PlayStation 5

[wullie]

Got an email from Smyths saying they're putting some up at 10:30pm, although it came this morning but mentioned December 3rd so whether it's just a typo or a late email and they sold out last night I don't know

[Shindig]

I think I'm just going to chance brick and mortar now. Online just gets swamped by robots and queuing. Although you're queueing to get into pigging retail as well. CeX is the nuclear option but I'm waiting for the price to drop. A PS4 would take £120 off it but that's still £700 left.

[Baz]

Got an email from Smyths saying they're putting some up at 10:30pm, although it came this morning but mentioned December 3rd so whether it's just a typo or a late email and they sold out last night I don't know

Was it not 10:30 yesterday morning (https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5/comments/k68upb/psa_smyths_uk_has_stock_right_now/)?

That link recommends using https://www.hotstock.io/uk btw

[wullie]

This was it, but it was sent this morning and was titled 'pre order 3rd December' so I wouldn't trust any of it

https://i.imgur.com/92UeBmG.png

[Lofty]

Off topic slightly but is there a way to have the controller go off when watching something like the DS4 did? Seems to run through charge twice as quick without it.

[wullie]

If you press the PS button I'm sure there are power options for the controller in the little menu that pops up at the bottom, I know you can turn it off that way at least if not set a sleep timer

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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[Shindig]

I went to GAME on Monday and they weren't expecting stock until 2021. I'm willing to wait at this point.

[SincereTheRebel]

Im about to throw 800 on this

[Shindig]

CeX? They're down to £795 now.

[SincereTheRebel]

In Wolves, you can give her a £20 and get back change.

[7om]

I went on Amazon and then Argos today and the PS5s are still sold out. This shit was released last year, wasn’t it? And people still can’t buy one? Boggles the mind.

[Shindig]

I was chuffed to get mine in a store. Fuck waiting about online.

[Pepe]

It's due to the microprocessor shortage, I am guessing.

[SincereTheRebel]

Fucked everything this Covid. I still have played an official PS5 game yet.

[Shindig]

Is there one you're bothered about or are you waiting for GT7?

[wullie]

I'm the same, had it since November and the only PS5 games I've got still are the free upgrade versions of PS4 games I already had. Probably should have scalped it for big profit and bought one later

[Shindig]

The price premium on games knacks me up. I only took Demon Souls to have something new and, even then, it's old enough for the preowned copies to wind up at £50. I could just about stomach that. Returnal is probably the only other PS5 title I'll be keen on. I'm not playing PS4 stuff on it whilst I've still got that kicking around. Once Bugsnax is done, that's all I'll really have. Not including reviews which will mostly be PS4/PS5 versions of tat. And Chivalry 2 which runs really, really nice.

[Lofty]

I understand the sentiment but I still think the vastly improved loading times, graphical performance and haptic feedback stuff justify the purchase. Also I am a physical media slag with a load of 4K discs only the PS5 can play so that helps.

[Shindig]

Yeah, I definitely look at Demon's Souls and see a game they couldn't manage on the old system. Graphically, there's so much going on. But then you get F1 2021 which looks barely negligible from the PS4 version. You can push it to 120FPS and that's it.

[phonics]

Being able to double the frame rate of a game is quite a big thing tbf.

[Shindig]

Yeah but that's something that doesn't appeal to me unless I've got the display to do see it. Like, I can't see HDR on this set but I can easily be impressed by volumetric lighting, particle effects and some really nice god rays.

[Yevrah]

I've just bought two tickets from a work raffle in an effort to get one of these fuckers. 1 in 30 chance. :eyemouth:

[Gray Fox]

We'd love to have you on the dark side. Are you interested in buying if you don't win?

[Yevrah]

I want both consoles for this gen Fox and I will buy them both if they're ever available.

[Danny]

We'd love to have you on the dark side. Are you interested in buying if you don't win?

100% this.

