The demon souls remake means it’s a mandatory buy for me - there were grown men crying on the reddit souls subs at the official announcement earlier in the week.
I play a lot of Souls games but years after the launch, so experiencing online play of a new game would be awesome. Plus I’ve never played the original DeS, and it is widely quoted as the seed of much of the innovation that characterises Dark Souls.
I kinda have a soft spot for the white tech
That thing is HUGE! The PS4 didn’t get a slim version, the upgrade was the PRO which was significantly bigger. I think they may have designed the PS5 to minimise the perception of its size, it’s the console version of wearing vertical stripes.
I wish Playstation would release an alternative version of their controllers that have the Xbox stick / D-pad layout. When I got my PS4, having been a longtime Xbox user, I thought it was old age making my left thumb shake when I played racing games. I didn’t have the same finesse anymore. I figured out it was the thumb-stick position that was awkward for my left thumb and causing it to spasm periodically. I know you can get third party controllers that have the Xbox layout but the ones I’ve seen have been expensive.
It did get a slim. I have one in my bedroom and a pro in the main room.
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I just find myself wondering if you can take the fins off. They seem so superfluous. I genuinely expect there will be people taking them off. I just wonder if it’s actually part of allowing it to vent heat.
To me, the better design would be to have the inner part, and have the V shape on the front panel with the white, having white sides and bottom, with a black top. It would have the same aesthetic but not take up so much space. So only overheating would justify this other design.
As for backwards compatibility–there’s absolutely no technical reason it shouldn’t have it, and I don’t see Sony letting Microsoft take the win on that. Hell, I’m not sure the reason they threw in that last-gen-looking footage from Grand Theft Auto V at the very beginning of the video (letting it suck all the air out of the room) was because they’d already made that intro with the old PlayStation logo to announce full backwards compatibility, but decided to hold off on announcing it. (Or that maybe getting PS3 emulation up and running is still holding them back.)
Backwards compatibility would be a real selling point for me. I still have a ton of old gen games. Until recently, I still played GTA V all the time on PS3, until it died. I’ll even take it in white if I can play the original Driver again.
Sure there is–it requires either including extra hardware, or making the next generation console so much more powerful than the previous generation that it can emulate the latter via software. Both of those make it more expensive.
All of the “backwards compatibility” that has been discussed so far is for PS4 games. There have never been any mentions or even rumors that Sony has any plans to make games from generations prior to that playable on the PS5.
Sure there is–it requires either including extra hardware, or making the next generation console so much more powerful than the previous generation that it can emulate the latter via software. Both of those make it more expensive.
All of the “backwards compatibility” that has been discussed so far is for PS4 games. There have never been any mentions or even rumors that Sony has any plans to make games from generations prior to that playable on the PS5.
Ah, ok, I was basing my statement on the size comparison picture posted above. I only ever got the original PS4.
The PS4 is just a pc in a box, isn’t it? And the ps5 won’t be different, just a more powerful pc. They would just need to have drivers for the PS4 hardware.
The PS5 is not backwards compatible with the PS3, PS2, or PS1, apparently. According to Ubisoft, anyway.
I think we all knew that was going to be the case for some time.
It’s nice that the big video game publishers are telling us that purchasing the PS4 version of upcoming titles will entitle us to a free PS5 version when it becomes available, but what I want to know is: will my saved games be transferable? If I’m halfway through Watch Dogs Legion, or Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, on PS4, and the PS5 version becomes available, can I continue the same playthrough on PS5? I only play through each game once, so if the answer is no, the free upgrade is worthless to me. I’ll have to decide whether I want to get the game and play all the way through it on PS4, or wait for the PS5 version.
A Google search is revealing that others are asking this question about various games but no one has an answer yet.
I don’t know why you would expect backwards compatibility. The PS4 wasn’t backwards compatible with anything.
The PS3 used completely different architecture from previous and future builds which made it difficult to be compatible backwards or forward.
Why wouldn’t I? They’re using the same processor architecture as last time (despite @Arcite’s claim). And Microsoft has flat out said that they are doing backwards compatibility with Xbox Series X and Xbox One.
The PS4 was only not backwards compatible due to being a completely different architecture, and it being too expensive to do what they did on the PS3 (including the last generation hardware on board). And, even then, the plan with PS4 was to allow you to play PS2 and PS3 games on their new cloud play service.
Allowing PS4 backwards compatibility seems a no brainer, both due to simplicity and competition. And, given both the power of the new system and the existence of PS2 and PS3 emulators, this is the prime opportunity to include such. So I was really hoping from that intro that’s what they were going to announce.
Yep, so it is $499. You can save $100 and get one without a disc drive, but am I right that this means you can only do digital games?
I ask because the $399 would be great if each disc came with an activation and deactivation code so you could still utilize the used game market. I am assuming without a disc drive, you can not buy games from the bargain bin at the store in a few years or give your friend your old game when you don’t want or need it anymore.
Right?
I’ll ask a follow up. If one had a PS4, do they automatically get all their PS4 games digitally if they have the $399 version?
You’re correct, disks won’t be available at all without the optical drive.
