 How's it going lads and ladies? It is Petrifying Pumpkins here and welcome to another edition of PS VOR news. Now today we've had quite a bit of information come out relating to PS5, relating to PS VOR, how they interact with each other, we got some other stuff to talk about, we got some alvo to talk about as well, so let's just jump right into it. Ok, so topic number one will be the stays of play, which is coming this Thursday, the 6th of August, as you can see PlayStation's official Twitter account here, tweezed this out, stays of play returns Thursday at 1pm, Pacific, if you're Eastern, that it will be 4pm and for me over here in Ireland or UK time, that will be 9pm. So that's going to be this Thursday, so if you're looking forward to seeing that, get them dates in your head. Now of course, these videos will be on YouTube afterwards, so you don't have to watch it live, but just expect a lot of news to come out around that time. PlayStation have given us an idea of what to expect, now this is super exciting for us, but not really super exciting for everyone else, I think the vast majority of people really want to see PS5 stuff and well let's just read out what they're going to say first before we get into all that. So what to expect, so point number one, a focus on upcoming PS4, 4 not 5 and PSVR games, now this is the big one for us here, PSVR games, that's what we're all about here on this channel, so that's super exciting, what's that going to be, wait and see, we're going to see a few quick check-ins on third-party and indie games from June's PS5 showcase, so that June showcase was when they revealed the PS5 for the first time, we saw games like Resident Evil A's, stuff like that, now Resident Evil A would fit the bill of a quick check-in on third-party support, on third-party I should say games from the June PS5's showcase, it would also fit in with this PSVR games announcement if they were to say oh by the way Resident Evil has VR support, so that would fit into both of these categories very nicely, and then the final point here is the reason why they're giving us this whole you know what to expect in the first place is no big PS5 announcements, predictably the responses have been you know memes, no big PS5 announcements, lol this is disappointing, a little gifts, the elves, you know disappointed man over here, people wanted Silent Hill which you know very possible we'll see that, so we kind of see this a lot anytime a stage of play focuses on virtual reality rather than flash, it seems to be general consensus of you know the mainstream not happy with that, and that is because obviously PlayStation VR has only sold like five million headsets maybe they're approaching six million headsets at this stage and you know that's a drop in the ocean really when you consider all the number of gamers out there, so it is still pretty niche that's why this is going to be backlash, but obviously I don't care about that so I'm sure most of you subscribed to this channel do not give a shit about that, in fact that's what you want to see, so this is really exciting I'm really happy to hear this, I'm going to be working on the exact time it happens but I'll probably do a live stream of it afterwards, we might do the touching tips podcast episode with Decepticon about this afterwards, we'll talk about whatever they show, we don't know what we're going to see of course, but yeah just the fact of focus on PS4 and PS4, so we don't really know how long this data play is, traditionally they haven't been very long other than when they go into the deep dives of specific games, they did one for our last of us, they did another one for Ghost of Tsushima, those were fairly long but in general they're not that long like they wouldn't go on an hour or anything like that, so don't expect something on that length, not something that you would compare to the PS5 event in June, that was like an hour long, I would imagine 10 minutes maybe 20 minutes if we're lucky, it depends on how much stuff they have to show here because they have been pretty quiet about PS4 all year, so maybe they've been saving all these PS4 announcements for this, the question then is you know will they discuss PS4 in relation to the PS5, so I mean they could go deep into the relationship between the PS4 headset we have now and the PS5 that's going to be coming in well probably November and that would probably still be considered not a big PS5 announcement, it would be big for us, it wouldn't be big in general, they're really trying to set people's expectations you know lower them, but maybe we'll see like a VR UI or something like that, some crazy shit and this is going to tie in nicely with point number two, but yeah look we could sit here, we could speculate what we're going to see on Thursday all day, fingers crossed Resident Evil 8 that's the one I really want but we are not going to know until the day comes, so anyway that's the PlayStation State of Play one last time this Thursday, 1 p.m. pacific, 4 p.m. eastern time, 9 p.m. of GMT, so let's move on to topic number two, so topic number two then is all about PlayStation 5 and how the current peripherals we have in our PS4 will work with the PS5, this went up on the PS blog today earlier on a few hours ago and we're just going to read some of this, some of this is really important for virtual reality at least in terms of