Sony Showcases Two PlayStation 5 Console Versions, Platform-Exclusive Next Generation Games

[Rahnak]

Is the drive so expensive? Probably sony charges a lot for the drive.

We'll find out once Sony reveals pricing. I tried googling prices but most drives do writes as well. I did find what looked like an external 4k blu ray player that was just shy of $50. If I were to guess, maybe a $30 difference between versions?

 

[Metroid]

We'll find out once Sony reveals pricing. I tried googling prices but most drives do writes as well. I did find what looked like an external 4k blu ray player that was just shy of $50. If I were to guess, maybe a $30 difference between versions?

To me, for them to make a different version, must have been $100 plus difference. $30 or $50 don't think they would have bothered about. Let's wait and see, good question.

 

[Lionheart]

I like the design, the event was boring asf though, only thing I enjoyed was Resident Evil 8 Village.

 

[iO]

My PS4 blu ray drive's only use was the games it came with. All of my purchases were digital. If others like me can save some money for buying it without the drive, then why not?

Might save you a few bucks initially. But losing the ability to sell games and game for cheap with second hand games really isn't worth it IMO.

 

[Ruru]

Now that's ugly. PS2, PS3 & PS4 original designs looked great.

edit: And no RGB?!

 

[Rahnak]

Might save you a few bucks initially. But losing the ability to sell games and game for cheap with second hand games really isn't worth it IMO.

I haven't done that since the PS3 days, but it's a very good point. For sure, it's not for everyone, I'm probably their ideal target for the digital version.

 

[Ruru]

I haven't done that since the PS3 days, but it's a very good point. For sure, it's not for everyone, I'm probably their ideal target for the digital version.

Personally I don't even remember when I've bought a console game as new. Skate 3 on X360 probably. These days I just buy old console games from ebay and everything digitally for PC.

 

[Hotobu]

This is all I could think about when I saw the PS5 just now.

A Red/Black mod with green eyes would be both great and hilarious.

 

[Tomgang]

Yeah I don't know what to say. With out the disk it looks... Well not overly bad, but not perfect either.

The disk version . Good god, that looks like PS5 just got tumor or something.

I prefer design on the older consoles to be hornestly.

 

[Ruru]

IMO it just needs a black version. This black & white design looks stupid.

 

[sepheronx]

I like physical media. I am not a fan of how video games are going tbh. Maybe it is just me but with the events happening around the world now and of hearing how things are pulled from digital streaming systems and what not because of some disagreements on historical point of view or whatever, proves that having physical is important. Plus what ever happened to simply throwing in a cartridge or disk and play the game? Are people that lazy now? I also love the idea of collecting. Having a collection you can display so one day you are bored and want to do something, you simply go to your library of games, look and choose. I used to do it all the time and was just....fun (if that makes sense).

The system looks OK. I don't care too much for it of course but I never found the PS4 that appealing either. More appealing than this though. But oh well. The games don't much appeal to me either besides as someone else here said - Resident Evil 8 and the Square Enix title. We will see.

 

[Hyderz]

the rendering gave it a cheap flexible plastic feel to it.
maybe when we see the product in hand, might be different

 

[Pumper]

Terrible design and the console is giant compared to the rest:

 

[1d10t]

White and blue LED, I think of Atlas from Portal 2...

I think XSX won this round, from hardware and certainly form factor. Yeah I said it, it was UGLY.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Oh I like the digital edition, it's aesthetically appealing. But the way they just bulged out the chassis and created this plastic tumor to house the optical drive... It's just gross.

Function over fashion....

My PS4 blu ray drive's only use was the games it came with. All of my purchases were digital.

And when the PSN shuts down, all of your games will be gone. Those with physical discs will still be able to play their games...

Even with discs, once you pop the game in, you get GBs worth of updates to download.

...even without updates.

My original copy of Destiny is literally just a physical placeholder instead of a digital one.

I haven't seen this yet. However, my PS4 Library isn't that extensive.

 

[ShurikN]

I think XSX won this round, from hardware and certainly form factor. Yeah I said it, it was UGLY.

But they lost brutally in the only department that matters. Games. 5 seconds of Ratchet and Clank had more gameplay than the entire XBox "gameplay" presentation.

 

[Valantar]

I like physical media. I am not a fan of how video games are going tbh. Maybe it is just me but with the events happening around the world now and of hearing how things are pulled from digital streaming systems and what not because of some disagreements on historical point of view or whatever, proves that having physical is important. Plus what ever happened to simply throwing in a cartridge or disk and play the game? Are people that lazy now? I also love the idea of collecting. Having a collection you can display so one day you are bored and want to do something, you simply go to your library of games, look and choose. I used to do it all the time and was just....fun (if that makes sense).

