Sony PlayStation 5

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Oct 08, 2019 9:01 pm

SURPRISE! They're doing another PlayStation!

What will the specs be? What will the price be? Which games released this year are you most looking forward to being "remastered" next year on this new console?

Cid · Post by **Cid** » Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:05 pm

Unfortunately I'll probably have to buy one for FF7 Remake.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:14 pm

Wonder how soon they’ll release the “next gen” version?

Asaroth Larot · Post by **Asaroth Larot** » Wed Oct 09, 2019 6:08 pm

Ill probably hold off till they release a game I dont feel I can ignore as usual.

Honestly I could stick with PS4 for awhile longer. Its a great console

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:06 am

I think PS5 has been confirmed to be backwards compatible with PS4, fortunately. I'm still gonna wait for a price drop or two maybe.

Cid · Post by **Cid** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:14 am

Damien wrote:Wonder how soon they’ll release the “next gen” version?

I could see it coming later that year with the PS5's launch. Hopefully a PC version as well.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:53 pm

Yeah I can’t see myself getting this on day one. Likely in late 2G21 when the good games hit

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:57 pm

I never intend to be an early adopter, but I generally buy all my consoles on a whim, so who knows?

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Oct 11, 2019 1:40 am

Advantages of getting it later:

1. Console will be cheaper.
2. Early released games will be cheaper.
3. More good games later.
4. Improves version of console might be released.
5. Less likely to ger some easily broken launch version (e.g. red ring of death stuff).

Advantages of getting itnearlier:

1. Can play the few good launch games earlier.
That's pretty much it. I guess there's also the possibility of a game being hard to get later on but in the digital era that's pretty unlikely.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:31 am

PS4 game out here November -(2G13)- and I got one on a whim in an "early Black Friday" sale in November -(2G14)-.
Joei and Char both got them at lunch. Joei brought his around to mine at Christmas and I don't think we even plugged it in. Played Char's for Talking Real (we played MGS: Ground Zeroes through on stream the day before it was officially released). That's the only benefit I can think of, getting a console super early, getting ahead of the streaming game. I don't stream any more though.

I'm glad I got a lunch PS3 though. The games at that point were lousy, but it had more UBS ports and more hard drive space than the next model, PLUS it was backwards compatible!

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:22 pm

Damn UK gets consoles early. Strange how you didn't get PS5 in 2G10. Well, maybe you can get it on your lunch break.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:28 pm

That’s what I get when I don’t use the 2Gxx format

Cid · Post by **Cid** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 1:24 am

Fuck, I don't want to buy a PS4 if a PS5 is coming out later that year but I don't think I can resist FFVIIR for damn near a year. Y U DO THIS TO ME SNOY

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:31 am

If the PS4 is going to be primarily used for one game, buy second hand or maybe borrow a console from a friend for it. Finish FFVII, then sell the game and rebut if you want to play it again on PS5.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 6:00 pm

I bought a PS3 the year PS4 was released (I'm not actually sure it was announced yet - at least not the release date - at the time, but not sure it would have mattered) and then got a PS4 in 2G15. Don't really regret it, because I did play a lot of good games on the PS3, but the PS4 is better and a lot of PS3 games were rereleased on PS4, so I maybe could have saved myself some money. I did buy both at less than launch price though.

Cid · Post by **Cid** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:32 pm

I don't want a PlayStation at all but I don't know if FFVIIR is coming to PC and if it does it'll probably be delayed a year or more for every episode. So if I have to get one I might as well get the best one. That being said at least this will also allow me to finally play Bloodborne which I'm pretty stoked about.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:10 pm

Playstations are better than silly PCs.

Cid · Post by **Cid** » Sun Oct 13, 2019 1:00 am

Maybe you're right. All these years and they still haven't released a PC 2.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Sun Oct 13, 2019 1:41 am

Pc master race am I rite hurrrr duuuur duuur

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Sun Oct 13, 2019 3:03 am

Maybe if they had a PC2 they wouldn't suck so much. JK. They'd definitely make everything worse just like every OS update.

