A clean sweep of Sony news stories this week, as John, Oliver and Rich react to the alleged PlayStation 5 Pro specs and discuss the apparent debut of the Project Q handheld device in the flesh in the least flattering manner possible. At the same time, Sony is slashing the price on PS5 consoles… so could a new, replacement model be arriving soon? After that, there’s more footage from Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart running off a launch PlayStation 4 hard drive. Plus: are GPU teraflop metrics now essentially useless?
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:50 News 01: PS5 Pro detailed in new rumours
00:29:08 News 02: Big PS5 summer discounts: what could they mean?
00:37:48 News 03: Project Q handheld potentially leaked
00:46:09 News 04: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart vs PS4 HDD!
00:59:13 Supporter Q1: Why don’t developers include an uncapped mode in games, for the benefit of more powerful future consoles?
01:03:58 Supporter Q2: Are teraflop figures for GPU hardware pointless nowadays?
01:08:53 Supporter Q3: Could Rich be given the high-end PC version in system comparison videos for once?
01:10:49 Supporter Q4: Oliver operates in a totally different timezone to everyone else at DF. Is this ever helpful?
01:12:26 Supporter Q5: What are the benefits of playing on original hardware if the console can be emulated very effectively?