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What a non article.

Store says pro enhanced, we don't know how or why, and we don't have the connections to ask...

@IOI
Most expensive? You must be new around here...
Even the original 1977 VCS was $199 which is $1,048 with inflation.

Well, I had the PS5 since launch day.
Really well built, never skipped a beat. It plays PS4 games better than the PS4 pro could, so I've been happy with my purchase, and didn't mind when the price went up by £50, and back down again..
I am a total 'fanboy' and have had several of every playstation, including different region models to play games early. I have an embarrassing amount of controllers for the PS3, PS4, and PS5, none of which have ever got any drift.

I'm the perfect playstation customer. But I won't be buying a pro, despite having a really good 120hz VRR 4K TV..

I just hope that the people who have bought one get their money's worth, as I feel that it's not a big enough increase in specs to justify buying a new machine when mine is just fine. I'd love performance mode FPS with graphics mode visuals, but I'm not biting on this one...

Sammy: oof, it's almost 5pm and I haven't submitted my piece for the column.
Ah, I know, I'll just mention that the box has a symbol on it... Off to the pub..

Long bloated development times are fine by me, so long as the output is Stella blade or Astrobot quality. And it has free dlc a bit later.

I'm happy to play a crap load of games that probably came from a mobile phone app that have good gameplay and passable graphics in between waiting for epic games that are exclusive, at least when they first get released

I almost bought this, as I platinum'd the PS4 disc version, but just as I was about to pay the £10 upgrade fee, my ps5 helpfully told me I'd already got the free upgrade to the first ps5 version with identical trophies, and that I'd only bothered to do about a third of that play through.
So, given that I clearly couldn't be bothered the second time, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to play it a third time.

Should last until the PS7, lol.

Seriously, way funny thing to do, be a bit awkward if the service changes totally to free

Beautiful controller. Looks frosty. I have waaay to many controllers as it is though... Must resist it..

Can we have gex too while you are remastering everything

Of course, these stats don't take into account second hand sales..

There's a.huge market in people buying a disc version, finishing it, and then selling it for 50% less than they paid for it..

That user, and the next who buy the used disc, get the game for half price. Can't do that with digital products.

I'll always want a drove for suh d content, but it's good that the drive is optional.
It will be grave error to ever make playstations disc free though, they might not benefit directly from the second hand disc sales, but they will miss the tow punters who no longer buy the game as it's not more than full price and non transferrable

Games like astrobot and final fantasy I bought day one..
But other games I will often wait up to a month,. especially if I'm not absolutely sure if I want it, and can even buy games used for half the price.
I justify the day one purchases by saving on so many other games

@TrickyDicky99 Good point, well put..

Didn't we already upgrade it? I know it runs better on ps5. Hard to keep track of all the regurgitated remakes.

@Dampsponge they did. Ot was the original fat ps5,.and they brought out three revisions of it until the slim came along, with an optional disc drive.

@DonkeyFantasy you really should buy some ultra hd Blu-ray discs. So much better than Blu-ray or streaming.

Well, 30 hours over 10 years isn't very much. Did you mean 2014?

Well, didn't 'fear the spotlight' do well, lol

I bought a Fortnite switch for each of my kids
I'll buy astro bot and Spiderman controllers.
But I draw the line at Fortnite and LeBron James controllers, lol

@NEStalgia any 36 month contract of £40 is basically £1,500.
My real point was £700 isn't really that much, compared to other high end products, like £17,000 jackets at Luis Vuitton

The price argument is so boring.
Most people have a £1,500 phone that they pay £30 a month or more to use.

Similar with iPads and tablets.

True gamers will make sacrifices if they find it a stretch to buy the next console.

Many moons ago, we bought record players built into furniture, that would be the equivalent price of a small car these days.

Stuff costs money. Never gonna change

No it hasn't

https://direct.playstation.com/en-gb/buy-consoles/playstation5-pro-console

@Chupa_loyzer
Nope. But my point is that many will get all their trophies auto pop (like death stranding did) and it will take all the fun out of it.

Trophies are a milestone for me..it is a nice little reminder of when I played a game. I've already said that you can prevent the auto pop if you know what you are doing, but more importantly all of your progress gets carried over. So if there was a particularly awesome boss battle with much improved graphics,.you won't see it, because it's already done.

Hope that clears up any confusion.

How do we sign up for beta?

@Fiendish-Beaver just don't import your save..

So, all your progress carries over.
So you autopop all the trophies, and have nothing to do. So you don't see all the improved graphics after all..

@WizzNL it's the same type of person who gets a mini bought for them, and never waves at other minis.

Maybe they got a ps5 as a gift and have absolutely no idea where any of the bots came from.

Or the type of person on 'who wants to be a millionaire' who, when the audience is asked, puts a stupid answer so they can see thier vote.. lol

It's a 10/10 if you have are a playstation fan, knowing all the games and references.
If you had to nit pick and look for improvements, timed runs should have been included from the start, and, more importantly, abilities that you get from levels should be able to be carried over to other levels, like Skylanders or mario with the big and small mushrooms.
Going back to each level as the mouse could open up new areas inaccessible previously, same as with the sponge power up, etc...

