PlayStation 5

Edited by Kakuzan on Mar 16th 2021 at 10:24:13 AM

I got it today! The controller feels really nice in my hands compared to the 3 PS4 controllers I have.

I honestly am unsure how much I want a PS5, but I even if I do want, I don’t think I have enough space for one right now, until likely when I get my own place.

Edit: Congrats, by the way!

Edited by powerpuffbats on Mar 18th 2021 at 4:14:04 AM

I’m really hoping to get one for my Birthday next month but since I have the cash now and it’s nearly impossible to find I’m just gonna do it now. I’m really praying that I can find it in stock and get it before the bots buy out an entire stock instantly. Scalping should be illegal.

So, with Sony ending the online store for PSP, PS3, and Vita; would I still be able to play my PS1 discs on the PS3?

That's a hardware feature, so yes, you'll still be able to.

Sony shutting down the store is probably fake though.

Ah.

Thank you for telling me that it might be fake. I actually saw that the PSP store was already shut down 7 years ago on that Twitter thread.

Oh thank god

Yeah, was really worried about that until I found out it was fake.

Still might happen, and I’m glad it got people thinking about preservation, but it’s not a thing right now.

Edited by SapphireBlue on Mar 24th 2021 at 4:12:49 AM

Okay, so on a video talking about the supposed closure, someone tried to claim that you can no longer play games that you already downloaded on your Wii. I promptly corrected them as I have proven that you can still play games that are stored to an SD Card and maybe the internal memory.

The amount of people not bothering to do the research, myself included, is saddening.

Honestly, I wish that PS 5 would add PS 2/PSP/Vita games to it. I would like the chance to buy several games I don't own. And a small number I already do.

An official word from Sony themselves that they're shutting down the Playstation stores on PS3 and Vita, and the remaining purchase abilities on the PSP.

Further details can be found in the aforementioned link.

Edited by XMenMutant22 on Mar 29th 2021 at 2:18:45 PM

Well, at least they let you keep access to stuff you already bought, as well as DLC.

So the earlier report wasn't fake after all... would have been nice if it was.

Okay, so we have official word on it.

Honestly I was hoping that the reports were fake, but I also wish that people weren't going crazy before anything official was said by Sony.

At least I won't have to worry about losing my ability to play PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale on my older PS3.

Oh. Well, that sucks.

I was considering buying a PlayStation TV to play some Vita and PSP games. Guess there's no point now.

Just another reason why physical media will always be superior.

Good to know that they’ll let you re-download things you have already. I was worried about that. What about updates, though? If you get a new game on disc, can you still get patches?

Still sucks, though. I’m glad this had people talking about preservation, because it’s a serious issue.

Edited by SapphireBlue on Mar 29th 2021 at 12:57:59 PM

My guess is that patches will still download. They’re letting you redownload things you already own, so what they’re closing is essentially the storefront, and patches don’t come through the storefront.

They should probably confirm either way, but that would be my best guess.

As long as it doesn't get scratched, bent, stepped on...

Why are your games ever in a position to be stepped on, and who is bending them?

Scratches can happen pretty easily by accident, and read errors are a thing, but anything else that might happen to a physical disc is usually because poor care is taken of it.

It's less often now than when I was young, but have you ever lived with young children?

The most recent occurrence in particular was even for no apparent reason whatsoever. The World Ends with You, the Final Remix remake for Switch, so the form factor would be even more resistant to physical damage than a disc. The game just crashed after a post-game Bonus Boss, and would not even be recognized as inserted from then on.

Man, Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines needs a port bad, cause they never released physical copies outside Japan (As far as I know.). Really hope the other rumor (Backwards Compatibility for PS 5) ends up being true, cause that would lessen the blow quite a bit.

I did acknowledge read errors.

I haven’t lived with small children since I was one, but do you know how many CDs my brother and I destroyed when we were very little? Zero. Children are perfectly capable of being careful with their belongings.

I've never stepped on or bent a game, even when I was a little kid. No game I owned as a little kid was ever in that position as I always put my GameCube games in their cases

But as Bad Wolf said, scratches and read errors are pretty common.

Edited by powerpuffbats on Mar 29th 2021 at 3:31:41 AM

Some children can, but that does not negate all the ones that aren't. Especially when it's not their own property.

That said, it's not like a game being physical prevents a publisher from blocking all play from a game. I remember a recent incident with Activision banning Call of Duty players, seemingly randomly, even from the single-player offline modes.

There's definitely a key point there. My parents were pro-"Replace the original cases with bulk binders of flimsy plastic slots." You can imagine how protective (or not) those were."

Edited by ShinyCottonCandy on Mar 29th 2021 at 4:34:28 AM