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If you’ve read our PlayStation 5 review, then you know that we’re very happy with Sony’s new console. Despite the bulky form factor and somewhat dated hardware design concept, PS5 We were impressed with the solid launch line, with the technological equipment, including a high-performance SSD and a controller with features that can radically improve the sensory experience during the game, and for an agile, functional and elegant user interface. However, a note of bitterness remains due to a problematic launch, burdened by distribution difficulties and technical failures. For starters, at the time of writing PlayStation 5 is literally nowhere to be found: in traditional stores, to avoid gatherings in such a delicate period, it has never been put on sale, while online it has disappeared in a jiffy for reduced number of units available Yvery high demand by the players.
Among other things, retailers certainly didn’t stand out for flawless order management: Crashed sites, unexpected cancellations, and late shipments, in some cases, have further exacerbated an already difficult shopping experience. As if that were not enough, some of the players who managed to take over the console are also having a hard time, due to a wide variety of technical problems, some are easily solved, others are completely disabled. Let’s take stock of the situation and try to understand what happened with the launch of PlayStation 5.
High demand, insufficient production
The leaders of Sony have repeated it to us several times, and it is not hard for us to believe them: it has not been easy to organize the launch of such an important and requested console in a year burdened by a pandemic that has put his health on its knees so much. much like the world economy.
The Japanese company was unable to produce enough PlayStation 5s to meet the huge public demand, and on September 17, the day pre-orders officially opened, it took a few hours, in some cases minutes, to run out of all available units. A few weeks later, Sony spoke of a real record: it seems that more PlayStation 5 have been pre-ordered in 12 hours than PS4 in 12 weeks. High demand and limited supplies – a devastating combination.
PlayStation 5 was seen online again only on November 19, the day of the official launch, and only for a very short time. Some of the main retailers in our country, including Amazon, Unieuro, Euronics and MediaWorld, have made available a small number of consoles that, as you can easily imagine, have sold out shortly after midnight. -outside. Those who have managed to order a console will still have to be patient, as the delivery times seem quite long and some cases will have to wait until mid-December.
When will PlayStation 5 be back on sale? We don’t know exactly. PlayStation boss Jim Ryan was very frank in reporting that all available PS5s for the Japanese giant were sold. Chains such as MediaWorld and Unieuro invite all customers to continue monitoring their sites, implying that new units could be put up for sale at any time.
An indiscretion regarding Amazon speaks of November 23 as the day the console will be available, but the truth is that there is no certainty about it. We put some hope on Black Friday on November 27, but almost certainly distribution will not be fully operational until next year.
As always happens in such situations, it didn’t take long for someone to start taking advantage of it. the looting episodes There are many and they are well documented: both versions of PlayStation 5 ended up in different marketplaces at crazy prices, which in some cases exceed a thousand euros. A mean behavior that is based on the enormous desire of users. For our part, we advise you not to give in to temptation and be patient while waiting for new supplies to arrive.
Technical problems and unexpected failures
Once the difficulties in the purchase phase were overcome, some users have had to face a series of problems that plague PlayStation 5 hardware and software. As our noise tests on PlayStation 5, Sony’s next-gen console demonstrate it is quite silent And while the Japanese house engineers could have (and should have) done more to reduce the annoying sound generated by the installation of the disc, in general the noise during real games can be said to be more than satisfactory.
Unfortunately, some players do not share the same opinion, who complain about the presence of white noises and buzzing, judged very annoying, which overlaps the normal sound of rotating fans. The phenomenon has been associated with whine coil, a well-known problem in the world of electronics: this term indicates a slight but annoying hum caused by the vibration of electronic components crossed by electricity. Not all the white noises that the PS5 generates seem to be associated with the Coil Whine: For example, a gamer, annoyed by the constant humming, opened his console, discovered a misplaced sticker by touching the blades of the rotating fan. We hope that Sony is working to eliminate all sources of noise from future consoles.
At the beginning of the article we praised the user interface: if from a speed and usability point of view we have nothing to complain about, the same cannot be said for the stability of the system, which certainly needs some intervention. In the network there are several players who complain about an error related to the downloads that block downloading of queued games.
Caught in limbo with no apparent exit, these titles are not fully downloadable and playable as a result. Fortunately, while waiting for the problem to be solved at the root with a firmware update, it is possible to fix it with a procedure officially described by Sony itself, which invites reboot the PS5 into safe mode and rebuild the database.
Definitely more serious, since it is impossible to solve with an intervention from home, the brick that some players have found on the PS5. According to their reports, the console no longer turns on after entering sleep mode. The first PlayStation 5 firmware update, released even before the launch in Italy, should have fixed this problem permanently, thus securing our home consoles. Fortunately, we add: currently Sony cannot replace defective or non-working units due to a shortage of consoles that we have already talked about a lot.
The problems we have examined so far can be fixed by a few interventions in the firmware, with the exception of course of the white noise generated by the hardware. We are looking forward to the next software updates with curiosity also due to some shortcomings that, on the eve of the launch, we did not expect.
At present, for example, External hard drives cannot be used to store (not start) PS5 games, a feature present in the Xbox Series X and which is currently being evaluated by Sony.
Despite the presence of the HDMI 2.1 standard, in addition, PlayStation 5 does not yet support variable refresh rate: in this case it is a temporary absence, since its arrival has already been confirmed with a future firmware update. The PlayStation 5’s HDMI 2.1 output was also recently found to be stuck at 32 Gbps, which is less than the 40 Gbps guaranteed by Xbox Series X and the technology’s theoretical maximum of 48 Gbps.
This means that the PlayStation 5 cannot achieve full RGB 4: 4: 4 color sampling in 120Hz mode in 4K HDR, thus stopping at 4: 2: 2, a ratio characterized by a 50% loss of information. about color. It is currently unclear if this is a hardware or software limitation, so we do not know if it will be removed in the future or not.
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