Road to NextGen 2020
PlayStation5: the techie’s review
A strong foundation with room for improvement — what’s important to fix ASAP?
Sony’s new home entertainment system finally launched after a long waiting period of more than 18 months — during a pandemic, no less, which is something no other PlayStation had to do in the past. Still: it’s always a cause for celebration when a new platform promising countless hours of fun arrives and the PS5 promises that and more. Expectations are understandably high given the fact that its predecessor, the PS4, is the most successful platform of the previous generation, boasting a userbase of almost 115 million worldwide. So… well? Does it seem to be everything we’ve been hoping for?
I’ve been evaluating the PS5 day in and day out for the last four weeks or so, doing testing, playing games, using it as a media player in order to form a complete picture of the product Sony is offering. It is a powerful, ambitious device and, as such, it just can’t be reviewed thoroughly in just one article (well it could… but the article would exceed 20K words and it would be needlessly tiring). So, a three-part review. An assessment from a gamer’s perspective, a separate one focusing on the hardware itself and a different one dedicated to its use for entertainment purposes other than…