TTH CO OP and Pro Clubs FTW.

[P_3]

ShopTo has stock of console bundles.

https://www.shopto.net/en/search/?input_search=PlayStation%205%20Console&utm_source=Website&utm_campaign=PS5%20Console

[Gray Fox]

Yevrah

[Yevrah]

I am so tempted, but six hundred quid? That can't be RRP, surely.

[Yevrah]

Also annoyingly I've already pre-ordered FIFA22 on Xbox to lock that hero card down.

[Shindig]

They sell them in bundles to lock out the scalpers. So you get games and extra controllers you might not want.

[Gray Fox]

To anyone who is after one. Yevrah

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[Yevrah]

Cheers Fox. I'm getting close to doing it!

[wullie]

There was a good long time after I'd got my day one Wii that I could have sold it on for a profit, PS5 may be close to beating that at this point.

[Ian]

Does it even have any exclusives anybody gives a shit about yet?

[Yevrah]

Don't think so. I'm only doing it for the back catalogue.

[Gray Fox]

Yeah if you've not had a PlayStation in a while, some of the stuff in that Ps+ collection will be great for you. Also still plenty of time to get Horizon or God of War done before their sequels come in 2022/3.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I think the biggest is still Miles Morales. It's a cracking game but it's far too short as it's basically a large DLC for Spiderman.

[Yevrah]

So I guess that begs the question, what are the best exclusive games on the PS since the PS3 was launched?

[Shindig]

Demon Souls, Metal Gear Solid 4.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

God of War.

Might be my favourite game ever.

[Gray Fox]

Horizon: Zero Dawn. The Last of Us.

Heard great things about Ratchet and Clank, Uncharted and Ghost of Tsushima too.

[Shindig]

Yeah, I need to pick Tsushima up. Then there's the PS/PC stuff like Nioh 1 and 2. And Bloodborne.

There's stuff but you could get a similar shortlist of Xbox exclusives as well.

[Yevrah]

PS5 purchased, should be with me next week.

[wullie]

Delve into every nook and cranny of the box, they hid the USB controller cable bizarrely well in mine to the point I was halfway to complaining before I found it.

[Danny]

https://en.meming.world/images/en/0/0e/I_See_This_as_an_Absolute_Win.jpg



Digital or physical console?

[Yevrah]

:D

Physical. Mostly because I'm sure there are some PS4 games I can chive from friends.

[Yevrah]

And cheers Wullie, I will forensically examine that box!

[Danny]

Very nice. I went digital as I havent bought a physical came in about 4 years.


I did add this back button kit to my controller recently:

https://www.extremerate.com//rubberized-black-rise-remap-kit-with-upgrade-board-redesigned-back-shell-back-buttons-for-ps5-controller-bdm010_p26182.html?zenid=7ol25c3v6ujehheform992req 2

Thankfully you can turn them off as I found myself playing accidental passes on FIFA :face:

[Yevrah]

What's this PS Now thing about? I really want to play the original God of War games again at some point, but apparently I can only do so on PS5 through that.

[Raoul Duke]

It's just GamePass but for PS, no?

[Yevrah]

I saw something about it being cloud based gaming. If I won't notice the difference then that's fine, but is that the case? Any of you fine gents use it?

Looks like it contains an absolute wealth of PS3 games, which is great as I don't think they're backwards compatible.

https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/ps-now/ps-now-games/#all-ps-now-games

[Gray Fox]

It's very similar to gamepass. Some games you can play via cloud without having to download them too.

[Danny]

Yeah PS now is the cloud stuff with a rotating library iirc.

The PS Plus Collection is the one you want to be looking at for some of the best games from PS.

[wullie]

I'm tempted by PS Now. It was never worth bothering previously due to my passable internet speed but when we moved I've now got 30 times the grunt so downloading full games doesn't take a week. I assume you can do some kind of trial, might give it a look later.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I used it for a month free trial on my PS4.

