Play Station Official Magazine - UK (2019-12)

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50 WAYS PS5 WILL IMPRESS

“Ifyouwouldpouritspowerinto

graphicsit’llbethebestthatwe’ve

yettosee,”commentedYakuza

seriesdirectorToshihiroNagoshiin

a recentSegaNamabroadcastas

hediscussedPS5’sNavi-familyGPU.

Wecan’twaittoseewhatthis

developerdoeswithPlayStation5’s

impressivepower.

NEW GPU

Theinclusionof

anSSDandmore

space for game

assets means we can expect

larger worlds and environments to

lose ourselves in on PS5, so that

rumoured Horizon Zero Dawn sequel

is going to be epic.

LARGER

WORLDS

TRACING

(IN GPU HARDWARE

NOT SOFTWARE)

PS5 will perform GPU-based ray-tracing,

as confirmed by Mark Cerny in a recent

Wired article: “There is ray-tracing

acceleration in the GPU hardware,” he told

the website, “which I believe is the

statement that people were looking for.”

Ray-tracing is a feature that allows for

complex light and sound effects to be

rendered in a 3D space, and doing this in

the GPU means PS5 won’t be imitating but

performing ray-tracing. And EA’s chief

studio officer Laura Miele told Wired its

devs are: “experimenting with ambient

occlusion techniques [and] the

examination of ray-tracing shadows”.

& PLAY?

The inclusion of SSD loading, a 100GB

disc, and online streaming points to one of

the fastest disc-based consoles we’ve ever

had. “The SSD has me really excited,” said

Marco Thrush, president of Bluepoint

Games during a Wired website interview.

“You don’t need to do gameplay hacks any

more to artificially slow players down [or]

lock them behind doors, anything like that.

Back in the cartridge days, games used to

load instantly; we’re kind of going back to

what consoles used to be.”

OCCLUSION

The days of

counting polygons

in a car model or

scene are over; the

next gen is about

realistic lighting.

Being able to

perform perfect

ambient occlusion,

the ability to

calculate real-time

light, will deliver

photoreal games.

REAL-TIME HOME SCREEN

PS5’s UI will feature real-time

updates, news, and events. Mark

Cerny explained to Wired how

we’ll be able to see what’s

happening in our games without

needing to insert a disc or load

a game. “Even though it will

be fairly fast to boot

games, we don’t want the

player to have to boot the

game [to] see what’s up,”

Cerny told the website.

“Multiplayer game servers will

provide the console with the set of

joinable activities in real time.

Single-player games will provide

information like what missions

you could do and what rewards

you might receive for

completing them – and all of

those choices will be visible

in the UI. As a player you

just jump right into

whatever you like.”

ThenewPS5padwillhavea USB
TypeC connectionfor
fastercharging.Again,
‘speediereverything’is
thenextgen’smantra,
andthatincludes
devicesconnected
toSony’snew
next-genconsole.

FAST CHARGING

Sonyhaspatenteda voice-driven AI

systemsimilar to Google’s

Alexa,anda small hole in

thePS5’scontroller

hintswe’llbe asking our

DualShock 5 for game

tipsandmore. What

elsecould we talk to

PS5about?

LET’S TALK

?

MACHINE

LEARNING

“First, there was a time when graphics

improved, then there was network features,

and now I guess you can say it’s a return to

the ‘programmable’ era,” said Yakuza series

director Toshihiro Nagoshi in a recent Sega

Nama broadcast. “I think artificial

intelligence and machine learning will

continue to evolve.” This means PS5 could

track the games you play and how you

play, learning from your interactions to

adjust not only the difficulty of a game

but also its narrative focus.