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I thought slims were supposed to be cheaper like how the PS3 and PS4 dropped to $299. Seems like a weird move to me
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They are cheaper To manufacture Probably
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Oct 10, 2023 18:01
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The PS5 is currently $20 more expensive than it was when I bought it at launch. On the other hand, my groceries are like 30-40% more expensive (and certain things are 100% more expensive) than they were back then so I guess it could be much worse.
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Oct 10, 2023 18:08
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History Comes Inside! posted:They are cheaper At the very least they've reduced it to one SKU and an attachment Blu-ray drive. It's just you can get it pre-installed for cheaper. That probably simplifies manufacturing significantly.
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Oct 10, 2023 18:10
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hatty posted:I thought slims were supposed to be cheaper like how the PS3 and PS4 dropped to $299. Seems like a weird move to me it's just revision that unifies the two sku's to simplify inventory and reduces size and shape to optimize shipping and storage. the boxes will probably be significantly smaller, too not bad per se, but i don't see how they'll do an actual slim beyond this since it'll complicate the swappable optical drive - unless we ironically end up getting multiple sku's for the optical drive
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Oct 10, 2023 18:11
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Make it like the sega cd.
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Oct 10, 2023 18:12
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is the drive compatible with old digital-onlys?
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Oct 10, 2023 18:14
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Rinkles posted:is the drive compatible with old digital-onlys? probably not, it looks like the revision has hardware specifically to support it. if you have a digital only and want to upgrade though i imagine gamestop at the very least is gonna be doing some trade in promos
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Oct 10, 2023 18:14
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I gotta keep my PS5Fat so I can heat my house in the winter.
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Oct 10, 2023 18:16
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univbee posted:https://x.com/PlayStation/status/1711773977129923048?s=20 is it just me or does the disc version look like a guy holding open a trenchcoat? pssst... wanna see some optical drives
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Oct 10, 2023 18:19
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Wrex Ruckus posted:is it just me or does the disc version look like a guy holding open a trenchcoat?
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Oct 10, 2023 18:20
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Rinkles posted:is the drive compatible with old digital-onlys? No, the new digital has a connection port set up for it and the old digital doesn't
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Oct 10, 2023 18:21
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Cant wait for the hombrew disc emulator attachment that can spoof game licenses
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Oct 10, 2023 18:24
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haveblue posted:No, the new digital has a connection port set up for it and the old digital doesn't lol. Getting flashes of old posts.... Memory chip going 
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Oct 10, 2023 18:25
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hatty posted:I thought slims were supposed to be cheaper like how the PS3 and PS4 dropped to $299. Seems like a weird move to me They didn't call it a slim. They called it a new look.
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Oct 10, 2023 18:34
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Hmm just noticed new ps5 has two usbs on the front, mfers
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Johnny Postnemonic posted:Hmm just noticed new ps5 has two usbs on the front, mfers Oh dang, I checked the spec sheet and those are both USB-C ports, the A's are on the back only.
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Oct 10, 2023 18:40
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hatty posted:Cant wait for the hombrew disc emulator attachment that can spoof game licenses May have to trade in for this. I love stealing.
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Oct 10, 2023 18:42
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How’d they make the PS5 uglier
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Oct 10, 2023 19:07
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hatty posted:I thought slims were supposed to be cheaper like how the PS3 and PS4 dropped to $299. Seems like a weird move to me In this economy?
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Oct 10, 2023 19:08
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I don't enjoy driving nearly enough to drive a manual. Saying manual is better is like telling me a toilet will flush harder if I tweak the handle constantly the whole time I'm making GBS threads.
