It's July 15, 2020, COVID is beating down as much as the sun. We spent months locked in the house, rediscovering the pleasure of video games, and surely someone in the grip of gambling addiction and boredom has even dusted the attic in search of that console that once dominated the living room like Cersei Lannister on the Iron Throne; right there, behind that shoe box, under ten kilograms of dust you will find that “ancient” console, maybe a Nintendo Wii or a Sony PlayStation 3: who knows if it still works, you wonder as you go down the stairs and attach it to your fifty-five inches. The console works. Well now we need the games and given the freedom of movement you head to one of the many shops, health shield mask, disinfectant gel, and nothing can stop you. Unfortunately you find that the video games of that generation have disappeared from the shelves, so here you go to your wallet, choose a new console that suddenly takes you to the new generation. It would seem a happy ending, and instead September comes.
After months on video game dopamine, you also started reading news magazines and discovered that your new console is actually old, because soon here they will arrive. Sony PlayStation 5 e Microsoft Xbox Series X. There have been those of you who have gone through this epic and there are those like me, for work or for passion, who had already been anxiously waiting since June and could not wait any longer. From experience, when a new generation of consoles arrives, it usually approaches a new generation of televisions, and since the holidays have skipped and two months have flown inside the house avoiding compulsive shopping, the race for documentation on the new TVs has started. arrival or already available on the market. It goes without saying that a new console can express a different power than usual, and actually my intuition turned out to be correct. Documenting me, it turns out that the TV suitable for a PS5 or Series X console to enjoy a title in 4K a 120 fps requires a door HDMI 2.1 which guarantees a passage of 48 gigabytes per second (while the regular 2.0 ports allow an input of "only" 16Gb per second).
I had been wondering for months which TV would be my ideal playmate (and not only): always for work and passion, I often have to deal with the world of cinema and the best tool to live this experience from my point of view was the OLED panel which, although on paper it has a less strong brightness than LED or QLED technology, it focuses everything on absolute black. To add quality to quality, the discovery that the response time of a similar panel is very fast, maintaining a value close to the millisecond of response compared to the input that is sent to it. Obviously there is no lack of the possibility of see movies in 4K and play at that 120Hz resolution.
Well, convinced I buy this OLED TV and the expense was not light, clicking on the "buy" button was like lifting the Mjolnir not knowing if you would be worthy or not. The TV arrives in October, and after having assembled the product I connect it to my PS4 PRO and insert some of the games that have accompanied me over the last few years. Bloodborne is cool but it was even before, I try God of War but I don't see all this difference and part one mental nightmare in which I imagine I have thrown hundreds of euros from the window having taken a product that the actual was not needed. Overwhelmed, I take Netflix and here things change: thanks to Dolby Vision modes I see movies like never before. Active Amazon Prime, and also thanks to HDR 10+ it shows itself great. Well, I'm happy but still not entirely convinced. I try a 4K Blu-Ray and here everything is new and perfect, optimal, the OLED TV seems to do its job, but almost thirty days pass in which every day is a blade that enters the anxiety of my soul (still still not convinced of this generational step at such a high price).
Finally comes the new console: PlayStation 5 stands inside my room as the Barad-dûr tower does in the wasteland of Mordor, and once connected to my OLED, here everything changes. I install God of War and suddenly Kratos comes to life in my dark room. I immediately realize the fluidity of the title, while I feel a new lifeblood rising inside, like lava in my veins: the desire to play returns, driven by this renewed beauty and fluidity. Well, aware of the fact that the game has not changed - just as the Vallelunga circuit is always the same but it changes according to the car you drive on it - now God of War it has a completely different flavor (and I'll tell you more: on old-gen I hadn't even brought it forward, tired of this gray and flat image that gave the Full HD LED) because now after the OLED everything else is flat, gray and empty somehow. I have the plan in mind: to recover everything that I have not purposely played on PS4, just waiting for an aesthetic perfection that I have been waiting for for years. It was worth it? Yes. But what I most want to say is this: to date owning a new console, whether this is a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox Series X / S without having the appropriate TV is like owning a Ferrari / Lamborghini and putting the tires of the Fiat Panda on it (great car but definitely not very similar to a super sports car).
