But here we are, almost 3 years into the lifecycle of the PS5 and shit like the above still happens. This is footage from the PS5 version of wreckfest (which, I might add, wasn't a free upgrade from the PS4 version - another paid-for embellishment offering new features to soak up the power of the new console over the old).
V-Synch issues? Really? In this day and age?
Of course this is the stuff that PC gamers have been scoffing at their console brethren about for donkeys years now. I mean can you name a generation of NVidia cards from the last 20 years of gaming where V-Synch lock hasn't been an option? Even in laptop GPUs? Yet here we still are with a supposedly super-powered PS5 tearing its guts out when things get too busy around a corner in Wreckfest.
It's annoying, immersion-breaking and jarring and for most folk you instantly think "Oh shit, my console is broken!" when you see shit like this. But a quick google reveals that it's just the usual shitey development of a game that in all other aspects should be a showcase of what modern consoles are capable of.
It's not all games, but it's a worrying number of games that have engine tech that's just been ported up from the PS4 (an awful lot of games really are running on ancient engine tech that even predates the last gen).
We're promised lots of Unreal Engine 5 goodness in the current gen, but it's getting to a point where the lure and promise of games that look and play like that Matrix demo are a long way off, and we will never see anything as dazzling as that in a real actual off the shelf game. Some newer stuff, ironically the Resident Evil 4 reboot - another old game brought screaming back from the abyss, really does show off the tech of modern consoles but you've got to wonder where the true AAA eyeball-dazzlers are. It's all beginning to feel a bit meh.
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