Hello everyone it's SpawnPoiint and welcome to my first video of the year, and we're kicking
off with a long-term review of the PlayStation 5. So the PS5 launched at the end of 2020 but
i wanted to give you my updated thoughts, what i like, dislike, along with a few areas where the PS5
could be improved. Now during the last year we have seen a few updates in both hardware and software
including the unlocking of the ssd bay, new controllers and accessories and some much
needed UI improvements. So if you've not got a PlayStation 5 hopefully this will give you a
better idea of what it's like after a full year, and if you've got one already, let me know what
your favorite features are or if i've missed any in today's video. OK, let's talk about the games,
after all that's the whole reason we're buying a PlayStation 5 in the first place. And the ps5
exclusives we've had so far have been incredible games including; Returnal, Ratchet and Clank, Demon's
Souls and not forgetting Astro's Playroom. These have been really strong games to play and show
off how capable the ps5 is. I just wish we'd seen more exclusives over the first 12 months, i don't
feel like we've had enough but then again the first year of any new console is very similar.
We've also had some playstation 4 games receiving the ps5 updates, this allows them to run at higher
frame rates or better resolutions. These have included Spider-Man remastered and Miles Morales ,
Death Stranding, Ghost of Tsushima, Assassin's Creed and loads more. But it's not just about the new or
the updated games it's about how well they run on the playstation 5. once i finish work and my children
are in bed i can pick up a controller turn the playstation 5 on and be gaming in about 30 seconds
everything loads and runs so fast and smoothly the whole gaming experience is effortless and it's
rare that you're sat staring at a loading screen waiting for the next level or scene to play. The
fact that the playstation 5 is capable of running games at 4k hdr and 120 frames is insanely good
not all games support it but we're seeing more popping up on a monthly basis and if you've got
a tv or monitor that supports it you will really appreciate just how good the games look i'm using
the LG C1 OLED and the GP950 monitor both of these support the ps5's full specs and i've been blown
away by how good it looks now keeping the console and the games up to date has been really easy
if you keep the playstation 5 in rest mode like i do it will update your games while you're away
so most of the time the games are ready to play as soon as you switch it on unless of course it's
call of duty they like to push updates out just minutes before i'm ready to sit down for the night
but when you look at how many games are actually playstation 5 exclusives you realize most of the
games released in 2021 were available on the playstation 4 too. so if you've not been able to
pick up a playstation 5 yet there's probably only a handful of games you're actually missing out on
saying that this year we're going to see some incredible games released we've got
gran turismo 7, horizon forbidden west and god of war ragnarok.
then a later date we've got spider-man 2 and wolverine so loads of games to look forward to
let's talk about the design of the playstation 5. i know it's had some criticism based on its
appearance a massive size but personally i like it maybe i've got used to it having looked at it
practically every day but it fits in with my setups and it doesn't look so bad i love the
fact that you can use it both horizontally and vertically so depending on your setup or the
space you have available you can choose to have it either way i have it stood up on my desk and
i have it laid down under my tv it does come with a stand which you need to use to change
its orientation and this is how the playstation 5 can lie on its side the stand does what it's
supposed to do although i think it looks better without as it's a bit cheap and plasticky looking
out of the box it comes in white which is probably the color most have stuck with over the last year
i did customize mine with some dbrand plates just a few months after launch and that's how it's
remained ever since for me i think it looks even better in black it's got a nice clean and stealthy
look to it but the plates are very easy to remove they just pop off with a little force also as the
center piece is normally glossy it's prone to scratches and collecting dust whereas this matte
finish is so much easier to maintain and this is just a vinyl strip that sticks over the top
now dbrand originally launched the plates in black but towards the end of 2021 they released their
version 2 plates these offer more color choices as well as changing the shape of the plates and
adding a vent on the side i didn't think i would like them but you know what they actually look
pretty good but what do you think to these do you prefer the standard shape or do you prefer
this smaller rounded design but towards the end of 2021 sony actually announced their official plates
which will be available to order this month the first colors available will match the controllers
that we saw last year so that's the midnight black and the cosmic red i will definitely be
grabbing these plates to replace the ones i have as mine are lacking the playstation logo on the
side so one of the biggest selling points of the playstation 5 is the new dual sense controller
now when they first announced it i wasn't sure it would really make that much of a difference
but i can tell you now after more than a year of using it it is awesome it's noticeably
bigger than the dualshock 4 controllers so initially coming from that it did feel weird
however i really like it it feels nice in the hand and definitely has a more ergonomic design to it
i've actually gotten used to it now that the dualshock 4 controller feels way too small
so one of the features of the new controller is the much talked about haptic feedback
this gives you a kind of bespoke vibration to what you're doing in a game whether you're shooting
walking driving or jumping it makes it feel a lot more immersive then there's the adaptive
triggers which for me are a game changer the fact that the triggers will adjust to the task
or activity you're doing is actually incredible if you pull the trigger in an fps game you will feel
a slight resistance which is replicating the gun trigger the same goes for racing games if you're
accelerating or breaking you can feel it adapt as you press it i thought these features would
be a bit of a gimmick but having used it i think they are great but if you don't want to use them
you can switch them off in the settings something you might want to do in an fps game hopefully more
and more developers will include support for these in their games and they don't completely die like
they did with the touch bar on the playstation 4. so originally the playstation 5 launched with
the white controller but last summer we saw the addition of the midnight black and the cosmic red
then very recently sony announced the three new colors including starlight blue nova pink and
galactic purple i still think the midnight black controller is best but it's great to see we've
