Sony Hosts Spectacular Light Show at Headquarters to Celebrate PS5 Launch

Well well aint that lit🙃😅😆

It's a calm way to walk us into launch, not as bombastic as I'm sure they'd planned for, but I love the lightshow nonetheless.

Should've had Travis Scott jump into frame saying "IT'S LIT"

Anyone (in the US) seeing preorders ship yet? XSX preorders were going out early the day before launch. So far, no movement on my PS5.... Probably will go out today, or tomorrow, but a lack of chatter on ship notifications makes me wonder if the orders won't really go out until launch day.

PS5 launch? They should have just had a big flashing sign on screen saying ‘COMMISERATIONS TO OUR UK VIEWERS’

That's great and all that, but it's not helping me feel any better about getting the PS5 one week later in the UK.

Even worse that I'll have 3 games a controller plus Bugsnax that I can't use for another week...

@Medic_Alert Hey, at least you're not at launch day and still waiting for delivery. There's people in the UK that still don't have their Xbox pre ordered console arrive yet.

Fills me with much confidence for PS5 pre orders haha.

One thing that we have learnt during Covid, that websites and couriers need to receive serious upgrades to their systems!

@God_of_Nowt I know a few people who do courier work and it’s sickening how much money the companies have made during the pandemic and yet literally none filters down to the ones doing the dirty work. Not just that but none of the money seems to have been reinvested into making the service better either. As usual, the money will be going to the shareholders.

Well BB failed me they shipped out my spiderman game so i get it tomorrow on launch but said my ps5 ships tomorrow on launch day so ill get it the day or two after.... whats going on with these retailers? They were supposed to ship it out two days ago. Even amazon gave out emails to people saying it delayed and they would get it dec 31st.
I should have picked it up from store and risk catching corona virus again...

@God_of_Nowt
Yea sucks to be them but its lockdown over there. I got my xbox sX yesterday and i love it. Just waitin on my ps5 now..

@nessisonett Precisely, it's truly disgusting. I really do feel for the bottom rung staff in supermarkets and courier work right now. They do a whole lot of work and don't see the benefits of the much larger profits during the pandemic. Nor do customers.

@BansheeNorn haha, yeah I'm in the UK and it's far from ideal. But luckily I'm not waiting on a pre order, my friends are another story entirely.

Instead of wasting money on this, they should've produced more units.

I cant believe we are nearly there.
The Japanese Giant definitely can celebrate. I feel they (The Japanese Giant) are bullying their way into this new gen. So much going on

@BansheeNorn @God_of_Nowt I think the moral of the story is having two of the decades' 3 hottest products launching 48 hours apart, with the entire production capacity to date of both of them having to all go out in the same week, just before Black Friday is probably an idiotic idea. Who'd have thought? And that's even without a pandemic factored in.

I saw retailers slipping behind with XSX preorders back on Monday. I've been wondering how on earth they're going to keep up if they can't get the XSX preorders out on Monday, have to take new XSX orders on Tuesday to get out, then have to ship out the PS5 preorders Wednesday, and then have to take new PS5 orders on Thursday to get out. I figured nobody will actually see a PS5 before next week. If XSX preorder was backed up from Monday into Tuesday, and new XSX was Tuesday backed through today.....PS5 preorders probably start going out tomorrow into Friday, and new PS5 orders probably don't start going out until Monday. Quite the mess. It's also believable they couldn't even ingest PS5 inventory until tonight.

It's amazing they're largely landing "within a day or two" of the original dates at all. I finally checked on mine at BB after avoiding logging into the websites of the stores to avoid something going unexpectedly wrong, because I couldn't take the suspense. It shows it should ship tomorrow. It seems like they aren't shipping any of them out until tomorrow at BB. They got my XSX SSD out lightning speed first thing Monday AM, so I'm wondering if they had an inventory delay. My original confirmation email said "ships by Thu 11/12" So...I guess they didn't say if they meant the start or end of 11/12.... I guess that means they're on time, shipping on launch day.

Walmart, ironically, is the hero of this launch. They're the only one that got a console here on release day! And they're the one that turned the whole PS5 launch into a poopstorm.

I can be calm....I have XSX to occupy me now, and I'm saving my PS5 "must play" Sackboy for Christmas. Though I'd really love to get into GoT.

And yeah, everyone says that we just exist to serve business, but that's untrue. The whole population, including business has no purpose of existence except to serve investors. We went back to feudalism and nobody noticed.

