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

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

^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.