Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--

I've platted Astrobot now what a fun little game. I'm closing in on doing everything I need to on the good old pro and hopefully be full-time on the PS5 by mid June.

Hearing about these crashed though Fortunately I've had no issues so far.

Stock for PS5 will drop tomorrow.

https://metro.co.uk/2021/05/17/ps5-uk-restock-times-this-week...

@Th3solution Same here with regards to rest mode and overheating, no problems what so ever.

I think a lot of the initial reports of issues with rest mode were caused by external drives. I'm not running one but I am tempted to get one since running close to the limit of space on ours. Anyone got any thoughts regarding getting an external drive vs waiting for the NVMe slot to be enabled?

@render External isn’t an option for me because my PSVR are uses both back USB ports so I’ll have to wait for internal.

@Ryall You can get a hub, and stick the PSVR on that, so it just uses one direct port. That's what I've done, leaving the other back USB port for external storage.

Had my first hard crash on the PS5’s system software. Turned it on from a cold boot and the menu just didn’t open after I signed in. It was just the background with the menu music but was completely unresponsive. It then stopped playing the music and was effectively frozen. I had to reboot the console at which point it scolded me for not turning it off using the option in the menu.

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.