General PS5 Stuff

Also if you're in euros that price is more insane. Looking at 920 euros all in to play games you already own but a bit better.

Might be looking at scalper prices at release as well

This can fuck right off.

However I absolutely do not predict the same damp squib, poor sales outcome everyone else does. Unfortunately I think the robbing bastards will sell millions

999.99 in Canada apparently.

Before us Xbox fans laugh too much at the price, that's probably what the next xbox is going to cost as well.

Gotta make back the Concord money somehow.

They have ballooned. Nvidia massively increased prices on their cards for the 40 series. AMD GPUs are expensive, but cheaper (you also miss out on the bells and whistles like ray tracing and good quality upscaling). Processors aren't too bad, but motherboards are pretty expensive. Only saving grace is that RAM and storage are still pretty cheap.

If you are looking at a solid build, you can probably do it for about the price of the PS5 Pro, but it would likely be getting you 1440p. For 4k, you are looking at a grand. PC of course has the added benefit of doing more than games, so is probably the better investment (which I wouldn't say compared to a PS5 or Xbox Series X/S).

Just saw the YouTube video. Using last of us part 2 comparison didn't really sell it to me to spend 800 quid. I mean I own most of those games and they already look excellent I honestly couldn't tell the difference from that footage. Only one was that Dragon's Dogma 2 looked 60fps. Good to know they've spent that time working on that rather than getting the base consoles up to speed.

2TB SSD included.

Just think how many boosted PS4 games you could fit on that.

PS5/Xbox whatever we're on is the first generation of consoles I ever missed. And looks like it's going to stay that way -_-

Just not enough exclusives or generational leaps in performance to justify them anymore. There are a couple of PS exclusives I'd like to play, but mostly can just wait for them to arrive on Steam. Or, they're reheats of PS4 games.

Yeah to be honest it’s the first time I have felt I don’t really need thjs console - and that’s from someone who has been primarily a PS gamer thought the many years. Some smashing games (Returnal, GT7 in PSVR2) but with development time and costs they too far and in between and there’s not been much that has wowed me. When you look at games like Red Dead 2, and Ghost of Tsumisha sometimes the ps5 feels like overkill. Honestly think the Series S was a good idea but… yeah.

Raises the question of what next gen consoles will cost. With this, and current models of both the SX and PS5 going up I don’t think it’s going to be pretty. And then there’s the games.. which are becoming too and far in between, I actually wonder how the gaming landscape will be in with the next gen consoles. Honestly I prefer if they tone it down a bit and go backwards. Havn’t seen much that warrants a PS5/XS let alone a pro. Do a Switch guys!

Upto 45% more Ray traced coke.

Well, don't I look like a complete fool. I'd seen the rumours that the Pro didn't come with a drive so, to beat the (supposed) rush, I grabbed a drive recently to absorb the upgrade cost in advance - I could always return it or flip it if the rumours turned out be false. "Clever move", I told myself.

We'd been looking at getting a second PS5 for the back room so this seemed like a great plan. Pro goes in the living room, launch machine gets moved. No brainer.

HOWEVER.

I was not anticipating the fucking thing to cost SEVEN HUNDRED POUNDS. Without a drive. Or a stand. They're absolutely out of their minds.

So it looks like I'm going for Plan B:

By a digital Slim during Black Friday, stick the drive on it and in the back room it goes.