Poll: *The Official PlayStation (PS5/PS5 Pro) Thread*

Will you be buying a PS5 Pro on release?

  • Yes

    Votes: 52 15.5%
  • No (not at £700 Lol)

    Votes: 193 57.6%
  • No (other)

    Votes: 74 22.1%
  • Pancake

    Votes: 16 4.8%

  • Total voters
    335
We also have some financial forecasts for some insomniac games and they show how ridiculous Marvel's fees are

The standalone venom game, which is coming in 2025 before Wolverine will actually make a loss if the game sells under 5 million copies and remember Spiderman 2 has just reached 6 million and Venom is not coming to PC. Venom is budgeted at 120 million for development and they'll have to also pay 50 million to Marvel in licensing fees. The game will cost $49.99usd and it's a 12 hours long game with 12 main missions + side quests. Thats as much as we know
 
I do really feel for Insomniac with this one, it looks like they've leaked loads of personal details too with passport info and home addresses??

It really isn't a leak - and is very much a hack. Someone hasn't accidentally left a USB drive in Pret with all this info on...

I think the gameplay test videos etc. for Wolverine aren't that interesting but the roadmap for their next 10+ years are definitely interesting to see.
 
So, those with the Portal, honest opinions, please? I will likely pick one up in the new year when it is back in stock, all the games I never seem to get around to playing single player I'd use it for it whilst in the lounge with the kids (My PS5 is in my office). Any regrets?
 
So, those with the Portal, honest opinions, please? I will likely pick one up in the new year when it is back in stock, all the games I never seem to get around to playing single player I'd use it for it whilst in the lounge with the kids (My PS5 is in my office). Any regrets?

I know I can't really comment as I don't have one but if you watch Wulff Den's video on it, I'd be surprised if you fancied one after it...

 

27min of wolverine gameplay here. It already looks really good!
 
So, those with the Portal, honest opinions, please? I will likely pick one up in the new year when it is back in stock, all the games I never seem to get around to playing single player I'd use it for it whilst in the lounge with the kids (My PS5 is in my office). Any regrets?
I had one - used it for just under 2 weeks and then decided to return it.

Initially I was really happy with it, it worked well at home when I wanted to play games on the sofa whilst my wife watched TV and my daughter was asleep upstairs. Connectivity was fine once you get things sorted (really important to do a device reset the first time you use it) and making sure the PS5 was hard wired and the Portal was using 5ghz wifi.

There's definitely input lag and it's noticeable to some degree - but depending on the game you can sort of get used to it. I used it to play/finish God of War Ragnarok which I'd never got round to and it was good for that. I also played a decent amount of Diablo 4 using it and again, no major issues using it for that outside of occasional visual banding caused by the bitrate/streaming.

I work away a few days each month and I took it away a few days after getting it and it worked fine in the first hotel - but the following hotel it didn't work at all. I couldn't connect to the hotel's wifi as it had the whole webpage / create an account set up requirement and the Portal doesn't have a web browser so you can't actually ever connect to these sort of wifi networks. Pretty annoying, used my hotspot on my phone for a but that was quite wobbly.

I ended up returning it because I just felt like it didn't do anything really particularly great. I was hoping that Sony would have implemented some sort of improvements to the Remote Play connection for the Portal so it would feel almost like playing natively on your console - but it 100% has input latency that you can feel, it just depends on how partial to that you are.

It was definitely nice to sit on the sofa and play games whilst my wife watched TV and using the actual Dualsense controller was good - but again, it's something I could do already with the Remote Play app on my iPad with a PS5 controller connected via Bluetooth.

That's why I say it's good - but it also doesn't do anything great. It felt hard to justify it when I could get 95% of the experience just from using the Remote Play app on my iPad.
 
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Cheers but I tend to try and stay away from youtube reviews, there always seems to be an ulterior motive. I know a few got them in here so keen to hear their thoughts

That's fair, however the guy pretty much slams it at the expense of not being sent Sony stuff again in the future.

