Topic: When do you predict that "everyone" will be able to buy a PS5?

@Unlucky13 I admire your discipline. I sometimes feel like a virtual hoarder 😅, although thankfully I don’t let it take over my life (at least not too much). I play games slowly, more so than the average Joe. And I’ve come to the conclusion that I just have to accept that fact and that I’ll always be a little behind.

Do you subscribe to PS Plus? I think that’s part of my issue of having a constant drip-feed of titles that I want to play, even when I’m not buying them. Not to mention there was an immediate addition of like 4 or 5 games through the PS Plus collection when I got a PS5, in addition to the other PS5 exclusive games that had been given out in the months preceding my actual getting the console. So in addition to a few dozen PS4 games I had accumulated over the years that I want to play, I abruptly added about 10 more. And so far on PS5, two of my very favorite games that I’ve played over the last few years came to me by way of this kind of “free” avenue — Astrobot’s Playroom and Control. Both have been simply fantastic and I didn’t pay an extra penny for either one.
I do really like having Push Square which helps me to prioritize the backlog, based on what people say about their experiences.

Anyways, I got a little off subject there, but I guess it relates to the whole obtaining a PS5 issue.

@Th3solution I do subscribe to PS+, however it's been a long time since I've actually downloaded a free game that way. Its worked out for a while that about once every three months, they have a game that I love but already own, and the rest are ones that I'm not interested in. I think in the last year, the only other ones Ive actually played are Shadow of the Tomb Raider and the Uncharted Collection, which I already had in single game form on the PS3, and Street FIghter, which I messed around with for about two weeks before deleting.

I also play games MUCH slower than the typical person. I find that my playthroughs sometimes even triple the listed average for some games. I take my time, want to explore every nook and corner than a game has to offer and see and do all that I can before moving on. But for me, there are just fewer and fewer games being made that I can really enjoy that way, so its more a search for ANY that I'm going to buy, rather than ever having too many.

GAME stock for tomorrow;

I used the link to have tabs open with the bundles I liked the look of easy to click on, had Twitter alerts set up for this account, and as soon as my phone pinged I opened up two tabs for a number of bundles. Hope it helps someone!

Apparently, Sony Japan did another interview this week where they gave even more die predictions than the last one. Basically, that demand for the PS5 is so much higher than it was for the PS4 that even if production increases, they won't be able to keep up with demand possibly all of 2022.

With more and more stories lately that it will absolutely be well into 2022, and maybe 2023, before you can just walk into a store and buy a PS5, does anyone else think that they might get to the point where you go on video game media blackout to avoid spoilers?

For me, it hasn't been all that bad so far. I just avoid reading articles about specific games that I'll at some point buy and play. But with more and more on the way, especially big name exclusives, I've been worried that once its a year or more past release that all sorts of things about the games will be out there as common knowledge and/or part of pop culture (as it often the case), and that I'll need to stop coming to sites like this one every day and unfollow Instagram accounts about games, ect.

@OrigamiCrane If is anything like previous cross gen games, I don't think it will be that price.

Yeah, cross-gen games are likely to be "old" price IMO. Sackboy was.

@Unlucky13 I’ve amazingly been able to stay clear of major spoilers for big games like The Last of Us 2 and Cyberpunk with mainly avoiding the topics on the forum and the comments sections of the articles. It probably won’t be necessary to do a full blown media blackout. The official articles are usually fairly sensitive about spoilers, even for a few years after release. Now if enough time passes, sometimes spoilers become unavoidable because a game sequel drops and gives a few things away. (For example TLoU’s ending is slightly spoiled by now because of the presence of TLoU2, etc)

https://www.psu.com/news/sony-ceo-believes-company-will-hit-2...

Sony's CEO says that they expect to sell 26.5m PS5 units between April 2022 and March of 2023. So, hopefully that means that they expect production to ramp up at some point in the next nine months to a year, and that after that point, those of us who want to buy one will be able to.

https://www.psu.com/news/toshiba-warns-console-supply-issue-c...

More news, this time from Toshiba, that the chip shortage will last well into 2022. At this point, I've basically just given up all hope of getting one until at least a year from now.

My mate got one within 2 days last week. He went into Game on the Monday, made the preorder... then got a phone call on the Wednesday morning to come pick it up. The week previously, another mate of mine went into the same store on the Tuesday morning, made the preorder and was called that afternoon/evening to come and collect.

@Unlucky13 yeah I'm seeing articles citing analysts (and Intel ceo) saying it'll last into 2023, with waves of shortages for years after. My concerns go far beyond ps5s at this point. My kids are in the market for a car. I also have laptops that are long in the tooth and just frankly need replaced. I have appliances that y'know, aren't going to last forever... I just, it's crazy we thought this was a viable way of doing things. Chips from one region and that's it. What could go wrong?

That’ll explain why the chippie’s skimping when I order a pizza supper.

@nessisonett wait, what does chippie mean over there because over here it's not someone you'd typically get a pizza supper from. Unless prostitution is entirely different over there.

@zupertramp …..chip shop. I totally forgot about that use of the word 😂

@nessisonett ah I see. Kinda figured but I'd never heard of pizza from a chip shop so wasn't sure. I thought they were exclusively a fish and chips kinda deal, or similar fare.

@zupertramp You get fish and chips but then there’s pies, battered sausage, deep-fried pizza, bloody deep-fried burgers if you’re brave enough. Yum yum yum.

@nessisonett well I don't eat meat, something that coincidentally started when I lived in England in the early aughts, but I'd do a deep fried cheese pizza in a heartbeat.

And boy have we digressed.

a deep fried cheese pizza sounds WRONG
but also delicious

Got to be better than the deep fried sprouts our local chippy were doing a few Christmases ago!