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Want to order the new PlayStation 5? Good luck

Today is August 28, 2020
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Want to order the new PlayStation 5? Good luck
If you were hoping to preorder the PlayStation 5 as soon as possible, be prepared to jump through several hoops.

Sony on Thursday opened registration for a chance to preorder the next-generation game console, but only select users will be invited to preorder. Which users? Sony's criteria are a bit vague.

Those who are up for testing their luck can go to this page.

Sony may be taking this approach because it's hard to anticipate demand in the current economic climate. It doesn't want to be stuck with a pile of PlayStations in the warehouse.
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PS5 and Xbox Series X can game in 8K resolution. Should you care?
The game is rendered, i.e. created or 'Built,' at a lower resolution, and then upconverted before it's sent to your TV. For example, the game is 1080p like a Blu-ray, but then upscaled by the PS4/Xbox and sent as 4K to your TV. In many cases there'd be no real difference between a '4K' game like this played on a 4K TV, and the 1080p version of the same game played on the same TV. Sony calls this Native vs Adaptive on the PS4 Pro.

There is only so much performance available, and if a game designer is chasing pixels, the game will have to sacrifice some other aspect of graphics quality - like texture, polygon count, draw distance or frame rate.

Faced with limited hardware performance, budget, time, personpower and countless other considerations, game developers might optimize their game for a specific frame rate, usually 30, sometimes 60, so it 'Runs well' on a console, but settle for a lower resolution than what's theoretically possible.

That's why very few games on the PS5 and Series X will render at 8K, even for 8K TVs. The majority will likely run at 4K/60, and upscale to 8K for the small percentage of people that will have 8K TVs now or throughout the life of the console.
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