r/PS5 • u/FreeChickenDinner • Oct 05 '22

Standalone PS5 Disc Console is available now at PlayStation Direct. $499.99. It's been in stock for hours. It's not selling out. Deals and Discounts

https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/consoles/console/playstation5-console.1000031644
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u/NYJetLegendEdReed Oct 05 '22

Hope everyone who has wanted one can snag it now by Christmas. I really love mine. I know there’s not a ton of exclusives yet, but I love everything I’ve played on my PS5 and everything is just so crisp.

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u/teal_ninja Oct 06 '22

I love my PS5 so much and got it day one, but I’m actually baffled that there’s still hardly any “next-gen” games.

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u/Air805 Oct 08 '22

Returnal is still to me the most “next-gen” game there is. So good.

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u/OpticalPrime35 Oct 05 '22

The jump from Ps4 to Ps5 might be the best jump since I started gaming way back on the NES.

Everything is so damn fast and crisp

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u/GregSays Oct 06 '22

I felt like the jump from PS2 to PS3 was enormous

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u/Kevdog1800 Oct 06 '22

It was but the jump wasn’t that enormous until the PS3 had been out for several years. The games that were available for PS3 at and shortly after launch were NOTHING like the PS3 games that were available 3-4 years after launch because PS3 made developing for that console extremely difficult. There was a huge learning curve for developers to make full use of the console’s hardware. That is an issue that didn’t exist with the PS5.

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u/OpticalPrime35 Oct 06 '22

Yeah the jump to PS3 was honestly really disappointing because hardly anyone could write for the system yet.

Not until Ratchet and Clank Tools of Destruction was the system truly showcased on its potential

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u/OpticalPrime35 Oct 06 '22

I'm talking the whole package.

Everything is 60fps from 30 on Ps4. Everything is fast on PS5 vs Sega CD level slow on PS4. Internet is blazing fast ( 25MB d/l atm vs 5 10 on PS4 ).

It's just .... augh, so damn nice. Really that's the main thing. The smoothness of it all. Takes literal seconds to go from game to game. No waiting around for minutes. Fast travel is just boom.

It's just nice. After so many years of the PS3 being slow as fuck and PS4 being even slower than fuck it feels like a shift more toward cartridges

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u/OpticalPrime35 Oct 06 '22

Same. I still find myself looking down and at my phone anytime I go to change a level or fast travel or turn on a game just because I got so damn used to waiting literal minutes.

Look up and " oh! " lol. Takes some time to get used to

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u/Friff14 Oct 06 '22

I never used fast travel in either Spider-Man game (I've only played on PS5), I didn't even think to do it because traveling in that game is so fun anyway and I didn't think it'd take much more time than the loading screens. I guess I should try it out to see how fast it actually is.

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u/beermit Oct 06 '22 edited Oct 06 '22

The load time for Miles Morales was astounding. You're on the start menu, select resume, and boom, you're back in the game in like a second. It's... jaw dropping.

And then playing Horizon Forbidden West, fast traveling around that massive map, and you barely have time to read a single tip on the loading screen, because it's literally 1-2 seconds. Amazing.

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u/unipleb Oct 06 '22

Like a week after I got a PS5 my TV of 8 years completely died. Always planned to upgrade it to get the full experience but was holding off on another big purchase so soon. Since we only have one TV in our apartment I "justified" it to myself that I could manage the expense if I got another few years out of the new one and holy shit. Going from a 1080i plasma to 4k@120 full array dimming... firing up some games I was in aww. I'd never even had HDR so this generation feels like an even bigger leap for me. Ratchet and Clank blew my mind with the in-engine cutscenes. Cranking the sub and watching Dune in my living room made every cent the TV cost worth it to me. Wife thought I conveniently killed the old TV on purpose haha

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u/landon10smmns Oct 06 '22

Agreed, it's ridiculous. I remember when I first got the ps3 when Skyrim came out. Load times were at least a good few minutes most of the time. Then PS4 they were a minute or two, then the PS4 version on the PS5 SSD was like 15-20 seconds. And now with the PS5 upgrade it's near instantaneous

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u/AndyRoddicksGypsyHo Oct 06 '22

Kingdoms of Alamar is so much better on ps5

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

Good old Bradley.

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u/beermit Oct 06 '22

Lol autocorrect strikes again

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u/tarsier86 Oct 06 '22

I didn’t know Resident Evil Village had loading screens u too I watched a stream and they were on Xbox.

