PS5: 10 Awesome Features You Forgot It Had
The PS5's killer features you need to know.
Tough though it might be to believe, we're already over four years into the PlayStation 5's life cycle, suggesting we're probably more than half-way towards the PlayStation 6. Oh, how time flies.
And as well-acquainted as we all are with Sony's tremendous piece of hardware at this point, there are almost certainly some incredible features you've forgotten about - if you even knew about them in the first place.
These 10 quality-of-life features make using the PS5 even more of a joy. From the most basic button presses, menu options, and hacks for clearing up hard drive space, these features make the PS5 an even more frictionless device.
Yet for whatever reason, Sony doesn't regularly talk about these features, whether they're time-saving fixes or low-key game-changers.
Each nevertheless makes gaming on the console a smoother, easier, more time-respecting experience, with a greater mind towards accessibility for players of all kinds.
The PS5 may be far from a perfect console - and honestly, what is? - but it's got more going on under the hood than you'll probably be aware of. And so, here's a nifty refresher...
10. Use Activity Cards To Boot Into A Specific Mission
Let's kick this list off with a feature that Sony gave the pretty hard sell in the lead up to the PS5's launch, though have said curiously little about ever since - activity cards.
The Activities menu can be quickly accessed from the system's main menu and allows players to skip preambles like company logo videos and jump straight into a specific part of a game - say, a particular level or mode.
Better yet, activity cards can point you towards side missions and trophies, and even track how far you've progressing through a given trophy.
We've all got busy lives and want to spend as little time as humanly possible doing the admin work to get to the fun stuff, and so activity cards are a fantastic feature for cutting through the silly bumph and getting straight to where the good stuff is.
Though it's certainly not a faultless feature and works better in some games than others, it's still maddening that Sony barely talks about it anymore.