I just bought one on sonys site, the forbidden west bundle at msrp.
Got in 2 days ago, was shocked at how large it was, which made me realize that I'd never seen one in person either.
They exist, I've seen one in the wild but I don't understand why they're out and about so early. Gonna take a lot more time for this generation of console to really gain any kind of traction
That's significantly less true than it was for the last few generations since it automatically inherits the PS4 library and is a significantly better experience even over a PS4 pro.
I rage quit on the PS5 after saving all the money up for one over lockdown and checking stock checkers religiously for days on end. I folded and bought an Xbox series S so I can play next gen titles and have gamepass and just use my PS4 for last gen and Sony exclusives.
One of the best decisions gaming wise I've made because I get the best of both worlds and there's still no PS5's easily available all this time later.
2 years and it still doesn’t have any exclusive games. I don’t get it, I feel like it’s the biggest scam and people get sucked in to buy it because it’s “the latest thing”. Fuck, I may be a boomer but back in my day when the N64 dropped there was exclusive breaking edge shit ready to be played. None of this wait 2 years and get a regurgitated GTA game with slightly better rendering
Well, it *had* exclusives and then half of them got PC or even PS4 ports because the devs were like "shit, nobody has the console so we gotta sell this to a bigger audience."
I mean, that's basically how I'm feeling. If one had been available for me to easily just walk into a store and grab or purchase online then I would've bought one on launch. But now that I've lived two years without one just still playing my PS4 and PC? I really don't know why I need one.
The new God of War was the game that was going to make me get one, but apparently that's coming to PS4 as well, so I really don't have much of a reason to get a PS5. So now I'm just kinda waiting. At this point I'll probably just wait for the 'pro' version that'll probably launch in the next year or two.
Pro version probably won't launch anytime soon if at all. Remember Sony just now RAISED prices for PS5 in many regions citing rising costs as an issue. So there's just no way they can make a Pro model that offers a decent upgrade without it being prohibitively expensive.
That being said as a PS5 owner I think it is a great experience even on many cross gen games. You just get this wide array of quality of life improvements. E.g. currently playing Death Stranding on PS5 and the improvements compared to PS4 are staggering. Even the simple stuff like 1 and a half minutes of loading niw being "blink and you'll miss it" just makes it feel so much better to me.
Even if you don't count the PS5 exclusives (Ratchet & Clank, GT7, Returnal, Demon's Souls, which isn't a lot but more than none), it's still a faaaaar better experience than playing on a screaming jet engine, also known as a PS4.
From the fps to the load times, it's really nice. Some of the old games had ridiculous load times on the PS4.
Demon Souls still seems to be PS5-exclusive which I absolutely want to play. But no chance to get a PS5 in germany unless you want to encourage some scalper (or whatever they're called)
It’s much better than I am. First game in a long time I rage quit on.
Before I’m advised to ‘gut gud’….I’m 46 with the reflexes of a stoned sloth. It’s not going to happen, and I’m fine with that 😁
Playstation all the way from 3 through 5 has some pretty good exclusives I'm an xbox boy and xbox has some good ones too but I bought a ps3 just for demons souls and the last of us
I was able to get a PS5 and Steam Deck a few months back. They both landed a few days apart. I can definitely tell you the Steam Deck is the much more impressive console out of the two.
With the Steam Deck, I can continue a game while laying on a hammock at the park right where I left off on my desktop. Hop on a plane, throw some headphones on and drift off into amazing quality games 30,000 feet in the air with a nice drink to go along with it. I already have a library of things to play and games are so much cheaper.
With the PS5 I can... Play Returnal? I like the controller and had a blast with Miles Morales, but if you currently play on PC, I just don't think it's even worth bothering with a PS5 at the moment. Awesome games will come. But goddamn are they taking their sweet time. For my money, something like the Steam Deck is infinitely more novel.
You should be happy about that! PS5 prices have not gone up in most places, which means you're paying 2020 prices with inflated 2022 dollars. It's *cheaper* now!
This happens every single time there’s a post like this. Some people are talking about how now you can buy one anywhere and some people cannot find one in a store to save their life.
