@nessisonett they've since clarified Demon's Souls isn't coming to PC. There were Bluepoint Devs last night joking somebody else must be working on the PC version. I think it was a cock up.
The pre-order situation in Sweden is shocking. They are charging £525 essentially for the standard edition here, and it seems like the XSX is roughly £60 cheaper. The pre-orders have gone live, but only some places, and the main gamer stores haven't got a clue. Just spoke to a friend who manages a number of stores in the region and he said Sony have given them zero information. The show was a mess. Raised more questions than it answered and actually shows Sony aren't organised and are in disarray.
Absolute joke of a preorder.... Bloody Sony should cancel all of the preorders made before midnight. And what’s the deal with even being on Sony’s own list if they weren’t going to email anyone?! I’ve had PS every launch since they came out.... bunch of friggen losers dropping the ball like this.
@SirAngry Don't fall for those prices. I've seen a similar thing over here, certain retailers are taking advantage of the situation and charging more. I pre-ordered mine for the advertised price of 499 at a reputable retailer. But I've seen non-gaming retailers with prices as high as 550.
@Octane no, it seems it is going for 5990 SEK. It's up at more reputable sites now. Sony generally shaft the Nordic region. Nintendo treat us nice, Microsoft too, but Sony treat the region as an inconvenience it seems. I can say that as a Brit living in Sweden, because I see the difference. Sony Sweden are arrogant as hell, and their social media team personify that attitude with their interactions with customers. Taken a quick straw poll of my mates over here, prior to the show 11 out of 16 were day 1. After the show that's dropped to 3 out of 16. We're going to have a Zoom chat about it, but Sony are looking like arrogant PS3 Sony right now with the no free upgrade of first party games from PS4 to PS5. And I know that price hike will be industry wide eventually, but they could've done an Ubisoft and kept them the same across multi-gen releases.
It's unavailable currently on Amazon. The shopto site keeps crashing but I've registered with Game and Simply Games to be notified when it is available.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
@SirAngry That's weird. Is it the same in Finland? Because of the euro, it should be the same. I mean, it's pointless to you, but I expect it has to do with the difference in currency.
@JohnnyShoulder good luck. According to a regional manager at Webhallen he might get 5 Standard Editions for 30 stores. PMSL. So I think even though I was first in the queue a few months ago at my local store, it looks highly unlikely I'll be getting one for possibly months if the PS4 situation is repeated in Scandinavia, they essentially forgot to send any so they could keep Americans happy. Waiting to see, but if I miss out I'll not be too bothered in all honesty. Thinking of building a new PC in a Louqe Ghost S1 case instead. I can wait until Microsoft have games and Sony remember they need customers.
@Octane Finland quite often has to pay more than the € RRP as well. My wife is Finnish-Swedish, or is it Swedish-Finnish? She seems to change her mind depending on the weather. Either way I'm a regular visitor to Helsinki and Aalto University and can confirm the Finns get shafted like their Scandinavian cousins quite often. The differences aren't down to tax either.
@SirAngry If you buy the PS4 versions you do get a free upgrade to the PS5 version? It says so on the PS Blog. So i will most likely pick up the PS4 versions of Spider-man MM and Horizon FW as I assume they will be cheaper.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
@JohnnyShoulder oh well that's weird because last night they said there weren't free upgrades. Have they changed that this morning? Because on Twitter PlayStation luminaries were getting it in the neck. The Demon's Souls and FFXVI situations are the funniest... because Square Enix are saying it isn't coming to PC... but Sony say it is. Plus Demon's Souls is coming to PC and other consoles... but now they say it isn't. Eric Lampel might be getting his P45 because the messaging last night was disastrously bad at points. There's no getting away from that. The price of the console is the least of their concerns right now, they've literally created more questions than they've answered.
@SirAngry Yeah, I do agree that their communication has been bad so far. Demon's Souls is coming only to PS5 they're reiterated. I expect FF16 to be a console exclusive. It'll definitely come to PC at some point.
@SirAngry I don't recall them saying there weren't any free next gen upgrades? It was confirmed shortly after on the PS Blog. Yep they have certainly mucked up on certain things but not with this.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
@JohnnyShoulder it was the PlayStation Twitter account responding to a question about Sackboy I think. But I can't find the Tweet now so maybe it was deleted. Either way, simple questions that should have been answered in the showcase itself were not. The lack of UI demo at this stage is worryingly bizarre, because if it launches with the sub-standard PS4 blue monstrosity currently on dev kits it'll not be good. There's blanked out place holder squares all over the place. My guess it just isn't ready. And they're scrambling to get a day 1 pat h working.
@Octane of course FFXVI is coming to PC. It'd be bizarre if it didn't. However, messing it up like that for a partner organisation just doesn't look professional. Staged or not, the XSS leak was handled far better by Microsoft.
Forums
Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--
Posts 1,101 to 1,120 of 4,564
Please login or sign up to reply to this topic