I did buy the midnight black plates for my ps5 around a year ago but only just recently put them on. Wish I did it sooner as it looks much better and kind of camaflagues the hernia hump disc drive, lol.
I own the original fat design but it was the lighter version that launched a year or two after launch that was more matte black in the middle.

Awesome, I was wondering and hoping sony was going to introduce some Kind of lite PSSR for base ps5. This makes my decision to skip getting a ps5 pro and instead wait for ps6 a little better.

Great, I love the sniper elite games and not played this one yet.

Although Gran Turismo 7 is also on ps4 right? 😂 regardless this is great news for exclusives again.

I don't like it at all, however since my initial outrage, I feel a bit better about it all now. As long as I can still play my current ps4 and ps5 disks on ps6 either with a external disk drive connected and or some kind of free digital copy of physical games we already own then that at least will be something.

And in regards to ps6 games, perhaps we will be able to buy the codes in different stores again and not just on the playstation store. Perhaps like the Gta6 situation where the game can still be bought in store in a physical case with code inside, that way people still have a bit of choice where to buy it and can still have a physical box library, just without actually disks lol

Don't get me wrong I'm not making excuses for Sony. But I think we just need to be realistic of what to expect at this point. Also perhaps sony will be able to offset the ps6 price a little better with going all digital, but obviously i Don't expect them to take a massive loss on each unit like they did with ps3 for example.

@awp69
I may be wrong but I believe the 3200 xbox staff loosing their Job is separate from this studios going independent or bought by another company. The microsoft staff loosing their Job overall is 4800 but I believe that includes the 3200 xbox staff. I may be wrong but I believe the 3200 xbox staff reductions will be from other xbox studios and not these four mentioned.

Actually I feel fairly happy about the cod game as one of the monthly games. I can't remember the last time I bought a fifa game as it is usually a playstation plus monthly game and the last time I actually bought a cod game was the first modern warfare remake. I assumed cod wouldn't be in playstation plus anymore now Microsoft owns it, but I'm glad it is as well be fun playing it for a few hours.

@cainhurst94
Yeah that is true, it is what it is i sopose. As long as Sony keep making good hardware and games then that is the main thing.

@cainhurst94
Thanks for the reply. Sorry I should have been more clear on my comment, I know what he is talking about myself. But the average / casual gamer wouldn't have a clue what he was talking about. Although to be fair, it was a more business focused interview so wasn't for the fans etc. I just think sony also needs someone that is good at interacting with the public again like they had with Shawn laden or Shuhei Yoshida for example.

Why does nothing Sony says at the moment make any sense, or just boring to listen to 😂
I know it is more important they make great consoles and Games, and no one can deny them of that.
But I also think they need to hire more people that make sense in interviews and not word salad. Although as ive said before it is often the Japanese executives that are difficult to understand which is understandable. But I do think it is important to have likeable speakers at playstation, although please don't hire phill spener sony. I couldn't stand him or looking at his smug face, so I'm glad to see the back of him now 😂

Personally I have never been a massive fan of the GTA series in General. However I am taking notice of how this game and other upcoming ps5 games such as wolverine etc hold up on the base ps5 and to see if I should upgrade to a ps5 pro or Just wait for ps6 whenever that comes out.

I should have probably got a ps5 pro when it was on sale at argos prior to the price increase, however I never felt interested in upgrading this Gen like I did with the ps4 pro.

Regarding the ps6, I was always pro 2027 launch. However I now believe 2028 would be better. By then the Ram situation could be better and Sony would hopefully put the higher amount of Ram in the ps6 if the Ram is more affordable by then ( the rumours for ps6 suggest either 30 or 40 GB Ram ) and if the ps6 does get pushed back a year then perhaps sony can do other things too like clock the GPU slightly higher and use a more up to date PSSR for example to make it still feel next Gen even with a slight delay.

No offence push square, but can we please stop with these click bait articles about ps6 price. The console will come out when it does, whether that is next year or the year after etc. And it will be priced whatever it will be priced whatever sony decides to put it at. People can then choose to buy it or not, and it is as simple as that. These doom and gloom price articles are not necessary or helpful to anyone right now in my opinion. Like I said no offence and I'm a big fan of your website otherwise.

I don't really care about the reason, but I'm just happy they have stopped it now. Should never have started in the first place, hopefully they will cut right back on all the live service ***** now too. Or if they do want to continue live service then make something people actually want like socom or bring back the last of us online with a separate team and make it exclusive too.

I'm not sure why sony is so terrible at public speaking or interviews now days. Although to be fair, a lot of the time it is miss communication from the Japanese leaders.

@get2sammyb
Yeah that is true, I think my comment was more based of me never liking phil and his constant lies etc. So would have bee nice to see his reaction to all this mess.

Its obvious now why phil Spencer left when he did. To be honest I wish he had stayed and had to be accountable for all the mess he helped to make at xbox, now that the ***** is finally hitting the fan 😂

I misread the article description and for a moment I thought i was living in a alternative universe and playstation was still doing platinum ( essential budget price ) games from back in the day 😂

Yeah is a great game and one of my favourite ps5 games. I think ratchet is the kind of game Sony can release earlier in the Gen as a true exclusive and not be too concerned about sales numbers. Hopefully they do the same on ps6 as a game only possible on ps6 and a true exclusive. I know the game eventually went to PC but thankfully sony stopped the PC ports of big single player exclusives.

