Sony’s A95L looks great, but it baffles me the PS5-maker has repeated a key mistake for gamers

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Sony makes great TVs. Look at our best TV guide and you’ll see that.

But, despite being responsible for the PS5 – one of the best consoles we’ve ever had the pleasure to use – it’s surprisingly never been THE best at making a top-end TV to go with it.

Jump on over to our best gaming TV guide, and you’ll notice there isn’t a single Sony set in it. This isn’t because they offer bad picture or sound quality or are missing key features such as 4K/120Hz or VRR – in fact, read our review of the Sony A95K and you’ll see it delivers on all these areas in spades.

This may not sound like a big deal, but in my experience, this limitation is a key annoyance that actually grows over time.

Having a miserly two HDMI 2.1s, one of which doubles as the eARC port, means I can’t have all of them easily plugged in at once. This has caused me no amount of bother having to swap cables around each week depending on which console I’m playing and if my other half is streaming Ted Lasso that particular evening. The annoyance isn’t helped by the fact I’ve got awful cable management.

But, I can’t help but think that Sony, as a gaming company, should do better. I mean, surely it’s not too much to expect the company behind the PS5 to understand what gamers want? Not having this issue fixed on the new A95L feels like a real missed opportunity as a result.

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Alastair is What Hi-Fi?’s editor in chief. He has well over a decade’s experience as a journalist working in both B2C and B2B press. During this time he’s covered everything from the launch of the first Amazon Echo to government cyber security policy. Prior to joining What Hi-Fi? he served as Trusted Reviews’ editor-in-chief. Outside of tech, he has a Masters from King’s College London in Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion, is an enthusiastic, but untalented, guitar player and runs a webcomic in his spare time.