At a time when the PlayStation 4 is taking its last breath, and after the overwhelming success of the 4th generation against its competitor, “Xbox One”, players around the world are looking forward to what the industry leader will offer for the next generation, which separates us from it a few months ago. Despite the strange silence of “PlayStation” in the past period, and the return of “Xbox” to its glow after revealing its upcoming platform, “Series X” and its strong specifications early on, “PlayStation” was not affected under pressure and proved that it knows when, where and how to reveal its cards.
Throughout the past period, “Sony” has reservations about its upcoming platform and has not shared openly about what it has in store for the next generation, unlike “Microsoft”, which revealed the shape of its platform last December and invited the most interested YouTube channels to try the device and how to build it and shared its plans on how to deal with the next generation. .
At the same time, we have seen from Sony only a picture of the PlayStation 5 controller and its new name, "Dualsense". And “PlayStation” announced the “Road to PlayStation 5” conference, in which Mark Cerny, the engineer of the success of “PlayStation 4”, revealed the specifications of the technical platform, which increased pressure on the “PlayStation” from its fans due to the theoretical superiority of “Xbox” in most specifications except for storage memory. On which Sony bet strongly in the next generation. However, numbers are not everything, as many developers expressed their great admiration for the specifications of “PlayStation 5” and the company’s orientation for the next generation. Where they confirmed that the speed of the SSD in the device will change the rules of the game. One of the goals of the PlayStation in the next generation, as indicated by "Cerny", is to completely get rid of the traditional loading screens that appear when playing the game, the death of the character, or the rapid transition between the game world, but even the design of the games themselves will be completely different, thanks to the fast SSD, the developer will not need To design the game world with narrow corridors and restrict the movement of the player in order to download the environment in the background as is happening now, but rather he will be able to download it with high accuracy quickly from memory so that the design of the world becomes restricted by the developer’s imagination and not by the speed of storage memory. Focusing on acoustics was one of Cerny's themes, as an audio engine called the "Tempest engine" was added, which will provide a real audio experience that affects the gaming experience. Confidence has returned to the PlayStation fans, but the latter has been absent from the scene again for two months, and discussions and reports are escalating about the direction of the PlayStation and the power of its device. And PlayStation announced on its Twitter account the “Future of Games” event, in which it revealed a group of exclusive and third-party games in which it showcases the capabilities of the “PlayStation 5”. The game Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart was the best evidence of the qualitative shift that the SSD PlayStation 5 will present, as the game reviewed the movement of Ratchet's character between different worlds rich in details and characters directly, to confirm that her bet on the SSD more than the number of pixels is not a losing bet. Then, at the end of the event, the PlayStation 5 “devices” were suddenly unveiled, in which they risked an unconventional futuristic design in contrasting colors centered on cooling fans, a white outer casing with prominent edges and a black inner bearing blue lighting tending to form the letter V or the number five in Romanian. . And another version that plays digital games only under the name “Digital Edition” is more consistent because it lacks a prominent disc reader.
With them, the PlayStation revealed a set of additions such as the controller charging unit, an HD camera, 3D pulse headphones, and the Media Remote. The design of the device received mixed reactions between fans of the colors and bold design, and those who hated the white color and the large size. After the recent event, PlayStation confirmed its strength in providing the best technologies for the gaming industry with the best games to showcase this technology, as the followers of the device’s detection exceeded, within 5 days, what “Xbox” achieved in months. However, everything has its price, and PlayStation did not reveal the price of the device in the latest event. Some reports indicated that the fast memory would be the reason for issuing the device at a higher value than the “Series X”. And in an interview with the head of the PlayStation, “Jim Ryan”, in which he emphasized that the focus should be on what the device offers and not on its price, which indicates that the traditional version may exceed $ 500, which explains the presence of the digital version, which may be issued at $ 450.
Abdullah Heneidy (Jeddah) @sen3bd