backwards compatibility, not necessarily for the future of VR on PS5 or PSVR 2 if such a thing happens which you know hopefully it will say let's just read into what they're posting here, so which existing PS4 peripherals slash accessories will work on PS5, so number one specialty peripherals such as officially licensed racing wheels, arcade sticks and flight sticks will work with PS5 games and supported PS4 games, so if you got your Holtas or your steering wheels which you know often when people go for VR they also they go all out for the ultimate immersion they get these other peripherals too so I'm sure they'll be happy to hear that it's going to be supported, the platinum and gold wireless headsets as well as third-party headsets that connect via usb port or audio jack will work on ps5 although they do put this caveat here that the headset companion app is not compatible with ps5 so if anyone doesn't know what that headset companion app is it really applies to the platinum and the gold wireless headsets it's a little app where you can kind of program the headsets to work like pick specific profiles for different games you can kind of program it that way so if you have any of these headsets they will work although the headset companion app is not compatible with ps5 I wonder will they replace that with something else we'll have to wait and see next up the jewshock 4 wireless controller and playstation officially licensed third-party gamepad controllers will work with supported ps4 games so that is important to note they're saying it's going to work with ps4 games on the ps5 it is not going to work with the ps5 games we'll get into that a little bit but your jewshock 4 is going to still be useful keep that around maybe you want to play resident evil 7 in virtual reality on your ps5 you might still need to keep that jewshock 4 handy and the final part here which is very relevant to us is that both the playstation move controllers and the ps viewer aim controller will work with supported ps viewer games on ps5 so keep in mind this word here supported we don't know how many of our playstation viewer games that we currently have will actually run on ps5 there's no guarantee firewall will run fingers crossed it will be good why would you support the aim controller and not have firewall running on that thing fingers crossed you know that doesn't happen we don't have to worry about that but just keep that in the back of your head not all your library is guaranteed to run on the ps5 and there's still questions of digital so most of my playstation virtual reality games i've bought them digitally so that i don't have to take the headset and you know physically change things around to the inline digital it's super handy how is that going to work fingers crossed and say fingers crossed a loss because that's all you can do when you're talking about playstation 5 right now the fingers crossed that have something set up for that so that we can get them just downloaded under the ps5 no issues so a little bit more detail about the jewshock 4 so will jewshock 4 work with ps5 games no we believe the ps5 games should take advantage of the new capabilities and features we're bringing to the platform including the features of dual sense wireless controller this doesn't bother me too much i'm used to well i know the ps1 controllers work in the ps2 but i don't care too much that my old controllers are not going to be controlling you know ps5 specific games especially we got these like adaptive triggers because like you know a developer could program their game where you know the gameplay relies on the fact that you have this tension in the triggers that you can't have on jewshock 4 and if they don't or if they do allow jewshock 4 then all of a sudden your maybe developers have to compromise what they want to do maybe they don't take full advantage of the dual sense and a lot of people seem to be there's a bit of backlash against this but yeah personally for me i don't mind that too much maybe you do honestly the battery life is so bad in the jewshock 4 that i just can't wait to not ever have to use that thing you know again fingers crossed the jewshock fingers crossed again fingers crossed the jewshock 5 will have improved battery life as well so then we get the most interesting part of this blog updates so is the playstation camera for ps4 compatible with ps5 yes so playstation camera will work with ps5 for pain supported again supported ps viewer games will require a playstation camera adapter that will be provided at no additional cost for ps viewer users more details on how to get the adapter will be announced at a laser days yeah this is interesting because on the one hand it's great that they're not going to force us to buy this new camera that they're going to be launching the ps5 with but on the other hand it's going to be interesting to see how we actually get our hands on these adapters we're going to have to go online somewhere give them our address and they'll send them to us or how's that going to work i'm not too sure is there going to be a big waiting list then like we have to wait a long time is it going to be a lot of people want them at once uh because i know i said there's not many ps viewer headsets out there but you know five million is still it's not nothing and then of course there's the question of well ps5 is going to be