I bought a PS5 and then forgot I had it – Reader’s Feature

metro.co.uk:

A reader admits to temporarily forgetting he owns a PS5 and complains that it’s because all its games look too much like PS4 titles.

A strange thing happened to me the other day. I was reading the news about Returnal cleaning up at the Baftas and I thought to myself: ‘That didn’t really appeal before but I guess I should try and give it a chance, if I ever get a PS5’. Problem is I’ve owned one since last Christmas, but I forgot and was thinking that I still only had a PlayStation 4. Which I think sums up this generation pretty neatly.

I’ll just make it clear that this isn’t a PlayStation vs. Xbox thing. I’ve never owned an Xbox and have zero interest in the Xbox Series X, which seems to suffer from all the same problems I’m about to lay out but even worse. I don’t say that in disgust at someone daring to have a rival product to Sony but simply because I’ve never liked any Microsoft exclusives, although I guess that may change in the future.

That’s not what I want to talk about though. Instead, I want to talk about what a massive non-event this generation has been so far. The reason I forgot I owned a PlayStation 5 and assumed (for a moment, it’s not like I’m senile!) I was still using its predecessor is that nothing I’ve played on the new machine has seemed in any way next gen.

Oddly, I think part of the problem is the ultra-fast loading for games like Ghost Of Tsushima on PlayStation 4, which completely undermines what is almost the only tangible improvement of the new generation. Sony still hasn’t explained how they did this and why it doesn’t completely negate the need for a SSD, so I guess that means they never will.

What it does mean is that if you’re already screaming at the screen, saying the super-fast loading has