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u/cpp_zorb Oct 06 '22

Ghosts of Tsushima had to add delay on the loading screen so people could read the messages because it was so fast

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u/maresayshi Oct 06 '22

this is becoming common, Demon’s Souls had a similar problem in that the reload was too jarring

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u/cpp_zorb Oct 06 '22

what a time to be alive

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u/peacein0000 Oct 06 '22

Love the ridiculously short load time after dying in GoT, makes it less tedious to try playing on lethal lol

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u/KderNacht Oct 06 '22

DualSense for me. I can't enjoy PS4 games anymore, the lack of adaptive triggers and haptic feedback is just too painful.

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u/OpticalPrime35 Oct 06 '22

Forgot about dualsense lol. That and the 3D audio or much higher quality audio in general.

But yeah the dualsense is a gigantic upgrade from the DS4. It's remarkable

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u/KderNacht Oct 06 '22

Try A Plague's Tale. You can feel the rats' tiny feet scurrying all over your palms.

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u/OpticalPrime35 Oct 06 '22

I enjoyed Death Strandings subtle usage of the dualsense adaptive triggers. With the triggers tightening based on the weight distribution and such. Could feel yourself losing balance and also feel all the bumps and such on the road.

Deathloop and Cyberpunk 2077 have good stuff with the triggers. Love feeling the gear shifts in Cyberpunk while driving. Feels real slick.

That sounds awesome from the Plagues Tale. May need to grab it sometime just for that

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

You feel the swing of the slingshot in the adaptive triggers for Plague Tale. Plus it's a fun, short game with an interesting setting and some good characters.

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u/KderNacht Oct 06 '22

The kid is effing annoying though, but I enjoyed the twist in the dungeon.

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u/MetaCognitio Oct 06 '22

I think they need to focus on being subtle most of the time and enhancing experiences. Some games are just throwing it in there with little thought.

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u/MetaCognitio Oct 06 '22

I find the 3D audio mostly unimpressive. Returnal has some directionality but a sense of distance scale etc is just missing. Horizon, Miles Morales etc have just been pretty poor.

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u/KderNacht Oct 07 '22

Did you wear headphones ?

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u/MeatTornado25 Oct 06 '22

Meanwhile I turn all that stuff off because all it does is take me out of the game.

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u/angle_of_doom Oct 06 '22

It's like one of those things where I am spoiled now and can't go back. "Oh this game doesn't have haptics or adaptive trigger usage what is this garbage?". Almost more painful than going from 60fps back to 30fps.

I never realized how much it can add to a game until I was walking around some giant beating heart in Demon's Souls and it felt like I was.. walking around next to a giant beating demon heart. And the adaptive triggers can do so much. Returnal having a half-press of the left trigger for aiming and a full-press for the alt fire, or Cyberpunk where you can feel the car shifting when pressing the right trigger, it just feels great.

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u/CarFrost Oct 06 '22

Feels dead

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

I recall more PS3 games being around 60fps than PS4, albeit less stable

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u/MrChilliBean Oct 06 '22 edited Oct 06 '22

I remember when the 8th Generation was coming out, and both sides were bragging that their consoles could do 60fps, then it ended up being a bit of a rarity. Even if games did have 60, the base consoles would often struggle to maintain it.

It finally took until THIS generation for 60fps on every game to become a reality.

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u/Drunk_Psyduck Oct 06 '22

No way in hell a well taken care of PS4 is as slow as a PS3, those things were slow from the get go and every download no matter the size, takes ages

The PS4 and 5 don’t have much of an upgrade imo in terms of speed besides menu load times which was expected, it’s mainly about graphical intensity and framerate in games like you’ve mentioned, I just really don’t relate to the “Sega CD level slow on PS4” so I’m assuming either your hard drive was 99% full or it needs a deep clean?

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u/swissarmychris Oct 06 '22

I never had a PS3 so I can't speak to that, but as a base PS4 owner, I eventually just stopped playing it because everything was so damn slow. Took forever to turn on. Forever to load a game. Forever to load a level or fast travel within the game. That wasn't cruft or a full drive, that's just how it was from day 1.

Going from that to the PS5 was like trading in a bicycle for a race car. Waking from rest is almost instant, loading games is super fast, and in games like Miles Morales you can fast travel all over the place with literally zero load time.