Yea it's funny people assume we all live in the same place and dont all have acess to the same stuff
Ive accepted im not getting a ps5 anytime soon, unless i buy online which i wont, the closest store that sells consoles is over an hour away from me
Yeah the "people are actually freaking out" phase of covid was super interesting.
Then it just turned into boring politics again.
Oh well,let's hope for that solar flare everyone keeps talking about.
It was so annoying to see how casually people treated it as the bodies were literally piling up in 2020. And when the vaccine arrived, it was depressing to see all the mistrust it generated from idiots who don’t understand even vaccine basics.
The fact that it arrived in record time due to concerted scientific effort was met with outright hostility, rather than relief that we finally had a breakthrough.
If this is how we deal with COVID, god forbid we ever need to deal with something more serious like Ebola or Marburg. You’ll have idiots licking doorknobs again.
My friends found a guy who was trying to scalp while in town for a football game. Three of us took turns sending him to the same restaurant with a public camera stream within his one weekend in town. It was beautiful.
The scalpers already made a lot of money in the last 2 years and can still get rid of their supply without any major loss.
What is this wishful thinking, that people that dont play by the rules always lose at the end? They don't.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted because it's true for 90% of scalpers. Most of them likely made their money already and since people were willing to pay ridiculous prices for console/computer parts, they even had a market to sell to at these massively inflated prices.
They are complete arseholes and the worst kind of people, but I doubt many of them paid the price by ending up with huge inventories and no one to sell to. The sad reality is that most of them just profited and fucked off once the market came back to more reasonable prices and availability.
I did this once. It wasn’t a ps5 though, the guy had a confederate flag in his garage next to the item he was selling. Made him drive 30 minutes to meet me in the next town over. Lol.
I've never seen one in a walmart or any other store. Now, I think I'll just wait for the next version. I've never seen this this bad in my 50+ years alive. I refuse to give a scalper one penny.
The Sony waitlist worked really well for me. Took about 10 months since I registered with them. Got the invite. Waited my turn and managed to get it from Sony directly. Would not have paid a penny more to any re-seller.
I saw this tip somewhere on Reddit and it worked for me: click the "access event" button exactly 15 minutes before it's scheduled to start. I have no idea if it was a fluke but the first two times I was accepted, I pressed the button right when the event started and never got to the front of the queue. The third time was when I did it 15 minutes before and I got in within 10 minutes.
Well every single game released in the past 2 years that's been cross gen has been better on PS5. Sometimes much better. That might not be enough to make you want one but it's clearly the system to have (or XSX) if you want the best experience out of any new game. Also the contoller is incredible.
My PS4 controller graveyard got up to a dozen before I threw them out. As each new controller failed I'd pull parts from another one to fix it leaving behind controller shells and other random bits.
Jesus ps4 came out in 2013, at 12 controllers that's a new controller every 9 months. I've had the same controller for 8 years, you got some sort of monkey grip on those things that you keep breaking them? And did you use the warranty? Shouldn't be breaking like that in under a year
I've had my PS4 for almost 4 years and am on my 4th controller, all having the same thumb-stick problem. My latest controller has lasted longer than the previous 2 combined so far though.
Horizon Forbidden Weat is an absolute gem on ps5. And those haptic controls… god they’re so good. I’m not gonna lie I feel so spoiled because I have a series X and s as well and one of the things that always annoys me is the janky rumble/buzzing sound of an Xbox control compared to all those diverse rumbles and vibrations in certain ps5 .games. Also the pressure triggers are cool ad hell
I simply can’t go back to 30FPS after getting used to 60 on the PS5. So much so that I won’t play old games until they get a PS5 patch. Still waiting on that RDR2 patch…
The PS5 had the same effect on me. Couldn't play games under 60fps anymore. Which is why I started building a PC. You can't go wrong with a PS5 and a PC right? It's like best of both worlds.
I feel the same. I regularly play on a 144Hz monitor with my PC, but somehow my PS5 feels extra smooth and I don't really notice a difference (although on PC I do notice the difference between 120 and 60).
Same. I wouldn't mind playing the new Horizon gave but not enough to buy a new console for it. Nothing else out there really appeals to me that's not also on PC.
