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Re: Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Dated for 11th June

MattSilverado

@nessisonett kind of funny for me, I live in a third world country but I managed to get a PS5 on pre-sale, I think Sony sent around 2000 units for the first pre-sale. Crazy stuff to be able to get one, not possible in my wildest dreams in the first 6 monts, let alone launch day.

Re: CD Projekt Red Apologises for Hiding Cyberpunk 2077 on Base PS4, Makes Refunds Widely Available

MattSilverado

That's a load of BS... They knew since like ages ago about this, no amount of apologies are enough. And, of course, on a technical level this game cannot run "well" con ps4/xbone, at least as it is intended... Maybe at 320*200 with scanlines and 1 concurrent NPC on screen.
Refunds is the obvious thing to do. Also saying out loud "we lied, we kept this from you and we suck"...

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Hovers Around 720p on PS4, Drops As Low As 15FPS

MattSilverado

@deathaxe yes, sadly it's somewhat expected to have buggy games at launch moreover with the scale of cyberpunk... Anyway no doubt targeting for ps4 and xbox one also meant less time for polishing the game for launch. I'm not even a bit hurried to play it so I will wait a couple of months until it gets properly playable...

Re: Sony Banning PS5 Owners for Exploiting PS Plus Collection

MattSilverado

Mmm i share my account with a friend and he shares his account with me. We buy games together, some games go to his and others to mine (account). We have done that for all the ps4 lifespan and we pretend to do the same with ps5 (which should arrive next week for both)... We don't shared the accounts with nobody else... I hope we're still fine.

Re: Sony on PS5's Response to Game Pass: There Is News to Come, But Not Today

MattSilverado

@LexVVTi PS Now is not available we I live. Most I've put are old games, but there are many others, some new/not so old (say Doom eternal or Jedi, Flight Simulator 2020 on PC, then for instance The Medium on day one, etc). Anyway I'm not saying it's "cheap", but it's an option to play as many titles as you can for some money. I don't really like MS games, in fact I loved my 360 but skipped all Xbox consoles and had a PS4 and Pro and now a PS5, but just wanted to test this out, I think you can cancel the sub anytime so no harm there.
Thing is games at 70USD is simply too much here, for a single game I play once and done, like God of War or Horizon, or Last of Us2... loved all of them, but I'm not the kind of player that hunts for trophies and stuff, so I do hope Sony can throw out some alternative to the gaming cost, even if you have to wait some time. Maybe leave out first party games from the sub, or offer a discount, I don't know. But I would love to play all games on PS5, even PS4 games I don't have such... say Sekiro; it's old? yes. It's good? it seems to be! but it's 59usd (now discounted to 39 I think)... anyway, you get the point. I'm not saying "give us all games, day one, paying 1 dolar" , no. Just another kind of option may be good, maybe isnt. Playstation Collection for PS5 is great, sadly I've played them all (mostly).

Re: Sony on PS5's Response to Game Pass: There Is News to Come, But Not Today

MattSilverado

@thefourfoldroot it's around 10usd for Ultimate (allows PC and Xbox, which also is great for me because I do use my PC for games). You have "more than 100 games". Currently on mi Series S (with an external 480GB SSD I bought in preparation for the PS5 arrival in a couple of days) I've installed:
A plague tale
Alan wake (already played it on 360 back in it's day)
Burnout paradise
Doom Eternal
PES 2020
Forza Horizon 4
Gears 5 (always hated gears but just to try it)
Monster hunter
Nier
both Ori titles
Outer wilds
Quantum Break
Ryse son of Rome
Jedi fallen order
Tetris effect
Man of Medan
Unravel

Re: Sony on PS5's Response to Game Pass: There Is News to Come, But Not Today

MattSilverado

I would love to see something along the lines of GamePass on Playstation. In fact I've a Series S alone for the GamePass stuff, there are great games (even xbox360 games). Maybe Sony could wait say a year after a game release to make it available, I don't know. There's value for us gamers even if games aren't available on day one. Look at PS collection for PS5… it's amazing and all those games are "old".

