom to do 60fps at 4k to remove the CPU bottleneck, keep in mind that even when GTA V launched on PC in 2015, there was like one GPU that could do 60fps at 4k

That being said, if Sony can build their own frame generation feature for the PS5, then they can achieve 60fps or higher that way
 
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That leak was also referencing the use of PSSR, so even new upscaling won't help the PS5 Pro apparently. Frame Gen won't help here because the baseline pre-frame gen framerate needs to be at least 60fps anyway, unless Sony have some magic going on to mitigate render and input latency somehow (extremely unlikely) - Even with controllers this would be an issue, you'd be beter off playing at 30fps without frame gen as a result.

Given the specs leak, the GPU budget just doesn't exist to allow for meaningful frame gen on the Pro without sacrifices.
 
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I’m very cynical about the pro versions now.

I couldn’t wait to get a PS4 pro. All I ended up with was an expensive, big, power hungry, noisy plastic block that to me, was no different to the normal PS4. It was the most pointless upgrade I’ve ever made.
 
robfosters said:
I’m very cynical about the pro versions now.

I couldn’t wait to get a PS4 pro. All I ended up with was an expensive, big, power hungry, noisy plastic block that to me, was no different to the normal PS4. It was the most pointless upgrade I’ve ever made.
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Mine got a ton of use in RDR2, HZD, AC:O and various Yakuza games. That said, I loved the look of the damn thing even though I do feel it was a somewhat pointless upgrade. I think the only game that truly ran in full on 4k60 was Wipeout.
 
Kainz said:
Mine got a ton of use in RDR2, HZD, AC:O and various Yakuza games. That said, I loved the look of the damn thing even though I do feel it was a somewhat pointless upgrade. I think the only game that truly ran in full on 4k60 was Wipeout.
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Yeah, RDR2 and Uncharted looked amazing on the Pro, the Pro is what brought me over to Sony from MS.
 
Seen this afternoon that Dave the Diver is coming to ps5 on the 16th i think it was. Great game, will deffo be picking it up. Played quite a bit of it on pc, but would love to play again on the ps5
 
mrk said:
That leak was also referencing the use of PSSR, so even new upscaling won't help the PS5 Pro apparently. Frame Gen won't help here because the baseline pre-frame gen framerate needs to be at least 60fps anyway, unless Sony have some magic going on to mitigate render and input latency somehow (extremely unlikely) - Even with controllers this would be an issue, you'd be beter off playing at 30fps without frame gen as a result.

Given the specs leak, the GPU budget just doesn't exist to allow for meaningful frame gen on the Pro without sacrifices.
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PS5 is getting its first frame gen game soon, keen to see how well it works with such a low performance baseline


robfosters said:
I’m very cynical about the pro versions now.

I couldn’t wait to get a PS4 pro. All I ended up with was an expensive, big, power hungry, noisy plastic block that to me, was no different to the normal PS4. It was the most pointless upgrade I’ve ever made.
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I loved my ps4 pro. The higher game resolution on my 4k TV looked significantly better, checkerboard rendering was a better upscaler than anything else on the market and the ps4 pro was the first system do do HDR gaming which looked amazing on my 4k OLED.

If you feel the ps4 pro did nothing for you then I suspect you simply did not have a TV that could make use of the pro's feature set. The pro was a forward looking console and required a new 4k HDR TV make use of it. The ps4 pro was made to sell gamers new TVs

And it looks like Sony is trying the same trick again, the ps5 pro is designed to sell 4k 120hz and 8k TVs to gamers. This is why Microsoft and Nintendo doesnt really like mid gen refresh's and why Sony loves them; it's because Sony sells audio and visual products and they use mid gen refreshes to make people buy new Sony audio and TVs
 
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robfosters said:
Uncharted, my favourite game series ever. I was crushed when they announced there would be no more :(

I still hold out a faint hope
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Yeah same, I like a few Sony exclusive series such as last of us, but I liked uncharted the best because of the theme, nice settings, lots of action set pieces. I hope they make a similar series one day.
 
Grim5 said:
PS5 is getting its first frame gen game soon, keen to see how well it works with such a low performance baseline





I loved my ps4 pro. The higher game resolution on my 4k TV looked significantly better, checkerboard rendering was a better upscaler than anything else on the market and the ps4 pro was the first system do do HDR gaming which looked amazing on my 4k OLED.

If you feel the ps4 pro did nothing for you then I suspect you simply did not have a TV that could make use of the pro's feature set. The pro was a forward looking console and required a new 4k HDR TV make use of it. The ps4 pro was made to sell gamers new TVs

And it looks like Sony is trying the same trick again, the ps5 pro is designed to sell 4k 120hz and 8k TVs to gamers. This is why Microsoft and Nintendo doesnt really like mid gen refresh's and why Sony loves them; it's because Sony sells audio and visual products and they use mid gen refreshes to make people buy new Sony audio and TVs
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I'm sure the normal PS4 (and possibly the PS3) did HDR. I loved the few games I had that made use of it (think uncharted, gow, Spiderman and horizon).
 
Grim5 said:
If you feel the ps4 pro did nothing for you then I suspect you simply did not have a TV that could make use of the pro's feature set.
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I have a 4K OLED and I also think the PS4 Pro was somewhat underwhelming. When developers really made use of what it could do l it did deliver a lot of what you've said, but many games didn't leverage its extra power particularly effectively and even fewer games released before it were ever updated. It being stuck with the same glacially slow 5,400RPM HDD also meant that one of the growing criticisms of that generation - load times - wasn't improved meaningfully either.

The main thing quelling my excitement for a PS5 Pro is the concern that it'll be a repeat of last time; we've already seen how many PS4 titles weren't updated for the PS5, it's a near certainty that many PS5 games won't get updated for the PS5 Pro. It starts to become quite poor value when you realise you've only got half a generation's worth of games that might use that extra power, and that's before considering what the cost of it will be.

As for the PS5 Pro being marketed to sell TVs, I don't think that really applies given that anyone with an OLED budget buys an LG and everyone else probably buys a Samsung!
 
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