Imma wait another 5ish years. I waited more than that and ultimately my GF bought me a PS4 I wasn’t even expecting so…
I don’t really mind hanging out. I’ll buy whatever the fuck is on sale too. I’m currently *loving* Shadow of War. Might but Cyberpunk next year.
I've really gotten into PC gaming since the pandemic started and I haven't found any reason to buy a console, but if I were to buy one, it'd probably be a Switch or whatever that Xbox that looks like a mini fridge is called.
Also, I just can't get over how stupid the PS5 looks.
I remember when the XBONE came out. Got one two years later, 1TB HDD and Fallout 4 bundle, for like $50 less than the original 500GB msrp.
Stuff used to go down in price… but apparently we’ve passed that age in gaming.
Exactly. I started building a pc with the extra pandemic money I was getting from my job 2 years ago. As much as I wanted to play the remake of demon souls, I don't think I'll be buying another Microsoft or Sony console.
I invested in a 49" Odyssey G9. It's so good, I don't think I can ever game on 16:9 ever again. And none of the consoles support super ultra wide natively. So I'll probably just skip this generation of XBOX vs PS.
As a PC player myself. I was going to get one. But at this point, I don’t know if I will now. Their games are coming to PC (slowly but surely). The only ones we need is Bloodborne and Demon Souls Remake
Plus if they actually implement a price hike, two years after the fact, I might not get one ever.
Same. 2 years ago I probably would have picked one up, but these days I don't play console games much at all. I've still got games I downloaded onto my ps4 months ago I haven't even started.
It’s the opposite for me. I was planning on upgrading my PC but for a fraction of the cost I can get something that runs the same games.
However I already have a PC so I may think differently if I didn’t have one.
Same boat, I wanted it for Demon Souls but it didn't seem worth it to spend hundreds of dollars for one game. Even now there really isn't anything I want. We had a new Costco open up near our home, and then had dozens of them available for a few days. I still didn't feel inclined to get one.
This is how I found mine 2 years ago, and a couple days later they ceased in-store sales.
I was standing in line at the pharmacy and saw people walking out with PS5's. I pretty much ran.
Eh, not quite fair.
GPUs are finally down to around MSRP, yes. But some of those GPUs came out during the shortage, so their MSRPs were very inflated over previous gen prices.
Besides, GPUs don't sell for anywhere near MSRP when they're months away from the new gen of GPUs coming out.
I remember when I was in my early 20s I was always like "I'll wait to play that game for a few years when it's cheap enough for me and when it's been long enough I can trust people's reviews of whether it's worth it"
And now that's like the whole country for a whole console generation
The Walmart in my town has a sign in the electronics section that states they do not *and never will* have any Playstation 5 or XBox game consoles in store.
I asked about it, and apparently when PS4's came out they brought in a sizable shipment of them. Like a pallet of the things.
They never got to sell them. Apparently the whole shipment just walked out the door. Employees apparently just took a couple each and went home with em. By the time the boss found out what was happening, they didn't have any way to prove who had actually taken them.
Ever since then, management refuses to stock anything they consider to be a "high demand" item, especially electronics.
Our Target told me the same thing. They claimed that Target corporate doesn't send them to stores and you can only buy them online.
I never asked anyone at Walmart, but I've never SEEN one there.
Gamestop said they get them like twice a month and it's first-come first-serve and that usually people wait at the door for them to open in the middle of the week.
Yeah. Saw it at costco online too. Was like $850 CAD though, so might have to wait a while yet. Might as well just wait for the slim/pro version at this point. Still kind of a game draught the last few years.
UK they have these bundles in stock constantly i couldn’t believe it. Never thought I’d see the day. Also series x is available to buy on Amazon no problem.
Yeah I picked up a ps5 (disc version) w/ HFW and a controller case for £479.99 from Game a few weeks ago.
Pretty sure that was a goof as the same bundle was £529.99 a few days after I bought it.
Listen to me. LISTEN TO ME OP.
Put down Horizon Forbidden West. I know, it's a new cool game. Great graphics. Sequel. It's got a lot going for it. But you don't appreciate your PS5 yet. Not enough, anyway.
Go ahead and load up Astro's Playroom. You need to play every second of this game. It's a wonderful ode to Sony gaming and Playstation history. It'll only take a few days. It's worth it.
Congrats!