Shut up and take my money!! And memories!

The fact you get the PS4 version, and the PS5 version, and there are literally hundreds of trophies across a triple trophy list makes this remarkable just for that.

Luckily, those trophies are achieved by playing an excellent game many, many times.

Looks awful, is a single stick shooter with no fire button, so should be worse than beserk in a world of robotrons, but it's actually a fantastic game..

What suprise success was that then?

If they are going on sales, I hope that's net sales, as most people I know through internet forums like Facebook took theirs back when they realised that the updates they hoped for like ability to stream streams were never going to come.
Like the psvr2, it was a conspicuous consumption item that people used to flex over others, only to find out it had little support or real function.

2tb is fine. Had it since they activated the nvme port just after launch..

I keep all PS4 games on a 5tb external HDD, and all ps5 games on a 2tb Samsung 980 pro.

The ps5 itself is almost full of the operating system.. it saves to the internal SSD all the data needed to find the stuff on the HDD and the removable SSD. No idea how anyone copes with less than 7tb of extra storage!

I'll swap you one of my Spiderman controllers for three of these, boxed as new

My first PS5 is a release day machine. Used daily for everything from gaming to streaming. My second PS5 is a second edition and has never been out of the box. It went out of warranty in the box. I really don't care, because I made the decision to be an early adopter, and it's odd that the same people who were feeling all smug cos they got a console or headset early are now feeling butthurt because of the inevitable price drops.
Ps5 got cheaper because it's the 4th edition. It's been made of cheaper components with smaller boards, less plastics, cheaper to distribute because they weigh less and you can fit more in a lorry or freight plane.
Vr is cheaper because it was dead before it released.
Guess what? Your portal will halve in price soon, because they are crap.
It's just the way things are and will always be.

@Enigk you'd be surprised.
My 5 kids are under great pressure from their mates to get the latest skin, or all dressed in the same outfit.
My kids know better if course, but occasionally they will work their butts off to get extra in-game credits to buy doja cat skin or whatever..

@DiscoDriver44 is there a pc version already?

I was gutted when the ps5 turned out not to look like this.
If they brought out a special edition like this, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

Maybe someone could scan one and 3d print it? Then sell the shells only

Do you still need to do the same race a million times to buy a car that is out of stock by the time you want it?

So, the first day the servers wouldn't let me on
Now, the game crashes every time I talk to the first guy in the next area..
I've sent 5 crash reports.
Hopefully it will settle down and be playable

@Rocky1972 they probably know that by now, considering thier comment was in December 2022..

Well, it worked.. we clicked, we read, we realised we didn't really learn anything..

Already pre-ordered the physical copy.
Shopped around and got it cheap. Just a shame that the pre-order bonuses seem to be for the waaay more expensive digital versions.. it's almost like they want an all digital future with the bonuses for digital pre-orders!!

@nomither6 not sure if you wanted an answer, but on psnprofiles it's almost a quarter of a million players that have seen it all the way to platinum, something like just under half the number of people who have launched the game and are members on psnprofiles. And that's just one trophy tracking site.

Having been a relatively early adopter of the first revision of the first psvr headset, with the lighter wires etc (which I'll always call PSVR2) I knew from the disintegrating rubber headband, the uncomfortable heat of wearing the headset in the summer, the low quality shovelware that was churned out like chocolate buttons, and the very few good titles like astro rescue mission, I guessed that the actual PSVR2 would have maybe a couple of games I'd like to experience, but I wasn't prepared to pay about £350 for each of those two games.. for an investment of £600 for a headset, and £50 per AAA game, you really need to spread that cost out over 50 games really, all of which still cost £12 extra each once you divide that £600 between them.

Bit of a misleading title.

We all know where they will be.

Memory meadow, gusty gateway, behind the ape escape bot

SSD speedway, turbo trail, where gravity rush girl is juggling the apple up the wall

Cooling springs, frigid flies, where the bot is waving the race end chequered flag. (You could probably backtrack from hotel hopalot checkpoint, to be fair)

You'll just have to wait 30 days in between each

Re cold storage tracks on wipeout, you just turn the in game music off and run a Spotify playlist of those tracks... You are welcome

@Paranoimia this is a pretty spot on comment, to be fair.
Made an Xbox account for Minecraft, unisoft for Uno etc, e for burnout paradise.

It's really not big news to make an account..

Ps5 owners couldn't care less about concorde. I doubt pc owners will jump through hoops to play it.

If you were into that sort of thing, I would imagine scouring YouTube private videos could be down relatively easily.

Using the same tech that ai uses to group all your photos together into stories, etc, I'm sure you could make a routine that searches for recently uploaded videos for playstation presentations.

It was pretty crap. Can't even remember the game they force fed us for the first 10 minutes. Some 5x5 FPS. Yawn..

Astro bot obviously great, and one other.

A good measure of how good the presentation was, is to go to the lab store, and see how many games featured in the show you have added to your wishlist.