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

(praise the sun)

otm

same

if it is not the perfect game, we will be angry until someone does it again and again

I guess the main difference will be online play, because PS3 Demon's Souls servers no longer exist

I might be alone in this but I prefer to play online solely for the shared messages/ghosts. One of my favorite game mechanics ever

You guys, Spider-Man: Miles Morales is so fucking good

Also, Disco Elysium is really fucking good too

but did they remember to put spider-man in it this time

I am enjoying Demon's Souls a lot

I am finding it reallllly easy after Dark Souls 3 though. I completed two legs back-to-back without dying, bosses included. I MUCH prefer comestible healing over Estus healing

This is the fourth From game I've played in a row and my boyfriend wants me to play something else. I bought Control and immediately disliked everything about it and quit after an hour. Neither he nor I like Spider Man enough to play it in game form. I don't know what to do. Toying with getting Edith Finch or something

tbh swinging through NYC is the entire reason to get the Spider-Man games, it’s completely glorious

Things I like about Demon's Souls: smaller pool of weapons, combat feels like "moving pieces around a board" more than "realistic" and it feels closer to a turn-based RPG as a result, the tone/mood/aesthetic, seeing how Dark Souls 3 was much more of a sequel to this rather than Dark Souls itself

Things I dislike about Demon's Souls: the corridors, the tunnels, the cell blocks, the voice acting

xp I also don't like NYC enough to desire to play it in game form

it’s absolutely glorious when you’re swinging through the tops of buildings!

Guys BUGSNAX

Maybe not really

New free DLC for Returnal that adds co-op (!!!) as well as a new area March 22.

You know what they should do? Make the PS5 easier to find and buy.

isnt there still a global chip shortage

judging by the e-mail i just received that said a piece of electronic equipment i ordered in November 2021 won't be available until November 2022 at the earliest, it appears that is still an issue, yes.

By the time the chip shortage is resolved they'll probably introduce a new model, and then *that* one will be hard to find for years.

don't think there will be a new model this gen at least not with different internals, a smaller one may be possible several years down the line. the ps4 pro was motivated by 4k TVs proliferating quickly. 8k is not a real consideration until there's widespread demand for 100 inch TVs which seems unlikely

Maybe they can go the other direction and make a PS5 Lite or something.

not to be a dick but this is a very good system

The PS5 system, or the catch as catch can system of getting a PS5? I'm sure the PS5 itself is a good system, but I neither want to hunt for one nor pay what they're asking right now.

My PS5 hunt was:

- see initial frenzy
- go "fuck that noise, I'll wait"
- wait
- idly check earlier this year to see if any restocks were coming up by googling randomly
- stumble across a site that alerted me to a Walmart restock the next day
- log into the Walmart website the next morning
- wait in a queue for 10 minutes
- buy PS5 at MSRP
- have PS5 delivered to house 4 days later

I think it was a maximum active time investment of 30 minutes

and the end result was that for my birthday, I gave myself a PS5

i've done the first few steps and will continue when there's a ps5 game i want to play

I've been actively searching (albeit on and off) for months on end

/shakes fist at DJP

I would have had one last week (and probably today, had I been paying attention) if I'd read the full instructions.

There's a Walmart+ (or something) plan that lets you hit a queue not available to everyone else. I hadn't noticed last week that you couldn't be on the trial and had to be on the real plan so I was five minutes late. A few friends have gotten one that way.

You'd be paying MSRP + the plan price ($12.99) though

I'm actually really good at stalking stuff, and generally really patient, too, whether it's for Springsteen on Broadway tickets or Pappy Van Winkle bottles (at retail!). But the PS5, I dunno. Maybe it's the price, maybe it's just the general real scarcity, maybe (probably) it's because I'm more than happy with my PS4, but it's just one step too many for me. And because I'm so satisfied with the PS4, I sure as shit am not going to pay MSRP, let anything on top of that.

you could have just led with the last sentence

like, if you aren’t interested in msrp, the rest is just faffing around

Ha, fair enough. But if they *were* more widely available I'd at least have the option to *consider* buying one at MSRP, or the option to wait for a sale, or even the option to tell my family I'd like one for my birthday. Right now it's high-pressure salesmanship, however inadvertently: if you want one and find one you need to buy one, because you don't know when you'll get another chance. For comparison, I'm also unlikely to pay retail for, say, Elden Ring, a game I really want to play and know I eventually *will* play, but that's partly because it's widely available and not going anywhere, so I know if I ever got FOMO impatient and changed my mind I *could* buy it at retail. There's just no external market pressure to do so. There's probably an economic name for this, I have no idea.

