Report this content
We want the Dreams coMmunity to be a safe, diverse and tolerant place for everyone, no matter their age, gender, race, sexual orientation or otherwise. If you believe this content to contradict these principles, you can file a report for our coMmunity teams to investigate.
Note that misuse of the reporting tool will not be tolerated.Item being reported:
Being someone who still plays Dreams on a base PS4, I’ve recently, and over time, played quite a few Dreams which seem to have been created on consoles >= PS4 Pro without any disclaimer. Meaning that performance on a base PS4 like mine was often times sub-par.
I do appreciate anyone who adds a short disclaimer in their description. Something along the lines of “expect performance impact on base PS4” or “created on PS5”, to set expectations. Though this could be simplified.
But until we get more specific platform integration from Mm (as discussed by Elca here: https://forums.indreams.me/hc/en-gb/community/posts/7047099756061-PS5-Update-Collected-Thoughts-?input_string=Console%20Compatibility%20Tags), how about built-in tags for creators to tag their content appropriately? There are these kind of tags for VR creations, so there could be some for console versions as well. My thoughts:
- Simple platform compatibility tags like “compatible with PS4/PS4 Pro/PS5”
- Tags to indicate which platform the creation was made on/intended for, like “created with PS4/PS4 Pro/PS5”.
- Base PS4-specific tags like “PS4 compatible”, “playable but slow on PS4” and “not PS4 compatible”. I don’t know the numbers but I could imagine base PS4 players being fewer and fewer so this would become an edge case, which this tag would handle. Same as VR still being somewhat of an edge case.
This needs to be made visible enough to encourage the use of these tags, again similar to VR-specific tags.
I do understand the struggle of both sides. Naturally, you’d like to tap into the potential of your beefier hardware, so being held back by limitations of older consoles can be frustrating. Then again it’s similarly frustrating to browse Dreams and finding something cool to play, only to find out that once in the game or even at later stages of the game it’ll slow down significantly, because your old base PS4 is struggling.
Having tags in this regard could help ease frustration just a little bit for both sides. For one, creators can (try to) make sure their audience will be playing on better hardware, and therefore base PS4 players can set their expectations or skip entire creations altogether to not be disappointed or just to know beforehand what they might be getting into.