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

^co-sign on all of that

^co-co-sign on all of that

For purely selfish reasons, all I can say is - and I'm sorry for this - please be delayed.

you're allowed to buy it later

you're allowed to buy it later, when it costs less!

if you purely selfish, you would want it to be released today so that you could play the GOTY version of it at $19.99

that would maximize the gaming pleasure / $ ratio

Fair enough. Though we don't know how long it takes as of yet for a $70 PS5 game to drop down to $20 or less. Or even if they ever will. But yeah, I figure it will be ... 2025 before I get to Elden Ring?

But if this and nu-God of War 2 hit in 2022, it will be hard for me to resist their call for much more than a year.

I only want to play it at launch for the traditional chaos of everyone trying to figure out the multiplayer at the same time, before anyone really knows what they're doing.

unfortunately the god of war 2 sequel has been sacked, due to the little boy in the game. he died

was murdered, actually, for being too annoying

oh, he wasn't that bad.

i just hope that in the sequel he's more of a sullen, say-nothing teenager. but he's really angry and good at fighting

I wish I was a person who had fewer bad video game opinions and cared about anything from From.

i don't like from games but this one's a bigger temptation to give them another shot than the last few

Oh, wait, this is coming to PS4, too? Problem solved.

so is god of war, probably

I've no problem waiting another year for a PS5. There's not much that's essential on it yet and still have a backlog of PS4 games to play.

In fact, because not only are most of these future PS5 games coming out for the PS4 as well, looks like they will often be offering upgrades and patches to make them PS5 ready anyway. So I can take my time with my massive PS4 backlog, and when it's time to get a new system, a lot of the stuff I have can suddenly be transformed into PS5 games, and I can continue the backlog from there. So far, there are only a couple of big titles that are PS5 exclusive, right? Demon's Souls and Returnal, which are both still kind of niche, and the latter which seems like the most maddening of all worlds (bullet-hell plus rogue like plus Dark Souls).

Think the new Ratchet & Clank is PS5 only too

The last game was fun but pretty slight, and the reviews for this new one scan pretty tepid to me. That is, more of the same. So that's not the one to do it for me.

only game that would get me to buy a PS 5 is GTA VI

everyone forgets that other than bloodborne ps4's first big wave of system-selling games came out 3-4 years in

i don't like from games but this one's a bigger temptation to give them another shot than the last few

I'm curious why, since this looks Extremely From? (which is exactly what I was hoping for)

oh it's more the timing than the content. its been long enough since i bounced off my last attempt at dark souls

Ah I see. :)

I'm just hoping that all the cool things they're apparently adding - open world, horses, Sekiro-style blocking - don't mean that invasions are off the table.

will probably get a PS5 when FFXVI eventually releases, not in a hurry tbh
can't think of anything I want to play less than Death Standing Directors Cut lol

I love the R&C games but it's not going to make me rush out and buy a PS5 xps

I love "not going to rush out and buy a ps5" posts... as if that's the thing you can actually do...

i managed to get a switch during the launch period bottleneck, if i actually wanted a ps5 i'd find a way

if you are really bothered about getting a PS5 they are not that hard to find, just a lot of effort and time babysitting websites etc
Series S/X are a lot more available in the UK tho, I wonder how those are selling overall

zappi please teach me... i have failed like 50 times to get one

Lol depends where you are in the world, plenty of websites that have alerts set up for stock e.g. for US @wario64 and @mattswider on twitter, there's a Bestbuy restock happening today for example

Really tho being in UK I'd handroll my own alerts system by using one of the many browser extensions to watch for webpage changes on any webpage that is selling the PS5 in my country. just a lot of waiting around and hoping I'm quick enough on the draw.

italy need little balls. apparently.

not that hard, just need to roll your own alert system is all lol

i believe i posted in the wrong thread.

xp
lol you don't really need to, but it sure would help a lot!

showing my little balls to the shopkeep so i can buy an italian PS5

Ooh this is good to know: https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2021/06/11/elden-ring-ps5-upgrade-free/

showing my little balls to the shopkeep so i can buy an italian PS5

Italy Needs Little Balls is the system seller Sony has been waiting for

But will it even be playable on a PS4 xps

don't see why not, the trailer looks like a ps4 game. it'll probably run similar to sekiro

I just read that, in a twist, a game called "Godfall" was apparently released as an early PS5 showcase exclusive, but came and went with such little notice that it's actually being re-made backwards for PS4. That's pretty sad, tbh. The press release apparently featured this blurb:

Unfortunately, Godfall is not coming to PS4, because the game is being tailor-made for Sony’s new console, which means that many of the features the game will use are simply not possible on a PS4.

One step forward, two steps back.

Was watching the Dunkey review of the new Ratchet and Clank (mostly meh), and he dismisses the idea of this as a "next generation" game, and makes the observation that a) it doesn't look or play much if any better than the last one for PS4 back in 2016 and b) if the next God of War is being released on the PS4 as well as 5, then certainly this one could have made it to PS4, too.

I read of faster load times and, I dunno, ray tracing or whatever, but I wonder how long until the PS5 gets a game that not only runs a bit better on PS5 but can *only* be run on PS5. Not in the exclusive system, but in the sense that only the PS5 is powerful enough to pull it off. Maybe it's not that kind of a system, in which case maybe it's best to view it as a PS4 Pro-Pro?

you should view it as a PS3 Pro-Pro-Pro

The "3" is for triple-pro. That's how you can tell it from the 4 and the 2.

i think in terms of GPU/visual fidelity all consoles are gonna be incremental improvements from now on because there's an upper bound on how big your tv is. just depends on whether they can find cool stuff to do with the extra CPU power