PS5 thread

[Mr. Chainsaw]

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.

No in-store atm per their website:

PlayStation 5.
Release date: Thursday, November 12.

Pre-order your PS5 console and accessories online only.
In-store pre-orders not available.

 

[MFB]

No clue who thought that was a good idea given the very thing that happens with every online sale, bot buyers immediately buy it and try to resell it for 4x the initial asking price.

Just look at Ticketmaster for the past two decades.

 

[KnightBrolaire]

No clue who thought that was a good idea given the very thing that happens with every online sale, bot buyers immediately buy it and try to resell it for 4x the initial asking price.

Just look at Ticketmaster for the past two decades.

Corporate probably didn't want to deal with the possibilty of spreading covid and the ensuing negative press

 

[Mathemagician]

Corporate probably didn't want to deal with the possibilty of spreading covid and the ensuing negative press

“Aggressively anti-science neckbeards wait in line for hours to buy video game, spreading plague further and harder amongst the husky-waisted high risk group”

“I’m sorry Ted, did you mean to say purchasing life saving food or perhaps medicine? I may have misheard you there, apologies.”

“No Michael you heard right it’s a bunch of guys who were super angry about video game stuff, they camped out for a game console, and now their years of not exercising is catching up to them. However they seem to be blaming women and gay characters being put into video games, for some reason.”

 

[Ralyks]

Anybody get one? Gonna try to get one at one of the Wal Mart time slots.

 

[soliloquy]

i wont be buying the PS5 for at least 2 years. Let the price of it come down, and have more games. For reference, I bought ps4 2 years later. and Though I play it often, I've only played like 12 games on it...so....

but thought this was awesome for its controller texture

original source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DesignPorn...playstation_button_embedded_in_the_back_grip/

 

[Mr. Chainsaw]

I ended up cancelling my pre-order. I wanted to see how it would be as a 4k blu-ray player as well, but confirmation of no proper support for Dolby Vision/Atmos (for now) is a bummer. Will probably still get one in near future.

 

[cwhitey2]

I'm going to wait at least 1 year before I purchase one. There are still a few games I wanna play on PS4 plus there aren't many game for the 5 yet...plus the initial glitches that will arise.

 

[Ralyks]

Welp, 3/4 attempts with Walmart have been a no go and no where else seems to be getting more until Black Friday. Guess 9 on tonight is my last shot.

 

[lelandbowman3]

I just tried 3 times, and I think I'm just going to wait it out. I'd rather avoid the launch bugs, non-4k support, and no storage upgrade. 667 gigs of storage and one game is over 130 gigs? I'm just gonna hang tough for a min.

 

[spudmunkey]

I know that controller and panel texture is neat, but it just screams "will look dingy in a couple of months, especially because it's white" to me. Like that microscopic texture will grind away grime, sweat and oils from your skin surface, even as fine of a texture as it is.

Has anybody else seen the images of the "Your PS5 is overheated" screen messages from the store display? How worrying is that, or can you chalk that up completely to the store's enclosed display?

 

[Mathemagician]

I know that controller and panel texture is neat, but it just screams "will look dingy in a couple of months, especially because it's white" to me. Like that microscopic

Has anybody else seen the images of the "Your PS5 is overheated" screen messages from the store display? How worrying is that, or can you chalk that up completely to the store's enclosed display?

Given just how zoomed it is I don’t think it’s going to grab that much dirt or dust as it is likely going to feel more like any other grip texture than something that can really collect that Cheeto dust. My white PS4 controller still looks new, and I don’t expect this to be too different.

 

[Ralyks]

Welp, that didn’t work.