The Game Collection have sent me an email saying they have dispatched Demon's Souls and, interestingly, my copy of Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4. So, yeah, they certainly know what they are doing.

@NEStalgia Very true, I know here in the UK at least, as is historically the case, the Xbox pre order numbers are ridiculously small in comparison to the PS5 (usually the case anyway for the UK and many parts of Europe).

So as you say, if both retailers and couriers, especially in Europe are struggling to get some Xbox orders out, they're definitely going to be struggling to get PS5 pre orders out.

We shall never have Microsoft and Sony agree to launch months apart, nor will we have retail and couriers invest in their systems until the board members start feeling the burn.

With record sales of consoles, and record sales of online items keeping couriers busier than ever, I think it'll be a long time until anything changes.

Though I got my PS5 early, I wanted to pick up another for my daughter, and an Xbox for a joke for my sister who would hate me for it. But I wanted to put the Xbox in my PS5 box and prank her.

We have a long standing history of making a joke out of Christmas. (sorry Christians, no offense intended).

Yet with how everything has gone, not to be all cheesy and such, but I feel I'd rather people who really will have their year made by these boxes deserve them first. So I've left ordering another PS5 and Xbox. For now.

My daughter already took her PS4 and games to the children's hospital near us, as she does with all her unwanted stuff like they will accept. So this year she says she's happy to wait if she can just have PS5 time in the living room with me haha.

I just feel like now is not the time for me to be all consumerist and essentially greedy. I've seen the past few days children's years already being messed around enough with everything going on, now their parents struggling to secure a pre order. Just seems such a shame.

I hope in the next 7 years the world has become a more thoughtful place, because right now all I can see are people complaining about rich tax evading companies, meanwhile funding rich tax evading companies.

Simplification I know, but I just feel the world's priorities have really been shown through this pandemic, and I don't like them.

However, to those who genuinely will have their years made by having these consoles, I want them to see them arrive ASAP.

I just feel this launch has been hammered down by so much out of its control, and some in its control, that it's just been so hard to stop and be excited.

Launch is usually the most exciting time for me, other than shipping a game, as it's when everyone gets to see and experience what I've seen and worked on. But this year has admittedly just been so tiring.

Ah well, maybe world peace and happiness can come another year. And hopefully next gen consoles will have fully shipped by then too. LOL

@PossibLeigh Haha, well, good luck!

@NEStalgia Yeah. Shipping information began on Saturday and it's been sat at the FedEx air hub in Memphis since then. It'll probably start moving in a hurry tonight.

@God_of_Nowt cheers, chap! I think we all know it's not gonna end well.

@God_of_Nowt Press triangle for world peace. Press X to take what you can get while you can get it. (Sounds of the world furiously mashing X and "share"). I just want to go back to the main menu.

@PossibLeigh Haha, you're welcome. It's going to take a mammoth effort on all parties involved to get all this out during this time, and the signs are they're buckling. So I just hope everyone gets what they wanted and it's hopefully going to be a lot calmer in the new year.

@NEStalgia I don't think there is a main menu anymore. It just crashes.

Congratulations to sony the g.o.a.t on ps5 launch.times sure past fast.but this year has been horrible with everything going on the world.the ps5 library is just gonna keep going strong.word up son

@God_of_Nowt I think I'll just hope for a next gen remaster.....

@NEStalgia Haha, don't bother, it'll only get delayed.

@Medic_Alert Oh you poor thing!!!
Id love one in a week but cant afford it so no idea when ill get one, not any time soon 😢

@God_of_Nowt Inevitably, Tencent will launch it once they have a controlling stake.

@NEStalgia At which point Amazon will purchase Tencent, and allow people to include game streaming in their Prime membership. Whilst Google sells them completely secure and not remotely dubious fibre broadband, so they can stream.

Can't think of an advertisement company having a better way of monitoring their users and "customers", than providing them with the very line to access the internet.

Same with Amazon and their "smart" devices. A company that thrives on wanting to know as much about its users as possible, is now in many of its customers homes, literally.

Anyway, went off on a tangent. Wake me up when an EMP kills off "smart devices" and they've finally counted those votes across the pond. Haha.

@Medic_Alert Bugsnax is free on ps plus on ps5

For all you idiots that hate on gamestop im picking up PS5 10am tmrw morning. Got my XSX from the same store. No problems at all good luck to all you chumps 😆

@God_of_Nowt Smart devices. So smart, so you don't have to be! (TM)

I remember when they were called telescreens...

