Poll: *The Official PlayStation 5 (PS5) Thread*

[montymint]

Hoping tp pick one up at launch - I just need to decide when to get rid of my ps4 Pro

 

[ic1male]

And don't forget - if you put the game disk in, it plays off the disk and doesn't install to the hard drive

That's not right. You'll just choose which parts of the game to install to SSD.

 

[Grim5]

That's not right. You'll just choose which parts of the game to install to SSD.

I believe it transfers data off the disk into storage while you're playing - like virtual memory and the storage is cleared after playing

 

[ic1male]

I believe it transfers data off the disk into storage while you're playing - like virtual memory and the storage is cleared after playing

What? The Blu-ray drive can't possibly keep up with streaming from an SSD at 4GB/sec.

 

[Plainsong]

Pretty sure Cerny said in the interview posted a while back that all games would install from disk.

 

[pcfarrar]

Apparently New Cod is 150+ gb? That's crazy, 500gb this day of age is just stupid, considering how cheap storage is these days.

Games on the PS5 should be smaller as they won't need to have replicated data in the installs to ensure slow mechanical harddrives can stream in game assets at a decent speed.
Also the vastly more powerful zen CPU should open up the way for better compression.

 

[McManicMan]

i always remember this said by Sony about is Emotion Engine

We're approaching the level of detail seen in Toy Story 2

then the console comes out

 

[Digital X]

What's everyones "Yep picking it up" price point?

 

[TNA]

What's everyones "Yep picking it up" price point?

£399

 

[Dyson]

What's everyones "Yep picking it up" price point?

£500, but expecting to have to wait for first price drop for that

 

[Mobius 1]

Day 1. So whatever price.

it’s most likely to start at £499. Which is fine.

 

[ic1male]

I actually hope it is £499 with a Bill of Materials at £599 because then it will have decent tech. Let's see if they are willing to absorb some of the initial launch costs or whether they will cheap out on things.

Although, if they do a SKU at £399 for 1TB SSD and have a £499 2TB option, I would pick the latter.

 

[TNA]

I actually hope it is £499 with a Bill of Materials at £599 because then it will have decent tech. Let's see if they are willing to absorb some of the initial launch costs or whether they will cheap out on things.

Although, if they do a SKU at £399 for 1TB SSD and have a £499 2TB option, I would pick the latter.

Yeah, I am happy with that. They should give people options. I would never pay extra £100 for 1tb extra storage for example. Not worth it for my needs and it ends up making the price a lot less attractive to me.

 

[TheVoice]

I actually hope it is £499 with a Bill of Materials at £599 because then it will have decent tech. Let's see if they are willing to absorb some of the initial launch costs or whether they will cheap out on things.

My instinct is to say they won't do loss-leading any more, but with PS+ etc and games as a service in general bringing in quite a lot of money, it would probably work if they can get people onto subscriptions and digital games from the outset.

Although, if they do a SKU at £399 for 1TB SSD and have a £499 2TB option, I would pick the latter.

Yep I'd be fine with that, especially if the storage ends up being something that can't be upgraded later.

I've never really been able to justify buying a console at launch before but I can afford it now (and hopefully at launch too!), and if the back-compatibility with PS4 games is there for the most part that'll make the decision even easier. I've had every PS so far and always used it far, far more than any other console I also had at the time, so I'm as good as sold on the PS5 already unless they make a mess of it in the next 12 months.

 

[TNA]

My instinct is to say they won't do loss-leading any more, but with PS+ etc and games as a service in general bringing in quite a lot of money, it would probably work if they can get people onto subscriptions and digital games from the outset.



Yep I'd be fine with that, especially if the storage ends up being something that can't be upgraded later.

I've never really been able to justify buying a console at launch before but I can afford it now (and hopefully at launch too!), and if the back-compatibility with PS4 games is there for the most part that'll make the decision even easier. I've had every PS so far and always used it far, far more than any other console I also had at the time, so I'm as good as sold on the PS5 already unless they make a mess of it in the next 12 months.

Backward compatibility is key for me to pick it up at launch. If I read anywhere that it won’t be, then I may get a PS4 pro for a year or two then upgrade later as there are a few games on there I won’t to play. But I am pretty sure it will be backwards compatible. Can’t see why not really apart from laziness from dev to do a few updates.

 

[malachi]

i always remember this said by Sony about is Emotion Engine

We're approaching the level of detail seen in Toy Story 2

then the console comes out

Then look what they said about the PS3

"You are going to need a second job to buy a Playstation 3".......They wasn't joking!

 

[Plainsong]

BC would be great and to continue where we left off with our PS+ content as well as everything new would be a perfect scenario and a day one purchase from me.

 

[ic1male]

This looks like the first photo of the PS5 dev kit. Certainly resembles what was in those patent renders a few months back.

 

[TNA]

This looks like the first photo of the PS5 dev kit. Certainly resembles what was in those patent renders a few months back.

Interesting. Looks huge

 

[TheVoice]

That is horrendous, but definitely looks like it was designed for optimum cooling with a monitor sat on top. I can't imagine (and am really hoping) the actual console will bear any resemblance.