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

Will you be buying a PS5 Pro on release?

  • Yes

    Votes: 52 14.9%

  • No (not at £700 Lol)

    Votes: 201 57.6%

  • No (other)

    Votes: 78 22.3%

  • Pancake

    Votes: 18 5.2%
  • Total voters
    349
So are we saying that Ratchet and Clank couldn’t be done on the Series X? Nobody is arguing the benefits of an SSD over an HDD, it’s people from either camp saying about the benefits of the PS5 SSD over the Xbox and how it’s makes up for the 2tf gap.
I’ll buy both but got to face facts, anything 3rd party will be better on Xbox... also maybe decent keyboard/mouse support?
 
Man that console is ugly. It's clear looking at the sheer size that Sony are worried about cooling and clearly can't come up with a more compact cooling design fit for purpose. I'm interested to see the pricing on these vs Xbox Series X. I'm a bit concerned about the noise levels on this, so I'll be keeping a close eye on how people find the cooling. I have full faith in Xbox and their cooling as I've found the Xbox One X to be very efficient and quiet. Interesting times ahead. Gut is telling me the PS5 is just in excessively large.
 
varkanoid said:
Find that a strange statement in my opinion SSD's have become mandatory for quite some time. You dont need to buy a 2TB SSD. A 256gb SSD or 512gb SSD boot drive is fine.
In my PC I've got a very fast Nvme 512gb SSD for my C: drive, a 512gb SSD for my Steam Drive, a 1tb SSD for my games drive and a 2TB Hard drive for my pictures, photos, documents, etc etc.

The two SSD's I've pretty much had for ages.

Sorry bit off topic.
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You're right. Wasn't that clear in the post. I've got an old 128GB SATA SSD for the OS. Games are on a 4TB 2.5" drive. I want to ditch both for a single NVME, but now doesn't seem like the time.

haszek said:
Spiderman is first game with enhancement and DLC, so shouldn't count on your list :p
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I'd missed that.

Makes me wonder if Sony have something else lined up? Microsoft has already announced Halo Infinite, Senua's Saga and Everwild, plus Microsoft Flight (which isn't technically first party). Forza (probably Horizon 5) and Fable 4 are highly likely. Perfect Dark is rumoured. And that lot only covers about half their studios :eek:

Either that, or this is why Sony has paid for so many third party "timed exclusives".
 
Cryfreeman said:
So are we saying that Ratchet and Clank couldn’t be done on the Series X? Nobody is arguing the benefits of an SSD over an HDD, it’s people from either camp saying about the benefits of the PS5 SSD over the Xbox and how it’s makes up for the 2tf gap.
I’ll buy both but got to face facts, anything 3rd party will be better on Xbox... also maybe decent keyboard/mouse support?
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Of course it can. The real world difference in the SSD speed is far less significant than Sony would like you to believe. Sure the throughput is approx. 50% above the Series X but as seen in SSD vs NVME comparisons on PC, for loading times this equates to virtually nil difference.

The difference in GPU (ray tracing ability specifically) is >40% in the Series X favour, which would be significantly more noticeable.
 
Spikey said:
It's clear looking at the sheer size that Sony are worried about cooling and clearly can't come up with a more compact cooling design fit for purpose. I'm interested to see the pricing on these vs Xbox Series X.
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Thing is, ignoring aesthetics, I measured the Xbox Series X and it's actually too deep/wide to fit into my TV Stand. It's not the height/length that's the issue. It's the width/depth. Despite being longer the PS5 would actually fit quite comfortably into most TV units whereas the Xbox SX won't IMO.

I get the impression from the designs of the new systems that both MS/Sony are seriously worried about thermal issues and would rather you placed them upright on a table rather than hiding them away in a TV unit where airflow could be restricted.
 
pioneer2000 said:
Of course it can. The real world difference in the SSD speed is far less significant than Sony would like you to believe. Sure the throughput is approx. 50% above the Series X but as seen in SSD vs NVME comparisons on PC, for loading times this equates to virtually nil difference.

The difference in GPU (ray tracing ability specifically) is >40% in the Series X favour, which would be significantly more noticeable.
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Maybe you should join their console development team since you clearly know more than the people working there.
Do you honestly believe that sony spent all that money developing the SSD tech for no real world difference?
 
Cryfreeman said:
So are we saying that Ratchet and Clank couldn’t be done on the Series X? Nobody is arguing the benefits of an SSD over an HDD, it’s people from either camp saying about the benefits of the PS5 SSD over the Xbox and how it’s makes up for the 2tf gap.
I’ll buy both but got to face facts, anything 3rd party will be better on Xbox... also maybe decent keyboard/mouse support?
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It could be done with work arounds or reduction in detail.
 
Anyone hazard a guess at pricing?
I'm settling in the region of £499 while I have friends that are thinking £599 to £999. I can't see this being that expensive.
 
Jae-So said:
Anyone hazard a guess at pricing?
I'm settling in the region of £499 while I have friends that are thinking £599 to £999. I can't see this being that expensive.
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I'm speculating, but maybe 549 Digital Only and 649 with the drive. Given the specs that doesn't seem unfair.

Edit: Sorry, double post.
 
Jae-So said:
Anyone hazard a guess at pricing?
I'm settling in the region of £499 while I have friends that are thinking £599 to £999. I can't see this being that expensive.
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My Guestimate is £400-450 for the digital version and £500-550 for the physical one. I suspect Sony will price the digital one agressively, or the physical one extortionately, to try and nudge customers away from physical games into their online store so they can generate revenue from digital sales (rather than giving a cut to resellers) and to push potential subscription services in future.
 
Raikiri said:
I'm speculating, but maybe 549 Digital Only and 649 with the drive. Given the specs that doesn't seem unfair.

Edit: Sorry, double post.
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Man £649 just seems crazy in this economy. Especially with it looking like the new One X RRP will be £259 with a drive.
 
So Gran Turismo 7 won't be a launch title? I screamed like a little girl when they showed it, then cried like a little girl when they did'nt say "Holiday 2020"
 
Spikey said:
Man that console is ugly. It's clear looking at the sheer size that Sony are worried about cooling and clearly can't come up with a more compact cooling design fit for purpose.

I have full faith in Xbox and their cooling as I've found the Xbox One X to be very efficient and quiet

Gut is telling me the PS5 is just in excessively large.
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But to be fair no compact cooling design would work for these power levels, so they have had to make it large. The Series X is just literally a big square box with a huge fan and cooler at the top, not exactly hard to design that cooling was it?
 
Not a fan of white but I was pleasantly surprised that it looked nicer than the V Shaped alleged dev units.

It seems like each gen they flip flop between themselves on power, if the PS5 had the XSX horsepower I'd finally probably stuck with just one console , but as it is, I know already I'll get the XSX for it's exclusives and third party and the PS5 for it's exclusives..

I don't waste much money on everything else, and was thinking of an RTX3080 or similar to upgrade my PC, but I could no doubt get both consoles for the same price, so it kind of makes sense ;)
 
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