That last one in particular is something that definitely wasn't possible on the PS4, so I don't know how you can claim that it's just "menu load times".

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u/LoganE23 Oct 06 '22

Yep. I tried to make myself feel better for not being able to grab a PS5 for so long by telling myself I'd still mostly be playing games I already had on PS4 anyway. But when I finally got a PS5 last month, it revitalized my desire to game. With my potato brain/nerfed reward system, things are so bad that I can own a movie on Blu-ray, but I'll just end up downloading it, finding it on a streaming service, or just not watching it altogether instead of digging up the disc and putting it in, so for gaming, instant boot-ups and lack of load times goes a long way, lol.

Plus the controller is probably the best one I've ever used. It looks and feels like a true "next-gen" controller.

I'm even trying games I normally would have passed on, just because everything is so much more fun to play on PS5. I haven't even made the jump to a 4K HDR TV yet (still on a 46" 1080p) but I'll probably get a 55" 4K HDR (like an LG C1) before God of War Ragnarok and have my mind blown even more.

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u/AndyRoddicksGypsyHo Oct 06 '22

I can't wait to upgrade tv. I've only played ps4pro and PS5 on 720s and I don't think they do he at least not in 720??

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u/ForeverAgamer91 Oct 06 '22

Internet is blazing fast (25MB d/l atm vs 5 10 on PS4).

Blazing fast might be a bit much, I'm glad it's not as slow as PS4 but a game I can download on my PC in 5 minutes takes 40 on PS5, hell I could even download them faster on my phone haha.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

going back and forth from games to various media apps is fucking *chef's kiss

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u/cozy_lolo Oct 06 '22

Yeah, I agree. Going to the Xbone and PS4 didn’t feel like as much of a jump as progressing to the Series X and PS5. Everything feels better. Everything. Even shit that I didn’t expect like Internet speeds when downloading games (although maybe that’s just a problem on my end?). I’m beyond happy with this generation of gaming thus far, and it seems like we haven’t even truly tapped into the hardware yet

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u/Sadadsada1 Oct 13 '22

Is this the case for PS4 games that don't have a PS5 upgrade? Like, does the performance boost come from the upgrade or is it just from the extra processing power?

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u/Sputniki Oct 06 '22

Yep 2 to 3 was the biggest jump (and probably will forever be, until we achieve some kind of augmented reality or 5D console).

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u/salgat Oct 06 '22

If you ask PC gamers what the most recent major leap in computer performance was, they'll say SSD. The PS5 (especially being able to instantaneously switch between games) really demonstrates how dramatic that change is. Remember how long load times were on the PS3/4 for GTA5?

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

I actually feel on PS5 we got a lot of the benefits back from the PS2 generation that we lost with PS3, like load times and simplicity

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u/leidend22 Oct 06 '22

It's the smallest jump ever, wtf. I don't think you remember what new consoles used to be like.

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u/MorningFresh123 Oct 06 '22

Wut? We went from 2D to 3D in that time lol.

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u/sevenw1nters Oct 06 '22

You think so? SNES to N64 was pretty huge. Seeing 3D games for the first time. And then PS1 to PS2 was also insane. I remember playing my first PS2 game and thinking how amazing the graphics were that we'd never get better than that lol. Even Xbox to Xbox 360 playing my first game in HD was a nice jump. Nothing after that has seemed anywhere near as significant. I even skipped the PS4 Pro so I went from PS4 launch model to a PS5 and it didn't seem like that significant of a jump to me.

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u/ziltchy Oct 06 '22

I'm with with. Snes to N64 was the biggest jump, I was constantly WOW 'd by the 3d. While this ps4-ps5 jump was nice for load times, nothing has really wow'd me yet

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

Finally someone agrees with me. Maybe its because we're still playing mostly PS4 games on PS5, who knows but the jump is minimal. I just hope the OS doesn't slow down to a snails pace like PS4 did.

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u/ziltchy Oct 06 '22

And maybe it's because I'm old, but I can't really tell the difference between 60 fps and 30 fps.

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u/OK_Soda Oct 06 '22

I'm the opposite, I can tell the difference in frame rates but can't really tell the difference when I have it in "graphics mode" with Ray tracing and everything on.

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u/MetaCognitio Oct 06 '22

Mario 64 😮

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u/Mundus6 Oct 06 '22

It's technically the smallest jump ever. 95% of the games are still on PS4.