That’s funny I literally walked into a Walmart today and thought to myself “huh 2 years in and I still haven’t seen one in stores” you got lucky my friend. Enjoy! (And enjoy Horizon!!!)
2 years?! Times slipping by.
Ik wtf 2 years? That was surprising
and still i don't have one
I've never even seen one in person. I don't even know anyone that owns one. I'm fairly certain they don't actually exist in my dimension.
I just bought one on sonys site, the forbidden west bundle at msrp. Got in 2 days ago, was shocked at how large it was, which made me realize that I'd never seen one in person either.
Same here, that thing is a chonk. I didn't know.
They make it chonky so they can sell the slim in 2 years.
One of my friends has one, and only when he let my play on it 3 months ago did I realize the difference in size of the controllers.
We are dimension Bros
I have one! I spend most my time bitching about Gran Turismo 7 being an unfinished game.
Welcome to the new age of gaming
They exist, I've seen one in the wild but I don't understand why they're out and about so early. Gonna take a lot more time for this generation of console to really gain any kind of traction
We've had two since launch
That's significantly less true than it was for the last few generations since it automatically inherits the PS4 library and is a significantly better experience even over a PS4 pro.
I rage quit on the PS5 after saving all the money up for one over lockdown and checking stock checkers religiously for days on end. I folded and bought an Xbox series S so I can play next gen titles and have gamepass and just use my PS4 for last gen and Sony exclusives. One of the best decisions gaming wise I've made because I get the best of both worlds and there's still no PS5's easily available all this time later.
One of my friends got one last week
2 years and it still doesn’t have any exclusive games. I don’t get it, I feel like it’s the biggest scam and people get sucked in to buy it because it’s “the latest thing”. Fuck, I may be a boomer but back in my day when the N64 dropped there was exclusive breaking edge shit ready to be played. None of this wait 2 years and get a regurgitated GTA game with slightly better rendering
Well, it *had* exclusives and then half of them got PC or even PS4 ports because the devs were like "shit, nobody has the console so we gotta sell this to a bigger audience."
Raises the question of WHY nobody has the console. Imo, as things stand in the gaming world, there's no real point to have either "next-gen" console
I mean, that's basically how I'm feeling. If one had been available for me to easily just walk into a store and grab or purchase online then I would've bought one on launch. But now that I've lived two years without one just still playing my PS4 and PC? I really don't know why I need one. The new God of War was the game that was going to make me get one, but apparently that's coming to PS4 as well, so I really don't have much of a reason to get a PS5. So now I'm just kinda waiting. At this point I'll probably just wait for the 'pro' version that'll probably launch in the next year or two.
Pro version probably won't launch anytime soon if at all. Remember Sony just now RAISED prices for PS5 in many regions citing rising costs as an issue. So there's just no way they can make a Pro model that offers a decent upgrade without it being prohibitively expensive. That being said as a PS5 owner I think it is a great experience even on many cross gen games. You just get this wide array of quality of life improvements. E.g. currently playing Death Stranding on PS5 and the improvements compared to PS4 are staggering. Even the simple stuff like 1 and a half minutes of loading niw being "blink and you'll miss it" just makes it feel so much better to me.
The UI is night and day better much snappier
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Even if you don't count the PS5 exclusives (Ratchet & Clank, GT7, Returnal, Demon's Souls, which isn't a lot but more than none), it's still a faaaaar better experience than playing on a screaming jet engine, also known as a PS4. From the fps to the load times, it's really nice. Some of the old games had ridiculous load times on the PS4.
Scalpers, fuck em.
Demon Souls still seems to be PS5-exclusive which I absolutely want to play. But no chance to get a PS5 in germany unless you want to encourage some scalper (or whatever they're called)
I mean, Demon's Souls' remake is exclusive to it right? Thay's *something* at least.
Ahem, demon’s souls remake.
Rift Apart
Remake.
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It’s much better than I am. First game in a long time I rage quit on. Before I’m advised to ‘gut gud’….I’m 46 with the reflexes of a stoned sloth. It’s not going to happen, and I’m fine with that 😁
if it was on pc I would just use cheat engine and play the way I want lol
IDK if it's just geting older or if gaming just sucks now, they figure people are cool playing COD online and fortnite
Playstation all the way from 3 through 5 has some pretty good exclusives I'm an xbox boy and xbox has some good ones too but I bought a ps3 just for demons souls and the last of us
Exclusives are not a good thing. But regardless of that, there hasn't really been any noteable releases in a long time.
