Mark Cerny?s technical PS5 presentation was not exactly the public PS5 reveal that fans were hoping for, but it did give us a better window into the mindset behind Sony?s development of the next-gen console. Originally intended to be a GDC talk, plans for the PS5 reveal this year have been quite obviously upended by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that has been at the core of canceled and delayed events. Whether or not Sony had originally planned a more ?public friendly? announcement is unknown, but for those watching yesterday?s talk, it quickly became clear that the subject matter and delivery method therein had not changed much from its inception as a highly technical GDC talk.
Personally, I loved the technical deep dive, but it left us without a lot of questions. Before the reveal, we put out a bunch of questions we wanted to see answered by Cerny, and as we expected, a large portion of those didn?t get answered (though a few, like improvements to game updates, did). The questions we are posing here are ones that we directly have regarding anything Cerny talked about, so while we?re still wondering how things like family game sharing might work, this isn?t going to cover those aspects of the PlayStation infrastructure. We know that Sony will start marketing those features later. The infamous ?how to share a game on PS4? didn?t happen until E3, just five months before the PS4 released (though without an E3 this year and social distancing in place, how will Shu hand Adam...