The separation between PC and console gaming is hazier than ever thanks to soaring prices, scarce hardware, and PC ports of formerly exclusive games. Go into the average PC gamer’s home and you’re likely to find at least one console, and that’s exactly the crowd that Sony hopes to appease with its new PlayStation 27” gaming monitor. Designed to match the look of your PS5 or PS5 Pro perfectly, it packages a QHD resolution with high refresh rate gameplay, auto-HDR, and a foldaway charging dock for your DualSense controllers for $349.99. If you’re a PlayStation fan, it’ll make a great addition to a desk-based gaming setup. If you don’t care about its PS5 look, however, this really isn’t the monitor you’re looking for.
It only takes a second to see who the monitor is aimed at. Between the black stand and white back of the monitor itself, it’s a perfect match for the PS5. The branding is minimal: a simple PS logo that peeks out above the stand when viewed from the rear.
The monitor comes perilously close to looking boring from the front. It’s the usual profile we’ve seen on flat panel gaming displays for years, with vanishingly thin bezels that lend the display a feeling of spaciousness. There are no visible controls. Toggling settings in the OSD is done with a joystick in the back. In short: black rectangle.
That is, until you start using the display’s biggest console-specific feature: its DualSense charging hook. Centered behind the display is a flip-down charging dock to store and charge your DualSense and DualSense Edge controllers when not in use. It sounds small — it is small — but it’s exactly the kind of quality-of-life feature that PS5 players will appreciate. No more loose controllers or wires to clutter up your desk, just your neatly glowing DualSense under your now very PlayStation-looking monitor.
As the first real PlayStation-branded monitor (Sony Inzone also offers PC gaming monitors but is a separate line from PlayStation), I expected Sony to go big: OLED, high refresh rate, high peak brightness, and an even higher price. Instead, it went the opposite direction by offering something entirely more accessible to the average person.
Coming in at $350, it offers some pretty decent specs no matter which platform you choose. Within its slim frame, it features an IPS panel with a sharp 2560x1440 resolution. It’s built for everything from turn-based RPGs to twitch shooters, sporting a quick 240Hz refresh rate on PC and 120Hz on console (the PlayStation 5’s peak output). It also comes with Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support so your gameplay stays fluid. It’s technically AMD FreeSync, but worked well with Nvidia G-Sync too.
While it’s not OLED, its Fast IPS panel is a good example of why you should still be paying attention to this tech. The colors are vibrant and the viewing angles are wide. It features a 1ms gray-to-gray response time which won’t get you the exceptional motion clarity of OLED but is effective at keeping ghosting away. Sony also did a good job calibrating the display from the factory. Out of the box, I measured color accuracy to be just under the industry standard of Delta E < 2, so you could even use it for image or video editing.
Around the back, the monitor’s I/O is neatly tucked away. It comes with two HDMI 2.1 ports and a DisplayPort 1.4, and a couple of USB Type-A ports and one Type-C to support peripherals and accessories. The charging hook folds away just below this, so if you tend to keep your monitor low, you may need to raise it when the hook is in use.
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