Sony hate thread

[Sean_Igger]

Serious question, why do people even want a PS5 anyway?

As a PS5 owner I get asked maybe once a month by someone in my friends group if they should buy one and my answer has always been a flat out "No," especially if they have a PS4. Even with a glut of games coming around the corner I can't recommend purchasing one to any who ask.

 

[BananaSplit²]

https://geo-online.co.jp/news/620

PS5フツーに買えそう　ヨドバシに続きノジマ、ゲオも販売制限緩和

発売から2年以上続いた「プレイステーション(PS）5」の品薄の解消が、本格化してきたようだ。「抽選販売」の終了発表が2023年1月31日、相次いだ。アナウンスしたのはメディアショップ「ゲオ」と、家電量販店「ノジマ」。ノジマは、公式ECサイト「ノジマオンライン」での販売が対象だ。ソニーCEO発言が現実にPS5は2020年11月12日に発売されたが、日本国内では入手困難な状況が続き、高額転売や販売制限

www.j-cast.com

発売日以来、抽選販売を行っておりました「PlayStation®5本体」について
抽選を行わず通常販売が行える在庫が確保できましたため
2月1日(水)の営業開始時間より、ゲオストア全店での一般販売を開始いたします。
※24時間店舗は2月1日(水)の7:00より開始いたします。

PlayStation®5本体のご購入は、お一人様1点まで(デジタルエディション・同梱版各種も含め1点まで)とし
2月1日(水)の営業開始前に各店、在庫数を店頭入り口に掲示いたします。

Starting on February 1st 2023, PS5 hardware units are no longer sold under lottery restrictions in GEO and other large retailers in Japan.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

Serious question, why do people even want a PS5 anyway? If you ask someone why they’d want a Switch, they’ll start naming off first party games they care about. Xbox fans will talk about Game Pass, enhanced backwards compatibility, and maybe messing around with emulators. PC fans will talk about power (and in a handheld format in the case of the Steam Deck), games that work best with a KB+M, and customization/mods. The only argument for a PS5 I’ve ever heard - when someone even attempts to explain it at all - is “it’s the new Playstation”. The same thing happened with PS4, but it’s even worse now that all of their competition has improved significantly since 2013.

My PS4 was a family console that was beaten to all hell. When the PS5 came out, I really wanted to play Ratchet & Clank, so it seemed like a good purchase. I get the new game I wanted and a console to play the games I missed out on as, being it was a family console, I didn’t use the PS4 too much. I also kind of figured that anything I would want on XBOX will be on PlayStation anyway, so go for the console with the exclusives you actually give a shit about, as few as there may be.

Having a Switch and PS5 is a good combo for a physical collector not interested in fps. I am more of a 3D platformer fan, so Nintendo and Sony treat me well compared to Microsoft. At some point maybe I will play around with PC gaming, but my current situation works well.

 

[TVB]

https://geo-online.co.jp/news/620

PS5フツーに買えそう　ヨドバシに続きノジマ、ゲオも販売制限緩和

発売から2年以上続いた「プレイステーション(PS）5」の品薄の解消が、本格化してきたようだ。「抽選販売」の終了発表が2023年1月31日、相次いだ。アナウンスしたのはメディアショップ「ゲオ」と、家電量販店「ノジマ」。ノジマは、公式ECサイト「ノジマオンライン」での販売が対象だ。ソニーCEO発言が現実にPS5は2020年11月12日に発売されたが、日本国内では入手困難な状況が続き、高額転売や販売制限

www.j-cast.com

Starting on February 1st 2023, PS5 hardware units are no longer sold under lottery restrictions in GEO and other large retailers in Japan.

Snoyboys on suicide watch rn

 

[Broseph]

Serious question, why do people even want a PS5 anyway? If you ask someone why they’d want a Switch, they’ll start naming off first party games they care about. Xbox fans will talk about Game Pass, enhanced backwards compatibility, and maybe messing around with emulators. PC fans will talk about power (and in a handheld format in the case of the Steam Deck), games that work best with a KB+M, and customization/mods. The only argument for a PS5 I’ve ever heard - when someone even attempts to explain it at all - is “it’s the new Playstation”. The same thing happened with PS4, but it’s even worse now that all of their competition has improved significantly since 2013.