I haven't bought a single xbox game for my ps5 yet. Was considering a few such as forza horizon and halo / gears. However I will now only get a used copy from cex so Microsoft gets non of the money as I don't trust the company or want to support them in any way.

I must admit the ps5 pro is proving itself as a good upgrade. However I still think i will wait it out for ps6 as that way it will feel like a bigger upgrade. I can afford the ps5 pro, however I don't mind playing the occasional game at 30 fps if the performance mode dosent look good enough. Will see what happens later in the year, but for now I think the base ps5 is fine for me.

Hopefully it is not more live service crap, but I'm not confident it won't be to be honest lol

I think people need to stop looking at the ps5 pro as a example of what the price of ps6 could be or when it will release etc. The ps5 pro is just a more premium version of the ps5 and Sony will most likely discontinue the ps5 pro once the ps6 comes out, which is exactly what happened to the ps4 pro once the ps5 came out, but sony was still selling the standard ps4 though even after the ps5 release

Ps6 needs to be a mass market device unlike the ps5 pro, and sony will most likely sell it at a loss or the cost to make it. I predict it could be as low as £600 and also be more advanced than the ps5 pro as will have a new cpu and the latest tech available to them.

I'm actually interested in playing the lego horizon game. Mainly because I haven't played forbidden West yet so, it should held me to get in the mood to eventually get that game. Also I can't be bothered to play through the first game again as I did get bored of it at times lol. It would be a simple story recap before playing forbidden West too.

To be honest I don't think the ps5 sales in Japan are much behind what the ps4 / ps3 was at the same point in the generation. The playstation consoles usually sell around 10 million in Japan, well I think the ps4 and ps3 was around those figures although not sure about ps2 or ps1 though. But it is a good sign they are getting a bit more aggressive in Japan and the rumoured handheld ps6 should help too.

@Neither_scene
It is not a wierd thing to say, it is just my preference and opinion. In the same way that your opinion is not a weird thing to say either. I get what you are saying but I think exclusive games give the platform a identity and in my opinion makes the games for exciting and special. I actually bought more games last generation on ps4 because of the exclusivity, but this generation seems different and in some cases don't feel as much of a must own game knowing it might go to pc too.

I personally find most PC gamers to be irritating and they just like to troll playstation gamers that they get to play the game and better etc, but as you rightly say they are not necessarily better anyway. I would prefer Sony focus on just playstation for the big single player games and maybe just the live service games for pc too.

As for xbox games on playstation, perhaps Microsoft should have stayed exclusive too, but they lost their way a long time ago. Having said that I must admit that I used to love gears of war and halo when I had a xbox 360 back in the day, so I would be interested in playing them on my ps5. Although I will get a used copy if I do as I don't wish to give any money to a company like Microsoft.

@dodgykebaab
I'm sure Jez Corden was already talking about this xbox upcoming event, or it first come from him or something like that. Anyway the reason I'm bringing it up, is because it gives me hope that he might also be right about Sony moving away from PC games too. I don't trust him myself but in this instance I hope he is right lol.

I do love Ratchet and crank so might give it a try, and i have quite a decent phone too so should run well. Just out of interest would these mobile games fall under the playstation division or a different department in Sony? I'm sure I remember reading something in the past that mobile games was part of Sony music or something like that 🤔 or perhaps I'm thinking of something to do with online mmo games. The reason i ask is because the money wouldn't necessarily go to playstation division if it was part of a different division in Sony.

To be honest selfishly I hope it it true as I have always hated it when Sony started putting games on PC. Although multiplayer service games makes sense to stay on PC and I couldn't care less about the mobile releases either way lol. But I hope they stop putting the single player games on PC especially considering the steam machine and the rumoured upcoming xbox PC hybrid.

Not to sound offensive to anyone, but there seems to be a lot of comments on here of people thinking they know more about when to launch a new console than Sony does lol. Its not like Sony have sold 100+ millions consoles nearly every generation, and always support the previous generation well into a new one is it 🤔 😂

@Fiendish-Beaver
Yeah I get what you mean about sticking with the base consoles, also i don't think ps6 will be as exspensive as ps5 pro as some people seem to think, so ps6 will probably be a better value for the specs vs ps5 pro.

I probably wouldn't normally get a mid gen upgrade myself, however the reasons I got a ps4 pro was because I was able to sell my base ps4 and got a good black friday deal on a ps4 pro and a couple of games thrown in that i was interested in too, plus it was double the storage too. At the time I didn't have a 4k TV but the ps4 pro did improve the picture quality with super sampling though.

@Fiendish-Beaver
Yeah I understand what you mean, although two years is quite a long in the tech world so the people complaining now about the possibility of ps6 in 2027 might think differently if it is a hot new product and has some kind of unique selling point too.

However for me I probably won't get the ps6 at launch anyway and wait a while. I did the same thing this generation, I waited two years and was happy with my ps4 pro at the time.

