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

Hmm, it depends. Ray tracing seems expensive computationally. I could see things like draw distance, texture detail and other such things being a lot better at 30fps.

The audiophile snake oil is surely in the "you really notice the 120 fps" direction?

xp sure, i just don't think you can justify not including the performance mode as an option anymore now that the games aren't cpu-bound

1440p checkerboard looks pretty much identical to native 4k at tv viewing distance whereas 30 vs 60fps is a massively felt difference in action games

https://kotaku.com/two-weeks-with-my-ps5-1845670823

more info on the "cards" and jumping right into quests. looks like new Spider-Man supports it!

I adore weird-looking consoles, chief among them, the purple GameCube, so I like that the PS5 looks like a giant, high-tech eclair.

I should measure but my dated tv console has a shelf wide enough for a ps4 plus a stack of disc boxes on the side. I think I relocate the boxes and I’m good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy7VILMeN28

*checks wario64 again*

If eating Bugsnax turns you into a Bugsnax, is the only way to turn back into a Grumpus eating other Grumpuses?

15000 people ahead of me in the online queue in Curry's this morning was enough to convince me not be be an early adopter.

the ps5 looks like a new expensive campus performing arts center that replaced three academic arts departments and cost $60 million dollars pic.twitter.com/mLwL921kRs

— matt (@matthiasellis) June 11, 2020

anybody got one of these yet and wanna rep for it?

I just spent an hour getting FF7 remake on my ps4 and i wouldn't be mad at something that loads faster.

i'm waiting for it to have real games

my buddy has one and he's enjoying playing ps4 games on it, lol

apparently there's drift problems with the controller so i know im waiting a while before i take the plunge

i'm waiting for it to have real games

same. even a single must-have game will probably be enough for me. and, i guess, trying to find a ps5, if they're still hard to find at that point

i don't think there's even anything in my zone announced yet besides FF16 and who knows how long that will take to show up

my sense was that the appeal is the ability to play ps4 games without loadtimes. and bugsnax.

thats not enough for the price of early adoption!

i agree! but some of you have more money than me.

Idc about load times, so I'm not even gonna think about it until Elden Ring. Even then, I wish I could never buy a new system, but I have to imagine that it will be optimized for PS5.

I've tried to get it a bunch of times when I see it pop up on wario64 but I've never managed to get one in my cart before the bots get there.

We have one, have only been playing the 4K versions of existing games that have it for now, like Destiny and No Mans Sky - everything loads real fast and looks really good. Fan can be hella loud when it has to kick in tho.

I have been using a PS5 controller with my PC and pretending

It's a good controller imo

can pc games access the fancy haptics features like the trigger tension?

not as of yet

basically feels like a nicer PS4 controller overall, only no one has spilled coca-cola in my ps5 controller

Oh do the PS5 controllers work with Steam controller maps same as PS4 do?

Fan can be hella loud when it has to kick in tho.

nooooooooo i thought this was the whole point of making it a meter wide, to avoid this!

i am disappointed sony

yeah iirc all the first impressions were like "its so much quieter than the ps4" but maybe it doesnt hold up over time

I should caveat what I said - most of the time theres no fan noise! but when it kicks in, its not so much that its loud, but its ... distinct? Quite enginey-sounding, like a 2stroke mower in the distance.

Playstation getting its own Hades: https://kotaku.com/returnal-feels-like-an-actual-ps5-game-1846735864

I was up late watching streams of this. A complete stunner of a game. Just awesome.

That game looks pretty neat, and/or a future cult classic. I have no idea what thought goes into these rollouts but it's wild the PS5 came out with next to no bench. Then again, as I understand it, the early days of PS4 were light on must-play games, too. Which of course begs the question, if it takes a couple of years for a system to get going, then why buy one at all in the early days? I suppose that problem was accidentally solved this year through scarcity, but still.

Anyway, this reminds me that I have Hades but haven't played it yet!

PS5 still has more and better exclusives than Xbox does.

Also, the PS5 is apparently the fastest-selling console in history so the scarcity isn't hurting too much.

PS4 at launch didn't have PS Now or backwards compatibility so those mediocre launch titles were basically the only games you could play on it.

new sells

ps5 releasing during a pandemic when a lot of people are sitting around bored and have entertainment money to spend can't be ignored as a factor

didn’t the first batch of PS4s have backwards compatibility, and then they removed it? am i dreaming that?

that was the early $600 PS3s which had physical PS2 and PS1 support

ahhhh lol i’m old

Well, of course PS didn't *know* there was going to be a pandemic (or did they?!). In fact, releasing during am unforeseen pandemic while at the same time contending with a similarly unforeseen chip shortage probably made any of the accidental benefits of the former a wash, right? So yeah, people want entertainment, but we're not that lacking in options, and the folks clamoring for a new premium system that's *still* hard to come by, and currently has few exclusives, must be relatively limited. Heck, they are still releasing new AAA games for the previous generation. (Doesn't the new Resident Evil, which looks dope, come out next week or something?) Anyway, does look like the PS5 is selling more or less at the same rate the PS4 did when it came out, perhaps a bit brisker. Lotta new titles on the distant horizon, too, though I think it would take something like God of War 2: Ragnarok to entice this particular Average Josh. I think I read that Returnal sales were softer than expected, but that game (apparently challenging, not part of a franchise) seems like a big ask.

early adopters are buying for the new hardware features/performance on last-gen games and not for new ps5-only games. obviously it sounds silly if you're not someone who gets excited by having the New Tech

Long Live the New Tech!

O_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6pCyV7PnqI

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

game of... souls?

i mean if you really want me to buy a ps5, new souls by any other name is how you do it

its on ps4 too

I reaaally don't want to have to buy a PS5 (especially since just finding one seems like a whole thing), but given that Dark Souls 3 seems to barely run on my PS4, I can't imagine how current gen will handle this.

Anyway, it looks amazing.

^co-sign on all of that