As a PC gamer the only reason I bought my PS5 is for FFXVI and VII Rebirth. Even tho I know that both of these games will be released on the PC at some point, I really don't want to wait at least a year for VII Rebirth to come out on Steam.

Because of spoilers and because I'm a fucking cuck when it comes to FFVII

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

I'm a fucking cuck when it comes to FFVII

I was gonna go "lol this faggot likes femboy emo-asshats" but then I realized I have absolutely no room to talk.

 

[Broseph]

I was gonna go "lol this faggot likes femboy emo-asshats" but then I realized I have absolutely no room to talk.

And how's that Skies of Arcadia remaster coming along? Even Sega stopped giving a shit about their own game...

 

[Wesker]

As a PC gamer the only reason I bought my PS5 is for FFXVI and VII Rebirth. Even tho I know that both of these games will be released on the PC at some point, I really don't want to wait at least a year for VII Rebirth to come out on Steam.

Because of spoilers and because I'm a fucking cuck when it comes to FFVII

I would get a PS5 for rebirth if I didn't think the ending was so bad of the first part. Although I'm interested in 16, there's still nothing on the horizon that gives me any reason to buy that system.

 

[Kheapathic]

Outside of being impatient with Final Fantasy or maybe a few other niche RPGs, there's really no reason to get a PS5. I got mine because I lucked out in a store when they were in stock, and got it just because. But outside of the FF7 Remake DLC, there's nothing uniquely on it that has my attention... yet. Most games are still coming out on the PS4, Dead Space Remake is too fucking expensive for what it is, and until recently, the only game I was interested in was the Demon's Souls Remake. A day or two ago, Nippon Ichi announced a PS5 collection for their Marl Kingdom: Rhapsody games (only first one ever came out in the USA, and it was an Atlus localization). There, that's what's uniquely on the PS5 and has my attention.

Edit: Well fuck you too @Vyse Inglebard

 

[A-Stump]

I just bought a PS5 because at this point I have so much Sony shit it feels like I'm shackled. It's like I'm an abused housewife who keeps coming back because Sony doesn't always give me a black eye. I wanted to stick with my PS4 but at this point everything I wanted to play on it has either been cancelled outright or pushed several months back behind everything else's release date. I missed out on Midnight Sons, Harry Pooter got delayed, Final Fantasy won't be coming to it. It's obvious at this point they're doing their most to shove PS4 out the door.

I had to pay $60 more for a console with an included game I didn't want because lol Sony still has no fucking control over it's supply. I have no interest in God of War so I'll likely just try to flip the voucher on Ebay for $20. I know I did this to myself.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

A day or two ago, Nippon Ichi announced a PS5 collection for their Marl Kingdom: Rhapsody games (only first one ever came out in the USA, and it was an Atlus localization). There, that's what's uniquely on the PS5 and has my attention.

Nope, it's coming to Switch and PC as well:

https://nisamerica.com/rhapsody-chronicles/

 

[zyclonPD]

I skipped the entire ps4 generation, bought one almost at the end when they were going on sale. Will do the same with the ps5. With the growing number of PlayStation's showing up to repair shops with liquid metal leaking I think the console design is a ticking time bomb. Best of luck to any early adopters but if it stops working its a good chance its that.

 

[Wesker]

I skipped the entire ps4 generation, bought one almost at the end when they were going on sale. Will do the same with the ps5. With the growing number of PlayStation's showing up to repair shops with liquid metal leaking I think the console design is a ticking time bomb. Best of luck to any early adopters but if it stops working its a good chance its that.

Bar a couple games, PS4 was a worthless console.

 

[Kheapathic]

I skipped the entire ps4 generation, bought one almost at the end when they were going on sale. Will do the same with the ps5. With the growing number of PlayStation's showing up to repair shops with liquid metal leaking I think the console design is a ticking time bomb. Best of luck to any early adopters but if it stops working its a good chance its that.

Ideally the brain trust (saying that politely) at iFixIt is working on the issue. They do more than just sell toolkits and what-not, they have a good selection of "How to do x-maintenance" on various devices. If Sony isn't gonna own up to their mistake and fix the issue through a recall or extended warranty or something; others will fill that gap, by offering a DIY solution.