I don't know it's there an ulterior motive with him, can't imagine there is as it's not as though he's a Microsoft shill, perhaps there is and I'm not seeing it, but a scathing YT review nowadays is a rare thing.
 
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Very basic Q.... but i read different reports on reddit for this.

How long does the PS5 take to set up from scratch to being able to play something? We don't have great BB speeds where I live, it would be nice for my son to be up and running with a few games on Christmas day rather that waiting hours for game updates and downloads.

I am pondering very carefully taking the PS5 out of its brand new packacging and getting it all registered, set-up and any game updates downloaded ahead of Christmas day. The downside being

a) getting busted ahead of father christmas delivering it
b) it not looking like a brand new gift if I mess up opening it
c) faff

Is the ps5 plug and play or do all games take ages to download the updates even though its the disk version. i read on reddit harry potter disk version having 5+ hrs of updates for example and that Christmas day speeds from PSN will be even poorer. Any thoughts on this gang?
 
Very basic Q.... but i read different reports on reddit for this.

How long does the PS5 take to set up from scratch to being able to play something? We don't have great BB speeds where I live, it would be nice for my son to be up and running with a few games on Christmas day rather that waiting hours for game updates and downloads.

I am pondering very carefully taking the PS5 out of its brand new packacging and getting it all registered, set-up and any game updates downloaded ahead of Christmas day. The downside being

a) getting busted ahead of father christmas delivering it
b) it not looking like a brand new gift if I mess up opening it
c) faff

Is the ps5 plug and play or do all games take ages to download the updates even though its the disk version. i read on reddit harry potter disk version having 5+ hrs of updates for example and that Christmas day speeds from PSN will be even poorer. Any thoughts on this gang?

I tagged you in a thread I made the other day querying the same thing. I suggest you do what I am currently doing.
 
Very basic Q.... but i read different reports on reddit for this.

How long does the PS5 take to set up from scratch to being able to play something? We don't have great BB speeds where I live, it would be nice for my son to be up and running with a few games on Christmas day rather that waiting hours for game updates and downloads.

I am pondering very carefully taking the PS5 out of its brand new packacging and getting it all registered, set-up and any game updates downloaded ahead of Christmas day. The downside being

a) getting busted ahead of father christmas delivering it
b) it not looking like a brand new gift if I mess up opening it
c) faff

Is the ps5 plug and play or do all games take ages to download the updates even though its the disk version. i read on reddit harry potter disk version having 5+ hrs of updates for example and that Christmas day speeds from PSN will be even poorer. Any thoughts on this gang?

Could be a teachable lesson in patience.. and let him open it fresh for the day.
 
So, those with the Portal, honest opinions, please? I will likely pick one up in the new year when it is back in stock, all the games I never seem to get around to playing single player I'd use it for it whilst in the lounge with the kids (My PS5 is in my office). Any regrets?
It's only as good as the quality of your WiFi.
 
I tagged you in a thread I made the other day querying the same thing. I suggest you do what I am currently doing.

Thanks- will take a look.

I'm leaning towards getting the downloads done on Friday, then there is more of an experience for him for a few hours on the day.

Most of the family are over in the evening and he'll definitely have to put the time in kissing grandparents and talking about school, not having girlfriends etc for a good few hours later on..... would be harsh to not get a play in first :p
 
Wolverine runs pretty well on PC, 40-60fps pretty good without optimizing. Lots of stuff still missing from the game obviously, like all the cutscenes are still to be added to the game
 
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Stupid question incoming!

So I purchased GTA5 physical copy when I had a PS4. Never got round to playing it. Purchased a PS5 last year, got 3 weeks off for Christmas and thought I'd give it a whirl.

I know that some PS4 games had free upgrades to take advantage of the PS5 hardware. I also know that GTA5 wasn't one of them and required a fee.

I've installed GTA5 but can't find the PS5 upgrade anywhere on the Playstation store. Then only thing I can find is clicking on the 3 dots in GTA5 listing and there being an option for PS5 but at £35. Is that the version I need, so basically having to pay for the game twice?

The PS5 version of GTAV is on sale on ps store £17.49. In case you were still wanting it.
 
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