ManaByte
Rage Bait Youtuber
We've had both consoles for a month now, and I've put hours upon hours into both. I've platinumed Astro's, 100%ed Miles, played some BC on PS5 (Ghosts is jaw-dropping at 60fps), and have been playing stuff like AC: Valhalla, CoD, Immortals, and BC stuff (Forza/Gears) on the Series X. Out of the two of them the Series X has vastly better community/social integration (due to just continuing what the Xbox One had at the end of the generation).
The PS5's "We Believe in Generations*" means they basically reset everything in the OS and the social/community features are non-existent outside of friends lists and parties:
The PS5's "We Believe in Generations*" means they basically reset everything in the OS and the social/community features are non-existent outside of friends lists and parties:
- Communities are gone. Xbox still has both unofficial and official clubs. Clubs for each game, and then clubs people can create. When Sony axed the communities phone app a while ago, the writing was a on the wall that they were going to remove these with PS5. They need to come back, I've found a ton of players for MP on Xbox just by being in a big club.
- Looking for group. This is something Sony never had, but it's something they should add if they ever put back communities. People can flag themselves as looking for players in any MP game, and then people can find each other via this.
- Sharing is bare-bones. On the PS5 when you share a screen capture or video it's stored on your system's HDD, and then you can basically share it to YouTube or Twitter. That's it. MS uploads all screenshots and videos to the cloud, and then you can share them externally (like to Twitter), your activity feed, a club, or even export the videos and photos to OneDrive to download them. Sony made a big deal a while ago about using MS's Azure cloud, they need to actually apply that and use it with PSN.