Cid · Post by **Cid** » Sun Oct 13, 2019 6:27 am

Regarding the PS5, I read an article today talking about the controller. Other than adding haptic feedback it seems to be pretty much the same as the PS4 controller which is great because that's the first one I actually found to be comfortable. In previous iterations the triggers were terrible, I always bumped my thumbs into each other on the joysticks and the part that rests in your palm made my hands hurt after a while. I've been using the DualShock 4 as my PC gamepad and it's A+ imo. My only complaint is the giant touchpad in the middle is pretty useless.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Sun Oct 13, 2019 2:59 pm

Yeah, the touchpad is pretty pointless. In general, I find PS controllers better than XBox and Nintendo controllers.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Oct 14, 2019 7:00 am

I've liked every PlayStation controller during its generation. The touchpad on the Dualshock 4 is pretty much the unused/underused gimmick of the console. Most consoles now have one (Six Axis on the PS3, 3D on the 3DS...). A few games use it well, but mostly it's just a large extra button. Best use I've seen of it is Tearaway, but that was an adapted port of a Vita game that used the touchy back of the console (the Vita's own underused gimmick).

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:15 pm

The placement for that on the Vita is so bad, it annoys me when a game uses that feature.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:52 pm

I remember the first wave of DS games (Mario 64, Pokmon Dash) using a silly plastic thumb pad for screen control. That was very quickly phased out.

Cid · Post by **Cid** » Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:20 pm

PS5 controller, the "DualSense."

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2020/04 ... station-5/

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:23 pm

Looks like a crap third party thing, but I'm sure I'll get used to it.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Apr 08, 2020 12:22 am

I mean i have five senses, so idk about the name

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Apr 08, 2020 4:36 am

Looks fine to me, but whatever.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:37 am

I think it could do with being all one colour (perhaps black).

Cid · Post by **Cid** » Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:40 am

I dig it. Would be neat if they also used the original color scheme for the button symbols and logo.

Of course all of that is irrelevant if it's uncomfortable, so we'll see.

Damien wrote:I think it could do with being all one colour (perhaps black).

I would be incredibly surprised if they don't release an all black/white option at some point.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Jun 11, 2020 7:46 pm

Anybody watching the thing that’s on soon? I remember the PS4 one being boring.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:03 pm

I still think of my PS3 as new-ish

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:17 pm

My wife told me that I’m not allowed one until it’s available in black

Cid · Post by **Cid** » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:37 pm

Demon's Souls remake, baby!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:38 pm

I want the one with the cat. No idea what type of game it is though

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:17 pm

My issue with the ps5 is it doesn’t have enough GigaLoDs

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 4:37 am

So did they reveal things? What things did they reveal?

Cid · Post by **Cid** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 4:48 am

The console design and some games. You would probably be most excited for the Horizon sequel.

Just watched the trailer for this one. Looks pretty neat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vob4lEIO5g

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 5:47 am

I'm definitely excited about a Horizon sequel. Did they announce it as a launch title?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 6:51 am

They never said when launch would be or announce what would be launch titles. They just said if things were “holiday 2020”, 2021 or 2022. I’m most interested in Stray, but I don’t even know what kinda game it is.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:23 am

We all know botw2 is going to be better anyway

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:31 pm

if it ever actually exists. All of what we've seen so far was revealed over a year ago now. Also means a year since Cadence of Hyrule! Hope Nintendo have a surprise like that this year too!

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:50 pm

Oh yeah Cadence of Hyrule was a fun little diversion.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 4:12 pm

Damien wrote:They never said when launch would be or announce what would be launch titles. They just said if things were “holiday 2020”, 2021 or 2022. I’m most interested in Stray, but I don’t even know what kinda game it is.

Which holiday is the Horizon Zero Dawn sequel, which will surely be better than botw2, set to release?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 4:21 pm

I dunno but I’m sure the information is somewhere online.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 6:50 pm

The lesser of both holidays, because it will have HZD 2 and not botw2

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 8:58 pm

How do you know it won't have both?

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:45 pm

Then it will be a neutral holiday.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Sat Jun 13, 2020 3:40 am

Don't be silly. I'm sure botw2 will at least be a little good.