PS5 specs revealed, kind of...

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Sony's initial intention was to push 3D gaming to sell 3D TV's, but actual 3D games were few and far between, WO HD in 3D on the PS3 is amazing

I found Gran Turismo even better in its use of 3D. There's less going on on-screen, so it's easier to cope with the 3D effect. The net result was that I found it incredibly helpful in judging braking points
It was the extra layer of eye-strain that killed 3DTV gaming for me. When I'm as focused as I get playing WipEout, I get to a point where I fail to blink properly. This type of eye strain is bad enough, but 3D seems to put a similar level of strain on my eyes, so it's a double-whammy. At least when watching movies it's only one of those things.

You had people complaining about having to wear 3D specs, yet now they are prepared to wear a wired VR helmet, go figure.

In the time I've had a 3D capable TV, I think I have watched maybe half a dozen things in 3D. My glasses require power, but the batteries were flat EVERY time I went to use them, and required a tiny screwdriver to change. That's never a problem for a wired VR setup. I know later models used polarised/passive glasses instead - I can't comment on those. But if you somehow had 3D glasses that fit over regular glasses (another problem I had) but your regular glasses were polarised, that wouldn't work. It was a bit too much of a house of cards to be consistently viable. Also while 3DTV will give you depth in a picture, VR not only gives you that but puts you completely inside the world. There's a massive difference between passively viewing a world and being part of a world that reacts to your presence. The barrier to entry is higher, but the reward for crossing the barrier is dramatically larger.
I really hoped to see more come of the idea explored in the PlayStation display that Sony put out (or at least showed) - they had the ability for two people to play at the same time on the same display using alternating frames for 2 player full screen without being able to see each other's screen. It was such a cool idea, and such a cool alternate use of 3DTV technology that never gained a foothold.

What I do find intriguing about the PS5 is that will still have a disc player, I know Sony want backward compatibility, but it makes me wonder might they help the cause of sales of 4K UHD TV's by also making the PS5 disc player capable of playing back 4K discs, and if it does, will the PS5 have Dolby Vision/ HDR-10+ ?

HDR is such a mess right now. I hope we see that landscape flatten out. Right now it feels like HD-DVD vs BluRay all over again. Are UHD blurays higher capacity? It won't be long until games don't even fit on physical media 100%.

As a side note to this, Sony had been advertising 'Days Gone', which was released yesterday, at the PStore for AUS$99 in it's most basic form, yet we have a retailer here in Aus that was selling the disc version for $66.....who wouldn't want a disc player on a PS5 if things like that keep happening.

I mentioned to you on playstation messaging that my bigger issue with the PSN pricing is that it doesn't drop at a rate that makes any sense at all. Horizon Zero Dawn came out in Feb 2017. Here we are over 2 years later and in the Easter sale it's currently $50.45, incorporating the further discount that comes from my PS Plus subscription. JB Hi-Fi (the same retailer you visited) has the same edition for $39, and that's not even a sale price. Compare this to the Steam approach, which has titles fall in price pretty rapidly and encouraged purchasing habits that have largely killed game piracy. I have to wonder if this is the result of push-back from physical retail so that they can maintain a used-games market?
There's no real reason digital should ever cost *more* than a new physical copy - the current situation is ridiculous.
For reference, while in AU it was $99 vs $66; it's $119.95 vs $95 in NZ for Days Gone at PSN vs JB Hi-Fi. Not as big a delta for us