Road to NextGen Gaming
Ten Weeks with a PS5, Five Important Things Learned
Sony’s system is still very young but a few everyday-life findings deserve mentioning
So it’s been about two and a half months now since I unboxed my PlayStation5 and I’ve been using it every single day since then (as have other family members) for work as well as for fun (not related to work). When reviewing a consumer product of this kind it’s not unusual to find out or appreciate in a different way things that take some time to become apparent. Were there any such things in the case of the PS5?
Well, yes, they were — five of them, in fact. Here they are, into the context that 75 days of use can offer.
Operating speed cannot be overstated
It’s one thing to write about it as part of the overall reporting on a new system, it’s quite another to live it day in and day out for months: the PS5 is very, very fast in operation. So much so that it really does change the way a gamer uses it. Sony and Microsoft were not kidding when they argued that with their new systems they expect to see more user engagement based on their systems’ operating speed alone. With the ultra-fast SSD of the PS5 you just don’t think about the “getting ready to play”…
