Topic: Will you be jumping on the PS6 as soon as it launches?

@psmr I’ve also been an early adopter for the last few generations although had to search for a PS5 for the first few months due to the shortages. It’s crazy to think that I bought my launch PS5 for cheaper than it’s selling for now. I didn’t even pay the scalper prices back then, but some of those prices were still lower than retail now! 😅

Is there a price point that will tip you one way or another for the PS6? Like if it launches at $1000 versus $700, will it affect whether you jump in day 1? I know it all depends on the specs, of course, but assuming it’s the iterative boost I expect, there might actually be a line in the sand that I draw. Unless the specs blow my mind, I will be reluctant for anything over a grand. Maybe even $800-ish is going to make me think twice, although I’m warming to the idea that I’ll need to be ready to pay around $900 maybe. My Pro is doing so well, for the first time I might feel okay with using it for a while longer.

@Yousef- I actually pre-ordered my launch day PS5 while on my lunch coincidently 😉

@Th3solution yeah I’d probably think twice if it were £1000 or over tbh. I think Sony would be mad to do so though. Although a lot of people don’t see the logic, I think the 6 will be cheaper than the 5Pro. The 6 will be a mass market device, where components are ordered in the millions (with the savings that comes with that). The 5Pro was always a far more niche product and priced accordingly.

I envision the 6 being around £700 at launch and the 5Pro production being stopped sometime in the year before the launch of its successor. Could be wrong about all of that but I do like to speculate 😁

@psmr Yeah, I think that’s a fair prognostication. The world is a dumpster fire right now though and every day I wake up I wonder what new flavor of madness is going to happen in my life. Not to be a wet blanket, but sometimes I just hope things like a PS6 launch are still on the world’s agenda in a year or two.

@Th3solution I totally get you mate… it gets crazier by the day.

I pulled the trigger on a Pro last night 😄 It’s the right time for me, once the dust settles here I’ll have acquired it for a very nice price. Generations are more incremental than ever. I like the PS5 hardware. I love the DualSense. With cross-gen being a thing and PSSR seeming to be an upgradable technology, I don’t think I’ll be interested in buying a PS6 until at least 2029.

@Metonymy Congrats! With the news today I think that is a really great decision

@psmr @Th3solution you guys never disappoint, I was anticipating this LOLOL!! 😂🥳

Moving on, I’ve mentioned a stronger retro support is what’s gonna tip me into buying the ps6.

That, and me resolving my ongoing financial issues, my bank got hacked twice recently so I’m not as ecstatic about big game purchases as before. I have to be 1,000,000% sure in my purchases these days. (I even sold a lot of games lately).

Now it may sound odd for the youngest gal on this forum to be so obsessed with retro, I know it’s probably my FOMO speaking to some extent but if it helps, I’m one of the rare users on this platform who’s not only acquaintanted with inverse cameras (and even enjoy them), but also recall when Triangle was the cancel button (I prefer circle though so I map that whenever I’m on pc emulating ps2)

I love the ps3 so much, it’s a console that genuinely meant everything to me. From inFamous, to uncharted, to GTA, to even Bioshock and Dishonored which I’ve both tried recently and loved. 😁

Not to mention, the B-tier ps3 games were fun too! I actually enjoyed Dante’s inferno, Castledvania lords of shadow and the DMC reboot. A lot of my favorite conversations on this forum involve discussing forgotten ps3 games with the one and only colonel.

@Yousef- yeah the ps3 is aging like a fine-wine alright. I think it was 2024 when I played through the vast majority of my ps3 backlog and it was one of my favourite years of gaming fair play. I still have the odd ps3 game left to play though, it’ll be bittersweet the day I pop that last ps3 plat!

@Th3solution Thanks! I’m excited about it. There’s a lot of uncertainty around pricing, availability and, well, everything, for the foreseeable. I have a real sense of peace about it all now. Got everything mostly transferred 😄

@Metonymy enjoy your new console bud! Bought it at precisely the right time 👍

@psmr Thank you!

@Metonymy 👍🏼 good to hear.

I did a little spring cleaning when I transferred files over to my Pro and I’m barely using 15% of the hard drive’s 2TB available memory. And that’s with 6 games downloaded. 😄

Did you opt for the attachable disc drive?

@Yousef-
I hadn’t thought about the possibility that PS6 comes with a PS3 emulator. That would make things really interesting and change a lot of people’s minds— at least those of the older crowd and people like you who have championed that console and its library. If we could suddenly play Resistance, Infamous, FF13, Puppeteer on our current gen console with some PSSR magic to upgrade them… hmm, that’s a whole different level. It’ll never happen but we can dream, right?

@Th3solution I did. I try to buy physical whenever possible so it’s a must. And now I can just buy the digital version of any future PlayStation!

@Metonymy Yeah, same here. I am playing and buying digital more and more, but the disc drive pays for itself even if you buy just a few physical games over the year for cheaper than digital. I have several older discs kept for a collection as well.

Man, you’d think the digital vs physical discourse is one where you’d see me side with physical based on my track record of expressed opinions here on this platform, but frankly, even i am surprised to realize that I ultimately prefer digital.

I believe it comes down to our definition of inconveniences, but I did personally find switching between cartridges on the switch more cumbersome than simply having the games installed digitally even with limited digital space.

Furthermore, I found backing up your games (which I’m fully aware that this particular point extends beyond the boundaries of the standard plug-n-play nature of consoles discourse), to be actually done easier on digital games. At least on PC and phone.

