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Re: Rumour: PS5 Pro Design Seemingly Leaked

elfoam

@Michael2008ish @Zeke68 A couple of my PS3 games already got disc rot. I hope that was just a freak incident. Because you might just outlast the PS5 discs. Regardless It's still much smarter to buy discs and I refuse to buy any digital purchase for more than 5 dollars.

Re: UK Sales Charts: Helldivers 2 PS5 Drops into the Top 10

elfoam

@Vorflynn Helldivers 2 physical has been sold out here in Australia since the first day so that would be driving up digital copies here. Aside from the inexpensive price a lot of people would also be buying digital to share it with their kids on secondary ps5's. I almost did that myself but in the end I'll just buy two physicals when I can.

Re: PS5 Quietly Crosses 4 Million Units Milestone in Japan

elfoam

@Sam_ATLUS We've conducted several multi thousand vote polls on disc vs digital ownership here in Australia and the ratio is 10:1 in favour of the disc consoles. It's quite rare to hear of anyone running the digital console and most of those people got the digital because it's all they could get during the lean times.

Re: PS5 Is €100 Off in Some European Countries, Suggesting Hardware Revision Is Coming

elfoam

@BAMozzy It's a shame most games are unfinished so to speak on the pressed disc these, but you can still complete 100% of them other than the handful that require online saves without a patch.. often with bugs and crashes sure.. But they do work. But most importantly you can sell them, play them after the store closes and so on. The playstation store has zero point zero chance of still offering those games in 100 years (the expected minimum lifespan of blurays) so yeah.. I'm on the discs. Now there wont be MANY PS5s still running in 100 years.. But there will be enough for the few people that care..

Re: PS5 Is €100 Off in Some European Countries, Suggesting Hardware Revision Is Coming

elfoam

@Sakai If this new slim has a detachable drive the board for the drive will be inbuilt onto the motherboard. For security the pcb is tied "married" to the PS5, that wont change so the drive will be bare mechanical parts and the circuitry for it will be on all slims. How much money are they going to save in a motor, laser and some plastic gears.. not much.. maybe 10 bucks. But I guess shipping and so on all adds up.

Re: PS5 Is €100 Off in Some European Countries, Suggesting Hardware Revision Is Coming

elfoam

@BAMozzy Those sales figures the big companies push out about digital sales are very deceptive and not entirely as you think. Yes the majority of sales are digital.. But.. The vast majority of numbers sold are very inexpensive games, 3 dollars, 5, 15.. People are still buying blu-rays when it comes to expensive games and it's still the majority of the market in that case (AAA games)