 

[AnOminous]

I just bought a PS5 because at this point I have so much Sony shit it feels like I'm shackled. It's like I'm an abused housewife who keeps coming back because Sony doesn't always give me a black eye.

I feel like that with the iPhone. Apple just makes them shittier and shittier and at the same time, absurdly expensive, but I have apps I've been using since 2007. I really hate the trend of making them bigger and bigger. If I wanted a tablet I'd have bought one.

 

[The Feline Solution]

This reminds me of a story of Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky in the making of Outer Worlds. Both Tim and Leonard came to the writing room one day with a mass of books and told the writing room full of diverse millennials that they were going to read all these books to get their inspiration from them. The diverse writing team looked at them both slack jawed and with disgust and told Tim and Leonard that they were not going to get their inspiration from books because, "Nobody reads today" and that audiences would get bored with a game that was inspired by books. Instead they were going to get their ideas by browsing Twitter, watching Rick & Morty and playing Borderlands as those things resonates with the youth today.
I shit you not this happened. Because of this Outer Worlds was forgettable tripe. These dipshits need to realize that most people do not use Twitter but to do so would mean that they would have to admit that Twitter is a echo chamber and most of the world doesn't share their views on life and politics. That to the modern millennial writer is a fate worse than death.

Holy shit, this explains fucking everything. I really tried to like that game but gave up after a couple of hours.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

Bar a couple games, PS4 was a worthless console.

The PS4 was a console you bought to play third party titles because you can’t go PC and don’t like XBOX. My PS4 mostly sat dormant after Arkham Knight because there wasn’t anything to support the damn thing. The 8th gen was a dead gen for about half its life, only made worse by the fact that Arkham Knight is still the visual peak to this day.

It took till 2017 to really get content, but by then, Switch was kicking ass, so I just abandoned it. Nowadays, I just use the PS5 as my PS4 and play games still not on Switch, plus those that have come since then I avoid downgrades. Stuff like Crash, Nier, Catherine, Batman Arkham, hell, even licensed shit like SpongeBob all play better on it than my Switch, so it has its purpose past being a glorified Ratchet & Sackboy machine.

 

[Wesker]

The PS4 was a console you bought to play third party titles because you can’t go PC and don’t like XBOX. My PS4 mostly sat dormant after Arkham Knight because there wasn’t anything to support the damn thing. The 8th gen was a dead gen for about half its life, only made worse by the fact that Arkham Knight is still the visual peak to this day.

It took till 2017 to really get content, but by then, Switch was kicking ass, so I just abandoned it. Nowadays, I just use the PS5 as my PS4 and play games still not on Switch, plus those that have come since then I avoid downgrades. Stuff like Crash, Nier, Catherine, Batman Arkham, hell, even licensed shit like SpongeBob all play better on it than my Switch, so it has its purpose past being a glorified Ratchet & Sackboy machine.

That's probably the main reason why I didn't want to to get it when half the advertised library is just PS4 games. And the other would be none of exclusives interest me. I wish that wasn't the case but whatever.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

That's probably the main reason why I didn't want to to get it when half the advertised library is just PS4 games. And the other would be none of exclusives interest me. I wish that wasn't the case but whatever.

Even amongst the PS4 games, many are just PS3 games. The 8th gen was really rough. It is kind of sad that my PS5 with all of two exclusives was more interesting to me than the PS4.

If you are going to get a PS4, just get Dreams and Sackboy, then you get a funny as hell content creation game and a good 3D platformer. Besides those two exclusives…eh…. I am sure someone will say Final Fantasy, maybe the remakes of Shadow of Colossus and Medievil? Kind of a crap shoot. I won’t even recommend the PS4’s Ratchet title, especially since Rift Apart is now a thing.

 

[Wesker]

Even amongst the PS4 games, many are just PS3 games.

Yeah that's true. I forgot just how fucking many were just "remasters."

The store sucks too for classics, and what they consider classic is idiotic the huge majority of the time. They want everyone to subscribe to PS Now and that just ain't worth it.