All so true. At least someone else understands Google's lack of benevolence. It's all so dystopian, i watch dogs a chance on xsx and the world in it feels so normal. When life becomes a Ubisoft version of the world, you're in trouble.

I've often said that if a beedy eyed man with a clip board followed people around everywhere they went and wrote down everything they did, people would be livid. But hide the beedy eyed man, we'll just call him Mr. Schmidt for anonymity, behind a 2 way mirror and a bowl that says "free candy" and people celebrate and defend him.

I'm still hoping you can turn off all the social gaming stuff on ps5. That's just a little too Google Now for my tastes and seems paradoxical to the ps5s return to a disc focus. (And that's coming from an xb fan! Albeit one that didn't support the Kinekt box one.)

Happy PS5 day everyone!!

Does Big Ben still have scaffolding all around it? if not, it would be cool if Sony would be allowed to laser project a PS5 onto it.

Does anyone have the real reason why the UK + others were a later launch. I have a theory that it's because Sony didn't want their servers to be overloaded.

I had a full fat PS4 yesterday night download some updates / games in prep for PS5 next week and downloaded a 80gb update for Destiny 2. My internet connection is 300mbps and was wired through ethernet , even still it projected it would take 8hours.

I imagine if everyone was to be downloading games around the world today it would take days...

@Total_Weirdo Big Ben has a whole clock tower around it, but Elizabeth Tower is still in scaffolding for now 😉

Just sitting here with my PS5 copies of Planet Coaster and Miles Morales Ultimate Edition from The Game Collection whilst waiting that extra week for the console.

Fortunately Smyths, who I ordered from, have been really great. They sent an email with 4 step process of their delivery. It was crazy specific and have assured me the courier will confirm on Wednesday the time of arrival for next Thursday morning.
Fingers crossed is true!

Picked up my console this morning, along with Demons Souls & Miles Morales. Once I'm done eating dinner I'm setting this bad boy up!!

I got my media remote today here in the uk. Any ideas what I can do with it til next week

@Saucymonk I have some suggestions but they're NSFW

@NEStalgia "Anyone (in the US) seeing preorders ship yet?"

Nintendo ninja monkeys.

@rjejr If Nintendo were involved a resupply would be pledged for next Christmas....

@NEStalgia And then delayed another 6 months b/c "corona". 😛

I'm not belittling the pandemics affect on the world BTW, I know it's real and has screwed up a lot of stuff, but both Sony and MS are launching new hardware and Sony new games, and Nintendo is selling a year old Pokemon game for $90 and a 3 pack of old ports for $60. They're lucky Koei Tecmo releases HW: AOC in a week b/c that's really all they got, but it isn't Nintendo 1st party.

@theheadofabroom I think ive tried a few already. It wasn't comfortable I can assure you.

@rjejr LOL, but that's the sad part, Nintendo said over and over that the pandemic had no effect on this year's games but might affect next years. This is it. This is the actual plan for a perfect world. Last year's Pokemon for $90 and a 3 pack of 1996-2006 games for $60. Oh and don't forget the $60 port of a WiiU game that was only half finished. Plus a Koei game. But it doesn't matter. Sony can launch a console, a remake, a tarted up PS4 DLC, and Sackboy, Microsoft can sell SeX.......but Nintendo will outbank both of them combined twice over selling a 2015 "tablet" and a neutered Animal Crossing....

I don't know how they do it, but Nintendo can take a literal pile of poo and make you feel like you absolutely need it at any price. Sony can take a pile of gold and price it so high you no longer want it. And Microsoft just hands you the register, the vault combination, and the keys to the 'vette, and nobody pays attention and keeps funneling money into Nintendo while lusting for Playstation.

I have no self control and just buy all of it regardless though. Hyrule Warriors looked cool.....but sitting next to GoT, Miles, Valhalla, and Yakuza 7, it's falling a little flat. Let alone the rest of the boosted BC library, especially on the X side. Forza is new again. I truly wish HzD and GoW would get some enhancements going.

Though, honestly, I'm wondering what the future of PS5 brings. They're burning through the recent "big franchises" pretty fast in year 1 and the last year of PS4, so I figure the next 6 years bring either revitalizations of old IPs (inFamous, maybe a J&D reboot? Sly 5? Socom?) or a bunch of new IPs. I'm really let down by the scaling back of Japan Studio and other Japanese divisions though. IMO, Japan Studio and games like Gravity Rush were the reason to buy a Playstation all this time. I'd go crazy if they had Gravity Rush 3.

