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

sorry that's not the best link. here's what buying a ps5 and subbing to their yearly service gets you:

God of War
The Last of Us: Remastered
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Battlefield 1
Monster Hunter World
Fallout 4
Final Fantasy XV
The Last Guardian
Ratchet and Clank
Infamous: Second Son
Days Gone
Bloodborne
Detroit: Become Human
Batman Arkham Knight
Mortal Kombat X
Persona 5
Until Dawn
Resident Evil: Biohazard

> they do have to be tested and whitelisted by sony first i think but they've said 99% of ps4 games will work on day 1

i think the testing and whitelisting is only for the PS5 boost mode improvements in back-compat (to avoid further confusion, NOT talking about the enhanced PS5 versions that are effectively PS5 games, I mean actual PS4 games running in boost mode on the 5), for the legacy modes all games with few exceptions should run fine, like base PS4 games do in the ps4 pro

whoa, that's pretty cool! as long as they don't bump up the price of Playstation Plus to $125/yr or some bullshit

“Marvel’s Spider-Man: Remastered is an enhanced version of Marvel’s Spider-Man, and is included as part of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition for the PlayStation 5. In addition, players who purchase Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales on PlayStation 4 can upgrade at no additional cost to the PS5 version of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales and can take advantage of a paid-upgrade to download Marvel’s Spider-Man: Remastered.”

Regarding the above.. how long until PS Now/PS+/PS+ Collection get merged and they do end up bumping the price? Fortunately Game Pass is still so cheap generally (gotta be at a loss) that I think they'll refrain from charging more than MS does

yeah gamepass has to be a 'take a loss to get a userbase then figure it out later' thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaAY-jAjm0w

what?? it’s as big as a man’s torso!

it is the chunkiest of systems

It's like a cross between a 3-ring binder and a boogie board.

chonky bytes

the furniture my tv sits on literally isn’t big enough to hold that

it's supposed to replace that furniture

yeah, i have no idea where i'm putting that

I can't wait for the second wave of these to become available so I can get one and my partner can go "uh what is this giant thing you put in the living room" and I can answer "I'M SPIDERMAN, WHEEEEEEEEEEEE"

Uh, the PS5 digital is shipping with a 1tb drive and 664gb of free space, which likely isn't much more than enough to hold the games that the PS+ Collection comes with! You're gonna need a 5tb external attached to this dang thing, which only increases the bulk.

Anyone who installs both Demon’s Souls and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition will find their hard drive space taking up 171GB, which is roughly 20 percent of the entire storage.

i love that they did this video

do you really need all 20 games in the ps+ collection installed at once? they're mostly single player games that have an end

if i can't play anything at any given moment how do i even know i'm alive

rip and tear(down)

I wonder if how hard taking out the cap for the screw hole (@1:34 in the video) will be.

clumsy people will die instantly when they try to do it

excited to buy the sane size version with a useful hard drive size in 2023

are 2TB+ SSDs gonna get cheaper fast enough for that?

doubtful

a boy can dream

https://blog.playstation.com/2020/10/09/ps4-games-on-ps5-your-top-questions-answered/

That looks pretty reassuring.

any news about the loudness of the ps5, compared to standard model ps4s?

If it's too loud, you're too old!

WHRHRHRH whaatt? iIIRRRRR i can't hear IIRRRRHHHyouRRROovertheFRRpRRRHHHHRHRR5RHHHhh

List of PS4-only games: https://support.playstation.com/s/article/backward-compatibility?language=en_US

Not too shabby.

apparently the entire reason the ps5 is so big is to make it quieter!

the whole thing is a heatsink

pretty much. the component spacing on that mainboard is wild, just loads of space between chips

How thirsty are you for PS5 sneak peeks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TBPrYJDoDE

the user experience is bad

On the plus side, that stuff seems like the easiest to fix and refine. And at the same time, a lot of that is shit I just don't care about. Screenshots? Chatting? Not for me.

My kids were claiming I play games a lot, which ... I really don't. Maybe once or twice a week? Still, I told them if anything I need to play games *more* to stay on track, so that I can get through most of my backlog in time to buy a PS5 in two+ years.

there's no rush. i bought a ps4 in 2019 and will probably likewise buy a ps5 in 2025

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2b/0f/a0/2b0fa0601f51750dcab589083d1952ea.jpg

the user experience is bad

sure is. it's true that they could fix it later, but it seems rare that it actually happens. i'll never understand how even basic things like the screenshot interface get screwed up. here's a screenshot of the PS5 screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/iDZfBiE.png

it's hard to tell, but in the demo they just snapped a picture. but notice that the interface takes up the bottom 1/4 of the screen, and it's black instead of transparent so it covers up a 1/4 of the screenshot you're trying to capture! you have to guess at what's behind there when you frame your shot. why didn't they just make it transparent?

it's not a big deal at all, and maybe they'll fix that before launch day, but...they probably won't?

all these are functions I wouldn't ever use. in our house the ps4 has become our main TV device that also happens to play games. So what I really want is better interfaces for TV watching, chromecast compatibility, better audio out options, some way to watch ITV(!)... on the gaming side, just be nice to have one setting that remembers I play inverted Y, otherwise yeah just bring me a quieter fan, a good Gran Turismo and a whole load of cheap 2d metroidvanias, bring Lau some overblown post-apocalyptic epic with yet more zombies, and we're basically happy.

More annoyed about the recently announced changes to the web store.
No more ability to buy PS3/Vita/PSP titles (have to use the console), and they're REMOVING wishlists altogether.

Yeah what’s up with that anyway?

Note that PS1 titles are still seemingly ok, and maybe will get a PS5 emulator. (Most PS2 titles on the store were PSN ports to PS3 so I'm guessing they're mostly gone with a few exceptions that were ported to PS4.)

Guess it's too much trouble to emulate. I know PS3 had a notoriously weird architecture (which was eventually cracked by many ingenious hobbyists and PS2 I'm guessing is also difficult to emulate.

The wishlist stuff is probably just to curtail wait-for-sale buying? I can't see it as anything but anti-consumer. Speaking of which, I always hated that 100-item limit.

good news for those hoping the ps5 will be more quiet?

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/10/ps5-will-use-downloadable-updates-to-control-game-by-game-fan-speed/

...in the interview, 4Gamer notes that the system's 120mm diameter, 45mm thick fan, which directs air to both sides of the dual-sided motherboard, "is quite large and thick for an electric fan mounted on a game machine." That allows for slower turning compared to a larger fan, leading to a "high degree of quietness... under normal usage conditions."

In the teardown video, Otori said the PS5's increased size led to "a dramatic improvement in terms of processing power and quietness" over the PS4. Initial hands-on reports from Japanese press confirmed that general impression, which should be good news for PlayStation owners used to loud system fans that spin like jet engines under heavy load.

new web store is up and I hate it already
no filters, no wishlist, all icons and no text so you can't tell if it's a game or bundle or DLC or what - if you search for DLC you can end up with rows of the same icon and not be able to tell what each one is!

Not seeing the changes yet?

lol what are they doing over there

they're lucky microsoft came up with an even more confusing new product line name than the wii u