got loads of different color options available then we've got the battery life which is okay i
usually get between five to eight hours depending on what game that i'm playing it's not great but
as i've always got one or two controllers charging it's not a huge problem for me
the storage on the playstation 5 has definitely been an issue not so much at the beginning where
there were limited games but as i'm buying and downloading more i am finding myself having
to delete games the internal storage is just 825 gigabytes and only 667 is actually usable
so depending on the games that you're playing you can probably get away with installing about
five to ten games vanguard and warzone for example where they take up 150GB combined
fortunately there's the option to use an external drive i'm using a one terabyte sandisk extreme
ssd and that allows me to store and play my playstation 4 games you can store playstation 5
games on it too but you cannot play directly from the drive you need to copy the games back onto the
internal drive first these are relatively cheap but they will stick out the back of the console
then there's the expansion bay which playstation unlocked earlier last year after some beta testing
this bay allows you to now install and play games from an additional internal ssd drive i'm using
a 2TB sn850 from western digital it took about 10 minutes to install and as its additional
storage it doesn't replace the 667 gigabytes you already have this now means i've got about 3.5 TB
of available space of which i've already used 1.5 TBs for the games i have installed
i definitely shouldn't need to delete any games for a while but i still think a
2TB internal drive should have been included as standard. I really like the overall style of the
menus and the dash it's nice and clean and this 4k hdr dashboard just looks awesome i like the game
tiles the full screen wallpapers and the sounds as you move around the small playstation 4 and the
playstation 5 icons next to each game these are a great touch and it's something that we saw in
the latest update it's also incredibly fast and snappy when navigating the menus there's no lag
at all and hopefully something that will never change the quick actions you get when
you press the menu button on the controller are really useful it's a great way to check
for updates or move a game from one drive to another without going into the settings
the pop-up menu across the bottom definitely needs some work i like the fact that you can
customize the options you want to show and in which order but i hate the fact that
every time you press the playstation icon on the controller it defaults to highlight in the news
or the recently created clips you then have to navigate down to select what you actually want
but it is pretty cool that this little arrow icon that appears across the bottom is only
active when you're downloading or uploading something it disappears when it's not in use
but we've seen some great updates to the ui over the last year including the trophy list layout
when this launched it looked nice but it was far from user-friendly they've since updated it so
the trophies are now in a vertical list instead of using the cards and this looks so much nicer now
i've definitely gotten used to the party chat or the voice chats but it's still
not 100 percent user friendly, and one-to-one voice chats don't really exist like they used to
every time you create a voice chat with someone it actually creates a party chat
then when you leave that voice chat well the party chat is still there i've found
the easiest way is to favorite your most used parties so this way they are always at the top
otherwise they simply get lost in all the voice chat conversations that you're having
now the playstation app is great and it makes the whole gaming experience for this console even
better being able to search for buy and download games straight to the playstation 5 is awesome so
if you're away from home and you want to install a new game we just open the app and you can download
it the app is also great for notifications whether that's once a new game is installed and it's ready
to play or when your mates come online or join a party that you're a member of it would be awesome
if you could also share screenshots and videos from the playstation 5 to your phone this would be
so much easier than having to upload the content to twitter or transfer to an external drive
over the last year we've seen some great new accessories from playstation that includes the
new controller colours as well as the upcoming plates we've also had the new pulse 3d headset in
both white and the new midnight black color but in the last few days a playstation also confirmed the
specs for the new VR2 the new virtual reality headset for the playstation 5. and this looks
incredible the specs appear to be very strong it will offer a 4k 120hz oled display with a field
of view of 110 degrees it'll have eye tracking, haptic feedback, adaptive triggers and vibration in
the headset the fact it won't need an external camera and a simple one cable setup is awesome
at the moment the prices and the dates have not been confirmed but any guesses
i'm going to go with a september or october release at around 450. So i use the ps5 both under
my tv and on my desk and although it's very quiet especially compared to the playstation 4 is not
whisper quiet if you're in a room with no sound on at all you can definitely hear it although
i'm usually wearing headphones or have my speakers on i've never heard the fans kick in though even
after 10 hours of gaming but just note that when you do play a game from a disc or leave a disc
in during startup the drive does spin up one noise we still cannot disable is the startup beep
it's pretty loud and if you're in a quiet room or in the middle of the night it seems to sound
ten times louder it would be useful if we could turn this off in the settings. On the whole the
playstation 5 has been a great console but there are a few features i think it's still lacking
i want to see folders added so we can store or organize our games as we would like being able
to use dynamic themes or our own wallpapers would also add a nice customization layer we still don't
have 1440p support it's not a problem for me as my tv and monitor support 4k 120 but i know a lot
of people do use a 1440p monitor and finally vrr or variable refresh rate i know there are rumors
of an update coming later this year so it would be great to see all these new features added so after
more than a year with the playstation 5 these are my final thoughts it's been a pretty solid and
reliable console everything runs smooth it's quiet fast and looks great the new dual sense controller
turned out to be far better than i expected and the whole gaming experience has been great
the games that we've seen so far have been decent but the upcoming games will make their lineup even
stronger plus the fact that some playstation 4 games have been updated to run better on the
playstation 5 is welcome too so there it is that was my one year later review of the ps5 and it has
been awesome i'm looking forward to many more years with this console and the games it will
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