Ten things we love about PS5
These are just a few of our favourite things
The big boy is finally here. Now that PlayStation 5 has officially arrived at OPM Towers, it’s time to better acquaint you with its finer details. Measuring just under 40cm tall, 26cm deep, and 10cm wide when stood upright, it’s heftier than even PS4 Pro. It may not fit snugly on your media shelf but we think it more than deserves a prime position of its own. Here are ten things we love about Sony’s funky white box.
IT’S REALLY FAST
PS5’s curved wings conceal some serious power, all but wiping out load screens in launch title Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Hop on the subway in Harlem and, after a fleeting fade to black, you’ll pop up in the Financial District so quickly you won’t even have had enough time to sip your tea. There’s also no transition between finishing up in a closed-off mission area and busting back out into the openworld New York that lies beyond. With the death of loading screens, our games editor is mourning the simultaneous demise of the ‘soup game’ (that is, games that you can comfortably eat a bowl of soup while playing).
IT’S REALLY QUIET
The new console is a darn sight quieter than its predecessor; sequences that would’ve made an older PS4 sound as though it was about to take off pass by as a gentle breeze on PS5. This is due not only to its curvaceous form encouraging better airflow but also the variable frequencies of the GPU, which allow the fan to work far more efficiently. It’s a really smart bit of engineering.
ACCESSIBILITY
The PS4 era was one that saw developers and publishers finally begin to take accessibility options seriously – albeit with deeply mixed results. Most of PS4’s accessibility options have made the jump to PS5 but we’d like to highlight some particularly exciting new features. Alongside custom button assignments, you can fine-tune DualSensespecific features like the intensity of the haptic feedback. Voice chat can also now be transcribed and displayed as on-screen text. A screen reader is included, but this and voice chat transcription are unfortunately not yet supported across the board. We can’t wait to see these used widely.