@JohnnyShoulder I’m actually surprised at how quickly I’ve become spoiled by my PS5. I honestly thought I’d still use my PS4, but I also can see the difference, even in the PS4 menu where the lack of visual sharpness is actually noticeable.
I should have known that I would do this since I completely sidelined by PS3 within 6 months of getting my PS4, and that wasn’t even backward compatible.
@Bentleyma- yeah, I’ve had a PS5 since launch and only played Bugsnax and Spider-Man Remastered on it so far (oh and Assassin’s Creed Unity, as I didn’t want to delete anything off my PS4 in order to install it on that). I’m acquiring a nice little PS5 backlog though and looking forward to delving into it... just need to get the PS3 backlog sewn up first (& whittle down the PS4 one a little too).
@Bentleyma- yeah, I have a lot of games progress saved on PS4 games and heard of issues with downloading that save data to the PS5’s ssd... it’s fine 95% of the time but I don’t wanna give the possibility a chance of ****ing up my PS5. As a result, the only time I’ll use my PS5 is for PS5 games... or PS4 games I’m yet to start.
@colonelkilgore I'm pretty sure that was fixed not long after launch. There are games which don't allow progress to carry over from the PS4 version to the PS5 version, but that is different from playing the PS4 version on your PS5. As long as you have the saves backed up to the cloud, you should be fine.
@Bentleyma- I never used to be bothered about 4K and all that, but now having experienced it first hand for a period of time, I can definitely notice it more. Everyone is different though, and some have a more severe reaction to game being at a lower frame rate for instance.
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@JohnnyShoulder I’m sure it probably would be fine but I have no need to risk it even if the probability is infinitesimal... I got my PS3, PS4 and PS5 all hooked up, so I’ll just play anything that I’ve already started on the 4 to avoid the element of doubt.
It also negates unneeded hours of use on the 5 which ‘could’ prolong its life cycle. I didn’t even unbox my 4 for almost a year, even though I bought it at launch and it still works fine today, while a few of my friends who also bought at launch had to renew over the last 18 months or so.
In all probability I am WAAAAAYYY over-cautious but it’s never steered my wrong.
@colonelkilgore Yeah buying a console at launch only not to unbox it for that long is maybe being a tad over cautious. I probably wouldn't have bought one in the first place until I knew I was ready to use it.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
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@JohnnyShoulder nah I just didn't unbox the 4 as I was planning on moving house and there wasn't anything in particular I fancied playing on it. Just felt it was a pointless exercise to go through unboxing and hooking it up when I'd be reboxing it less than 12 months down the road.
I wanted it just incase a game so good released that I wouldnt be able to resist the urge to play it... one didn't.
I'm not someone who gets overly excited about tech and has to fiddle with it without necessity. When I got into uni on a film-making course, that summer I bought a £3500 camera... didn't unbox it until the morning of the video production class when we'd first be using the camera 3 or 4 months later.
@colonelkilgore Just curious that's all, as doing something like that is pretty alien to me. A substantial purchase like that I would only ever buy it if I was gonna use it pretty much straight away and do a bit of research on it beforehand to see what was available and coming soon. I've never had a lot of money to play around so always been a bit more careful about what I buy.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
@JohnnyShoulder I knew I'd want both a PS4 and a PS5 well before they launched having had each playstation before... and also was well aware of a lean first year for most consoles too. It worked out in both cases too... in the case of the PS4 I had the world's coolest bedside table for the period leading up to my house move. And as for pre-ordering my PS5, I've avoided any wasted time and subsequent anxiety I may have felt at trying and failing to purchase one like most people have done since launch.
@Bentleyma- oh I'm constantly buying games... after fastidiously scheduling my backlog up until the end of 2023 (during which I will have cleared around 60 games out of the backlog)... I still have 113 games left unscheduled to be played sometime after new years day 2024.
@colonelkilgore In a show of common idiosyncrasy, I also left my PS4 boxed up for several months after purchase. I think It was 4-5 months. Similarly I was in the middle of a move and a major life adjustment so I couldn’t really set it up. And it worked out fine for me at the time, but unfortunately I didn’t think about similarly grabbing a PS5 on day 1 and boy, did I regret waIting. Not preordering cost me 5 months of scouring the internet for stock.
I have also left my PS4 (and PS3) hooked up but haven’t turned on my PS3 in many months and now my PS4 is gradually becoming less attractive to me. My plan had been to do as you’re doing and just continue to utilize the older machine for the last gen games, but now I’m getting too spoiled. I didn’t realize how much I was going to like the quickness with which a game launches. It’s seems such a silly ‘first-world problem’, but life is too short to wait through 2 minutes worth of splash and loading screens! 😅
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