GamingFiend

Got my digital edition from Amazon delivered earlier, driver left it by door and drove away so I'll file for a refund on that by claiming I never received it.

To make the day even better I managed to then grab a disc console right after they went live on Amazon just after 1pm for delivery on Sunday, which I will drop in to cex for £150 profit.

Courier should have followed procedure and got a signature or photo as per delivery notification, and people shouldn't be willing to pay cex so much to buy them. No apologies from me. Just a free digital edition PS5 and £150 to spend on games for it.

PS off to set up my digital edition now and won't be returning to this thread or account so post what replies you want because I won't be reading them haha

MS, Mark Cerny sends you his warmest regards.

Pleased to announce an announcement about an announcement.

World and environment looked great, but some of the character models looked janky as heck...Keane Reeves looked like a refugee from the PS3 at times...not in any rush for this one at the moment.

hmmm... they're still only showing one X and series x though; not willing to show what it's like on the base machines!

Someone 'literally shaking' because they got a different SKU of a games console?

They need to really look at their life if their mind reacts like that to something like this.

They're just sorry that it got such bad reviews and they've consequently taken less sales than they'd hoped.

So now we get the standard whiney 'please listen to us and understand' non-apology for releasing a buggy, unfinished game instead of putting more resources into it or delaying it.

@Deadhunter sounds like the best plan to me too, hard to recommend at this price and in this apparent state unless you're really desperate to play it right now I suppose.

@Breekhead haha I get too greedy when it comes to these PSN bargains! Thanks 👍

There's enough amazing stuff out for PS5 for me to miss this one about as much as a poo.

Is Moonlighter worth a fiver?

After the hype and a fun couple of weeks until the novelty wore off, I haven't been back to it and unlikely I will tbh. Perfect PS+ game really.

Having never played Spiderman, I'm more excited for this than the Miles Morales part of the package....I wonder if we can believe Insomniac when they say it won't be available separately!

Glad I've gone digital - it saved me £90 on the console because I haven't used discs for years, I get around 25% discount off my PSN credit so cheaper than physical too.

Combine that with psprices notifying me of games on my wishlist going on sale, along with ps+, it's not too bad.

@Northern_munkey although of course it would be nicer to have this option at launch, I agree with you.

Most of my library will be PS4 for a long time, and that's all on a 2TB external SSD. The few PS5 games I am likely to have during this period will easily fit on the internal with space to spare.

Last month it was the size of the console, last week it was back compat, if Sony fixed this storage issue, people would find something else to 'concern' themselves about. It's just the way it is nowadays.

@JapaneseSonic Exactly. 60fps but without any bug fixes or balance improvements on a game that's janky as anything even fully patched? Nah.

@Arnna you can't 'swap out' the internal SSD as it's on the mainboard. The expansion slot is exactly that, an expansion for additional storage. And yes, once Sony whitelist approved products for that, it will be an easy job for people to do.

External SSDs are a thing, but none of them can provide anything like the speed of the internal, hence they are only appropriate for PS4 stuff but games will load faster from them than on the PS4 due to the faster USB interface, if that's any consolation.

In short, if you want additional PS5 storage then at this precise moment the answer is that that isn't possible, but Sony could well soon approve a couple if you really need and can afford that extra space.

@Zeke68 yep, great to hear him confirm that any pair of headphones can be plugged into the dualsense to experience the tempest 3d audio!

why on earth people try to spread FUD on anything on here, especially when it's to do with digital, is very weird.

anyway, I'm just gonna put those people who do it on instant ignore, can't be bothered with reading such comments.

onwards and upwards!

@tomassi they've confirmed virtually all games do work on a PS5, so this is a non-issue.

I got myself Slay The Spire, Inside and Children Of Morta - taking discounted PSN credit into account, it came to less than £20 for all three. Love these bargain indie games

You don't need the Pulse headset, of course. 3D audio will work perfectly well with any decent set of headphones. Little bit disingenuous for sites to imply otherwise tbh.

@TheFrenchiestFry I see, thanks for the explanation...i played and traded the PS4 version last year, quite enjoyed it. Not going to trade extra content for a graphics downgrade on this though, especially as it'd be more noticeable after previously enjoying the original PS4 version visuals.

@TheFrenchiestFry that is very weird, why use worse graphics than an existing version? Weird. And makes it a hard pass for me.

They should have been proactive and got in touch with Sony before they launched this and put forward a licensing deal of some kind. Sony get a portion of their sales, links to PS5 hardware and software on the site etc. Would have been big traffic and sales. Sony may well have refused, but at least it would have been a chance.

