PS5 thread

[spudmunkey]

I haven't bought a physical PC game since...Warcraft III/Frozen Throne combo (not the remaster)?

I think I still might get the PS5 with the drive, though, because it's a 4K Blu-Ray player.

 

[Mathemagician]

Almost every game I buy is digital. The disk basically just acts as the CD-Key to let you play the game. That’s why there are still huge installs and “day one patches”. Just buy that game on sales for < $25 and you won’t really care that you can’t take 10 games to gamestop and get $6 for them. Video games are too low margin for me to care about selling individually, aided by my buying everything super cheap.

 

[Ralyks]

Doesn't matter. Everywhere decided to do preorders early and everywhere sold out instantly. Looks like I'm waiting until after the holidays.

 

[MFB]

If I have physical copies of some PS4 games currently, can I copy the game to an external hard-drive and then use that copy as my backwards compatible version on the PS5? It's a copy of the game that's clearly been installed somewhere, so I can't imagine not. I might go for the digital just to save the cash and then really crack down on what games are installed when; the save data is always there, it's just the game install itself that you're removing.

And it'll keep me from wasting space on a 200GB CoD entry!

 

[MFB]

Doesn't matter. Everywhere decided to do preorders early and everywhere sold out instantly. Looks like I'm waiting until after the holidays.

Best Buy's website is greyed out saying Coming Soon for the physical version, and in store pre-orders don't happen until tomorrow, so maybe try them?

 

[Mr. Chainsaw]

Best Buy's website is greyed out saying Coming Soon for the physical version, and in store pre-orders don't happen until tomorrow, so maybe try them?

I've had no luck with BB over the last 2 hours, others have had the same issues. There should be opportunities to pre-order tomorrow as that was Sony's official date. No way stock is completely sold out.

 

[MFB]

Yeah, I think the website for the digital is borked too since I tried that and it said it wasn't available; which I'm fine with as tomorrow is the official pre-order date, so let people not get it tonight.

I think I'm going digital only as I have my PS4 that's only a year old, so that'll have a good life for the games I have on it and will buy before the PS5's launch. Hell I'll probably not even use the 5 as a backwards machine, just have it for the entirety of it's lifetime if I can.

 

[Mr. Chainsaw]

FYI was able to get one on Amazon just now.

Edit: And the page is already gone wow that was fast.

 

[MFB]

Bestbuy lets me add it to cart for pickup, but part of me is unsure if it's worth gambling with the full price of what might just be a technical error on their side

edit: apparently you can add it but not complete check out, weird, but at least it seems like they know this might happen so there's a failsafe

 

[Mr. Chainsaw]

The mobile app seems to get me further than the website does, but just decides to error out at different times. I've gone through similar situations with CEs but this is on another level for sure.

 

[NotDonVito]

consoles exclusives are key

watch it fly by as it ports to PC

 

[Ralyks]

consoles exclusives are key

watch it fly by as it ports to PC

You'd think so, but how long after Horizon came out did it take to come to PC? Sony isn't going to be dropping God of War: Ragnarok on PC any time soon. Hell, you MIGHT get God of War 2018 in like 2 years.

 

[MFB]

HZD on PC has been a shit show if the subreddit is any indication, just absolutely horrendous graphic popping even after like, the first five patches they put out

 

[mikernaut]

OMG the trolls!

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=Playstation+5&LH_TitleDesc=0&_sop=16

 

[KnightBrolaire]

OMG the trolls!

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=Playstation+5&LH_TitleDesc=0&_sop=16

lmao

 

[spudmunkey]

OMG the trolls!

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=Playstation+5&LH_TitleDesc=0&_sop=16

Who, the scalpers, or the people bidding to drive the price up who have no intent on paying?

 

[spudmunkey]

I wonder if it's something like this:

 

[MFB]

Did pre-orders ever actually go live online? I only saw Best Buy's website as greyed out for the first hour after midnight yesterday, and then today it's been greyed out as well, so if there was a window it was miniscule and not at all tied to the store hours.

 

[spudmunkey]

Did pre-orders ever actually go live online? I only saw Best Buy's website as greyed out for the first hour after midnight yesterday, and then today it's been greyed out as well, so if there was a window it was miniscule and not at all tied to the store hours.

People use bots to buy things like this, and many things like these are getting bought up inseconds. I think they really grew in popularity with sneaker releases, but I could be wrong there. Didn't look into it, just what I've heard.

 

[MFB]

Huh, wonder if they'll just void any pre-orders made within the first say, X amount of minutes after the pre-orders went live to nuke all the bot buyers. Curious if in store pre-orders still exist, maybe I'll take a run to my local BestBuy and check with them.