EDIT: See the new specs here:
https://www.roadtovr.com/sony-playstation-vr-2-announcement-psvr-2-specs-field-of-view/
Original post:
Close to breaking news - if true - I just love oled so much more than LCD (well at least if oled gets similar ultra-low SDE like modern lcd panels):
"One important holdout remains: Sony Group Corp. plans to use Samsung Display Co. OLED panels in its next-generation PlayStation VR goggles, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Japanese console giant sold more than 5 million units of the original PS VR, launched in 2016, and is aiming to release the successor in the holiday period next year, the people said, asking not to be named discussing internal plans."
Depending on the panel, lcd could still have more subpixels and higher res (like Vive Pro 2) - there're tons of things we don't know yet. And Sony hasn't confirmed anything.
Red arrow marks the arrival (first impact) of PSVR2 oled 🙂
Synapse is a 9/10 to me - Sony just release a new trailer for about 45 min ago, so the trailer below is very fresh 😉
The game is repetitive like having to complete 3 sub-levels to proceed (or having to complete 3 mini-levels without dying). It's not that easy, at least not for me. You do feel like having real Jedi powers, really strange that other VR games never really exploited that. I took a few shots while playing the game to show you details you cannot see in the trailers:
Sunlight and the sea - the waves look quite good
You do have very high-res textures (see also the sand in the first image):
- but the Jedi powers are the most awesome part of the game:
The boxes are very hard - and can crush both stone and enemies. You can basically use a box like a hammer - lift it up and bring it down on an enemy repeatedly until the enemy is dead.
You got nice dynamic shadows and reflections are great too - see how the box is reflected in the ground surface:
View distance can be vast:
I'm not fond of the black-white color theme, but you're inside another person's mind, and it's said we dream in black-white, so maybe the lack of colors for environments is ok-ish...
I died approaching an enemy to give you these close-ups 😇
You have a gigantic number of upgrades available, and this is the game I'm playing right now. Maybe because it's physically exhausting swinging the sword in Undead Citadel and Grimlord... 🙂
I could not understand why Synapse was so hard - replayed the same levels quite a lot of times - until I realized I've forgotten to activate my upgrades! 😬 Well, I feel like a semi-god now with all my new powers, got quite a few 😅 - The game is much easier when you don't have to use precision shooting, but can just use eye-tracking to pick up enemies with your Jedi powers and throw them 100 meter away to their deaths.
Synapse, together with Call of the Mountain, may be the finest VR games this year (so far) - even if I do have much love for the Undead Citadel, Vertigo 2 and District Steel, but none of these games match the god-like gameplay of Sony's main PSVR2 exclusives, excluding GT7 and RE8 VR.
I met my first Behemoth today - and died:
Kinda feels like Quake with Jedi powers. The game is way beyond normal VR games, and really understands to give you powers that create and support a virtual reality.
Here I'm holding an enemy in the air while shooting:
- also got a medal killing 4 enemies with one explosive, lol:
I think Synapse, Call of the Mountain, GT7 and Resident Evil 8 VR are sufficient reasons to get the PSVR2. And RE4 VR may be a 5th reason.