@Stonecold no, or at least not on the current form of the PS5, simply because the external interfaces don't run at a high enough speed whatever the speed of any future drive you plugged in. I believe the maximum throughput is 10Gbps, which is way slower than the internal ssd.

Sony were sitting quietly for months while Microsoft bragged about the power of Xbox, showing off the hardware, schmoozing the media etc. They haven't even made that big of a deal about the dualsense in the build-up either, certainly not the hyperbole that it sounds like this controller deserves on merit!

I tell you, the quiet ones are the worst. 😉

@Shigurui @Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I suppose this is ultimately why it's 'free'. They gotta make some cash somehow for it.

@Spoonman-2 it's really good. Racing games are gonna be so good with dualsense

Knew it wouldn't take long before someone came along to a digital sale article to criticise digital. Sad.

@Candayman313 Why waste all of that post dissing digital? It works for plenty of people who don't want to faff around storing and swapping discs in this day and age.

Why is it always the non-digital console buyers who post these rants? Live and let live, man. It's not your problem, it doesn't affect your life.

I've had this pre-ordered for months to play on PS5, with whatever basic resolution or framerate patch it may get, but just cancelled and will use the credit on Demons Souls or Miles Morales Ultimate.

Quite apart from the probable bad state this game is gonna release in, I've just lost a load of my hype and excitement for it at the moment. Will doubtless buy it, but prudence screamed at me that waiting for patches and the full next gen upgrade was the only sensible course of action at this point. I take no pleasure in that. ☹️

It's impressive support, I'll give them that.

As a UK gamer I love the fact we've actually got London as a setting instead of the usual US Cities, and an open-world hacking game built around that should be right up my street....but I can't get excited to play this, even on PS5. Looks bland and boring.

Worth £20 max at some point down the line imo, wouldn't pay any more than that.

@Shepherd_Tallon I agree, would love more of the great indies that are out there to pop up as ps+ games occasionally, like they did at the start of the gen.

Although I guess thanks to psn sales they're often very very cheap anyway. I stick the ones I want on my psprices notification list and wait for the lovely email surprises ☺️

PS+ ain't going anywhere, despite the regular sniping. Suits me much better than gamepass would, I'm subbed up until 2023 thanks to stacking them when the really good offers are on.

@dazzlerJJD yeah, thanks to psprices I don't even care what Sony to their store...wishlists, price history, email notifications of price drops. Indispensable.

@Grimwood you have to start somewhere. this looks better than PS4. PS4 stuff looked better than PS3 when it first came out and so on. Thank goodness most people are happy with iterative improvements or we would all still be playing PS1 quality games.

They're losing me with all these delays. Honestly not even hyped for this anymore. Plenty enough actual games to play over the next couple of months rather than listen to more bull statements from these clowns.

Good plan. Didn't have much interest in this, and zero chance I would have ever bought it in all likelihood. Will give a whirl on plus though.

I enjoyed Portia, but for me it strayed the wrong side of the grinding line once you get a fair way into it. In other words, too much combining A into B into C, waiting x hours, then using another machine with other random stuff like above, all to make one item. Unlike games such as stardew it just wasn't fun at that point. Plus, always felt a bit janky to play even disregarding crashes.

And 2022 huh? Can't even think that far ahead with all that's coming out between now and then, plus backlog.

who cares? It does its job...I use PSDLE and psprices.com for pretty much everything to do with my digital library anyway bar actual purchases so it's no big deal imo.

Naughty dog have only gone and patched in an SSD

Dabbling in Hades on my PC, which is a platform I rarely game on as I just don't enjoy the experience, to see what the fuss is all about.

Will wait for PS4/PS5 version to dive into it properly but yep, it's an awesome game.

Austin Evans is slime.

@Snick27 after their recent next-gen coverage, I sincerely hope they're forced to eat a substantial amount of crow once they get their PS5.

Partly nostalgia as I still have my Japanese import (working) up in the loft, but that PS1 artwork is stunning

This is just weird. Playing a game about people playing games - too meta for me!

@lcipri I know, right? It seems any kind of PS5 news makes people irrationally angry these days. smh.

@Spoonman-2 Congrats! Mine is Dec 12th. I'd have definitely got one for myself - I did have an Amazon pre-order, but going to have to wait it out now! She did say I could have it early but I felt it would be disrespectful really, and would cheapen the event a bit...we only get one 50th, after all

At least I won't be short of stuff to read and watch online - going to be a crazy amount of articles, hardware/software reviews and the like during that period.