It was pretty nifty.

[Gray Fox]

Also to be clear Yevrah PS Now and PS+ are two different things. You'll still need to have the latter to play online features of games, though there are also a good catalogue of games that go with that too.

[Shindig]

PS Now is their streaming service for games. I've never used it but they give you a free trial to start with.

[Gray Fox]

12 months PS+ for £24.99 is on the PlayStation Store right now

[Shindig]

Hmmm ... I've just renewed but that's a golden opportunity.

[wullie]

If you've got a PS Now sub does that include the ability to play online for the games included or would you also need PS+ on top regardless?

[SincereTheRebel]

12 months PS+ for £24.99 is on the PlayStation Store right now

Only for new or expired subs?

[Yevrah]

Just had confirmation that this bad boy will land on Monday!

[Gray Fox]

Only for new or expired subs?

It was for all.

[Danny]

The US equivalent couldnt be bought if you had active membership :moop:

[Danny]

https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/IP9102-NPIA90011_01-PSNOW1MONEDOLLAR/

Worth it for a quid.

[Shindig]

Yeah, although I don't know whether I'll get time to bang through something on it.

[Yevrah]

It's coming today!

[Gray Fox]

Merry Christmas, Yev.

[Yevrah]

:D

I do definitely feel like a child again!

Thanks for all of your help explaining the offerings gents.

[Yevrah]

We shall start with God of War.

https://www.twitch.tv/chemicallocust

[Yevrah]

PS Now is pretty shit for old games/stuff you have to stream. Some lag in there sadly.

[Baz]

Meanwhile the Series S/X emulates PS2 perfectly. :harold:

[Gray Fox]

Good for Me and for Yevrah who have yet to play this.

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[Yevrah]

OOoh, that's on PS Now, which I'm working through at the moment weighing up whether it's worth continuing the subscription or just buying the games like that that I want. I have a lot of the multi-platform stuff on Xbox so already, so downloaded about 20 games and a working through them. So far I've played:

Super Ultra Street Fighter XVIII (Or whatever it's called) - fun for 5 minutes then deleted
Olympics 2020 - Possibly the worst game ever, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't fun

Things I've got from it that might actually be good:

Beyond: Two Souls
Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
God of War III Remastered
Heavy Rain
Horizon Zero Dawn
Soma
Vampyr
A load of Indy stuff

The subscription is £8 a month after the month for a pound runs out, so thinking of doing a quick look through each of those and then cancelling and just buying the ones I actually like.

[Pepe]

Super Ultra Street Fighter XVIII (Or whatever it's called) - fun for 5 minutes then deleted

You're dead to me.

[Yevrah]

:D

I played Street Fighter 2 on the SNES to death in my teens, so it's not that I think it's a bad game I've just genuinely got nothing left to get from it.

[Pepe]

Yeah, it's the kind of game that you either go balls deep into online competition, or you just don't bother.

[Andrew]

One of my mates has given me a VIP code for a ps5 bundle from Currys not sure what's included (besides the actual console)

Shall I take the plunge and delve into the murky world of PS5 users or wait?

[Yevrah]

So apparently you can but internal storage drives to increase the poor capacity you get out of the box now.

Anyone have any experience of doing so?

[Danny]

I havent but I am planning on it soon. Installation seems simple and from the videos I saw it doesnt impact performance at all.

[Gray Fox]

I've not done it myself, but it's apparently the same as installing an m.2 drive in a PC. If you have any experience with PC building?

[Raoul Duke]

I did mine on the PS4 and it was easy enough. Just undo some screws, switch it out and off you go.

[Andrew]

It's pretty easy to do Yevrah take the sides off unscrew the covering pull out the old hard drive and slide the new one in

Think you can pick up a 1Tb drive now for the ps5 for 180 quid

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'll probably be doing it soon but right now I'm not too pushed for space.

