The PS5 ranting on the podcast was a bummer. I legitimately don't even understand what the gripe is. Or rather, I don't know what specifically Sony was supposed to do differently. The tweets were clear. The first thing out of Jim Ryan's mouth on the video was that it's their GDC presentation. I don't know what Jones was wanting them to do. Not put up their talk for developers because it's going to make podcasters mildly annoyed? Love the crew but this was really bizarre. Poor Huber though. The only person who seemed to get it.
I think it's because, outside of the Wired Article and the Playstation Blog post, which I don't really count as presenting anyway, this is the first time that Sony has even tried to present the PS5 at all, and that, in his opinion, that should be a presentation geared towards the general consumer.
By itself, I don't think anyone, apart from Ian which I didn't get, is arguing that the presentation was poorly done or misrepresented. They clearly told people it was a techy / architecture presentation, and told the audience there wouldn't be any games from the top. I don't understand what else they should be expected to do.
But back to the point, there's a great section where Brandon points out some really great points. About how they talk about Backwards Compatibility but the graphic they choose to use leaves a bunch of room where the mind logically fills out PS3, 2, 1. How they choose to use wiremeshes of the console form factors to present them in a graphic but then only show the PS5 logo.
I
loved that presentation. Loved it. But not only does the general consumer not understand what they can expect from the PS5 apart from new hardware yet, but they're, intentionally or not, rubbing it in peoples faces.
Why not make all of the images logos? Why not just change the graphic for the GPU so it only fits in PS5, PS4 Pro, and PS4?
They needed to have had a reveal of some kind already. Just some sort of tease, which, like Jones says, will show consumers the emotional, dramatic experiences they can expect to have with this new console.
Microsoft's marketing is just far and away better, and the tone-deafness of the presentation only amplifies how much of a gap there is.
