I think I paid £350, maybe £399 at most for the PS4 when I bought it. But with the value I’ve gotten from it, £600 is honestly reasonable to me for the PS5.
Apart from when I’ve been out of the country or not at home for a few days, I’d say I’ve probably played PS4 at least a little bit almost every day since I got it, and that was 5 years ago I think.
I’m hyped by the PS5 but felt that the event was a bit lacklustre.
The remaster of Demon’s Souls should be great fun but was hoping for something a bit more up to date from the From Software team.
Is Bloodborne 2 too much to ask for???
I’d want one without a disc drive, but the 3 times a year I want to watch a blu-ray or someone lends me a game, I’ll regret it!
I think getting the one without a disc drive is a mistake as disc games get discounted, store games… not really, from my experience.
That’s not true really, although with the disc version you have more options.
PS store has discounts all the time. Just recently, I bought Fist Of The North Star as the digital was discounted to £12.99 and the cheapest I could find in a store was £25 at that time.
For me, though, I’ll definitely be buying the disc version because I play Blu-Rays on it.
Consoles are typically sold at or below cost and the revenue made up on licensing fees which made them more affordable - 600£ is a bit of a stretch and starts going into the more serious/hardcore gaming territory (at which point people might consider a PC which has other perks like amazing backwards compatibility with the last decade’s games which still hold up pretty well on max graphics).
You might buy it, but I think that a big part of their target market are kids/young teens for whom the parents buy the consoles, and I can imagine them being reluctant to spend that much. I can’t see it being a success at that price unless there are two editions (~300£ for the mass market, and a 600£ “Pro” edition for the more serious gamers).
When it comes to consoles I think the ability to lend/borrow games or get them at very low cost from places like CeX is awesome, although understandably the manufacturers would rather not have that and get everyone to pay full price from the PS Store directly (sure there are discounts, but it still doesn’t beat what you can get at CeX). If I was buying this I would still spend more on the disc version just to have that possibility.
Good to see your insights on it. I rarely use my PS4 as i’m a PC gamer - I use my PS4 for Detroit Become Human (before it was on PC) and The Last Of Us.
Detroit was amazing. For me, that was even more emotionally brutal (with the Nazi allegories) than TLoU.
Absolutely this.
I have never paid more than £18 for a PS4 game (I would guess I have around 25 now). All of them (of course!) have been second hand. I’ve only ever had one issue with a disc not working but since I live three minutes from the store that was a very minor inconvenience.
All of these games could have been bought digitally but there’s no way, even with the occasional deals available, I could have done this for less than double what I have paid for the physical copies.
Furthermore about half of these games I know I’ll never want to play again - I’ll get about £50 back from CeX (once it opens!) for the PS5 fund.
I was usually a Xbox player and recently purchased the Xbox One S for the 4K player. I watched the announcement last week and think I’ll be getting the PS5.
Sony got me excited about gaming in a way that Microsoft failed to do with their announcements.
I purchased a PS4 Pro yesterday (£270 + 8 games on eBay! Steak!) in prep for the sequels that were announced + TLOUII on Friday.
PS5 is a day 1 purchase for me!
May not be the thread for it but, I have TLOU Part 1, Bloodborne, God of War and Spider-Man on the way. Any other exclusives I should dig into?
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Those four will keep you very busy for a while.
Early morning excitement! 
If you haven’t already, play Part 1 before Part 2 - otherwise the story will not make sense.
I played it a little when it came out and I remember flashes. I’ll be going back through it though before Part 2 for sure!
Same here!
For me Microsoft seriously dropped the ball with the XBone - they’ve been miles behind this generation (especially given the 360 was arguably the better experience over the PS3).
On exclusives - it took me nearly three years to pick up Horizon - this was an error. It’s a fantastic game.
I think I still cling onto the many fond memories I had of the 360 from my teens - Gears of War, Halo and Borderlands being prime examples.
I then went to the Xbox One and was always side-eyeing the PlayStation community, envious of the exclusives.
Unless Microsoft blow me away next month with their game announcements I can’t see myself dropping £400+ on it initially.
The Horizon sequel is another on my wish list so I’ll be picking the first one up. Thank you for the recommendation!
I’ve probably said this before but for me, Shenmue 3 was the ultimate example of Sony being more committed to what gamers wanted.
Microsoft had an advantage. Shenmue 2 came out on the original Xbox after the demise of the Dreamcast - in fact in North America you could only get it on the Xbox (over here it was on Dreamcast and Xbox) so there was a relationship there, and yet they wouldn’t commit to putting resources in, unlike Sony who committed to working with Yu Suzuki even before the success of the crowdfund.
For years I said whichever platform committed to it, I’d buy. That became Sony, and that’s the reason I bought the PS4. In doing so I can’t imagine having missed out on The Last of Us, Uncharted, the Yakuza series (which has only just coming out on Xbox with just a small handful of the games) and Infamous, amongst many other things. The PS exclusives over the last generation have been nothing short of mindblowing.
Sony have some serious competition with a new console contender entering the market…