I made it no secret that 90% of my gaming is done on my phones and PC, so that might be where the basis of my opinions come from.
But I also bought a TON of physical switch games and it became increasingly hard to justify to continue investing physically in a system that happens to be my least favorite among the big four. (PlayStation 4, Xbox Series, Steam Deck and even my phones are all better than the Switch, it’s admittedly such a barebones system for how much money you dish out for it)

@Yousef- I am a little surprised, as retro-gamers usually are also physical media advocates. But I understand some of your thoughts. I also have gradually become more comfortable with digital, largely due to the Portal and streaming creeping into my repertoire. It’s just much more seamless to boot up a game digitally, especially when switching between games. So what I will end up doing if I have 2 or 3 games going at a time, only one of them will be from my physical library so that I don’t have to switch out discs and I can just leave that one disc in there until I’m done with that game.

I’m not sure I understand the ‘backing-up’ rationale though. If you mean backing up save data, it’s handled the exact same way for a physical game or a digital game, in my experience.

My gut feeling is yes I’ll preorder it as I did with the PS4, PS5 and PS5 pro. Based on the assumption that it would be a better PlayStation.

I would certainly buy something better than the PS5 pro for higher price. But if it turned out to be a hand held or micro console that relies on low power mode for backward compatibility it would be down to if it had any exclusive games I want to play,

Oh I’m glad you bring this up because I did feel like something was missing from my comment. No, I meant entire whole games. Which I’ll admit I’ve done less with physical media but generally speaking we are like -minded on the whole digital thing, especially with two (well two and half) anecdotal stories I’ve got.

Naturally being a pc gamer made me more acquainted with wanting to store files in a relatively safe space but also…

So long story short, a lot of people from my background never grew up with a white market for gaming, soooo current-gen piracy🤑was pretty dominant, I kid you not.
So wait, why is this bad you may think? We got games for free, right?
No we did not 😂
We did get ps2 games at $3 and whole arse psp memory sticks loaded with games for barely 10 Kuwaiti dinar so I can’t whine too much, we even had kiosks to play ps3 for hours like an Internet cafe but our honey-moon was ever when the USA’s 2010 inflation crisis affected the rest of the world (thanks, former presidents!)

I got some banger memories out of it though, like my first gaming memory was of the polystation which was…. I’ll let google speak for me here cuz * “The PolyStation is a widely known series of counterfeit video game consoles (Famiclones) produced by unknown manufacturers, designed to look like Sony’s PlayStation, primarily sold in the 2000s in Latin America, Asia, and Europe. These 8-bit systems, often in PS1 or PSone shells, play NES cartridges, not discs, and frequently offer pre-installed 8-bit games.”*, such a wild fudging description, am I right?? 😂😂 so yeah

I have some weird nostalgia, but bootlegs and grey market places (which were borderline black market with the way the games were treated 😂) really influenced my perception of things. It’s where my fascination of gta and uncharted came from as those games were so easy to come by. But worst of all, given the lack of reliability meant that discs came in cheap plastic wrappers and not real cases, I only found out ps2 games came in cases after I went to the internet cuz they didn’t come here 😂, and yes, you are correct in thinking that the plastic wrappers…. Occasionally damaged the discs, hence my fear of physical. It’s literally childhood trauma lol.

Plus being exposed to bootleg plug n play systems preloaded with tens of games sure helped me warm up to “digital-only” before they were even a thing hehehehe.

Also the fact my iPhone back in 2014 had emulators on it so that was my first exposure to Nintendo (ignoring the McDonalds n64 kiosks, if you somehow remember those LOL)

So in an attempt to get back on topic, here’s my second, hopefully less chaotic anecdote, slightly more serious though so do buckle up. After Iran was struck by US missiles last month, they fired back their missiles at us here in Kuwait, thus engaging in war. In Kuwait we’re still playing self defense cuz we don’t want any fights. My family is also safe and sound, i came back to this forum to sorta reunite with the lads in case it’d be my last time. I haven’t hit 30 yet (my 27th bday is in two weeks) but I don’t wanna lose any friends yet so I thought why not hehe. Our internet cables were only hit once but that was enough to make my fears hit overdrive.
It also helped me realized
“wait a minute, I like offline games, not physical games!”

So yeah apologies in advance for any grammatical errors, I may be a fan of Koei’s warriors franchise, but I’m certainly no keyboard warrior myself. 😂

@Yousef- Ah, I find that interesting. I never knew the PolyStation was a thing. We all certainly come from different paths to get where we are today and that is bound to color our current opinions and preferences. Since I had a more traditional route through all the prior PlayStation generations and there was no digital options for PS1, PS2, and for all practical purposes even PS3, and so adopting a digital mindset has taken more time for me. And since all my discs I bought were always in a case and even the second hand games I buy are always guaranteed to work by the store, I’ve never really dealt with physical discs that malfunction or are ruined. So the back-up plan for a physical collection is simply… the discs themselves. There’s no real reason to create a backup file of the game itself. But a disc getting accidentally stepped on and broken, scratched, or just the natural degradation of time, are all real possibilities. Of course hard drive failure is also a possibility too. Copies sustained perpetually in the cloud is the most stable form of a backup, but then you have to maintain internet access to the cloud, so that’s fallible too. For me, my main motivator with my hybrid collection of both a physical and a digital library is to just buy whichever is cheapest and most available. The exception is the FromSoft games, which I like having my physical collection of all those, just for collecting purposes. There’s a few others that I have on disc that are nice to have a copy that I can touch and see, but most of my games are dispensable enough that I often trade them in and resell them when I’m finished (another perk to physical)

Sorry to hear about the missile attacks you’re dealing with. I’m glad you and your family have stayed safe. Hang in there! The world’s in a real mess right now!