Re: Hands On: Train Sim World 2 Is Transformed by PS5 Backwards Compatibility

MattSilverado

@God_of_Nowt thanks for the answer. I'm a software developer and tech nerd (somewhat) , I'm not in panic mode but it's really strange. I do think there must be something along the lines of what you said, but it came as something really strange that Sony's implementation is "slower" when doing just unoptimized reads (I mean legacy data structures)... But is entirely possible. Of course I'm not worried for ps5 titles because spiderman loads a save game in 2 seconds... Just incredible... And it's just the start of the generation.

Re: Hands On: Train Sim World 2 Is Transformed by PS5 Backwards Compatibility

MattSilverado

@get2sammyb nice to have feedback on BC. Great things heard from DF also. I've sold my Pro like 20 days ago so I'm waiting for Dec 4th (expected delivery date for PS5 here) to play the huge catalog I've left untouched from PS4. Imagine I haven't played Witcher 3 (1&2 on PC a decade ago, loved those)...

Anyway, there's something that's really bothering my mind. What's happening with the loading times of BC titles from internal storage? Why xbox is so much faster in many titles (I've to pick up a Series S on Nov 18th so I m not asking as a sony fanboy or whatever) ? If the loading speed difference was a few percent, you could say it's because the 10% faster cpu speed on xbox, but there's a huge difference in some titles. What's going on here? Could it be Sony's ssd solution being really worse than MS's?

Re: Final Fantasy 14 Will Be Playable on PS5 via Backwards Compatibility with Performance Improvements

MattSilverado

I'm really hoping for some details on a boost feature such as the Pro has. Playing PS4 games with faster loading is a given, but if games are not patched, what can we expect regarding performance? I think at best we can have PS4 Pro profile with less downscale on resolution (when it's dynamic) or better fps when unlocked... But no jump from 30 to 60 fps as it were magic.

Re: Western Digital Reveals First PS5 Compatible SSD

MattSilverado

@MarcG420 well... It's has the same ballpark TF figures from the Pro, plus many improvements from the architecture itself, but yes, games will be also way more demanding so maybe it's 1080p upscaled or something. I really don't care... My main console is Ps5. Anyway if my pockets were just a little deeper I would have bought and X. But really getting and X and PS5 and Quest2 on launch is like too much (more here where I live) 😬

Re: Western Digital Reveals First PS5 Compatible SSD

MattSilverado

@stu123 yes, right. I also want to play some older games, and mainly the exclusives. But not very interested in buying games, I don't play online or service games so often it's a one time playthrough... So paying full price for a game I will play only once is not very appealing for me. I was doubting about getting the xbox because I also have a PC, for some moments I almost click on the series X pre-order but the thing is I preferred to get also an Oculus Quest 2 with "the saving" of getting the S. But I'm thinking maybe games are not really "the same but 1440p" for S, if they get very downgraded like no ray tracing or stuff like that then I might trade in for an X or sell it altogether down the road.

Re: Sony Expects PS5 to Outsell PS4's First Fiscal Year

MattSilverado

It will sell, of course. Here in Argentina the pre sale was of 2000 units and lasted for 30 min until it was out of stock. Luckily I was able to get a digital one in the first 5 minutes. After reading stories of pre sales around the globe I wasn't very confident... Anyway, the system will sell but the thing is game prices are on the rise, even the digital ones... Then you have the PS Plus, etc, how back compat will work (really bad the saved games issue) etc
... Good games will come but I don't know, I hope Sony isn't screwing this over. Really something like GamePass at least for PS4 games will be great.

Re: Godfall's Cinematic Opening Is Way More Hype Than We Expected

MattSilverado

@deathaxe well, I only have one left because today I've pre-ordered a PS5 and an additional dualsense, so... I hope my body can work with no kidneys, since I'm willing to get Horizon 2 on launch 🥺...

Taxes here are incredibly high but what's worse it's the US dollar conversion rate. If you take the minimum monthly wage/salary here, you must spend 4 full months of work to get a PS5 digital edition.