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Oct 10, 2023 19:13
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What about that one time you could really have used a more effective flush
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my daily driver is an automatic camry with lane assist and adaptive cruise control so i can text as much as i want
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univbee posted:https://x.com/PlayStation/status/1711773977129923048?s=20 Arist posted:https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1711775192731574272 This owns, they chose a great way to merge the SKUs and reduce costs while not splitting the market. It looks funny as poo poo but I'm so glad they are still enthusiastically pushing optical. Really clever design. ON TWO DISCS! Vintersorg posted:I'm the ministand needed now when displaying it on it's side. incredible lmfao Wrex Ruckus posted:is it just me or does the disc version look like a guy holding open a trenchcoat? cannot unsee this image now
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Oct 10, 2023 19:21
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I wanna see one next to a regular one
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Oct 10, 2023 19:22
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History Comes Inside! posted:I wanna see one next to a regular one less of a popped collar = fail
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Volte posted:Is there any kind of actual reason for preferring manual other than "kids these days tbh, as an American who learned manual immediately after getting my license on an automatic, manuals are objectively less dangerous than automatics. At scale, they create a driving paradigm where just about everyone on the road has better control over and communication with the vehicle and its momentum at every stage of the driving process, and if you know how much Americans like to -do anything else- while loving around in a multi-ton vehicle you start to understand why insurance rates are so high here and why traffic fatalities are literally 50% higher, people are simply not paying much attention while power-tripping at speed with far less engagement in the processes of controlling the vehicle. Driving stick creates a paradigm where drivers are just innately paying more attention. I drive an automatic anymore because standard transmissions are hard to track down here, and it is nice to not have to shift in a lot of situations, but even as someone who doesn't use a smartphone or navigation at all I can directly compare how much less attention I'm actually paying to the process of driving compared to when I drove stick, it's loving crazy. Magnify that over a culture of urban drivers way worse than myself and you have roadways here that are...extremely unpredictable. I sometimes miss driving stick because it is pretty fun, but mostly I've accepted being lazy in the car I have which is indeed very a comfy experience. Automatics have come a long way in the last 50 years and they perform quite well now, but we are worse off for depending on them. Sakurazuka posted:I thought the US weird money thing was not having debit cards/contactless payments/chip & pin authorisation. many cards are moving away from chip/pin to tap now but adoption has been slow and we're about a decade behind the rest of the world (my bank only universalized tap on all cards issued about 6 months ago), there is no standard in the states, which means cards ship with a chip, tap, and swipe function because some places still only have mag swipe despite regulations against it. it's loving wild west out here lol
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" stubbornness? It seems objectively more dangerous to have to perform additional coordinated maneuvers while on the road and I mainly just remember my dad's car occasionally stalling at traffic lights.
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People who junk their perfectly fine ps5's to replace it with one that looks slightly better and is slightly smaller are very funny to me
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Oct 10, 2023 19:30
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Where’s the slightly better looking PS5
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lmao fat gurl with the lump aint goin nowhere goon, she is the superior piss
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If the new PS5 design eliminates coil whine I may look into trading mine in and swapping tbh
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History Comes Inside! posted:What about that one time you could really have used a more effective flush Yeah...That "one" time...
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Arist posted:https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1711775192731574272 If you purchase the PS5 Digital Edition, you can add the Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Drive for PS5 later, as it will also be sold separately for 79.99 USD | 119.99 EURO wtf lol
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Oct 10, 2023 19:41
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the disk drive is 80$ and the discless is only 50$ worth of difference. Literally why does the discless variant exist
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Of the upcoming games I have only just learned about in the last five minutes, I am torn between which title I find more incredible: "UFO Robot Grendizer: The Feast of the Wolves" or "Pac Man Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs."
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We have contactless payment in the US, the thing we don't have is like, servers who bring the device to the table and allow each person to tap for their thing so any large group splitting the bill is a hassle and why the cashapps are big Edit: oh important news happened since that discussion lol
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goblin week posted:the disk drive is 80$ and the discless is only 50$ worth of difference. Literally why does the discless variant exist For people who don’t have an extra $50 now but still want a PS5 and might have an extra $80 in the future
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I say just wait a tiny bit longer to afford the $50 if you are entering the idea of buying a PS5.
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goblin week posted:the disk drive is 80$ and the discless is only 50$ worth of difference. Literally why does the discless variant exist shipping costs at scale post-covid, and the tacit acknowledgement that while physical media isn't dead it is now a boutique item that will be more often sold direct to consumer through the internet (similar to boutique blu ray, number of released titles per year keeps going up while total sales and margin go down a bit, all direct to consumer)...because brick and mortar gaming retail is on life support. i imagine the 65/35-disc/digi equation of PS5s sold since launch will flip completely for the new model and 70% of PS5s sold over the next 3 years will be new digital models, with retailers not really wanting to stock many of the external drives but Sony making them available direct. BeanpolePeckerwood fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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