Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--

Happy PS5 testing, US gamers!
Do your best to report all the issues so in just one week Sony will prepare and release the firmware update we all want.
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He didn’t talk about Demon’s Souls using the dual sense... was curious if they bothered.

@Mega-Gazz I think the point of the video was probably doing a technical analysis in regards to the game's visual and performance metrics itself, not necessarily touching on what hardware aspects of the console the game will utilize because those are seperate and meant for player enhancement

@BAMozzy What are the other improvements? I don't have a 4K TV, but may want those improvements instead of 60FPS. I would watch the video but don't want any spoilers.

@andreoni79 I'll gladly test and report on the PS5 a week early for you.
@Mega-Gazz Bluepoint has said they used those features.

Admitedly a fair bit of it was computer jargon that went over my head but it still was a pretty interesting watch with regards to the physics engine, how they utilise the memory, the original code being used and blended with new code and even stuff like the motion capture animations @BAMozzy

A few new clips of footage sprinkled through it too I think? Was a pretty cool watch either way!

@Jaz007 The extra frame time is being used to increase the tessellation and reflection settings a bit - as well as boost the resolution to native 4k. The high frame rate mode is running a lower res 'per' frame but reconstructing a high res image - like Chequerboard 4k vs Native and on a 1080p TV, you probably won't see much difference - looks difficult enough in the video until they zoom in on some patch on the ground and flick back and forth to see the difference in tessellation - the area around it looks incredibly similar.

At the end of the day, you can flick back and forth yourself and see if you can see a difference...

After months of my inner dialogue being “I’m not going to play this ridiculous game of hovering over every site also every store trying to get a PS5 when I’ve got an enormous PS4 backlog to keep me busy for many months until I can easily find plenty of stock” has now changed to “I must have my browser open to 10 different store sites and constantly refresh every 5 minutes so I can be sure to grab one of the few available that haven’t been pre-ordered! I want this now!”

I’m pitiful. Also, I came into an extra couple hundred dollars so I have the funds now anyways. If I can’t find one tomorrow, I’ll survive, but if I can’t get one in the next 2 months, I might go crazy.

This is exactly where I’m at.

@Mega-Gazz Glad I’m not the only one who underestimated their resolve to wait it out a few months 😅
I think it might be too little too late. It all depends on how much stock these places held back for launch day. I’ll look to this space over the next 24 hours to see if you lucked out. 🤞🏼

Picked up my PS5 a few hours ago and, after a brief and painless setup, am absolutely adoring Astro's Playroom. Wow, when people gushed it was a love letter to all things PlayStation they weren't kidding. I'm in awe.

Yes apparently there is hardly any noticable visual
difference in Demons Souls modes. That's literally what they said, you wont even notice it. 60fps is the way it's intended to play with 30fps a sort of more challenging option.

I'm looking forward to seeing Watch Dogs Legion running on PS5. The reflections in the rain soaked streets are quite impressive on the base PS4 so on PS5 it's gonna look mint innit.

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"I was having storage rebuilding issues that others had reported but mine plummeted to complete errors and network / boot issues," reads his tweet. "Sony and I were working through troubleshooting when she died completely" he added dejectedly.
http://www.spaziogames.it/ps5-ha-un-problema-tecnico-e-la-ps5...

@Th3solution Make sure you are signed into the sites and that all your details are up-to-date. Good luck, but i think you would have been better to wait at least a couple of weeks.

If anyone's interested PlayStation Access is streaming PS5 games for several hours in one long stream. Currently playing Sack Boy but going to do most launch games.

@Kidfried Was finally able to add it via web store. The https://www.playstation.com/en-us/ps-plus/this-month-on-ps-plus/ doesn't link you to the Bugsnax download page which is weird considering it does that for the other two PS+ free games.

Also, the new web store will sometimes link me to Malaysia's web store even though I'm logged into my US account. It doesn't do that in the old web store.

@JohnnyShoulder Yeah, I did all the prep work, and so far no dice. The Best Buy site had been showing “Coming Soon” or some such verbiage on the button that would typically be the purchase button all morning, and I just checked again and it now says “Sold Out”, so I guess I missed my 2 minute window of opportunity there. Wal-Mart will be interesting because they have the 4 actual log in times when the units go live for purchase, so at least I can just start spamming the refresh button at the allotted time instead of stalking all day. I hope you’re right about the stock improving in a couple weeks. Jim Ryan is assuring us good availability, but I have my doubts after the debacle going on now.

The game publishers have gotta be pressuring Sony to get these units out there and sold. The more PS5’s out in the wild, the more games will be sold. I’m not buying PS5 games without a console.

Well, just made it past the first of the four Wal-Mart check points. Was refreshing the app every few seconds leading up to 12:00 and then, it started lagging and taking a long time loading at the hour as certainly countless thousands of people like me were crashing the digital marketplace for a chance at one of the launch consoles. After a series of refreshes and lags, the PS5 item screen came up with an “add to cart” option for me! So I quickly added it and then after picking my jaw up off the floor momentarily, I clicked “check out” ..... and then reality struck. Several lags later the message finally came back saying “sorry but the item in your cart is sold out”. The clock said 12:07 by then.

It did put the PS5 in the “items to be saved for later” and kept it in my cart, so I guess the question is whether to just go straight to the saved item page when the next supply is released at 3:00 or to start from scratch at the item page. I think I’ll try going in from the “saved items” approach and see if that gives me a slight millisecond head start or even perhaps a higher priority in the queue on the next go-around.

Got my games in and both Spider-man Miles Morales and Demon's Souls have nice reversible covers! Only a week to go till I can play them. Enjoy your new PS5 's for those of you who are lucky enough to have one already.