I don't disagree with you, and I definitely wouldn't buy an all-digital version, but physical game sales have been down the toilet for half a decade or more (hi, former game retail worker here). Also, "throwing in a cartridge or disk and play[ing] the game" hasn't been a reality since the X360/PS3 generation - optical drives don't have the bandwidth required to load anything even remotely modern directly off hte disk. At the very least it needs installing to a drive, but it also likely needs a ton of updates given how broken a lot of games are at launch.

To me the design looks like inspired by a perfect female figure - 90/60/90... Very weird - I bet women will like it more than men...

That post is such a cluster****, I'm impressed that it's just two sentences long. Pretty please keep your sexist drivel to yourself? It would be much appreciated.



As for this console design .... eugh. I get what they are going for, but when what they are going for is "15-year-old's idea of a cool sci-fi-looking gadget", that doesn't add up to me. Most gamers are adults. The vast majority of game hardware buyers are adults. This obnoxious monstrosity would never reach my living room, no way, and I would imagine most people above the age of 15 would say the same. I will be getting both new consoles down the line (need them for work if nothing else), but they'll be living in my office. The XSX will likely be brought out to game on the TV regularly, but this thing? It will stay safely tucked away where I don't have to look at it more than I absolutely have to.


Edit: I believe I found the origin of this design (courtesy of Eurogamer commentators). The colour scheme might be reversed, but there sure is a strong family resemblance.

 

[wurschti]

Looks like someone was very inspired from Lucy when making the trailer. 100% brain time.
Not a fan of the design tho, Now the new Xbox looks much better.

 

[sepheronx]

I don't disagree with you, and I definitely wouldn't buy an all-digital version, but physical game sales have been down the toilet for half a decade or more (hi, former game retail worker here). Also, "throwing in a cartridge or disk and play[ing] the game" hasn't been a reality since the X360/PS3 generation - optical drives don't have the bandwidth required to load anything even remotely modern directly off hte disk. At the very least it needs installing to a drive, but it also likely needs a ton of updates given how broken a lot of games are at launch.

No, I agree to an extent. But what I am saying is that I am OK if the physical information is installed on the local disk but the cartridge is used for certain things and the protection as well. Heck, cartridges could be way faster than disk now and while still kind of pricey, not as bad as it used to be.

But yeah, the amount needed to download to fix a game at launch is ridiculous. That though boils down to poor development and developers.

 

[Valantar]

No, I agree to an extent. But what I am saying is that I am OK if the physical information is installed on the local disk but the cartridge is used for certain things and the protection as well. Heck, cartridges could be way faster than disk now and while still kind of pricey, not as bad as it used to be.

But yeah, the amount needed to download to fix a game at launch is ridiculous. That though boils down to poor development and developers.

It's more on publishers frankly, they're the ones demanding strict deadlines and forcing developers (most of which are in extremely precarious economic situations unlike a lot of publishers) to release things that ideally would get half a year or a full year more development to fix bugs and polish everything.

Cartridges could indeed be good, but that would be really expensive - let's say they go with a base x2 NVMe controller, and use HMB to make it DRAMless, that's still a significant cost compared to a $60 sales price even for 64GB of flash, let alone the 128GB or more that many games would need. Remember, they couldn't use the bargain-basement flash found in USB drives and low-end SD cards, it simply isn't fast enough.

Terrible design and the console is giant compared to the rest:

Who made that comparison? It's pretty well done, and important - without context, I never would have imagined it to be that damn huge.

 

[Deleted member 185088]

I like the design if in a more classy dark, till now only the 360 was beautiful in white (excluding special editions).

 

[lexluthermiester]

Also, "throwing in a cartridge or disk and play[ing] the game" hasn't been a reality since the X360/PS3 generation - optical drives don't have the bandwidth required to load anything even remotely modern directly off hte disk.

I still do it, on consoles anyway.. Prefer it that way. But then again, I'm an odd duck.

 

[Valantar]

I still do it, on consoles anyway.. Prefer it that way. But then again, I'm an odd duck.

I also use disks, and would say I prefer them even if most of my purchases these days are digital due to convenience. The artifact itself has value. But you haven't been able to buy a game disk, insert the disk, and play the game without some sort of installation for more than a decade (and these days likely a 20+GB download). That is all I said.

 

[Chomiq]

I don't mind the design. MS should take major lessons from Sony's event. This is how you present your games, no bullshit, straight trailers with as much actual gameplay as possible. It got to the point when compared to the previous ms event Sony was just pounding them to the ground with great titles. Sure, there were 2 or 3 that were meh but the rest looked great. I'm not counting multiplats here, btw.
As for digi vs physical. I prefer physical copies and will grab that version once it's available. There are folks that have no preference and will buy what's cheapest, which will be digital. Once again, it's a matter of choice. I doubt that digital will sell well in Japan though, since they love their physical copies so much.

 

[shk021051]

looks like router to me i perfer series x design