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Sony shared first look at next-gen PS5 user experience [video]

Feast your eyes on the upgraded UX, the system that will make PS5 gameplay feel ‘truly next-generation’.

Playstation 5 PS5 user experience UX

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Sony finally revealed the PS5 user experience (UX) features, specifically the Control Center, Activities, and Game Help. Here’s what Hideaki Nishino, Platform Planning & Management Senior VP, had to say.

The clock is ticking and we have less than a month to go until Sony releases the much-anticipated next-gen PlayStation 5 consoles. There’s nothing to do but wait and feast our eyes on the upgraded UX.

“The new UX is completely centred on the player: to provide you with a truly next-generation experience with deeper immersion that quickly connects you to great games and a passionate gaming community”.

Hideaki Nishino

PS5 user experience (UX) – What to expect

Improve gaming experiences

According to Nishino, his team believes that our “playtime is valuable and should be meaningful”. Therefore, all the new features coming to the PS5 are “inspired by that concept and vision”.

For starters, several new features were created to improve our gaming experiences: In Nishino’s words, it will now be “more fun, engaging, personalised and social” with the new Control Centre.

PS5 Control Centre

The new Control Center provides “immediate access to almost everything you need from the system at a single press of the PlayStation button on the DualSense wireless controller – all without leaving the game”.

Sony also added a new feature called Activities, which will be displayed via on-screen cards in the newly update Control Centre. This feature was “designed to bring you closer to the key elements of gameplay”.

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“[Activities enable] you to discover new gameplay opportunities, go back to things you missed, jump directly into levels or challenges you want to play, and much more”.

First look: PlayStation 5’s next-generation user experience

A ‘next-generation experience’

Nishino said the Sony team had to rebuild the “entire software stack from the console to the network” to make this possible. It’s worth it, though, considering that it brings with it a “truly next-generation experience”.

“We believe the less time you spend waiting to interact with the system, the more time you will have to spend playing games”.

PS5 teardown

PlayStation also recently shared an “up-close and personal look” at the PlayStation 5 (PS5) hardware. The session was hosted by Yasuhiro Ootori, the Vice President of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Hardware Design Division.

Ootori gives a glimpse at the ports, air vents, internal storage, the cooling system, the eight-core AMD Ryzen CPU, heat sink and the very impressive liquid metal TIM (thermal interface material).

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