launching with this new camera which it has better resolution i think the one we have now is like 800p to 800p cameras and the new one's going to be the full 1080p so in theory you would imagine the new camera if it supports ps viewer which it should but that's not confirmed but if it does you would imagine that would improve the tracking because it's going to be sharper image so it might be worth thinking about looking into the new camera even though you know this option is there if you want to like improve your setup now this is not proven at all we have to do tests we'll have to see what happens when the thing actually launches but in theory you would imagine a new camera sharper image is going to mean better tracking with what we already have so you might not want to even apply for this adapter if you're wanting to like upgrade your performance so yeah and that kind of ends the kind of sony playstation news for today it was like it was interesting that this information both the state of play announcement and this just popped up on a random you know monday and we still have questions loads of questions big questions release days price stuff like that it seems like sony's not going to be answering them this week i don't expect to see it on the state of play which is another thing a lot of people not too happy about but it's interesting microsoft still haven't announced the price for xbox playstation still haven't announced the price of playstation or sony haven't announced the price of playstation how long can they go we're in august now these things are probably coming in november they're going to want people pre-ordering them soon but who's going to pre-order them without knowing the price but it's getting beyond a joke now at this stage it has to be this month so maybe shortly after this event or maybe even at the very end of the state of play they might surprise us you know they might be tricking us here not to expect and then boom price is whatever it's really hard to tell how this is going to go so let's move on to the final topic so the last thing i want to talk about is an alvo updates and this one is a pretty good update actually if you're keeping tabs on alvo you might have seen this already on the discord that is the best place to find updates about this game but basically alvo went through the certification processes they had this virtual reality consultation that happened a few weeks ago sony came back and they found six issues with the game so they've since fixed those issues and they've sent them back again and they have passed so i'm just going to read out the update this one is from venny vidy vici over on the discord so he says we have passed sony the or consultation our next step is to pass sony t or c so t or c means technical requirement checklist and that is scheduled for august 8th which is four days from now so once the t or c is passed we can release the game keep in mind we may still have a little bit of work to do after t or c to make sure we are satisfied we have also requested and are wasting approval from sony for a bazaar of alvo in north america and europe so they've got through the viewer consultation next up is the technical requirement checklist i was kind of curious what exactly is in a technical requirement checklist so i decided to do a bit of googling and that brought me to this uh i was just googling and i saw this name pop up here marik linus so that jumped out to me immediately this is from 2014 as you can see down here uh this marik linak guy because i follow him on twitter he is a higher up or he was a higher up at sony london studios the studio behind blood and truths so i thought kind of coincidental does you know his name popped up he met this slide this presentation goes through all the steps of what it takes to make a game from the beginning just you know brainstorming ideas to the end shipping out the gold master and he details t or c here so he doesn't go into specific detail of what a every t or c does and this is in 2014 of course before veor so this is probably just like has nothing to do with veor i'm sure virtual reality has its own you know crazy requirements checklists that are completely different but this kind of gives you an idea so he gives some examples here so one of them is no loading in the main thread whatever that means the game must exit cleanly i think we can understand that so you go exit the app it just exit back to the main menu closes the application so these are like really basic fundamental stuff so no long periods of inactivity trophies must be supported disc eject supported so these are the kinds of things that sony you're going to be looking for from alvo in order to pass this you know t or c basically it sounds like it's not going to be too difficult for them to achieve these checks and these specific checks and now again i said you know veor is going to have their own checks probably frame race needs to be a solid 60 uh you know has to have vignettes has to have this have to have that probably that's just me guessing but yeah just a little bit more in size and what alvo's going through right now wouldn't say or what they will be going through and as soon as they pass that then they're ready to release basically according to the discord post so that should mean that alvo is not too far away 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