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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (19 children)

You can get a gaming laptop for that stick bazzite on it or use steam big picture on launch you've got a platform that does +60fps 4k HDR with 40 years worth of games. Consoles are getting very close to being irrelevant unless you like sports titles.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (9 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (5 children)

You can't share or sell the games... Looks like a bad investment...

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It would be so funny if the EU decided Sony was a gatekeeper on the consoles without disc drives and forced them to allow 3rd party app store on them.

Hey, a guy can dream.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

How much space does it come out of the box? I bought my PS5 a year ago.

It came with 667GB of space. Some games take up 100gb.

And now you want to make it digital only??? Uhhhh, fuck that. You better be giving me like 1000 terabytes.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The pro upped the storage to 2TB, but I really feel like when the PS5 launched we were at the point where they should have shipped with 4TB drives.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I haven't built a new computer in awhile, but 4tb ssd would have costed more than the console when it launched would it have not? Unless you are saying they should have shipped with a hybrid SSD/HDD setup. Not sure if read/write speeds would hold up to the frame rates needed for their games now.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ahhhh, so my ps5 is the most superior PlayStation still, good to know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's not, but it's the most reasonable purchase.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I’m genuinely curious to how those things are going to sell. My knee jerk reaction is ‘oh hell no’ but there’s a lotta console players out there that want the power but just don’t want to get into PC gaming. Of course there seems to be a lot of people still playing on last gen consoles too so I have no idea where that’s going.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The problem is the reason those people don't get into PC gaming is because they don't wanna spend $700 on a gaming machine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's not necessarily true. I want my gaming to just work, and that's not the case in Windows. It's becoming less the case with console gaming, but I can still be confident that when I buy a game for my PlayStation it'll actually boot, I won't need to use third-party software for controller support, and I won't need to tinker with drivers. That said, I already have a PS5. The TV I game on is still 1080p, so I don't understand what $700 would get me over my current hardware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I can still be confident that when I buy a game for my PlayStation it'll actually boot, I won't need to use third-party software for controller support, and I won't need to tinker with drivers.

Sounds like your last pc gaming experience was in the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, steam straight up tells you if games have support for controllers, and they are all plug-and-play...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Most people that I’ve spoken to don’t mention the price. They usually talk about how they just don’t know how to get games in the first place and start talking about settings and updates that they always hear about. That being said, I still don’t know like I said lol. I’m just curious and want to see how it goes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I mean the same people bought PS5s at launch from scalpers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Nah from what I’ve heard is because they perceive as being very complex, more so than it actually is.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Hey Sony, I love you but you trolling?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

So I can't play half the games I have, and the other half doesn't need the extra console power. Yay. WOrtH iT.

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