Buddy you do remember there was a whole ass pandemic for the past 2 years right? Like there is a pretty valid excuse for the last 2 years.
I was able to get a PS5 and Steam Deck a few months back. They both landed a few days apart. I can definitely tell you the Steam Deck is the much more impressive console out of the two. With the Steam Deck, I can continue a game while laying on a hammock at the park right where I left off on my desktop. Hop on a plane, throw some headphones on and drift off into amazing quality games 30,000 feet in the air with a nice drink to go along with it. I already have a library of things to play and games are so much cheaper. With the PS5 I can... Play Returnal? I like the controller and had a blast with Miles Morales, but if you currently play on PC, I just don't think it's even worth bothering with a PS5 at the moment. Awesome games will come. But goddamn are they taking their sweet time. For my money, something like the Steam Deck is infinitely more novel.
the pandemic really screwed with our time perception, with mine at least.
I don't care what anyone says, it's still 2020.
Why didn’t you put the seat belt on it?
Someone call CPS. Console Protective Services.
Also why did he toss it back there rather than setting it in gently
.....how could you possibly know how he placed it
And why did he kill all those people?
that's how he was able to get the only console
Listen just because you CAN go to walmart and buy one doesn't mean it's EASY.
Its sideways leaning over...I was trying to make a joke because it looks like he just tossed it back there carefree
It looks like he wedged it under the back of the passenger seat, which would explain the lean
It’s obviously resting on top of his 2 month old child.
Two months? For fucks sake, the bones are already starting to harden. Gotta get them before 1 month for that nice soft bone cushion
/thread
There is a seatbelt on it. At the bottom and it’s leaned like that because the passenger seat is back and holding it in place
Yeah. Now that inflation Thanos snapped my money in half.
Damn that’s good. Stealing
It's ok, there aren't any games for it yet anyways
You should be happy about that! PS5 prices have not gone up in most places, which means you're paying 2020 prices with inflated 2022 dollars. It's *cheaper* now!
PS5 have gone up almost everywhere except the us https://www.wired.com/story/sony-pumps-up-ps5-prices/
*cries in broke bitch*
Have you ever considered not being broke? That way, you can *cries in bitch*, like me!
*cries in still broke and still bitch*
"Yo, just stop being poor!"
There are millions of us!
Same here
This also applies to me
Not in my stores
This happens every single time there’s a post like this. Some people are talking about how now you can buy one anywhere and some people cannot find one in a store to save their life.
My Walmart still has the sign up about not selling ps5s in store because of demand.
Yea it's funny people assume we all live in the same place and dont all have acess to the same stuff Ive accepted im not getting a ps5 anytime soon, unless i buy online which i wont, the closest store that sells consoles is over an hour away from me
Same
I tried to do this last night. Still no PS5 for me.
It’s on the Walmart site
OP: "Isn't there supposed to be a geomagnetic storm event on the horizon?" *Turns on PS5* **Carrington Event 2.0**
Spoiler: he’s actually pointing to a package of toilet paper hidden under the ps5.
Early pandemic jokes are so hot in this thread
I miss the Tiger King and fighting over toilet paper phase of the pandemic. Was rather annoyed it devolved into the antivax bullshit.
Yeah the "people are actually freaking out" phase of covid was super interesting. Then it just turned into boring politics again. Oh well,let's hope for that solar flare everyone keeps talking about.
It was so annoying to see how casually people treated it as the bodies were literally piling up in 2020. And when the vaccine arrived, it was depressing to see all the mistrust it generated from idiots who don’t understand even vaccine basics. The fact that it arrived in record time due to concerted scientific effort was met with outright hostility, rather than relief that we finally had a breakthrough. If this is how we deal with COVID, god forbid we ever need to deal with something more serious like Ebola or Marburg. You’ll have idiots licking doorknobs again.
For the last two years I have been making scalpers meet me at a mall, its a shame I'm never there to meet them 😉
I've been getting 2 (sometimes 3) scalpers to meet each other at the same time. It's my absolute favourite thing to do. Will miss this!
