Next-gen games are unlikely to be smaller.

But I guess price is a big factor.

Still no look at the machine but here’s the controller which must means we’re getting a 70’s looking white/black combo thang.

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2020/04 ... station-5/

Fuck the visually impaired then, I guess.

How often do you look at your controller buttons?

I look at the Switch Pro controller buttons quite often as I can never remember which way round are the plus/minus buttons compared to the home/screen shot buttons.

But that's black on black so I'm not sure what my point is here? Maybe I should just learn where the buttons are?

Just noticed that the light bar is gone too. Doesn’t that screw up a couple of PSVR games, assuming they’re backwards compat? Probably only a couple of games though.

Additionally, we changed the position of the light bar that will give it an extra pop. On DualShock 4, it sat on the top of the controller; now it sits at each side of the touch pad, giving it a slightly larger look and feel.

How’s the camera going to pick it up on the sides of the touchpad?

How’s the camera going to pick it up on the sides of the touchpad?

How often do you look at your controller buttons?

https://twitter.com/Andrewsccll/status/1247933867186675712

Well, that's that ruined forever.

Oh no, all the PlayStation you’ve played in the last ten years ruined forever

https://twitter.com/Andrewsccll/status/1247933867186675712

Well, that's that ruined forever.

They don't need to announce or present fuck all. Open preorders today and sell 10 million

I mean, it would probably help if they'd announce the actual price.

Under £450 and I become a console pleb once more

Sony have said “...the best way that we can address this is by providing the best possible value proposition that we can... I don’t necessarily mean lowest price." It's also said it "will be appealing to gamers in light of its advanced feature set." Consider also that the PS4 launched at $399 in 2013, which is now the equivalent of $439 due to inflation.

I would guess at $450-500, with a direct 1:1 mapping to £450-500. I'd be very surprised if it was lower, and somewhat surprised if it was higher.

£425, says google

Wasn't the original PS3 stupidly expensive at launch?

£425, says google

Wasn't the original PS3 stupidly expensive at launch?

£425, says google

Technically correct, you say?

[...]yes.

I'll try to make this simple.

FAT PS2 has the PS1 CPU as an I/O controller, which acts as the CPU when playing PS1 games. It includes PS1's 2MB RAM. Meanwhile, PS1 games' GPU duties are performed by the PS2's graphics synthesizer in hardware (since it is a hardware successor - it is essentially eight PS1 GPUs glued together).

Here's where things get tricky. The slim PS2, like the fat PS2, has many different motherboard revisions - even under the same serial number. Slim PS2's I/O MIPS chip can still comprise the entirety of PS1's R3000A, sometimes with and without PS1's RAM, and IDE traces (30-second soldering can install an IDE HDD!).

But, even if the R3000A chip is included in a slim PS2, it is unused for PS1 games. It's only for I/O processing peripherals.

To run PS1 games, slim PS2 performs PS1's CPU, GTE (Geometry Transfer Engine), MDEC (Motion Decoder) and SPU through emulation on the PS2's CPU (Emotion Engine) instead. Hence PS1 games' generally higher frame-rates, incompatibility with PS1 and PS2 games which used the R3000A for I/O sound processing (or in Jak X's case, network data on PS1's RAM), and missing music and reverb due to the lack of PS1 SPU in slim PS2s.

Slim's CPU was overclocked from to 294MHz to 299MHz for this. Sony designed this for easier PS1/PS2 emulation in PS3

Under £450 and I become a console pleb once more

Looks like the PS5 announcement stuff has been rescheduled for Thursday this week

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 55936.html

Starting with GTAV seems a little last gen no ?