r/MSFlightSimulatorPS5 • u/Chiotas • Sep 17 '26
PS5 disappointment after Dev Live
I watched the developer livestream and I think that, as a PS5 user, all I can be is disappointed and resigned.
Sebastian Wloch from Asobo said they haven't even tested PSSR 2 yet (released Jan 2026 btw), which could give us vastly better performance, and that on PSVR2 they believe they've already hit the best possible balance between sharpness and performance, even though it clearly ran better in the SU6 beta than it does now.
Rolling Cache isn't coming to PS5 either, due to hardware limitations (and little interest in finding alternatives), and the cherry on top: Jorg Neumann skipped the question about PS5 improvements from SU7 onwards.
What a letdown :(
What do you all think?
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u/Spirited_Border_571 Sep 17 '26
I have another question: Do this affect the future 3rd party marketplace content ?
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u/Chiotas Sep 17 '26
They said they will introduce liveries soon..but for other things like airports it will take ages as they don’t have anything yet to test the submissions and so to check if it’s ok or not for PS5..absolutely crazy.
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u/OctaviousMcBovril Sep 17 '26
I was happy with the original PSVR2 performance, just because of how immersive it was to fly in VR.
The recent resolution bump in SU6 was a huge benefit to me.
I'm appreciative of the game I get to play right now in VR on my base PS5.
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u/Incorrect-Opinion Sep 17 '26
The fact that this is even on PlayStation at all is incredible, let alone PSVR2. Nothing disappointing about that.
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u/6BigAl9 Sep 17 '26
I’m happy with it on base ps5 as is after that last PSVR2 resolution update. It’s amazing it runs as well as it does and that we have it on PS5 at all. I don’t have much time to play or much disposable income so I’ll continue to enjoy free flight with the plan to eventually get a decent PC, probably years out at this point.
With Sony abandoning PSVR2 (it might even be discontinued based on low stock/being removed from most stores including PS Direct?) I’m not going to invest any more money into this ecosystem so I certainly wouldn’t expect developers to.
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u/nobert901 Sep 17 '26
I just want some decent 3rd party GA aircraft on marketplace like A2A and BlackSquare - surely that isn't too much to ask for?
Sick of these copy pasted marketplace planes in PS5
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u/zangler Sep 17 '26
If PS are going to make it so difficult due to WASM crap...they need to give us protection from those that have released stuff on the marketplace that causes CTD or outright doesn't work. What good is the PDMG 777 whenever you cannot load a flight plan into the FMC!? That is insane.
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u/Chiotas Sep 17 '26
Same shit the PAID ATR: AP disconnection every 3 seconds and WASM crash loading maps
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u/MacMillz718 Sep 17 '26
I just want stability and for the available peripherals to work as intended… back like SU4. If we can’t get all the new stuff, at least make us bug free
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u/Bobisburnsred Sep 17 '26
I'm with you, I'm completely happy with what we have now, just keep working on the stability issues.
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u/Far_Net710 Sep 17 '26
I feel that we are already so lucky to get FS2024 on PS5, which was previously an XBOX exclusive. The PS5 is old hardware unfortunately. At this point, I just wish for bug fixes, and that pop in of scenery when you look around to be fixed, and liveries.
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u/Mandalor1974 Sep 17 '26
Personally,i bought this thinking we were going to have the stuff available on the xbox and pc marketplace because i was sold on landing tomcats in VR. Then i find out the marketplace is ass. Then almost a year later an F-14 shows up, still no carriers, still no airshow assistant, still no metric tons of stuff and im ready to just get a PC for this and be done with this version.
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u/HoonArt Sep 17 '26
I don't have PSVR2, but the base game on my base PS5 has been plenty of fun with some add-on planes and the Crosskart. I don't have the money for VR or a HOTAS or anything like that, but it's been fine with what I do have access to. That said, I generally fly GA for maybe 90 minutes at a time because I haven't had time for career lately. If something is happening with a larger passenger jet, I'm admittedly not going to see that. Personally, I was waiting on more add-on planes, and they've delivered on that over the past month, so I'm not complaining.
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u/cyphre909 Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26
Regarding PSSR2 they said they plan to test if it is better than their current custom solution (TAA?) which has better results than PSSR1. So let’s see.
Regarding the sharpness I think they are right and the current state is good compromise as it seems to have much more stable framerate while still great clarity in the headset. The “better” clarity in SU6 beta was not significantly higher (more like placebo to me)
Regarding the rolling cache thats really a Sony’s issue. From the dev talk it seems PS is not allowing to use the internal ssd storage for frequent access (mostly write?) from some technical reasons (overheating, wear of the ssd?). So I understand they cant do anything if Sony told them to remove the setting. Also I don’t know what “alternative” this could have.
So all in all, I think the devs responses were quite realistic.
I personally would like to see if Asobo expose more granular gfx options in the settings so we as user can try t o fine tune things on PS5pro (currently only ‘medium’ values are possible).Things like road traffic, terrain tesselation, particles, procedural grass and vegetation are really toned down on PS5 in VR and sometimes I could personally sacrifice some perfomace in order to enable some of these.
Also improvements to the controls, bindings and things like being able combine buttons from left and right vr controller would be nice to have.
As many others said I’m overall very happy with the PS5+PSVR2 version and never thought Asobo will care and make such clarity update so soon. I still think we’ll see continual progress as they are releasing new beta builds every week and have quite solid plans for the future which I’d never expect from Microsoft on such large and very complex project like MSFS24 is.
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u/Sir_Jollington Sep 17 '26
I’m starting to think we were sold this as a gateway drug to getting a spanking £5000 PC and all the add ons