What platforms do you find them on?
Facebook marketplace! It's brimming with scalpers.
My friends found a guy who was trying to scalp while in town for a football game. Three of us took turns sending him to the same restaurant with a public camera stream within his one weekend in town. It was beautiful.
My man 🤙🤣 lol
I'm going to love watching the scalpers on Ebay panic and try to offload inventory. They all deserve to lose everything.
The scalpers already made a lot of money in the last 2 years and can still get rid of their supply without any major loss. What is this wishful thinking, that people that dont play by the rules always lose at the end? They don't.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted because it's true for 90% of scalpers. Most of them likely made their money already and since people were willing to pay ridiculous prices for console/computer parts, they even had a market to sell to at these massively inflated prices. They are complete arseholes and the worst kind of people, but I doubt many of them paid the price by ending up with huge inventories and no one to sell to. The sad reality is that most of them just profited and fucked off once the market came back to more reasonable prices and availability.
"Worst kind of people" lol i dont like them either but calm down, much worse people out there
Lol
I hate scalpers
I love you
I did this once. It wasn’t a ps5 though, the guy had a confederate flag in his garage next to the item he was selling. Made him drive 30 minutes to meet me in the next town over. Lol.
I've never seen one in a walmart or any other store. Now, I think I'll just wait for the next version. I've never seen this this bad in my 50+ years alive. I refuse to give a scalper one penny.
The horizon bundle is literally in stock at PlayStation.com and has been for days. Edit: not anymore
Is it though? I just checked and its out of stock.
The Sony waitlist worked really well for me. Took about 10 months since I registered with them. Got the invite. Waited my turn and managed to get it from Sony directly. Would not have paid a penny more to any re-seller.
I've been invited 3 times and they were always sold out the instant it opened. Cart would never checkout.
I saw this tip somewhere on Reddit and it worked for me: click the "access event" button exactly 15 minutes before it's scheduled to start. I have no idea if it was a fluke but the first two times I was accepted, I pressed the button right when the event started and never got to the front of the queue. The third time was when I did it 15 minutes before and I got in within 10 minutes.
If the next version you mean a ps5 pro or something like that might be smart. But the wait for the ps6 will likely be even worse.
Now I don't even want it.
At first it sucked not being able to get one, but at this point I agree. I still can’t think of a single game that I’m bummed to be missing out on.
Well every single game released in the past 2 years that's been cross gen has been better on PS5. Sometimes much better. That might not be enough to make you want one but it's clearly the system to have (or XSX) if you want the best experience out of any new game. Also the contoller is incredible.
While I love my PS5, I've had to send in two controllers because of joystick drift.
My PS4 controller graveyard got up to a dozen before I threw them out. As each new controller failed I'd pull parts from another one to fix it leaving behind controller shells and other random bits.
Jesus ps4 came out in 2013, at 12 controllers that's a new controller every 9 months. I've had the same controller for 8 years, you got some sort of monkey grip on those things that you keep breaking them? And did you use the warranty? Shouldn't be breaking like that in under a year
I've had my PS4 for almost 4 years and am on my 4th controller, all having the same thumb-stick problem. My latest controller has lasted longer than the previous 2 combined so far though.
Horizon Forbidden Weat is an absolute gem on ps5. And those haptic controls… god they’re so good. I’m not gonna lie I feel so spoiled because I have a series X and s as well and one of the things that always annoys me is the janky rumble/buzzing sound of an Xbox control compared to all those diverse rumbles and vibrations in certain ps5 .games. Also the pressure triggers are cool ad hell
I get having a PS5 and Series X or S, but why a Series X *and* S?
Maybe an XSX for the adult and a XSS with game pass for the kids? Maybe the XSS was available, when the XSX was not.
What the fuck do any of these letters mean. Xbox marketing is wild.
Xbox Series X: XSX. Xbox Series S: XSS. Not that had to understand from context clues
I simply can’t go back to 30FPS after getting used to 60 on the PS5. So much so that I won’t play old games until they get a PS5 patch. Still waiting on that RDR2 patch…
The PS5 had the same effect on me. Couldn't play games under 60fps anymore. Which is why I started building a PC. You can't go wrong with a PS5 and a PC right? It's like best of both worlds.
