I've been using PS Now for about a year now and no, it's not nearly as good as Game Pass but I've definitely gotten my money's worth and then some out of it. Streaming has been hit or miss so if you're solely looking for BC on PS3 stuff then you need to really evaluate your net speed etc; there's a 7 day trial which is plenty enough to determine if it's going to work for you. The thing that saves it for me personally is the ability to download PS4 games instead of stream; since that will continue on the PS5 I will maintain my subscription. Another interesting thing about PSNow is it kind of sidesteps PSPlus; you don't need Plus to go online multi with PSNow games; or at least I haven't needed it for any of the games I've tried. It actually surprised me the first time I noticed it, playing Watch Dogs 2 and how the hell are other people here lol
I find it very telling that the senior leadership basically said "we didn't know it was that bad."
Basically, the decision makers sound like they were completely out of touch with how things were on the ground. The people responsible for deciding if a product should be released obviously did not even bother to look at the game they were releasing.
Yeah, there are entire genres of game on PS Now I couldn't, in good consciousness, recommend people play if you live in, say, Australia, or with average American internet. At all. They might as well not be there--mostly the twitchier fighting games and third-person action titles.
This is a problem with Xbox Game Streaming (which is also being folded into Game Pass, sort of), except it's worse because servers are...not Sony's strongest point, which is why they publicly announced purchasing Microsoft Azure server time for Playstation, among other things. It will get better, but we were saying the same things back when "Gaikai is going to change the world." It's not really surprising that the non-streaming side, which basically excludes anything from PS3, is more warmly regarded.
Sony also killed off support for more than half the platforms supporting PS Now (including their own TVs, lol), but that's old news (it happened back in 2017, during a period where they really did not know what PS Now was going to do).
I find it very telling that the senior leadership basically said "we didn't know it was that bad."
Basically, the decision makers sound like they were completely out of touch with how things were on the ground. The people responsible for deciding if a product should be released obviously did not even bother to look at the game they were releasing.
Or they're flat-out lying. The pressure to get the game out before Christmas must have been immense.
I find it very telling that the senior leadership basically said "we didn't know it was that bad."
Basically, the decision makers sound like they were completely out of touch with how things were on the ground. The people responsible for deciding if a product should be released obviously did not even bother to look at the game they were releasing.
Aa someone who works in technology development, this is more of a sign of bad culture mandating "yes person" culture of always painting a rosy picture, and providing harsh penalties or shame for failure and delays, vs. focusing on solutions, redirects, and shoring up scope to meet deadlines and cutting things from the launch product.that can be later patched in.
Yesterday:
8:30AM: "Your package is out for delivery." YAY!
3:00PM: "Your package is unfortunately rescheduled for tomorrow." DAMMIT! But all right, we just had our first major snowfall of the season, and unprecedented delivery volume. Both my parents were couriers, I sympathize.
Today:
8:30AM: "Your package is out for delivery." YAY!
11:30AM: "Your package is unfortunately rescheduled for tomorrow." GODDAMMIT!
4:00: Because I'm neurotic, I can't stop refreshing the page every now and then. But... "Your package is out for delivery." Whu...?
I swear, literally 15 seconds later, ♪ding dong♪ "Hey buddy here's your package." HOORAY!
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For those of you who have successfully completed PS5 orders from Walmart, is their 3 week delivery estimate accurate? Or is this a situation where they're "under promising, over delivering"?
I find it hard to believe that if I ordered an item on Dec 15 that it would take them until Jan 8 to deliver it. Especially a company as big as Walmart. It doesn't get much bigger than that. How could such a huge corp have such a slow pipeline?
For those of you who have successfully completed PS5 orders from Walmart, is their 3 week delivery estimate accurate? Or is this a situation where they're "under promising, over delivering"?
I find it hard to believe that if I ordered an item on Dec 15 that it would take them until Jan 8 to deliver it. Especially a company as big as Walmart. It doesn't get much bigger than that. How could such a huge corp have such a slow pipeline?
I actually looked this and Google came up with a post on Reddit (so grain of salt) where someone said they called Walmart customer care and were told the company expects to ship the items on Jan. 5. I'm also hoping to be surprised, but it may just be that that's what the supply chain looks like right now.
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Did they ever patch the issues with plugging in an extra Harddrive? I'm worried about it messing up the system but all my major PS4 games on that drive.
Had my first seemingly major crash on Miles Morales. I'd just finished getting Platinum on Remastered, and was maybe 1 hour into Miles. I got a phone call so I paused the game. After about 15 seconds, an incredibly loud buzzing came out of my TV that sounded like it was exploding, then the game just went black. It auto-rebooted to the report-an-issue page at least, but I haven't tried again.
I ran into 2 crashes in Remastered, but they just froze, the PS5 went back to the menu, and I rebooted the game. Not a big thing at all. Hopefully that is rare, because that noise was really alarming.
