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OK guys I need some help.
What are 3 reasons why getting a ps5 is a bad idea.
Edit: waiting till Sunday. I want to have a good night out tomorrow and I know if I grab one today, tmrw night ain't happening.
Umm if you do get it I would almost say get it tomorrow.
If you unpack it and stuff youβll need to update it and all that jazz and if youβve got digital games on your account already, weβll BG3 is digital only youβre going to need time to download it as well.
The PS5 Pro will sell for $1200 here. You can get a cheap gaming PC for that price and have access to your Steam, GOG, and Epic library, as well as using it for everything else you can use a PC for. Get a controller and a loungeroom keyboard and you can use it from the couch just as easily as a console.
That's my reason against. If you've already got games on PS5 then it's a harder argument against it
Damn good point. My current studio pc is a 5600x 32gb ram and an rtx 2070 with some m2 ssds.
Say I was to build a higher spec studio pc, would my current one be enough for gaming?
Ps5 pro will cost way more than just 1200. It doesnβt even come with a disc drive so that has to be purchased separately.
If you for some reason want a stand too you need to shell out extra for it.
I think personally itβs the worst upgrade to come out ever.
I'm disappointed that it doesn't come with a disc drive. To me that's insane and a blatant cash grab.
That's a heck of a studio PC. I think it would work fine, you may need to upgrade the graphics card depending on what you want to play but you don't have to go top spec there
I'm going to upgrade to an AM5 CPU and up the ram to 64gb. The virtual instruments I use eat up insane amounts of ram. For example, 1 drumkit can take upto 15gb of ram.
But cheers, I reckon this will do nicely for a loungeroom gaming pc.
Spending maybe too much time with it?
Are you thinking of disc or digital unit?
Disc. And that was my concern. I'm trying to rebuild my social life after 7ish months of forced hermitage.
Yeah. I think that's the my main fear.
As long as you've got enough self control to prioritise things and not let it get away from you then I think it'd be ok.
vendor lock-in
Very true.
because you just bought an amp :)
Damn good point!
And I want to get a box like the Novation Circuit Rhyhtm or Beat Buddy to get drums cranking at the shows.
Don't ask me. Just this week I've bought one for the child's birthday in December. I'm having the hardest time not spilling the beans because he is gonna lose his mind when he gets it.
Dude if my parents bought me a ps5 for my birthday I would go absolutely nuts!!!!
Have you finished BG3 yet?
I had to sell my ps5 when I was unemployed so never got to finish bg3. Which fucking sucked tbh.
I'm super keen to grab one, was just trying to think of negatives to balance the equation.
ok so to be realistic, do you have enough savings that if the company went under tomorrow you'd be ok till you secured a new job?
I have about 6 months of savings. It was the first thing I did when I get my first couple of paycheques.
I have 6 months rent saved plus all expenses.
to be blunt, then I cant see a good reason NOT to get a PS5 if its what you really want. keep in mind a steamdeck is now around 700 bucks though, and EVENTUALLY most Sony games come to steam.
Does the steam deck connect via hdmi to TV?
with a dock I think so yeah. But the steamdeck isnt the most powerful thing in the world hence the price. the ROG Alley or Lenovo Legion thing may be a better bet, but then they are more expensive.