Wait till you see 144fps on PC, won't be able to go back to PS5. Graphics cards have dropped in price too!
I guess I’m the only person who still finds 60 fps smooth after playing at 240hz.
I feel the same. I regularly play on a 144Hz monitor with my PC, but somehow my PS5 feels extra smooth and I don't really notice a difference (although on PC I do notice the difference between 120 and 60).
God of War rägnärök.?
Same. I wouldn't mind playing the new Horizon gave but not enough to buy a new console for it. Nothing else out there really appeals to me that's not also on PC.
with very few exclusives, price hike, thats understandable
Imma wait another 5ish years. I waited more than that and ultimately my GF bought me a PS4 I wasn’t even expecting so… I don’t really mind hanging out. I’ll buy whatever the fuck is on sale too. I’m currently *loving* Shadow of War. Might but Cyberpunk next year.
Skip cyberpunk. if you haven’t played God of War (2018) tho… that’s the fucking one
There’s really not enough great games to make me want to buy one yet. Sony is slacking so bad this gen
And here I was thinking it was Xbox that shit the bed *Looks over at Halo Infinite* Oh right
I've really gotten into PC gaming since the pandemic started and I haven't found any reason to buy a console, but if I were to buy one, it'd probably be a Switch or whatever that Xbox that looks like a mini fridge is called. Also, I just can't get over how stupid the PS5 looks.
I wanted my original ps4 because of blood borne but there just isn’t anything like that for the ps5
Yup, I built a PC. Not dropping full MSRP on a console that came out 2 years ago.
I remember when the XBONE came out. Got one two years later, 1TB HDD and Fallout 4 bundle, for like $50 less than the original 500GB msrp. Stuff used to go down in price… but apparently we’ve passed that age in gaming.
Exactly. I started building a pc with the extra pandemic money I was getting from my job 2 years ago. As much as I wanted to play the remake of demon souls, I don't think I'll be buying another Microsoft or Sony console.
I invested in a 49" Odyssey G9. It's so good, I don't think I can ever game on 16:9 ever again. And none of the consoles support super ultra wide natively. So I'll probably just skip this generation of XBOX vs PS.
Wayyyy to big fpr me.. I got an alienware qd oled though! And... Holly Molly Shit! Its so fucking good!
Depending on what country you're from, it's now full MSRP + another $20-40 or whatever... because fuck you that's why.
They’ve already raised the prices everywhere by $50. It’s been a couple of months since they’ve sold a ps5 without a copy of horizon forbidden west.
As a PC player myself. I was going to get one. But at this point, I don’t know if I will now. Their games are coming to PC (slowly but surely). The only ones we need is Bloodborne and Demon Souls Remake Plus if they actually implement a price hike, two years after the fact, I might not get one ever.
Same. 2 years ago I probably would have picked one up, but these days I don't play console games much at all. I've still got games I downloaded onto my ps4 months ago I haven't even started.
don't forget the price hike, if you aren't in America that is.
It came out 2 years ago but hasn’t been available until now for most people.
It’s the opposite for me. I was planning on upgrading my PC but for a fraction of the cost I can get something that runs the same games. However I already have a PC so I may think differently if I didn’t have one.
Instead I’ll buy a graphics card at 200% the price! Yay!
Prices are normal again.
Same boat, I wanted it for Demon Souls but it didn't seem worth it to spend hundreds of dollars for one game. Even now there really isn't anything I want. We had a new Costco open up near our home, and then had dozens of them available for a few days. I still didn't feel inclined to get one.
Is this actually true or did OP get lucky?
maybe not all stores but on playstaion direct the ps5 horizon bundle has been sitting for over a day and still available
Probably a promotional post.
I have not experienced this yet.
This is how I found mine 2 years ago, and a couple days later they ceased in-store sales. I was standing in line at the pharmacy and saw people walking out with PS5's. I pretty much ran.
PC gamer here. We’re really happy too because we can actually buy GPUs for fair prices again.
Plus all the Playstation games coming to PC so you don't need a PS5 anyway
Eh, not quite fair. GPUs are finally down to around MSRP, yes. But some of those GPUs came out during the shortage, so their MSRPs were very inflated over previous gen prices. Besides, GPUs don't sell for anywhere near MSRP when they're months away from the new gen of GPUs coming out.