Game consoles don't go on sale, they have price drops

Not even on black friday or whenever? Anyway, tomato, tomato.

yeah the boxes are already sold at a pretty low margin (negative in some cases? xbox was for a while) so they can't drop the price willy nilly like they can with games which are basically free to produce

err free to produce copies once the game exists i mean, of course

the only way you usually get “deals” on a console is in a bundle where the other crap is discounted

you're lucky in 2022 just to be able to buy the console by itself without gift cards/PSN memberships/headphones/old sports games/what-have-you packed in

Couple of articles recently came out comparing sales of the PS5 to sales of the PS4 over the same launch-to-16-month timespan, and PS5 is lagging by about 1.8 million sales. I assume that's largely due to scarcity, combined with people (like me) still getting a lot of satisfaction from the last gen.

the latter happens every generation though so thats not a factor. its just scarcity + generally console sales have trended down a bit over time due to various factors (smartphones, way more competition for entertainment time from streaming)

I paid $50 more on MSRP on mine, second hand, last week. Still feel a bit dirty but I'm also sort of obsessive and know that I would have spent more than $50 in mental energy and stress from constantly searching and refreshing webpages for stock. I haven't yet learnt how to compartmentalise the part of my brain that decides it wants a thing.

oh well! I'm having fun now and that's all that matters

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/29/23001164/sony-playstation-plus-subscriptions-price-release-date

Sony is announcing new versions of its PlayStation Plus subscriptions today, its long-rumored answer to Xbox Game Pass. PlayStation Plus is now a combination of Sony’s two current subscription services, PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now. Two new PlayStation Plus subscription options will include access to multiplayer gaming alongside a catalog of select PlayStation games to install or stream.

These new tiers will start to become available in June in Asia, followed by North America, Europe, and the rest of the world. As part of the launch, PlayStation Now will no longer be available as a standalone service.

...

At launch, Sony plans to include games like Death Stranding, God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Mortal Kombat 11, and Returnal. Sony isn’t making its upcoming exclusive PlayStation games available on launch day through this subscription service though, making it less of an Xbox Game Pass competitor.

PlayStation Plus Essential — includes multiplayer access, two monthly downloadable games, discounts, and cloud storage for game saves. Priced at $9.99 per month or $59.99 a year.

PlayStation Plus Extra — includes everything in Plus Essential and access to a catalog of up to 400 PS4 or PS5 games. Priced at $14.99 per month or $99.99 a year.

PlayStation Plus Premium — includes all benefits from Essential and Extra, with an extra 340 games that include PS3 titles that can be streamed and some original PlayStation, PS2, and PSP games. Time-limited game trials also available. Priced at $17.99 per month or $119.99 a year.

need lists of these games imo

Seems like it was priced so that if you were already a Plus and Now subscriber, that's $120 a year which now = the top tier. Considering existing Plus is roughly $40-45 year on discount, there's going to have been a steep sale on codes to make me join the higher tiers.
And yes, we definitely need a list of games.

Kinda was hoping that there would be a cheaper-than-current-plans option for just online multiplayer, oh well.

yeah the only reason i have it right now is so my 10-yo can play minecraft w his friends

I'm beginning to think my PS5 is defective. It was fine for the first several days, but lately it's become prone to starting up to a white static screen with lots of digital noise, or sometimes a game or the home screen stutters to black or the same white static. There's a chance it's just the HDMI cord, or something wrong/uncooperative with the settings, but to be on the safe side I'll likely just send it off to Sony to be repaired/replaced.

why don’t you try a different cable?

yeah, that was my first line of defense. I tried it with a better HDMI cable and it seemed to work, or at least the problem didn't manifest itself, but there's no way to know if it's working *now* or working permanently. I'll give it a few days.