An account of the author's experience with a new, large OLED TV, and how it impacted their gaming habits. They found themselves drawn more to streaming PC games than playing their PS5, ultimately deciding that the PS5 wasn't keeping up with the visual fidelity they'd come to expect.
I got a new telly during Black Friday. It's an appalling beast that's forced me to acknowledge that my eyes are too big for my belly, turning my humble living room into a tiny IMAX cinema. Honestly, I'm a wee bit embarrassed. Nobody needs a screen this big—though it's far from the largest on offer. Since I don't drive, this is effectively my red sports car midlife crisis purchase. The thing I bought when I should be saving to fix up my ratty old kitchen.
When I got my previous telly, the first thing I did was fire up my brand new PS5. I was excited. My first 4K TV, and my fancy new console. My body fused with the sofa for, I cannot lie, the entire day, the power of my new gadgets overcoming all biological impulses.This time, it took me a week to even remember I had a PS5. Instead, the TV became the latest in a string ofdevices, used to stream games from my home office to my living room. I jumped between Cyberpunk 2077, Metaphor: ReFantazio, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, marvelling at how much the frankly insane real estate provided by this ludicrous screen drew me into the games—like one of those horrendous adverts where a shrieking teen is engulfed by whatever generic, explosive game it is they're playing—and how everyone was right: OLED really is the way to go. When I finally noticed my PS5 under the all-consuming glow of the screen, I felt like I should probably give it at least some love and diligently hooked the old boy up. The last thing I'd played, quite some time ago, was Final Fantasy 16. It's not very good, but I fancied hanging out with my big dog and melting some monsters again. Five minutes later, I quit, turned my PS5 off, and went back to streaming my PC. I just can't do it anymore, folks. Even on performance mode, with VRR and HDR, it looked dated and ran like shit. I tried again a bit later, with different games that perform better and which I actually like, but the result was the sam
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