PS.. is it 5? I think we're on 5 now. PS5

I have a PS4 Slim and I've been very happy with it, so much so that I'm not sure what a PS5 would give me that I don't already have or want in a machine. Besides exclusives, I guess, but that stuff is totally under wraps, given that hyped heavy hitters Last of Us 2, Cyberpunk 2077 and Ghost of Tsushima are coming out for PS4.

there is no point in buying a new console until there are games worth playing on it, idk why people even humor the thought of buying near launch

clout

fanboys + people who didnt have the previous box

I have Gamespot gift cards and GS is near death and my PS4 optical drive is dead. First time I’ll be buying a new system ASAP.

GTA though? Man, that’s been downhill from 4 on.

It would be be Spider-Man 2 for me. But I don't know, something about the general anxiety of this year might lead to just get this and maybe the MS one too

So just caught the Demon's Souls remake, what else have I missed/

HZD sequel so you better play the first one sooner than later!

Eh, I've got a couple of years before I even consider PS5.

FUGLY

better have good cooling because that's going in a drawer

that is seriously rank

looks like a router

We didn't get a price, right?

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSRLTTP_t9wdIH4DSZkdDTRhcsTe32JKmHqg7pVKQ1gMu4CCOYr&usqp=CAU

only $1.00, nice!

im predicting it'll be usd450 for the digital only one and 500 for the one with the drive

damn that's one ugly console, can it even lie on its side

The one with the drive looks worse than the other one

almost seems... intentional...

xp it looks way better on its side

https://i.ibb.co/Lvz1zCn/Ea-Qt-TQ-Ws-AEpej-P.jpg

well, maybe not 'way' better. ya I kinda like the design but it's huge and I hate the white

also looks very breakable
that said, Spider-Man: Miles Morales fuck yeah i think they got me

should have sniped the xbox's hajj aesthetic

so you need a stand to lay it flat?
yes v breakable white plactic labia lol

looks like a venue at the qatar world cup

looks like a robot's vag

great so we'll all have filthy looking consoles after a year

white plactic labia lol

lol, I'm glad I'm not the only one whose mind immediately went there.

hasn't been a nice looking console in years idk what everyone was expecting

i think the fat ps2 (laid on its side) was the last design i actually liked

Dammit which thread are we using?

great so we'll all have filthy looking consoles after a year

― Ste, Thursday, June 11, 2020 5:43 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

i feel like the wii managed to stay pretty clean looking for an all white console

360s otoh would like shit after a month

wow this playstation fucks

glad everyones on the same page about this

ps5 behind the scenes production still

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oh that didn't work never mind

Special black edition coming in 2022 j/k

looks a little like a frank gehry building i.e. a box with something kinda wavy wrapped around it to make it look intellectual

Shit sandwich

system looks bulky and terrible, games all look great but who knows

oh hey demons souls, i guess i'll buy this when it comes out

do we know if we will be able to carry over our digital games library from PS4?

would be pretty shitty not to since its all one account and the backwards compatibility is there unlike previous gen ups

thanks - just trying to decide whether I want to grab some stuff in the PS4 sale

yeah i mean i can't guarantee it but it would be an insanely hostile decision for them not to

did games libraries survive the jump from PS3 to PS4 / 360 to xbox one? I can't remember

i may be wrong but i think that gen was digital-purchase dominant only near the end of its lifecycle so it was less of a point of contention.

PS5 is bigger than the fat PS3. fs sony

my only disc is ring fit adventure, so i'm really hoping everything else will carried on to ps5.

i don't care TOO much about the hardware design, but yeah, it is really, really bad. attention-drawing in all the worst ways

then again, when the new tesla tank car prototype came out and everyone hated it, i actually thought it was kind of cool, so i demonstrably have zero taste in such things

it's clearly just inertia since they've always been on the 7 year cycle before now but this time there's no efficiencies after 7 years. $500 worth of console tech in 2027 will be...a PS5

It's also to do with the fact hardly anyone could get hold of a PS5 for the first year or so. And then it took ages for many exclusive games to come out for it.

Looking back at the thread, I got mine in September 2022 just as they started becoming a bit more widely available. And that was, like, last year so...

(and I mostly play PS4 games on it anyway)

And of course, what the market taught Sony (and the others) during that initial wave of shortages was that actually, people will quite happily pay hundreds more than the launch RRP. I suspect they’d be a lot more cagey about continuing to push the price up if they hadn’t seen what the scalped consoles were going for back then.

They care about the number of games and services sold over everything. Number of consoles sold drives that, along with time-based or forever exclusives that drive more console sales and, more importantly, further game and service sales

I doubt the consoles selling low in the first couple years was that much of a hardship, because they're typically a loss leader on launch. If anything, they're probably kicking themselves that they didn't figure out a way to make any extra money off of the shortage/scalping

I guess they kind of did in that they did more direct sales to consumers during that time and Sony selling the PS5 at retail price is going to bring in a little more money than selling them on to a retailer who also gets a cut

yup, that sounds right to me

It has varied over time but afaik Nintendo is the only company that tries to make the console itself profitable from launch

kinda funny sony have spent so much time chasing a live service unicorn, bought bungie to make one for them, and bungie then made them a super hardcore, super brutal live service FPS in a very niche genre

I actually think marathon will find its audience and grow (getting out the cul de sac that e.g. the finals has found itself in) but it’s probably unlikely to hit CS:GO numbers. apex number would def be a success

‘probably unlikely’. sorry I mean, no chance in hell it does but I think it will steadily grow through word of mouth if it gets the support and the on boarding process is refined

Reportedly some PS4 players that have wish-listed GTA 6 have been getting notice they should finally/belatedly upgrade to PS5 in anticipation of a Nov. release date, implying (not surprisingly) that the game will not be playable on PS5. That's no surprise, other than the fact that they even have to say it nearly six years after the launch of the PS5. Insane how long PS4's been hanging in there!