When you get a few years into a new console generation, you start to exaggerate how bad the last generation was. Those load times lasted forever! Those graphics were barely pres🌊entable! The DualShock 4 was as flimsy as crepe paper!
You get used to the new bells and whistles, and you forget what it was actually like to live without them. But, after a few weeks playing my PS4 again for the first time since 2020, ꦯI gotta s🎀ay, it’s still a perfectly fine gaming machine.
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My PS5 currently shut💫s off, mid-ඣgame, about once an hour.
The PS4 Stands Strong
I didn’t believe back in March, when the issues with my PS5 started to rear their ugly head. When I needed to send my PS5 in for repair, I brought out my PS4 primarily so I would still have access to a Blu-ray player in the interim. But, on a whim, I started Judgment on PS4, to see if I could wrap up Yagami’s story before my PS5 got back. The newer console end💫ed up arriving less than a week later, so my PS4 is still living next to my PS5, two generations of consoles side by side under my TV.
I expected that the load times would make playing Judgment painfully slow. In reality, they’re mostly fine, and I think there are a few factors that may contribute to this. For one, I still frequently play a last-gen console, mostly because it also happens to be a current-gen console: the Switch. Because of the disastrous performance of the Wii U, Nintendo broke away from the cycle it had shared with Sony and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Microsoft, beginning its new generation in 2017 when the PS4 and Xbox One were still three years away from retirement. That gun-jumping, combined with Nintendo’s predilection for underpowered hardware at a lower price point resulted in the company’s most up-to-date software currently only being available on tech that would last have been impressive in 2013. Longer load times and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:worse graphics are not solely the PS4’s domain.
I’ve also played a ton of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur’s Gate 3. That game looks much better than anything available on the Switch, but every play session begins with a load screen that lasts roughly as long as the . Fast travel within a region is nearly instantaneous but, if you want to he🌸ad from Baldur’s Gate back to the Druid’s Grove, expect more load screens.
The New Generation Isn't Quite Here
Between still regularly playing a system that hybridizes generations as much as it does console and handheld play, and a game I’ve sunk hundreds of hours into that loads like a last-gen game, I was ready for the PS4. It almost felt, weirdly, like an improvement in some ways. I had been playing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Yakuza Kiwami on PS5, which is a remake of a PS2 game and looks and feels like it. So when I switched to Judgment, I was surprised that Yagami could run into buildings without any load screens and was impressed by the quality of the lighting and look of the Kamurocho street♛s. The fighting was faster and more fluid, too. In fact, I’m less eager to return to Kiwa𒊎mi on PS5 after experiencing how Judgment plays on PS4.
It was a real wake-up call moment — despite the fact that I went through 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a similar revelation last year with my Xbox Oဣne. Console po✃wer isn’t everything, and the PS4 still has some life i♍n it.
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