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Sat on a beach 1600 miles away from my PS5 using the 5g hotspot on my iPhone and it’s perfect. GT7 is perfectly playable, ESO plays brilliantly (apart from trying to work out how to call my Mount) and Klenoa 2 is an absolute joy. PsPortal is a stunning piece of kit. I’ve not have a single connection issue for the past 10 days.

With the firmware upgrade allowing me to connect to the hotel WiFi, which extends to the beach, means I won’t use shedloads of my iPhone data.

Just for clarification it can be used over any WiFi connection, Sony just recommend that Home WiFi is probably better. This is from the Sony site:

Can PlayStation Portal™ Remote Player only be played on my home Wi-Fi network?

While your home Wi-Fi network represents a great option to use PlayStation Portal™ Remote Player because you have control over the quality of your own home Wi-Fi, it is not required. PlayStation Portal™ Remote Player can also be played wherever you have access to broadband internet Wi-Fi with at least 5Mbps for use1. For a better play experience, a high-speed connection of at least 15Mbps is recommended. If you are using public Wi-Fi, be aware that the quality of the internet connection may be out of your control, and could impact the quality of your play experience.

I use remote play a hell of a lot between my old PS4 to my PS5 at home when we're up at our Holliday home on North Wales. Being able to still do that whilst my wife watches something awful like Below Deck is an absolute godsend

@get2sammyb I suppose the fact that she has a net worth of $150mill raises her slightly higher in the celebrity stakes than a Love Island stinker, but, only slightly

Hold the front page!!!! 'Z lister and pointless sack of flesh plays video game'

Reminds me of the excellent PS2 classic Klonoa 2 - Lunatea's Veil

To me it just looks like the character has crushed Knack and made him into a bow....poor poor Knack.

I have to admit that the PS5 is a stunning piece of kit. From the utter silence of the console itself through to the joy of using the DualSence I think this is a huge leap from the PS4.

Astros Playroom is an excellent game, but combining it with the new controller makes for a gaming experience that I've never had before. It just ads a whole new level to gaming.

@JohnKarnes Thats what I did. I had a pre-order with Box.co.uk, who I'd never heard of to be honest, and completely forgot about the pre-order I'd placed with shopto.net. I thought about keeping both and selling one on for a profit, but then realised that would make me as bad as the vile scalpers/touts that I hate, so I cancelled my box.co.uk pre-order which I'm pretty sure someone will have snapped up within a few seconds.

Finished Astro's Playroom this morning and I don't think the grin disapeared from my face the entire time. The ending is brilliant, even after the titles have rolled, and the use of the Dual Sense's capabilities throughout the entire game is a stroke of genius.

I'm giving Days Gone a try and I have to say that it looks stunnig at 60FPS.

I must admit download times seem much faster than the Ps4 but maybe that's becasue there aren't as many PS5 users as there are PS4 users and thus not maxing out bandwidth to the Sony datacentres hosting PS5 servers.

My PS5 was delivered this morning at 10:25 (5 mins early!!!) by DPD and I've only had a quick play on Astro's Playroom, but this Dual Controller is simply amazing!!! I didn't think it would make that much difference, but blimey it really is a game changer. Plus my lounge is eerily quiet now as there isn't the constant humming of fan in the background

love or hate Greggs you've got to admit their vegan sausage rolls are fekin' gorgeous.

@Total_Weirdo getting my 40th anniversary Game and Watch tomorrow, ps5 next week and my Spextrum NEXT in August '21. This heady mix of retro and brand new tech makes me a very happy chappy.

Reminds me a bit of the excellent Mark of Kri on the PS2

@thefourfoldroot Same here. I just d/l a game, play it, either finish it or get bored of it and then delete it.

he had me at Pearl Jam

I just kept refreshing when i got the 'Service Unavailable' screen and the order finally went through

Maybe they'll add something like the old MS Word Paperclip!!!

'Hey it looks like you're stuck on Level X!! Would you like me to annoy the arse off you?!!

I wonder how many people will get your Father Ted reference?

Nope, never heard of any of them. Why can't it have Black Lace, Bucks Fizz and Russ Abbot on it? That'd make it far more entertaining.

I got a PlayStation for Christmas 1998. I knew I was getting it for xmas and went out and purchased RE2. I look back and I was so excited I felt the same I did when I got my Spectrum 48k in 1983. The only difference I was fully grown 25 year old bloke .