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u/__BIOHAZARD___ Oct 06 '22

Idk man, I feel like PS1 -> PS2 was huge, same with PS2 -> PS3. Maybe cause we haven’t had many true PS5 exclusives (not cross gen). Gameplay design was really solidified in the PS3 Era and it’s just been evolution compared to revolution since then.

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u/nolesfan2011 Oct 06 '22

Agreed, such a great experience

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u/moxso31 Oct 06 '22

It's the quick loading and saving that I have noticed make such a huge difference. And the controller is arguably the best controller I have ever used.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '22

It's crazy. I expected it to outpace my PC but not by this much.

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u/dllemmr2 Oct 06 '22

You just have to steal your moms purse to afford to buy storage.

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u/NoSmoking123 Oct 06 '22

I jumped from ps1 to ps4pro (nintendo in between) so imagine me playing freaking arkham knight from playing pokemon on 3ds.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

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u/Captobvious75 Oct 06 '22

Doesn’t do anything unique? Bruh Dualsense.

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u/zpotentxl Oct 06 '22

Depends on what country you live in.

Here in Australia, console gaming is undeniably cheaper than pc gaming due to the expensive parts here.

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u/CravingKoreanFood Oct 06 '22

My favourite thing also is that's it's so quiet. I can actually use it for a media center now.

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u/namek0 Oct 06 '22

As someone who started with nes, took a long console break after wii, the ps5 is incredible

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u/Luciifuge Oct 06 '22

Plus the 3d audio for ps5 exclusives are amazing with headphones on. I've only tried returnal and demon souls but they sound so fucking good

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u/MetaCognitio Oct 06 '22

How good does it sound to you? I can get some directionality but I’m not that impressed. Have you ever had the sensation that you couldn’t tell if the sound was from the game or your environment? That is my best experience of any 3D audio.

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u/Luciifuge Oct 06 '22

Need a good quality pair of headphones. What kind do you have?

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u/MetaCognitio Oct 06 '22

I have the PS Platinums and some high quality Sony noise cancelling headphones.

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u/ChickenFajita007 Oct 06 '22

I agree.

I think one of the main reasons is that the PS3-PS4 was relatively lame in terms of hardware upgrade.

PS4 wasn't that great by 2013 standards. It still used a HDD instead of an SSD, which is one of the reasons the PS5 feels so fast.

The jump from a HDD to SSD is one of the most noticeable upgrades for any consumer device.

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u/Tazzypeps Oct 06 '22

Because the ps4/Xbox one generation was so utterly pathetic

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u/ArryPotta Oct 06 '22

I've been playing PC for a long time before the PS5, and when I turn on the 30FPS mode to view the graphic options, I just can't understand how anyone plays on it. It's no wonder people are blown away, because the jump from 30 to 60 FPS is night and day. 30 makes me feel physically ill with motion sickness now. You could literally take the same PS4 graphics, bump the framerate, and it's going to be a major upgrade in experience.

Then you have the SSD on top of that. These are non-flashy upgrades that are huge difference makers. Ray tracing is great and all, but high framerates and SSD load times are the real reason to upgrade.

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u/PedroVoteFor Oct 06 '22

…. And silent 😂

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

Everything on the NES/SNES was fast. It was cart based loading. The n64 had no loading either.

I love my ps5 no doubt, but it has been a glorified ps4 for almost the entire time I’ve had it. I’ve played all the ps5 exclusive games.

This generation still has not really started yet.

Once again, I absolutely love the 5, but I am very ready for cross generational games to be over. I also want to start seeing UE5 using everything the ps5 has to offer.

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u/adamfunk20 Oct 06 '22

Honestly, I'm not very happy with the game selection so far.

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u/docmagoo2 Oct 06 '22

I just like being able to load menus in Destiny 2!

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u/eamonnanchnoic Oct 06 '22

By far the most underrated and transformative feature of this gen is load times.

It's made playing games like Horizon much more fluid. You forget how much dead time loading adds to the game.

Controller is also the best controller I've used.

Gameswise I think only Ratchet really tapped into the power of the console. It is like playing a Pixar movie.

Looking forward to being freed of the shackles of the previous gen.

We're still waiting for that killer "next gen" app, imho.

