Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--

I noticed a Facebook ad from one of the major electronics retailers over here (Poland) saying they got them PS5's so I checked their store and a couple other and they were indeed in stock - only in some bundles though.
Then I checked again a couple hours later and they're still there.
Not that this is very useful for anyone outside Poland but maybe it means it will get easier to get one elsewhere too.

@RogerRoger Checked again - most are gone now but a Digital Edition bundled with a controller and a charging station is still available, as well as a regular console bundled with Cyberpunk and Destruction All-Stars (lol).
I guess someone will by these eventually

@Voltan They’ve gotta get rid of those copies of Cyberpunk and Destruction All-Stars somehow! 😂

@Th3solution I remember back when Destruction All-Stars was announced, I said in the comments that it should have been given for free through PS Plus and yet would still be DOA regardless and I got jumped on.

@nessisonett I like the game and still play it a bit but it didn't really take off and probably won't, unfortunately. Good on a technical level though, so I'm curious to see what the studio does next.

@nessisonett Yeah, gotta say that I was a little disappointed in DAS. But I’m coming from a position where I think Rocket League is way overrated, so any vehicular targeting smash game is probably not going to sync with me. It didn’t help that DAS gave me Fortnite vibes in the art style department.

I’m wondering if I’d like Wreckfest. I’ve almost downloaded it a couple times.

@nessisonett It is almost like as soon as someone has even slighty negative to say about something PlayStation related, they get called a fanboy and get told to go over to Pure Xbox.

You can still be fan of something and be critical of it. They are not mutually exclusive to each other.

I'm seeing reports of death threats being made to Sony Santa Monica staff over the fact Ragnarok will be cross-gen, Honestly people that do these horrible things shouldn't be allowed anywhere near entertainment. I already know the game will be fantastic I have total faith in all 1st party Devs to blow us away with what they're working on cross gen or not!

@MightyDemon82 Somewhere between blind faith and death threats is a middle ground we all should aspire to be in.

@nessisonett I wouldn't say my faith is blind I mean GoW and HZD were both brilliant, yes they had faults but the sequels will build upon what was great already. If however they somehow are rubbish I'll just shrug my shoulders and play something else. No need for death threats and the ONLY for PS5 games will come soon enough.

@Jecht_Ultima I'm sure the games will be fantastic. It is a wee bit disappointing they are cross gen but more Kratos & Aloy is a plus in my book, excited to see where both those games stories are headed!

@MightyDemon82 Pretty predictable but nonetheless I always find that sickening. Just do not understand the mentality of people that hurl abuse let alone death threats to anyone.

Good god. Just seen the level of abuse Alanah Pearce (she now writes for Sony Santa Monica) recieved for God of War being delayed. Jeez, if this isn't out of control, I don't know what is.

@JohnnyShoulder it makes being part of this community rather hard.

i know that every comunity has it's bad apples but the gaming community has to be in the top 10 most toxic ones. always over reacting over nothing and always resorting to death threats for the smallest of things because they are not able to express their critisism in a mature and civil way.

like any time a game dev or publisher does something most people don't agree with ,there's always the wave of death threats following it. and then those people are mad at the devs for doing something wrong. urgh.

@JohnnyShoulder I’m not really sure what she’s supposed to do about it. They’re not even consistent in their death threats.

It's grim, who has enough time or so little else to care about that you could get so fired up about a game delay?! Long term it must drive talent out of the games industry.

@R1spam It’s easy to see why so many people burn out. Devs are underpaid, overworked and underappreciated. And they’re qualified to work in plenty other fields with a lot less problems. The industry uses their passion, chews them up and spits them out.

@nessisonett yep, I guess it's like a lot of fields in that it attracts shed loads of new, impressionable graduates, abuses them and spits them out as every year there are a whole tranche of fresh faced replacements. Working in the indie dev scene must be more rewarding though

@JohnnyShoulder It's absolutely ridiculous, especially given the fact that you would have had to be a complete moron to truly believe the game was ever coming out in 2021. I pretty much knew it right after it was announced, or at least once they started talking about their upcoming slate after launch. If things were normal, maybe it would have had a slim chance of coming out before Christmas, but honestly, even then I would have had my doubts. Factoring in the pandemic made it a certainty. A person really has no right to be upset when they are the ones at fault for being so stupid.

Also, all of this cross-gen crap is a joke. Yes, Sony kind of brought it on themselves by criticizing Microsoft for doing exactly what they are doing now, but it still shouldn't be that big of a deal in the end. The vast majority of these people will be praising whatever game (God of War, Horizon, etc.) like it's the love of their life. There will be the rare person that purposely looks for things wrong, like "I'm deleting this Game of the Year contender because the trees in the background look last gen! I don't care if I've been having a blast with the game. PS5-only or bust!" Ultimately though, this should end up being almost completely forgotten, and at most remembered for the joke it is.

This is all coming from an Xbox owner, btw. I'm not even a PlayStation fanboy and I'll admit how ridiculous all of this has been lately.

I wasn't holding my breath for God of War making 2021 after so long without any information (even though I'm used to that as an Atlus and Square fan), but Ratchet, Returnal and Horizon are more than enough for me personally in terms of launch window stuff. Early 2022 is still a pretty quick turnaround in terms of release gaps after how long we had to wait between Ascension on PS3 and GoW PS4

I also don't personally care that God of War and Gran Turismo are cross gen. It's likely those games started development on PS4 anyway only to transition to next gen during development which means as a PS5 owner I only have more to gain from getting a better version of the game since Sony is standardizing performance presets on their first party stuff across the board

I will say though, Jim Ryan really needs to learn when to shut his mouth and avoid driving the irony stake up Sony's ass whenever they announce something that doesn't reflect off what he says, and this is coming from someone who thinks that Halo Infinite should've flat out been a Series X/PC only game and thought it was being severely limited by their adherence to older gen hardware based on the early gameplay stuff