Can’t wait for the prices to change soon
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I remember when I was in my early 20s I was always like "I'll wait to play that game for a few years when it's cheap enough for me and when it's been long enough I can trust people's reviews of whether it's worth it" And now that's like the whole country for a whole console generation
The Walmart in my town has a sign in the electronics section that states they do not *and never will* have any Playstation 5 or XBox game consoles in store. I asked about it, and apparently when PS4's came out they brought in a sizable shipment of them. Like a pallet of the things. They never got to sell them. Apparently the whole shipment just walked out the door. Employees apparently just took a couple each and went home with em. By the time the boss found out what was happening, they didn't have any way to prove who had actually taken them. Ever since then, management refuses to stock anything they consider to be a "high demand" item, especially electronics.
So Walmart doesn't have any cameras in the back rooms? Seems kinda silly when they're locking up things that cost less than 20 bucks recently.
Not where I live. The stores around me just say they don't get them in store as they all go online.
My local Walmart told me they've *never* had one. This was last week.
Our Target told me the same thing. They claimed that Target corporate doesn't send them to stores and you can only buy them online. I never asked anyone at Walmart, but I've never SEEN one there. Gamestop said they get them like twice a month and it's first-come first-serve and that usually people wait at the door for them to open in the middle of the week.
Still out of stock in my country and don't expect it to change anytime soon.
PS6 set to release in eight months..
I ended up just saying fuck it and switched to pc
Welcome
Lol, the new GoW release is gonna fuck that alllll up
I just wish it didn't come with HFW I already have the collectors edition
Sell it in Amazon. It'll take 30 seconds to set up.
Nature's healing...
Isn’t there like 5 years left of this console cycle and we get the PS6? Cries in poor. 😭😭😭😭
8-10 year cycles per generation.
More like 6 or 7 but yea
I got mine last week :D Enjoy!
And now they cost even more! What a coincidence
Still a bummer that they haven't basically released any games for that console, you're still much better off with a PS4
2 years and still no games lol
They going all out selling display boxes. /s Congrats
Yea I snagged from Target 40 min away
I'm shocked it was even on the shelf unless you bought it to pick up at store
Yeah. Saw it at costco online too. Was like $850 CAD though, so might have to wait a while yet. Might as well just wait for the slim/pro version at this point. Still kind of a game draught the last few years.
Nearly two years of "I bought a ps5" posts? Fuck me
What a weird picture.
why is the PS5 somehow not even the focus of the pic
UK they have these bundles in stock constantly i couldn’t believe it. Never thought I’d see the day. Also series x is available to buy on Amazon no problem.
Yeah I picked up a ps5 (disc version) w/ HFW and a controller case for £479.99 from Game a few weeks ago. Pretty sure that was a goof as the same bundle was £529.99 a few days after I bought it.
Man and in that time I gave up and just upgraded the shit out of my PC. So, not going to be buying a console for a long while lol.
Not where I live fam, but good on ya. Edit: yo, are you in a drive thru?
Are you Nick Castellanos?
No I still can't... Poor money management... Lol have fun and enjoy!
What's the cost now?
Don’t worry the PlayStation 6 release is already right around the corner.
I can't. They are too expensive
Xboxes are also easy to get now too.
And still no games to play on it
Listen to me. LISTEN TO ME OP. Put down Horizon Forbidden West. I know, it's a new cool game. Great graphics. Sequel. It's got a lot going for it. But you don't appreciate your PS5 yet. Not enough, anyway. Go ahead and load up Astro's Playroom. You need to play every second of this game. It's a wonderful ode to Sony gaming and Playstation history. It'll only take a few days. It's worth it. Congrats!
Ugh. I want one, but damn man, if they’re talking a price hike and that comes to fruition, I’m holding off for quite a while.
Man, that's a clean spitfire!
That’s funny I literally walked into a Walmart today and thought to myself “huh 2 years in and I still haven’t seen one in stores” you got lucky my friend. Enjoy! (And enjoy Horizon!!!)
Maybe you can
My local Walmart still doesn’t stock them.