It's kind of funny - Sony's HQ there kind of looks like two translucent Series X sat next to each other. Do we need Apple to make a PS5 shaped building?

@Saucymonk I mean I've seen some of your other comments before, I was pretty sure I wasn't suggesting anything you wouldn't already think of.

@NEStalgia Forgot about Pikmin 3. Which is sad b/c I had it on pre-order on Amazon then canceled it. It's a Christmas gift for my kid and decided it may sell poorly enough I can grab it on sale BF, or a B2G1 sale at Target. Or my son just plays it again on our Wii U while he's home and I buy him a nice 1080p 24" monitor for his dorm room so he can hook up his Switch dock when he goes back in January. I let my 15 year old start Bayonetta which probably makes me a bad parent since it's rated M but he's enjoying it (it's really a fun game if you missed it) and it's 2020 so either he's playing Bayonetta or he's in a Zoom call w/ Jeffrey Toobin so I'll take the fake video game nudity. But my Wii U is up and running, that was the point about Pikmin 3.

"but Nintendo will outbank both of them combined twice"

This holiday or in general? I think Switch and the ports will sell well but a PS5 launch could tip the $ scales in Sony's favor for the quarter. Everybody needs to buy a $500 PS5 to pay $70 to play a port of 12 y/o Demon Souls. 😉

Xboxen will sell in the US, not sure about the rest of the world. That cheap S gives them the chance to make some money though.

HW will get plenty of play in our house, only so many good couch co-op games for my kids to play together, may even play w/ my wife if she's up for it.

Sony has plenty of games to make. Knack 3, PSASBR 2, God of War parts 2, 3 4 and 5, Days Gone 2, actual Spiderman 2 (they said they were working on it, MM is basically stand alone DLC) and HFW won't be until 2022, I don't care that they said 2nd 1/2 2021, just no way. Ghost of Tsushima 2. You get the idea. Plus FF7R part 2 will release some day. There's always games. I am a Sony fanboi in that regard, Sucker Punch, Insomniac, they have some teams. Whatever nutjob Kojima makes next. Probably one of those cooking games.

Ok I'm done. Have fun w/ the new toys.

@rjejr PS5 and XSX are heavily subsidized....they're losing money on every unit sold and trying to make it back by charging $70 for games (plus subs.)....Nintendo could sit on their hands and refuse to sell product and still end up ahead for this quarter.

At least SOMEONE gets the silliness of "the big launch game" being a 12 year old PS3 game. I know I know, it's a total remake....but....still.....

I still tend to forget how US-centric XBox can be, which seems weird considering MS has a footprint literally in every single home on earth (except the hardcore Mac people.) I also tend to forget how much that steers internet conversation in an international site like this. There's a casual dismissal of anything XB as though "of course, it's the inferior product nobody cares about" - meanwhile it's literally everywhere here, even if PS is still the larger unit sales pusher.

Knack 3....I only dream of that. I know they won't make it. The series was a sales dud in a WiiU sort of way. It won't ever exist I'm guessing. But I'm one of the few real Knack fans and would love another one. Sigh, only you could put the reality of the PS5 ecosystem into such clear dismal perspective....I do get the sense Jim Ryan is running an EA/Ubi-esque sequel factory now.....and half of the big games they want endless sequels to are games I don't actually care about much, or at all. The other half I like, but don't love. Hopefully they revive some old, lost brands, or start some new IP that's not just trend chasing though. There's 6 years to go after that loaded year 1 lineup of sequels. I used to buy Sony for things like Knack, Heavenly Sword, Jak, anything Japan Studio. It was the RPG and action console. Now I get a bunch of Ubi clones and Hollywood wannabe games. I love Knack, and R&C...even Sack Boy. GoW is good. HzD is good, but the hype wouldn't be there if it didn't say it was made by Sony. It's well made, it's not special. Spiderman is the best Arkham game ever made. And GoT is legit fantastic. I miss creative old Sony.

Kojima, I'll pay $70 to not have to play whatever he makes next.

They're playing it safe in a Nintendo sort of way while chasing trends in a Ubisoft sort of way. But they'll get 10/10's because Sony and Nintendo aren't capable of 9/10s....

But dangit....I need R&C........

@NEStalgia "PS5 and XSX are heavily subsidized"

Sorry, thought we were just talking gross holiday revenue, not net. Nintendo wins net on $15.99 amiibo they probably make for 25 cents each. And Labo. And $90 Pokemon games.

