Another week has passed without a PS5 price as release date, but there is still some new information to share about Sony’s upcoming console.
This week we got three substantial PS5 revelations, all directly from Sony. On TV, we saw a commercial that explored the breadth of games planned for the PS5. On the PlayStation Blog, we learned how specific games will use the hapless feedback from the DualSense controller. And in an interview with a Sony executive, we learned that the PS5 launch library will apparently be the ‘best’ a PlayStation console has ever offered.
Here are the great stories you need to know.
First PS5 commercial debuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj6AUuRs1A4
While Sony has drummed most of its PS5 buzz online, there are still a lot of people watching TV. As such, there are still a lot of people watching TV commercials. Sony’s latest ad for the PS5 is a good, old-fashioned TV spot, which you can watch below:
In it, a woman travels through a variety of exotic environments, including an icy, cracked lake, a remote outpost in a war zone and a forehead cave. The idea is that the DualSense games of each genre will be made more immersive through haptic feedback and subtler button responses. While the TV spot does not show us any game material, it is at least a creative way to convey how playing with a DualSense can “feel” different than a DualShock 4.
Killer DualSense features revealed
As a companion piece to the TV ad, the PlayStation Blog ran a piece on how DualSense would improve a variety of different PS5 games. From Spider-Man: Miles Morales, to Deathloop, to Horizon Forbidden West, a number of developers have been waiting in line for DualSense’s haptic feedback, and how it differs from the simpler vibration offered by current controllers.
Some accounts were more accurate than others. Among the more interesting features, we learned that Deathloop buttons can lock when your rifle sticks, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart’s rifles can consume different amounts of ammo depending on trigger pressure and Astro’s Playroom can distinguish between different walking surfaces (metal, plastic, water) via subtle feedback.
PS5 launch lineup could be the ‘best ever’
Finally, we received an intriguing promise from Eric Lempel, senior vice president and head of global marketing at Sony Interactive Entertainment. He claimed that the PS5 “would have the best line-up we’ve ever seen in the history of PlayStation”, with both first- and third-party titles in consideration. He also hints that we’ll learn about more launch titles between now and when the PS5 launches (probably sometimes in November, though late October or early December would not be impossible.)
While Lempel’s claim is a bold one, it’s also worth keeping in mind that the PS4 was probably the only PlayStation console with a stellar launch lineup – and even that one looks a little less impressive in the back. If we get two or three solid exclusives, that would put it already high in the run-up to the best PlayStation lineup ever.
