General PS5 Stuff

I know it's bait, but I'm pretty sure the Switch has more new entries in most of their franchises than any other console. Even a new F-Zero, kind of.

Fates was terrible so we can discount it and Three Houses pretty much has three different campaigns

The PS5 Pro announcement effect

This is the next gens version of the remaster isn't it. Just upscale the same game forever and expect people to play them again.

I really dislike one of those games so there's not much hope.

Sod all the fancy ray tracing guff, if they can get it to run Bloodborne at 60 without any weird frame pacing I'd actually be tempted to buy the stupid thing.

It’s this generations complete nonsense.

I’ve given up trying to pretend I can see a difference.

I can see the difference between modes but, similar to high end audio, its actually remarkable how quickly you get used to something, so if its moving at 60fps I forget the missing bells and whistles in seconds.

And, similar to high end audio, I suppose its a component in a system and I would probably want to at least upgrade my TV if I got one because its an early-ish OLED sans a lot of more recent Technology and blah blah blah... so it wouldn't be 800 quid, it would be closer to 2k.

I only bought a 4k TV a couple of months ago, because my 12 year old one was starting to flicker.

This LG is going to see me to retirement. My eyesight and reactions aren't good enough any more for half the bells and whistles anyway.

It's pretty simple really. It attempts to simulate the way light rays work in real life, by sending out rays from light sources.

Games actually cast rays all the time, such as when firing a gun it might cast a ray from the gun to find the impact point (or to be exact normally from the centre of the camera rather than the actual gun) or might use a ray to know where a cursor is pointing. The difference for when you are using it for light is the quantity of rays that needs to be cast. That increases even more if you want to calculate how those rays are going to bounce off other objects or to handle reflections.

I don't know the technical differences, but there is also path tracing, which I understand is the same idea, but a much more accurate (and more complex) calculation to work all this out.

The end result of all this is a more accurate recreation of how light works. But, developers have had a lot of experience in faking this for a long time and the technics a pretty good. They aren't perfect and the seems can be seen if you know what to look for (for example, fake reflections, such as screen space reflections, can't be unseen when you see them), but they are good for most people and the simple implementations of ray tracing will mostly only be as good as what they are already doing for much less computing time.

With it all maxed out it can look fantastic, such as in Cyberpunk 2077 and Alan Wake 2 (both using the more advanced path tracing). A Pro might be able to do that with all the AI upscaling enabled, but it would probably need frame generation as well as AI upscaling for it to be playable.

Yeah. Here is an image of what it looks like before reconstruction is done. It isn't from a game, but you get the idea of what gaps need to be filled in.

I switched from a 720p Panasonic Plasma to an LG C2 earlier this year (or late last year, can't remember) and it's the biggest shift in fidelity I've seen since the jump from Saturn/PS1 to Dreamcast/PS2.

Very almost bought a 55" LG C3 during Amazon Prime. I currently have a 5-year old 49" Sony XF9005, which seemed to be pretty much the best non-OLED you could get, at the time. Waited until the second Prime Day, only to find they didn't have anymore at the discounted price. I did see John Lewis matched the price, but I had already decided not to bother.

Could be tempted again when Black Friday rolls around, but my TV is still pretty good. It isn't OLED good, but it does give a very natural picture. Improved HDR would be the main benefit, but I would need a decent 4k player to get the most from that (and the PS5 - Pro or not - isn't that player). VRR and 120hz would be nice, particularly as I am using my PC on the TV more since getting a 4090, but don't know if it would make that much of a difference.

Trump voters would've been all over it then, it would have been their only chance to truly own something that looked like it came straight out of Trump Tower's toilets