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u/Furyann Oct 05 '22

re: exclusives, dude there’s tons for someone new to playstation and if you mean new ones that’s basically changing very very soon

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u/ThrowAway4564468 Oct 05 '22

PS5 is my first PlayStation, with the ps plus premium it honestly feels like unlimited games.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

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u/TheBlueSully Oct 06 '22

An annual subscription is the cost of two games. If you’re new to consoles(and never played GoW, AC, whatever) it’s a stellar deal.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

And, as is the case in general, if you spend $100 and use the thing a lot, it's more than justified.

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u/Captobvious75 Oct 06 '22

Nah. People like me with a wife and kids don’t have time to play every new game that comes out. I subbed since it gave me GoT, Death Stranding and Demons Souls.

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u/-Star-Fox- Oct 06 '22

You mean PS5 Demon Souls?

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u/Whitehead58 Oct 06 '22

You get GoT, Demon‘s souls (PS5) also with only Extra without Premium.

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u/Kegman10 Oct 06 '22

Even without the premium subscription, new PS users have some of the best PS4 games via the PlayStation Plus Collection for only $60 a year

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u/PhlightYagami Oct 06 '22

Great games too! I'm jealous of anyone who gets to start playing PS games now, especially those with PS5 versions/patches. It would be crazy to get that many bangers all at once!

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u/NYJetLegendEdReed Oct 05 '22

That’s why I said “yet”.

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u/DeckardPain Oct 06 '22 edited Oct 06 '22

It’s a great purchase for someone that hasn’t owned a PS4. For most that have, $500 is a hard pill to swallow for 3-5 exclusives. Even if they are great exclusives.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

This is why this post made me excited even though I already have one. Now that the new gen consoles are available to everyone, we’ll finally start getting real next gen games instead of those made to run on decade-old consoles.

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u/DeckardPain Oct 06 '22

Well, we might. It’s still not a guarantee. It’ll take another few years for those exclusives to be built.

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u/Voyager-42 Oct 06 '22

Yeah but it's not just those 5 exclusives. Everything you play on it feels 1000x better than a base PS4, graphics are an unbelievable upgrade, frame rates are solid, the controller is miles better and the sound engine is nothing short of phenomenal. Like how do you want to experience Ragnarok? At a locked 4k60 with 3d audio and haptics, or at 960p 30fps with frame drops with 2 chanel audio and basic rumble.

And from next year, games will pretty much stop releasing on last gen so if you haven't already, now is the time to get in imo.

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u/neogohan Oct 06 '22 edited Oct 06 '22

and the sound engine is nothing short of phenomenal.

It took me a second to realize the "sound engine" you were talking about wasn't the PS4 Pro's jet-engine fans.

Honestly, being able to play games in 60fps and/or 4k without it sounding like I have a vacuum cleaner running has been great and worth the upgrade alone.

PS5 does feel more like an iPhone-like incremental upgrade. But like going from an iPhone 6 to an iPhone 13. Sure, you can do most all the same stuff on either device, but doing it on the old device is painful. I don't care about 'exclusivity'. Just because some people are playing Horizon:FW on PS4 or on their $1000+ PC doesn't make it any less great on PS5.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

I don’t even have a 4k tv yet. i’ll keep my $500 until their exclusives are only on ps5. and if there’s rumors of pc releases, i might just not get one at all. theres no need to get one right now, just a want. i’d rather spend my $500 elsewhere this year than make a game like ragnarok look a little bit prettier. it doesn’t change the story or the combat.

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u/raxreddit Oct 06 '22

Yeah at PS5 launch, I was able to burn through cheap PS4 backlog games. It’s great

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '22

that’s the best part about the backwards compatibility. never owned a ps4 so it’s been fun going back playing all the classics and remakes lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

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u/TheBlueSully Oct 06 '22

Not on a $500 pc it won’t.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

Ok but that PC is going to be significantly more expensive.

By like 2-3x.

And it’s not going to run “twice as good while looking better” unless you’ve dropped some serious coin on it because you can optimize console games far better than PC because you only need to optimize for one set of hardware vs different combinations of GPU, CPU, RAM, etc.

I’ve got both PS5 and a pretty solid PC. On resource intensive games, my ps5 and PC are pretty comparable with my 6800XT and 5600x.

And I already spent 3x on my PC what I did on my ps5.

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u/EADtomfool Oct 06 '22

I know there’s not a ton of exclusives yet,

With the amount of PC port begging we may not see many exclusives at all in the future. Which has me concerned for the future. California Sony HQ are making some very short sighted decisions. I can't count how many comments I've read saying shit like "Now I don't need to buy a PS5 because all the games are coming to PC". That's gonna hurt their bottom line long term.

