Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--

@themcnoisy Strings for life is better

@Wesker Thanks mate. The Rap one is all original though!

Thanks for listening bro.

@themcnoisy Wow! I thought that was a remix. Fair play!

@themcnoisy wow, just hit play whilst doing the dishes and found myself bouncing around the kitchen. Great tune!

Rumors going around that COD on the ps5 will require a whooping 285GB at launch! Once you factor in updates, patches, map packs etc this thing will literally eat up half the SSD. I'm not a COD fan so no skin off my back, but with that level of ridiculousness you'd think Sony would step in a little.

Just when I needed another reason to avoid COD

Today I learned that the PS5 only has 650-700GB of usable storage. That’s a bit of a rip off, especially considering games like COD are already taking up that much space despite everyone saying that games will be smaller this gen. I’m confused.

@nessisonett We don't know how much is usable. But the PS4 1TB has about 860GB of usable space.

The thing is, games can be a lot smaller. But if the developer doesn't care about optimising the file size, they won't get smaller. Games these days contain a lot of unused textures, sound files, models, etc. It takes work to remove all of it and make sure it doesn't cause bugs elsewhere, but that's what a good dev would do.

Remember, Sekiro is only 12GB on PS4. Ghost of Tsushima is ''only'' 35GB.

I ordered the free dongle for the camera. I wonder if it arrives in time...

@Octane I think i saw somewhere that Doom Eternal has a smaller file size than Doom 2016. When developers take a bit of time to properly optimise their games there is no need for gargantuan sizes. I think the problems comes with online mulitplayer games and games that have a lot of additional content. Which is why Bungie is having to recycle a lot of the less popular content into a vaultmtonbe used at a later date.

@JohnnyShoulder The point isn’t that COD has a huge file size, it’s that the PS5 version is 40GB larger than the PS4 version. That makes no sense to me as it goes against everything we’ve been told about how PS5 games will be smaller in size. Given the state of Modern Warfare’s file size however, it could very likely just be an outlier.

@nessisonett I assume that this is the developer not taking time to optimize things, and instead using old packaging software that duplicates all the assets. I could be wrong though.

Worst case I’ll get a 2tb add-on SSD, though I did read a concern about heat with the add-on SSD since it was in an enclosed container.

@jdv95 #keepphysicalalive

Amazon is beginning to update orders and showing arrival dates...... The disc version I ordered from them won't be here until the 26th 😩😩😩😩😩

My digital one from ps direct seems to still be in good order for launch day but man, what a gut punch lol

@nessisonett I'm not sure it works like that, the actual file sizes of the games will still be huge if the developer does not optimise them, but the next gen consoles use compression techniques to reduce the size. IIRC ps5 reduces them by 30%?

@redd214 November 26th is my birthday; if you want I can give you my shipping address so you can forget and get rid of this problem faster!

@andreoni79 haha nah I'm good man lol! It's also Thanksgiving day in the States but I guess they'll have deliveries going out then. We were supposed to go to my in laws but I told my wife I think it's best if we just stay home for Thanksgiving this year

@redd214 But you ordered both, right? Which one where you planning on keeping?

@Octane both. Going to have one of each, always been the plan to have 2

Spirit of the North (Enhanced version) has been confirmed for PS5 from playasia on 4 December 2020. 😲

https://www.play-asia.com/spirit-of-the-north-enhanced-editio...