EDIT: I also would like to know if they patched the external hard drive stuff, I've got some new games I want to install, but am running out of room fast!
For those of you who have successfully completed PS5 orders from Walmart, is their 3 week delivery estimate accurate? Or is this a situation where they're "under promising, over delivering"?
I find it hard to believe that if I ordered an item on Dec 15 that it would take them until Jan 8 to deliver it. Especially a company as big as Walmart. It doesn't get much bigger than that. How could such a huge corp have such a slow pipeline?
I actually looked this and Google came up with a post on Reddit (so grain of salt) where someone said they called Walmart customer care and were told the company expects to ship the items on Jan. 5. I'm also hoping to be surprised, but it may just be that that's what the supply chain looks like right now.
My original ship date was also Jan 5th but I just got a notification it will be *arriving* on Dec 24th!
The XSX I ordered from Walmart on the 19th originally said it would come on the 7th but I got a text from fed ex saying it'll be here tomorrow so that's neat
Is anyone else getting a white noise effect on screen after waking it up from rest mode?
It's not happening every time, but sometimes I wake it up and I get this:
It seems to go away after a minute or so, but I can't get any clear answers on what it might be. It's only ever happened when bringing it out of rest mode, never from just turning it on.
Smells like something going wrong with the HDMI handshake, so it could be very specific to your TV or receiver in combination with the PS5 running whatever version of 4K/HDR it's supposed to support.
Do PS5 games not have trophies yet or is there a way to see em? I logged into MyPlaystation and I see all of my PS4 ones but no PS5 ones yet...
e: I know I have got a ton of trophies on Sack Boy and Assassin's Creed but don't see them online yet.
Good spot. I don't see mine on MyPlaystation either, but the trophy count is right. I've got 2 platinums on PS5 games, which is included in the total count on that page, but the games aren't there.
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Almost done with Sackboy, and right after I'll be playing through Bugsnax. The game is so weird and I didn't have any interest before it was released but the PS+ release made me give it a go.
As the self-proclaimed people's vanguard of backwards compatibility, this is a very good thing. Especially for games that don't have cross-generation multiplayer, saves or trophy lists, etc.
As the self-proclaimed people's vanguard of backwards compatibility, this is a very good thing. Especially for games that don't have cross-generation multiplayer, saves or trophy lists, etc.
That could get annoying if it repeatedly does it for the same game.
(Incidentally, there are no cross-gen trophy lists.)
As the self-proclaimed people's vanguard of backwards compatibility, this is a very good thing. Especially for games that don't have cross-generation multiplayer, saves or trophy lists, etc.
This is really nice. It was really hard to tell which one you're launching beforehand.
I was gonna say, they should probably delist a couple of their own half assed remasters while they're at it
Such as?
The Jak and Daxter remasters are laughably bad, and all of them are still up for purchase. Alot of the PS2 classics have a terrible emulator as well.
Can't weigh in on Jak and Daxter (I never even played the originals), but yeah, a lot of the PS2 emulation on PS4 is bad next to the PS2 emulation we--the enthusiast base that doesn't have access to two decades of PS2 hardware and coding, unlike Sony--are capable of.
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Yea, the Jak and the Ratchet collections were rough, but worth it for the cheap price to have them all together.
For those of you who have successfully completed PS5 orders from Walmart, is their 3 week delivery estimate accurate? Or is this a situation where they're "under promising, over delivering"?
I find it hard to believe that if I ordered an item on Dec 15 that it would take them until Jan 8 to deliver it. Especially a company as big as Walmart. It doesn't get much bigger than that. How could such a huge corp have such a slow pipeline?
I actually looked this and Google came up with a post on Reddit (so grain of salt) where someone said they called Walmart customer care and were told the company expects to ship the items on Jan. 5. I'm also hoping to be surprised, but it may just be that that's what the supply chain looks like right now.
My original ship date was also Jan 5th but I just got a notification it will be *arriving* on Dec 24th!
It actually showed up today! Of course I'm still working and its just sitting there, taunting me. Looming really, you people weren't kidding how big the damn thing is
It’s kinda interesting I have a ps5 and just spent a few hours at a buddies playing with his series x and... due pretty much solely to the dualsense which I love the ps5 actually feels like a next gen console to me
Whereas the series x is...ehh just a faster Xbox one. Really cemented in that I made the right choice going with the ps5. I was very conflicted over which to get
I got a shipment notification from Walmart last night, and a FedEx tracking number. Theoretically now set to arrive on Dec 30. Which is 8 days faster than the original estimate.
It’s kinda interesting I have a ps5 and just spent a few hours at a buddies playing with his series x and... due pretty much solely to the dualsense which I love the ps5 actually feels like a next gen console to me
Whereas the series x is...ehh just a faster Xbox one. Really cemented in that I made the right choice going with the ps5. I was very conflicted over which to get
It really does. I fired up No Man's Sky because I haven't played it since all the changes they've made, and they have a free update to PS5. There's this incredibly satisfying CRUNCH when you launch your ship with the trigger, it felt like you actually flipped a switch on the ship. And all the tricks in Astro's Playroom too, just really impressive.