"Sigh, only you could put the reality of the PS5 ecosystem into such clear dismal perspective...."

That's why uplifting is my middle name: rjeupliftingjr

"Kojima, I'll pay $70 to not have to play whatever he makes next."

I almost couldn't remember the name of Death Stranding. That's partly my senility, partly how little I cared. I kind of like the way Kojima rolls off the tongue though, that name I'll remember.

They are getting all the same no doubt. Not sure which came first - Tomb Raider or Drake, but Infamous, Uncharted, GoW now, TR. It works for me b/c I like 16-18 hour story driven action games, but sameness is starting to creep in. R&C is the gold standard now. Should have been Jak & Daxter, first game is STILL my all time favorite and only plat, but 2 and 2.5 were too much GTA, and X was racing so. Probably can't go back to that innocence of a gun free game. Tak and the Power of Juju was good too. I have never really played any of the AC games, the first was too brown and stealthy. Don't like the Arkham mechanics either. My playing days are drawing to a close. Just finished The Witcher 3 base game. 110 hours. It was good, fun, but nothing sticks with me. I wish FF16 looked more like 10 than 15 DLC, that might excite me. The look, not the turn based mechanic. I'd rather play poorly named Immortals: Fenyx Rising than anything brown. I'd really like a sequel to Sunset Overdrive. Colorful, fun, action oriented. A mixture of Infamous and R&C. Sorely underrated if you ask me. Like a 3rd person Serious Sam.

But overall the industry is certainly AAA sequels and $20 pixelated indies now. I liked a few indies back when they were $5 and $10 but I think they're outpriced themselves now. And online microtransaction stuff. You ever get into any of those PC gaming services like RealArcade? Plants vs Zombies - 1 and 1 only - and Peggle were great little fun time wasters. Mushroom Wars as well. All mobile gotcha's now though.

In case I lost ya. https://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/10/prweb442974.htm

@rjejr Yeah, the world points at gross and sees money. The bankers look at net and Nintendo's basically a mint disguised as an entertainment company. Sony's aiming for a piece of that pie...but it looks bad if it's not hidden behind talking raccoons.

Extreme sameness is creeping in....it's very frustrating, especially as they announce they're backing away from Japan Studio. Nintendo is now the defacto weeb console, but I'm going to laugh hysterically if XBox becomes the place to play big budget Japan games and PS is just CoD and FIFA forever and ever.

PS games stood out before because they were different. But they feel like one of the big factory publishers more and more. Samey big budget sequels. I still say, good as HzD is, it would have been a footnote if it were published by anyone but Sony. That buys it instant clout. Even RDR2 is a footnote, and that was the new hawtness.

I agree about J&D 1. Honestly Naughty Dog has never really been a great developer, pre or post Sony ownership. I don't care how much the limeys love their Crash...it was a horrible, horrible design and still is. Jak 1 was actually a really great Rare-style game, and did some really great things. Jak 2 was massively overrated because it had a moody story. Jak 3 was a trainwrek that got a pass because Jak 1 and 2 were loved. I still love going back to Jak 1, hideous camera and all.

I still think FF16 looks like an FF12 continuation. Then again, whether that's a bad thing or not is a matter of opinion. At least it seems to lack emos. That's positive improvement right there. But......I'll probably play it on the inevitable XB release when it launches on GP with all the DLC in place...

I'm still torn on Immortals. I want to love it. i really really do. But nothing about the gameplay strikes me as anything but cheap Assassin's Creed spinoff.

Sunset Overdrive, anything Insomniac is great. I still hate how one of XBox's best exclusives is now owned by Sony.....MS really screwed themselves in so many ways. But I'd buy Overdrive 2 on PS in a heartbeat all the same. Infamous + R&C + Jet Set Radio + Left 4 Dead. Hard to lose there!

That last paragraph....all true....all depressing....and why did I just dump a grand on new consoles again?

@NEStalgia "and why did I just dump a grand on new consoles again?"

B/c the 2 of them together are cheaper than the 1 new phone you buy every year. 🤣

@rjejr The twins are in lieu of the phone though....

@NEStalgia Come one, come all, to the greatest show on Earth!

You'll let it slide, you're nice like that, just wondering if you see it? 😉

@NEStalgia Ah sorry man, thought you were blowing your $1,200 COVID 19 stimulus check on them. 😥

My thought still stands though, the 2 Kronos monstrosities look good at that price compared to 1 handheld phone.