What do you think of the games shown so far? Did they meet your tech expectations?
Imo as i said, HZD underwater portion looks good and the Stray indie game too. RC loading 'window' kinda surprising to me.
I have to say that some looked really good (GT7, HZ, R&C, Demon’s Souls, and Spider-Man looked great for early titles) others were not as impressive but there was a huge amount of titles captured on real HW...
If I get a lot more games than before and there is a greater variety in the games offering possible thanks to the greater specs or thanks to an easier to develop for HW then it is a good use of power too albeit nobody would generally use it to win a power argument although it is a very narrow minded thing.
If a developer spends less time optimising memory usage and disc accessing patterns and disc layout, etc... and makes a game in a year instead of 2 and I get a lot more games even if some are less impressive as they use the HW capabilities to speed up game development and design and not to drive insane visuals.. isn’t that a good thing too?
HW prowess can mean either incredible looking experiences or easier game development and this more games, what upsets me is sometimes audiences are so unsympathetic to the latter.
I did not expect all these games running on real HW and seeing so many games being seemingly ready for launch or just about.
I think Sony delayed their event for a month or more to make it a point of not showing games running on high specced PC’s with “in-engine” simulations of what the game should look like on consoles (what people used to call bullshots).
Now, are you going to give them credit for showing games running on real PS5 console HW or they should have sold you a better looking dream by faking it on bigger and more powerful PC? Did they do right by gamers taking the risk of looking less impressive because of this?