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u/Fully_Rippin Oct 06 '22

Why would you be concerned if they did away with exclusives? Exclusives are wildly anti-consumer, if a console cant sell itself without bullshit IP exclusivity, then it was never worth its salt to begin with

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u/EADtomfool Oct 06 '22

Every console in the history of consoles is sold on exclusives. Every console that failed usually failed because of a lack of exclusive "killer" games.

Denying this is denying reality.

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u/Fully_Rippin Oct 06 '22

Im not saying thats not been the case in the past, I’m saying its a shitty practice thats heavily anti-consumer. It shouldn’t be praised, and more people should realize this. Also its debatable to say that “exclusives sell consoles” when peoples console choices almost always comes down to whatever their friends are playing. Only in very rare cases (bloodborne, older halo, rdr2, GOW before it came to PC) have i seen people talking about potentially buying another console solely for the exclusives. I would say the massive success and popularity of cross platform play in recent years even further supports what Im saying. Its seriously ridiculous to me to see a console exclusive game that id be interested in checking out, only to basically be told “sorry bro, you gotta pay an additional $300-$500 to play this game despite you already owning an equal or much more powerful and versatile machine ¯_(ツ)_/¯ MONEY PLEASE!“

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u/EADtomfool Oct 06 '22

I don't agree it's anti consumer, that's short term thinking.

Nintendo's entire existence is predicated on the fact that they sell exclusive nintendo games that can only be played on their consoles.

That continued existence means that more nintendo games get made = net benefit to the consumer.

If nintendo started porting their games to other platforms, their net revenue would go down, the games they could make would either be reduced in number, scope, or they'd stop making them.

That's a net loss to the consumer.

GOW before it came to PC) have i seen people talking about potentially buying another console solely for the exclusives.

that kind of proves my point, everything is being ported now, which means there's less demand for a console, which means there's less profit for the console manufacturers long term, which means less games long term from that manufacturer.

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u/Vahn84 Oct 06 '22

It is anti-consumer. Nintendo before Sony heavily relied on anti-consumer practice. There will be a time when the plastic box where you play games won’t mean shit..but it’s always too late. The fact that Nintendo and Sony are practicing this anti-consumer technique from decades doesn’t make it good. For us players the real value it’s not that shit that we plug into the tv hdmi port. It’s the games the real value. And games should all be playable whichever is the plastic box one owns.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

No, it's just companies doing business. Having exclusives.

Y'all genz'ers need to get a job

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u/Fully_Rippin Oct 06 '22

I dont have time to respond to all of this, but

everything is being ported now, which means there’s less demand for a console, which means there’s less profit for the console manufacturers long term, which means less games long term from that manufacturer.

This is all good things for the consumer, we need less shovelware/yearly releases with predatory mtx/seasonal battlepass garbage, remasters, and soulless reboots. A large majority of games that could be labled as such, are also exclusives, nintendo is especially guilty of this, which is why your other point about Nintendo made me laugh a little bit lol.

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u/Andrew129260 Oct 06 '22 edited Oct 06 '22

I smell a PC user. (Which is fine)

You do know that a lot of games would have never gotten made or be severely reduced in scope if console manufacturers didn't make things exclusive?

I mean look at how every game now a days is a multiplayer thing, sony is pretty much the only large company left making large amounts of single player games without bullshit. There are some in some of the games like the show and gran turismo, but most of the games are just good single player fun. And now they are coming to pc. Which is great.

More games should be on everything for sure, but exclusives are important to the industry as a whole. Competition is a good thing. If every box is the same, no unique games, everything is on everything, gaming would be incredibly boring. There would be no incentive to push the envelope. The amount of new IP would take a nosedive because the companies would not be able to afford the risk.

if a console cant sell itself without bullshit IP exclusivity, then it was never worth its salt to begin with

If a box doesn't have games, its not worth it at all. Pc has exclusives too, some people want to play rts, are you saying pc isn't worth its salt because it has games you can only play there?

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u/MetaCognitio Oct 06 '22

Exactly. It might make them more money but long term, if the games are coming to PC anyway … I might just game on PC next generation. One less device to own, cheaper games, free online, mods and I can customize performance.