I think the PS1 was the first 'cool' games console. It was the time of cool Britannia in the UK, it was a time where the culture was all about having fun, clubbing was massive and for a very small amount of time the UK was actually liked by the rest of the world. I remember going to a club in Birmingham and there was a row of 10 PS1 consoles playing Wipeout, Destruction Derby and Tempest and there were groups of sweaty wide-eyed goons playing them. The fact that they were all off their tits on E probably helped

@Ristar24 When I got my Megadrive I was amazed at how expensive the games were. I'm pretty sure they were 30-40 quid and considering I was on a YTS scheme at the time getting 40 quid a week I had to save up to buy games. Oh woe was me

@Ristar24 Showing your age there mate

Strange, I was only looking at this on PSN earlier and thought it looked pretty good.

Wow, seems like a great way for MS to get even more people on the credit train. All aboard the debt express. Considering the financial authorities were supposed to make it harder to get credit after the crash in 2007 it's seems even easier to get it these days.

It’s pretty clear to me that Valve will announce Half Life 3 as a PS5 exclusive 🤣

Gives me the feeling of a 2D version of Journey.

Hmmm man rounders or one of the single greatest games ever released? decisions decisions.

@KnightWolf I think they're on about Dreaming Canvas which is on the PS Store now:

https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/product/EP8070-CUSA17557_00-DREAMINGCANVAS00?emcid=pa-st-165932

Klonoa was a brilliant game and I managed to get it working on my jailbroken PSP. Klonoa 2 was superb as well and I they both deserve to have a much bigger audience.

@ApostateMage Jeez, what type of hiking do you do?

For me it' got the look of a MGS game, the open world 'go where you want' feel of no mans sky, the combat of [insert any good 3rd person action adventure here], but the absolute madness of nothing i've ever seen before. Day 1 purchase? not sure, might have to wait for a few reviews first.

I tried to make Manic Miner and Jetset Willy in LittleBigPlanet, but, it was too fiddly. Dreams will be the perfect platform to do this.

Head over Heals in Dreams would be brilliant.

As long as there is a cheesy 80's station and one that plays Raised By Owls, Napalm death, Carcass, Steeleye Span and Jethro Tull then I'll be happy

@ILoveVideoGames yep me too, but, I paid £15 for it.

@Cycologist yeah good call, I completely forgot about Pole Position (how dare I!!). I'm 46 so my vision is forever rose tinted for those halcyon days

Horizon Chase Turbo is a great game. If you're old enough to remember the original Outrun arcade cab or remember playing the 16-Bit gem Lotus Turbo Challenge then you’ll love this game.

Replaced my rubbish 49”LG uHD TV with a superb Hisense 50” 4K beauty and I’ve been having a blast playing Wipeout Omega Collection. I’d quite forgotten how stunning it looks and sounds on a modern tv.

Ha ha, yeah, stuff like that. Brilliant.

@MattSilverado @ToniK @RogerRoger

I think I can still remember some of the edits you needed to make to the autoexec.bat and Config.sys files to increase memory, get your soundblaster to work and go knows how many other things just to get a game to work

@ToniK yeah, it was the shareware version I had. I was a CAD operator at the time and had a Compaq 486 with 16mb of memory. Yes kids, that’s 16MB not 16GB!!!!🤣🤣. Every time my boss walked in the room I’d turn the brightness down on my screen and say I was rebooting the pc because it had crashed. Simple PC days.

Reminds my of the mighty Heretic game from 1994!!! Yep I'm that old.

@tomassi I use it quite a lot on my Vita, as well as the remote play app on my work windows laptop, and to be honest, it's not great on either device. As soon as the wifi signal fall below 100% the screen tears/pixelates and stutters. When it's good it's great, but, when it's bad it's bloody awful!!

Loved Trine 1 & 2 but not so much 3. The full 3D just didn’t work and made the puzzles far too annnoying. Hopefully 4 will be as good as 1&2.

@Fandabidozi I’d head over to www.spectrumcomputing.co.uk and take a look and post on the forum. Nice bunch of spectrum nerds.

Good choice with Head over Heels. One of my all time favourite spectrum games.

I still use my Vita's remote play when my missus is watching Celebrity Onion Peeling. Saying that I still use my hacked PSP to play Spectrum games on FusePSP

Killzone and Resistance were superb titles and it would be great to see them on the PS5. Story driven stuff wins me over hands-down rather than run-n-gun titles.

Some of the graphic styles remind me of the great DOS game Ecstatica

http://ecstatica.wikia.com/wiki/Ecstatica

Very much doubt many people will remember it considering it was released in 1994!!!!

Isn't it a bit daft setting it 30 years after the disaster, considering we're now 33 years after the disaster and there are no creepy buggers shuffling about wearing glow in the dark gas masks?

Christ on a bike, how unstable was the system before all these updates???

‘You’ve got Redfield on you’ 😀😀. Very good 👍