The load times between PS4 and PS5 honestly aren’t much different. I got my PS5 and switched to it about halfway through Ghost, and while performance is remarkably improved, the load times are pretty much the same.

I’m on a PS4 Slim and the only loading screens that take any kind of time are when you first boot the game and load into it. After that there may be a few more peppered in, but for the most part, “blink and you’ll miss it” is the perfect descriptor. Fast traveling for the first time blew my mind. In most games you can…

Honestly, GoT still looks great on my Pro, but I imagine its breathtaking on the new generation.  Looking forward to a replay down the road!

Secondary pro tip from someone who also got their PS5 via Best Buy:

No shrubbery?

I wonder what science would say about me starting a game, deciding that the horizontal controls felt backwards, and switching back and forth between "normal" and "inverted" only to find both orientations feel backwards :p

You’re 100% right on that. AMD’s drivers have been a mess for a long time, where nVidia typically has fewer issues and more timely updates. I used to work at a gaming PC builder a few years back and my whole tech support team HATED dealing with AMD drivers - literally every single one of us had nVidia cards in our rigs…

Ooohh, look at mister moneybags over here. Joking aside, congrats on finding a card!

i guess since I’m not a Halo fan I can’t understand why the demo is so reviled. When I was watching it I honestly thought it looked really great. Guess it’s been a while since I’ve played. 

Wow, I had no idea this N64 launch title had such ambitious-sounding music. (I rented it once and got stuck a few stages in.)

It’s not as important as crowd noise, but some people do like seeing large crowd shots, even if fake, instead of empty stands everywhere.

Politics ruined your article

It was so unexpected. Because in previous paper Mario’s, your bob omb companion would always be okay. And then he talked about his friend. And their fuses. And the morality of a bob omb life span :(

Ok, but when can we actually talk about Bob-omb? I need to talk about Bob-omb.

There’s enough stuff, and enough different looking stuff, that I might end up being a two-system household this time around.  (The Game Pass doesn’t hurt things, either.)

Genuinely shocked I scrolled this far and this is only the second mention of Rayman Legends.

Maybe it really is time we stop giving white people who seek to weaponize the police against Black people cutesy little nicknames like “BBQ Becky” or “Central Park Karen.”

I would love a Capitol Ship mode. Where it’s the normal 5v5 but with a 6th player controlling a Star Destroyer or Mon Calamari Cruiser.

The Series X also has a crap ton of custom I/O hardware. There’s an entire massive, 100% custom southbridge chip on a separate daughter board that handles I/O, audio, etc... They are both using technology descended from the Radeon SSG (“Solid State Graphics”) to extend the addressable memory space onto the SSD. Aka,…