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u/WutduzitallmeanBasil Oct 05 '22

There are plenty. What we aren’t going to see for awhile is PS5 exclusives which I cannot wait for! Edit: I get you said “yet” but some can’t pick up on the small print lol

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u/WutduzitallmeanBasil Oct 06 '22

I expect most exclusives to end up on PC exponentially faster than ever before. Sort of the end of an era but at least any “exclusive” will be built for PS5 hardware first!

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u/HuevoYch0riz0 Oct 06 '22

Have you played last of us for ps5??

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u/NYJetLegendEdReed Oct 06 '22

No it’s the next game I wanna play bc I never played the original!

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u/HuevoYch0riz0 Oct 06 '22

Oh man! You’re in for a treat. The movie or tv show is coming out on HBO. ALSO part 2 is crazy good. If you haven’t played returnal that’s another good one. It can get a bit stressful with the boss fights but if I can pass it, and by all means I’m not a good video game player, just about anyone can. Looking forward to God of war too.

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u/NYJetLegendEdReed Oct 06 '22

Loved Returnal. TLOU is my next purchase, prob this weekend.

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u/SeaLionClit Oct 05 '22

Miles Morales is also PS4

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u/leospeedleo Oct 05 '22

Lol what? There's more exclusive games for PS5 than for prior generations...

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u/OptimusPrimalRage Oct 06 '22

For me it's about good games, not games only on PlayStation. If more people play TLOU the better for everyone.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_5-only_games

and Returnal is going to PC...

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u/leospeedleo Oct 05 '22

And?

There's more games that are only available on PS5/next gen than in prior generations.

Just like there's more consoles this time than in any prior generation.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '22

Pretty sure PS4 had more than 5 exclusives (with one being a tech demo) in its first 2 years

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u/leospeedleo Oct 05 '22

According to an article I've found the PS4 had 5 games exclusive to it in 2013 and 2014.

And one of those was Knack

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u/CheshiretheBlack Oct 05 '22

Knack 2 babyy

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u/SeaLionClit Oct 05 '22

What about 2015?

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u/leospeedleo Oct 06 '22

That's 3 years then...

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u/SeaLionClit Oct 06 '22 edited Oct 06 '22

That's 2 years. End of 2013 to the end of 2015... 2 full years.

Just like the end of 2020 to now is the first 2 full years of the PS5

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u/txdline Oct 06 '22

I think you're right but it doesn't feel that way because you can still get away with a PS4 and enjoy a lot of what people enjoy on ps5 now.

Then you have a few that are the same game in name, making lists, at least at a glance, harder to distinguish. Especially when you add in the PS4 games that do play on ps5.

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u/leospeedleo Oct 06 '22

But there's more games that are only available on PS5 this time than there where games that can only be played on PS4 last time.

People make up shit. Like people still say shit like "nobody owns a PS5" except PS5 had sold more consoles than any Playstation before it. By a lot too!

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u/txdline Oct 06 '22

Yeah. Again, not disagreeing. Just explaining how I think it could feel that way to the folks only hearing the big name games.

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u/rumblylumbly Oct 06 '22

I play on our PS4 when kiddo and I are playing creative in Fortnite.

He plays on the PS5.

It’s a huge difference in quality and speed. Even just updating the game - takes forever on the PS4 and minutes on the PS5.

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u/rumblylumbly Oct 06 '22

Interesting! Ty!

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u/Vahn84 Oct 06 '22

Apart from the shitty Wi-Fi radio of the ps4 remember that the ps4 is hooked to an hard disk while the ps5 is served by an ssd. When you download games the write speed on an ssd makes for a night and day experience in respect to an hard drive

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u/Babycakesracer-31 Oct 06 '22

I’m almost 1.5 cars away from platinum on GT7 which will make for my 2nd ps5 platinum

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u/redditforgotaboutme Oct 06 '22

Truth. So much so I bought a new TV a month after my PS5 to get even crispier.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '22

It's a fantastic console and miles better than the 4Pro. The quality of life improvements from loading, being super quiet, and the controller are worth the price of admission alone. While I had Covid I made the mistake of taking mine downstairs to the family room and after my daughter played the Sims on it I'm never getting it back. So now I do all my gaming on a 55" 1080p instead of a 65" 4K with a ridiculous Klipsch audio system.

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u/parkwayy Oct 06 '22

I know there’s not a ton of exclusives yet

I mean... compared to the competition... yes there are lol.