PS5 Just Got Voice Commands And They Really Suck Right Now
Sony clearly has some big plans for the PlayStation ecosystem moving forward. Earlier this week it confirmed the long-rumoured existence of PlayStation Plus Premium with the reveal of multiple tiers, backward compatibility, and streaming now included within your membership. Big changes are coming as it hopes to compete with Xbox Game Pass and Switch Online.
However, with big changes inevitably comes a few teething issues, and the latest preview update for PS5 has already made them very apparent. The user interface has undergone some subtle and welcome changes, such as incorporating the browsing of your downloads, friends list, and other social features under a single menu. It saves a few button presses, and helps in making the console feel a little more modern in terms of navigation.
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Improvements like this are amazing, and a natural part of a console’s growth as the launch hype dies down and the companies behind them are free to iterate. Unless you’re Nintendo, who I swear has done next to nothing when it comes to jazzing up the Switch. The world will have surrendered to nuclear oblivion before we receive custom themes and backgrounds on that thing. But for the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S: each major update feels like it brings something new to the table.
Despite all of these advancements leaving me with a warm and fuzzy feeling, I’d be a fool to admit that PS5’s new voice commands are any good. They suck, like a first generation of Siri or Cortana with all of the apparent kinks. At the time of writing it only recognises a handful of commands and will respond to the majority of queries by telling you it doesn’t understand you, or that the
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