OPINION : Unlike my esteemed colleague and his opinion about thenew PS5 Slim , I ’m not at all certain that this new design heralds the end of game disk .
In fact , if anything , it seems to suggest that there is plenty of life lead in the onetime shiny magnetic disk . The fact that there are two alternative , one that acquit a physical UHD saucer and one that does n’t , is the same shape as when the original PS5 launched . That Sony ’s engineers and designers felt inclined to offer a modular design whereby that physical UHD thrust could be attached at a late engagement is very interesting .
After all , they did n’t involve to do this – they did n’t volunteer that choice with the original digital variant , and they could have keep thing the same , so why now ? The gaming market is moving towards digital / streaming and all the issues that fall with that , but phonograph record must still be relatively popular if Sony is making this move .
I ’m not as concerned in the plot linear perspective as I am in the 4 K UHD vantage point . 4 K physical medium will never be as mainstream as VHS and DVD once were . The PS5 was never going to have the same impact as the PS2 did with videodisc and over the year discs have become increasingly more niche – reflected in the ascension in RRP of Blu - ray discs and 4 chiliad players , with some movie studio starting to sell just the 4 K disc rather than box the HD Blu - ray alongside it .
But Sony has skin in this side of the secret plan considering they were involve in the development of DVD , and they created Blu - ray and the subsequent 4 kibibyte Blu - ray format . It ’s still a revenue watercourse with films , TV series , and games distribute in the format so it would n’t – at least in the near future – make sense for Sony to deliberately diminish that revenue current . The best move would be to give consumers the pick of stay with it .
And add to that that discs remain the right shape of dispersion at this moment . Not everyone has the bandwidth for 4 one thousand cyclosis , not everyone has the speeds to download a massive file , and cyclosis services offer highly effective but still compressed streams that some TVs canstruggle to make the most of .
What I would wish for Sony to do is amend the quality of the 4 K UHD player , which is n’t as good as astandalone 4 K playerfrom the ilk of Panasonic ( or even Sony ’s own models ) .
I also have a growing notion that Dolby Vision will be bestow to the specification as well – I just ca n’t see why theSony A95L QD - OLEDwould add together funding forDolby Vision Gamingand the PS5 was still without it . Given the synergy Sony is pushing with itsPerfect for PS5messaging and that Sony has been includingDolby Visionon its 4 1000 titles like Spider - Man : Across the Spider - Verse when antecedently they were being presented in HDR10 .
Perhaps I ’m reading the tea leave wrongly ( it would n’t be the first sentence ) , but it would be very unexpended if a Sony game console could n’t recreate Sony game / film claim in Dolby Vision on a Sony flagship OLED that supports the format .
Really , the addition of the ride is a win for consumers as they get to decide what they want from their gaming ( and other wake ) experience . It ’s not like Microsoft , who despite their denial seemed to be advocating a digital - only futurity . Sony has made a few faux pas with regards to thePS5that always seems to come with being the prevalent force in the grocery store , but this decision is not one of them . It ’s actually a rather bright one .
