Detroit: Become Human in Six Hours: A PS5 Gaming Weekend

A 950-Yuan 4K Monitor for the PS5

Recently I spent 950 yuan on JD.com for an HKC 27-inch 4K monitor to pair with my PS5. Before this, I played on a 43-inch TV, but it never felt right: sitting close, the picture was overwhelming; sitting far, I could not make out the detail. My old 1080P monitor was not sharp enough either, so I decided to get a proper 4K display. I skipped the expensive brands — LG, Samsung, Sony — and bought a relatively cheap entry-level 4K monitor instead. For playing PS5 games in 4K, it is entirely sufficient.

One Last Stroll Through Toussaint

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt recently released its next-gen update, and the moment the monitor arrived I could not wait to install it. The visual upgrade is real, and paired with a 4K panel, sinking into the eternally spring-like kingdom of Toussaint is pure pleasure. Most of the time I no longer wanted to do quests at all — I just liked running around that world doing nothing, dropping in to see my beloved Triss at the Corvo Bianco vineyard.

Over the past two years, playing on and off after work, I finally finished the game — 136 hours in total. Only a handful of treasure hunts and Gwent quests remain, and I have no urge to grind them. Living the simple life with Triss is comfortable enough.

Six Hours in Detroit

Detroit: Become Human is the next game I finished — and it took me only six hours. Playing it right now, with AI and robotics advancing at full speed, feels almost eerily timely. The scenarios in the game could plausibly come true by 2038. With large models like ChatGPT and Claude repeatedly making “jailbreak” headlines lately, it is easy to imagine that once robots walk into every household the way cars did, all kinds of safety incidents will follow. And once machines have minds of their own, imperfect carbon-based creatures like us really could end up under their feet — or replaced entirely. Humans are born carrying sin; robots, by comparison, are closer to perfect.

In the late chapters I steered Markus down the path of violent resistance against humanity — and the revolution failed. Markus died; Kara and the human girl Alice died too. That tragic ending left me full of regret. Would a nonviolent, peaceful-protest route have led to a better ending? I had deliberately avoided other players’ video walkthroughs and guides, advancing the story entirely by my own judgment. The story has no standard ending: every player’s temperament produces a different one. But this ending — the tragedy — was not the one I wanted to see.

Playing an AI story while real AI races forward outside the window — that is a strange feeling no other game has given me.

Why Mainland Players Buy Hong Kong PS5 Consoles

In mainland China, many PS5 players prefer a Hong Kong version console over the mainland Chinese version — even though the Hong Kong version costs 700–1,000 yuan more. The reason is the mainland version’s closed account system and thinner game library. A mainland PS5 account can only play online with players inside China — it works like a local area network — while a Hong Kong-region account registered on a Hong Kong console connects freely with players in Hong Kong and around the world.

Then there is censorship. Games containing sensitive content — sexual material, gore and violence, religious or political themes — cannot obtain a game license from the National Press and Publication Administration, and without a license they cannot be listed on the mainland PS5 store. So many mainland players would rather pay extra for the Hong Kong machine to play the world’s top AAA titles.

One caveat: certain games in the Hong Kong store — Diablo, for example — download normally but still cannot connect online, because the game servers’ DNS is poisoned. You need a dedicated game booster or a VPN service for that. On the hardware side, the mainland and Hong Kong PS5 differ only in the power plug — a cheap adapter solves it, and nothing else changes.

Getting Sound Out of a Monitor Setup

A television has built-in speakers and plays sound directly; a computer monitor usually does not. Luckily, newer monitors come with a 3.5mm audio-out port — run an audio cable to a small speaker and the PS5’s sound problem is solved. I hooked up a JBL Charge 3, and the sound is decent. I did try connecting it to the PS5 over Bluetooth directly, but that failed — the speaker’s Bluetooth apparently does not get along with the PS5’s.