Anyone else not impressed with the PS5 so far?

Anyone else not impressed with the PS5 so far?

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Fastdruid

8,623 posts

151 months

Monday 22nd June 2020
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Leicester Loyal said:
ajprice said:
Would MS or Sony charge £/$100 extra for the Blu-ray drive version?

Current Xbox One S prices are £199 for the digital console and £249 for the drive version bundled with a game.
I will never go digital only, not unless I'm forced to. Having a disc tray means that you can pick up bargains online or in store etc, that very rarely happens on the Microsoft/Sony stores.
Same.

Or that you can no longer play your old games because they're no longer available to download/tied to an old account etc etc etc. I have seen far too many drm'd things vanish into the ether.

I could pass my PS1 games and my original playstation onto my children and *their* children would be able to play on them 30 years from now (taking into consideration of course the assumption of no disc-rot), not a hope in hell of that happening with a PS5 and digital downloads! Of course they may not _want_ to...but then again seeing as mine loved the 34 year old Bubble Bobble on the Amiga, maybe they would!


LeadFarmer

7,411 posts

130 months

Monday 22nd June 2020
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Jasandjules said:
I was really hoping they would do a 2TB hard drive version....
Same here, a 1TB hard drive gets filled very quickly, especially when game installs can take up 50GB or more.

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Monday 22nd June 2020
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LeadFarmer said:
Jasandjules said:
I was really hoping they would do a 2TB hard drive version....
Same here, a 1TB hard drive gets filled very quickly, especially when game installs can take up 50GB or more.
Yeah really half a dozen "good" games or so on the PS4 Pro.... I mean the Online Call of Duty was 100GB so I had to delete that to install GTA V

p1stonhead

25,489 posts

166 months

Monday 22nd June 2020
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I have the original Xbox one. God knows how small the hard drive is but I can fit about 3 games. Each time a big update comes I have to delete something!

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 22nd June 2020
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I think both are expandable no? The X and the 5

A Winner Is You

24,942 posts

226 months

Monday 22nd June 2020
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anonymous said:
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X certainly is, I have a 2tb drive hooked up to mine for all the space I need.

Leicester Loyal

4,517 posts

121 months

Monday 22nd June 2020
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p1stonhead said:
I have the original Xbox one. God knows how small the hard drive is but I can fit about 3 games. Each time a big update comes I have to delete something!
500GB I think it was? I bet settings and stuff take up some of that straight off the bat. If you're not planning on upgrading to next gen anytime soon, then I'd get an external harddrive, mine is 2TB.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 22nd June 2020
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I think most games are still in the 50-100Gb range, COD just take the piss

Leicester Loyal

4,517 posts

121 months

Sunday 28th June 2020
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https://www.notebookcheck.net/Prodigious-PS5-price...

Article shows the supposedly leaked prices. £349 for the digital version, £449 for the normal. November 20th as the global release date.

A Winner Is You

24,942 posts

226 months

Sunday 28th June 2020
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Leicester Loyal said:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Prodigious-PS5-price...

Article shows the supposedly leaked prices. £349 for the digital version, £449 for the normal. November 20th as the global release date.
That seems way too cheap

vonuber

17,868 posts

164 months

Sunday 28th June 2020
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A Winner Is You said:
That seems way too cheap
Expect the price of games to go up, or the PlayStation subscription.

Brainpox

4,054 posts

150 months

Sunday 28th June 2020
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They need to be aggressive from day one. Whoever gets the best launch will likely end up 'winning' the generation. In the more casual market, early adopters will pick the cheapest, and their friends will buy the same so they can play together.

£350 is incredibly cheap for the digital version. I would be surprised if that's real, but with owners being stuck with buying from the store, Sony will make the money back within a year or two anyway.

I can see Sony being accused of being exploitative in a couple of years when digital owners get sick of dropping £60+ on every single game.

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 28th June 2020
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Brainpox said:
They need to be aggressive from day one. Whoever gets the best launch will likely end up 'winning' the generation. In the more casual market, early adopters will pick the cheapest, and their friends will buy the same so they can play together.

£350 is incredibly cheap for the digital version. I would be surprised if that's real, but with owners being stuck with buying from the store, Sony will make the money back within a year or two anyway.

I can see Sony being accused of being exploitative in a couple of years when digital owners get sick of dropping £60+ on every single game.
Not sure I'll ever go digital, had 3 games gathering dust, took them to CEX expecting £30 odd, got £65 ended up getting 3 new games and a £6 credit note

ecsrobin

17,023 posts

164 months

Sunday 28th June 2020
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A Winner Is You said:
Leicester Loyal said:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Prodigious-PS5-price...

Article shows the supposedly leaked prices. £349 for the digital version, £449 for the normal. November 20th as the global release date.
That seems way too cheap
£400-450 was what my source at Sony had been suggesting so I’m optimistic that it’s around that mark.

p1stonhead

25,489 posts

166 months

Sunday 28th June 2020
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£349 would be amazing but I bet it’ll be £100 more.

hyphen

26,262 posts

89 months

Sunday 28th June 2020
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Is the PS5 coming with a game bundled in?

PanicBuyingBogRoll

1,936 posts

61 months

Sunday 28th June 2020
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I excpect the digital version will be used to win the price war. I fully expect the one with a disc player to be near £500.

If the digital one is anywhere near £350, I'll get it on release for the boy to play Fortnight and Minecraft on. Then get myself the Pro when it's released smile

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 28th June 2020
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There's gonna be a pro?

Welshbeef

49,633 posts

197 months

Sunday 28th June 2020
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PanicBuyingBogRoll said:
I excpect the digital version will be used to win the price war. I fully expect the one with a disc player to be near £500.

If the digital one is anywhere near £350, I'll get it on release for the boy to play Fortnight and Minecraft on. Then get myself the Pro when it's released smile
How many years will you wait for that? Or part x your PS5 with disc slot in against it

Xaero

4,060 posts

214 months

Sunday 28th June 2020
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For me, a disc drive is always going to be chosen, not for picking up bargains when games get old and drop in price, but to get rid of mine once I've finished with them. Some games can be completed quickly or don't have replayability, so bin them off for something new while they are still hot and worth something. Can't do that with digital.