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The PS5 feels next-gen to me, rather than current gen, lol
Probably because I was a late adopter to the prior gen, and I don't have a current gen console (just a PC).
To me the PS5 feels like PS4.5 at most.
The box even says “8K capable” and they promised an amazing 4K-8K 120hz raytracing heaven before release. Every time I see the box or watch old presentation videos I feel scammed.
Because in reality almost all games have a pathetic “slow mode with higher res” (often 30 fps!) or “fast mode with previous generation graphics and resolution” (usually some variable upscaled mess and far from native 4K).
It’s still a decent machine (I like it being silent a lot, load times are also quite good) and I enjoy gaming regardless of performance BUT their promises were nothing but a marketing scam. It feels far from “next generation” to me.
(Same goes for Xbox Series X of course, it’s just as bad in this sense.)
We should see an improvement in game quality for the platform once last-gen sales drop off enough that developers only need to target current-gen.
Right now any game that comes out for both PS4+5 is bottlenecked by PS4 memory and performance, with only easy wins taken for PS5 like higher quality assets and faster IO/FPS.
Designing a game for current-gen platforms from the ground up is when we'll start to see some more impressive features, but there's still money on the table for PS4 so it'll be a few years (IMHO) before we see PS5 exclusives as the norm.
What I really read when you write that is "By the time the earnest benefits of the PS5 platform are realized, they'll be selling PS5 Pro's to brute force improvements".
I'm not so sure, there are already pure PS5/XSX games and they are not THAT impressive. Also as someone else commented, once they reach that time there will be a PS5 Pro. This entire generation is a disappointing mess.