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Granted it'll probably boil down to poor management, endless development and sweatshop conditions leading to exhausted, error-prone workers.
Other game devs are already connecting the dots as to what happened.
Basically, the decision makers sound like they were completely out of touch with how things were on the ground. The people responsible for deciding if a product should be released obviously did not even bother to look at the game they were releasing.
This is a problem with Xbox Game Streaming (which is also being folded into Game Pass, sort of), except it's worse because servers are...not Sony's strongest point, which is why they publicly announced purchasing Microsoft Azure server time for Playstation, among other things. It will get better, but we were saying the same things back when "Gaikai is going to change the world." It's not really surprising that the non-streaming side, which basically excludes anything from PS3, is more warmly regarded.
Sony also killed off support for more than half the platforms supporting PS Now (including their own TVs, lol), but that's old news (it happened back in 2017, during a period where they really did not know what PS Now was going to do).
Or they're flat-out lying. The pressure to get the game out before Christmas must have been immense.
Aa someone who works in technology development, this is more of a sign of bad culture mandating "yes person" culture of always painting a rosy picture, and providing harsh penalties or shame for failure and delays, vs. focusing on solutions, redirects, and shoring up scope to meet deadlines and cutting things from the launch product.that can be later patched in.
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8:30AM: "Your package is out for delivery." YAY!
3:00PM: "Your package is unfortunately rescheduled for tomorrow." DAMMIT! But all right, we just had our first major snowfall of the season, and unprecedented delivery volume. Both my parents were couriers, I sympathize.
Today:
8:30AM: "Your package is out for delivery." YAY!
11:30AM: "Your package is unfortunately rescheduled for tomorrow." GODDAMMIT!
I swear, literally 15 seconds later, ♪ding dong♪ "Hey buddy here's your package." HOORAY!
I find it hard to believe that if I ordered an item on Dec 15 that it would take them until Jan 8 to deliver it. Especially a company as big as Walmart. It doesn't get much bigger than that. How could such a huge corp have such a slow pipeline?
I actually looked this and Google came up with a post on Reddit (so grain of salt) where someone said they called Walmart customer care and were told the company expects to ship the items on Jan. 5. I'm also hoping to be surprised, but it may just be that that's what the supply chain looks like right now.
Finding Ps5s? What, like it's hard?
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I ran into 2 crashes in Remastered, but they just froze, the PS5 went back to the menu, and I rebooted the game. Not a big thing at all. Hopefully that is rare, because that noise was really alarming.
EDIT: I also would like to know if they patched the external hard drive stuff, I've got some new games I want to install, but am running out of room fast!
My original ship date was also Jan 5th but I just got a notification it will be *arriving* on Dec 24th!
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It's not happening every time, but sometimes I wake it up and I get this:
It seems to go away after a minute or so, but I can't get any clear answers on what it might be. It's only ever happened when bringing it out of rest mode, never from just turning it on.
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e: I know I have got a ton of trophies on Sack Boy and Assassin's Creed but don't see them online yet.
Good spot. I don't see mine on MyPlaystation either, but the trophy count is right. I've got 2 platinums on PS5 games, which is included in the total count on that page, but the games aren't there.
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Okay, just checked the website and everything I've done on PS5 is accurately displayed there.
While I'm at it, played through Days Gone and Ratchet & Clank via the PS Collection thang and both were quite good.
As the self-proclaimed people's vanguard of backwards compatibility, this is a very good thing. Especially for games that don't have cross-generation multiplayer, saves or trophy lists, etc.
Such as?
That could get annoying if it repeatedly does it for the same game.
(Incidentally, there are no cross-gen trophy lists.)
The Jak and Daxter remasters are laughably bad, and all of them are still up for purchase. Alot of the PS2 classics have a terrible emulator as well.
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This is really nice. It was really hard to tell which one you're launching beforehand.
Can't weigh in on Jak and Daxter (I never even played the originals), but yeah, a lot of the PS2 emulation on PS4 is bad next to the PS2 emulation we--the enthusiast base that doesn't have access to two decades of PS2 hardware and coding, unlike Sony--are capable of.
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It actually showed up today! Of course I'm still working and its just sitting there, taunting me. Looming really, you people weren't kidding how big the damn thing is
I think they put longer times in there so they wouldn't have to delay anyone and are able to process them faster than expected.
Whereas the series x is...ehh just a faster Xbox one. Really cemented in that I made the right choice going with the ps5. I was very conflicted over which to get
It really does. I fired up No Man's Sky because I haven't played it since all the changes they've made, and they have a free update to PS5. There's this incredibly satisfying CRUNCH when you launch your ship with the trigger, it felt like you actually flipped a switch on the ship. And all the tricks in Astro's Playroom too, just really impressive.