So fresh, so clean
The ninth console generation is finally upon us. With Microsoft playing the long game, it’s left to Sony to provide us with that shiny, new sensation – and from the pristine surfaces of Astro’s Playroom (p110) to the ray-traced skyscraper reflections in Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (p104), there’s plenty of the visual pizzazz we usually associate with expensive new hardware. Yet the real thrill of the new lies elsewhere: from the SSD speed that lets us zip from one side of New York to the other in seconds to the delicious feedback from the DualSense controller that tells us what surface we’re walking upon.