[wullie]

I put a 1Tb drive in the PS4 and it took seconds, I assume it'll be the same for this. I've got an external drive connected for the PS4 games as it is already so I'm a good way off capacity for now.

[Dark Soldier]

Picked one of these up in Game last Sunday. It's a lovely bit of kit if fucking freakishly huge.

[wullie]

I remember being blown away by the haptic thing on the controller, on the Astro game built-in when you feel the rainfall it made up for the console itself being a superyacht.

[Shindig]

The resistance on the triggers took me a while to get used to feeling.

[Mazuuurk]

I didn't even realise my PS4 didn't have haptics?

[SincereTheRebel]

You can get £75 off, direct from PS store for a new console. (https://direct.playstation.com/en-gb/hardware/ps5?emcid=pa-co-422388&gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwzo2mBhAUEiwAf7wjkuponU4RZ1PE6uG2MGQW EVkBk3zGAF0ELifmILBtPJne5y9MTs0RVBoCjf0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)

[Danny]

Must be shifting stock for a pro model

[Shindig]

I still don't think that's happening. There's no developers clamouring for it like there was with a PS4 Pro.

[Dark Soldier]

PS5 Pro announced. Games at a slightly higher res and a bit more detail and maybe possibly 60fps. November 7th, no disc drive or stand, £700.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

£700? Jesus fuck.

[Shindig]

Yeah, not a chance. I don't even think the power's necessary. Nobody really pushes the box outside of Sony.

[phonics]

Just buy a pc.

[Boydy]

Has it got any games worth playing yet?

[Shindig]

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
Returnal
Demon's Souls
Astrobot
Astro's Playroom
Lies of P
Those two Final Fantasy VII remakes
Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Spider-Man 2
Stellar Blade

Some of these are also on PC but that's the best I can come up with.

[Boydy]

So no then.

[Danny]

You mean you dont want to play the same games again but remastered and on slightly better hardware?

I bought the 4 Pro straight away and then the 5 straight away but I am going wait on this. Doesn't seem worth it day 1.

[Gray Fox]

So it seems the point of this is to aim for 4k60fps. You can currently get 4k or 60fps on the standard, but not both. So you must choose in settings if you want graphics or performance.

It's still a better deal for most than the PC route for now. If it does what it says it will do, that is. Your PC equivalent here is likely to be a little more into the ~£1k range and that's if you build it yourself.

We'll see how well this thing sells, but I don't think it will.

[Shindig]

Yeah, even if you want to go down a pre-build route, £700 gets you something with an RTX 3050. Probably not comparable to the PS5's GPU but the raytracing support on the PC side is a little more widespread.

[SincereTheRebel]

:cool:

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/19/celebrating-30-years-of-playstation-with-a-nostalgic-look/?s=08

[Shindig]

Man, that controller cable is neat. Fuck you, Sony.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That looks so sweet.

[wullie]

I need to replace my controller, if they're going for the standard price I'm having one of those.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah I want one of those controllers.

[Danny]

Preorders up today.

Apparently costs £959.99 / €1099,99.

They priced the Pro at the same price in US and UK. That’s dangerous :uhoh:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Apparently it sold out in seconds.

[Danny]

I imagine so. When I got the 5 I was able to kind of fudge the queue by being on really early.

Didn’t work this time though. Got bumped to the “paused” queue like everyone else

[Shindig]

I wonder how many they've got in production. You'd hope they judge the numbers better than the PSVR 2.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I wonder how many they've got in production. You'd hope they judge the numbers better than the PSVR 2.

The PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection will be released on November 21. There will be 12,300 units of the PlayStation 5 Pro Console – 30th Anniversary Limited Edition Bundle available for customers to purchase, with limited edition numbers etched onto the unit. The number represents the month and date of the first PlayStation console launch.

[Shindig]

Ah, I thought this was the Pro.

[Danny]

Bought the normal pro. I imagine I can sell mine with upgraded hard drive for over half.

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