@N1ghtW1ng
Thanks for the reply, was just something i was struggling to understand lol. Hopefully Bungie will start to prove a better investment for Sony going further.

@Fiendish-Beaver
To be honest I could see the ps6 actually doing better that ps5, as they probably wouldn't have the same shortage problems as the ps5 did early on. And with the rumoured ps6 handheld version, that should be a bit cheaper and entry level than the main ps6 system and should at least be able to stream ps6 games. But yeah the next xbox system will probably be Microsoft's worst selling xbox so far, although I don't think they care about that anymore.

From my understanding with Sony buying budgie, apart from pursuing live services success was probably a reaction to Microsoft trying to buy the entire industry lol. However I don't understand how they keep mentioning it in the financial reports, I'm not a business person but surely the acquisition is paid of by now. In comparison I don't think Microsoft mentions the Bethesda or Activision acquisitions when talking about the xbox financial reports, so surely that would be even worse for Microsoft given the size of the Activision buy out. Having said that Sony is obviously more transparent about the revenue and profit margins of the gaming division that Microsoft lol

I'm really looking forward to this game myself. I did like world of tanks on ps4, but was a bit too focused on realism for me and a grind to progress too.

There seems to be a lot of people complaining about push square lately. Perhaps they should all get together and set up their own gaming website 🤔 😂

@Dan12836666
If I can remember correctly, there was a bit of complaining from gamers because there wasn't a ps5 version of the game but there was a xbox series version. Although it was i think around the time that Microsoft purchased the developers of the game, so that is probably why.

@beltmenot
That's good to know, however I don't think i will go back to playing the game on my ps5. I will probably try this new version though as I did quite enjoy world of tanks on ps4, can't remember if I played it on the original ps4 or the ps4 pro once I upgraded. Ps4 pro did support 4k but wasn't as powerful as xbox one x, however at the time i didn't have a 4k TV anyway so was only getting a supersampled image on the 4k supported games on ps4 pro.

@Vovander
My understanding is Sony usually sell the launch console at a loss to keep the price low. I also remember Sony discontinued the ps4 pro once the ps5 launched and just continued to sell the standard ps4, although I could be wrong about that. So perhaps the ps5 pro will get discontinued once the ps6 is released. However they would still support the ps5 pro but would just not be available to buy anymore.

@beltmenot
I was thinking the same thing lol, I have the game in my ps4 library. Although I have never tried it on my ps5 so not sure if it has a updated ps5 version or if it still just the ps4 version.

Another day, and Another push square xbox related article 🙄 I look forward to your xbox related article tomorrow 😂

I still haven't played the other two games yet. I'm sure I have them in my playstation plus library, so will need to get around to playing them first at somepoint.

@Toot1st
Yeah i thought so, it is a impressive amount of users but not really supricing considering how many developers and publishers they own now lol.

@Frmknst
Lol, if Microsoft had 500 million gamepass users they would be shouting it from the rooftops, and probably not need to release all their games on ps5 🤔 😂
However I think you are probably thinking of active users in general, and considering Microsoft owns almost everything now with games such as Minecraft and Cod then it probably is around that amount of active users in general.

Sounds interesting, I sometimes find dialogue hard to hear clearly so might play around with this feature in certain games. But has someone else said in the comments, it is usually more clear when using headphones anyway.

@themightyant
I do exactly the same, I have a really long USB cable ( must be around 3 meters or something like that ) and have it plugged into my wall next to the sofa to charge everything with such as my phone / ps5 controller etc.

@themightyant
Thanks for the reply, yeah perhaps it could help power the LED lights or something like that. To be honest I don't seem to game as much as I used to do and I don't really have a problem with the battery capacity as it is. I have a long USB cable too which I can use to play and charge at the same time, but I dont often need to do that with my two Dualsense controllers.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but does solar power only work when outside or will natural sunlight coming through the window for example work too? I could see this as a usefull feature with a mobile phone for example and I'm supriced we don't have mobiles like that yet, although handheld gaming devices could benefit from this feature too when playing oudoors.

I was happy to hear about this game coming to ps5 but I'm not sure now. I was thinking that if this game and other games like a potential halo and or Gears of war would come on disk, then I would consider getting it pre owned so that Microsoft dosent get any money from me 😂

I didn't even bother to add suicide squad to my playstation plus monthly games 😂

This is very cool, I'm seriously considering getting a portal. Shame there isn't yet a OLED version, but I can understand Sony wanting to keep the price down. To be honest i don't feel interested in switch 2, mainly because I already have a switch Lite, and hardly use it, but will wait to see the price and games etc. However I feel that with the portal then I will get more gaming time with my Ps5 / Ps4 games. What is the LCD screen quality like for people that have a portal?

Was really happy to see this announced on the state of play show. I really enjoyed Days Gone and and was one of my favourite ps4 games. I was wanting to play it again on ps5, but because I already got the platinum ( quite a easy one actually ) then the 60fps undated wasn't enough motivation, but i will be happy to pay the £10 update and get all the trophies again. I already have the disc copy as I got the metal box copy, it came with the plastic empty box too for whatever reason 🤔 😂