PlayStation 5 - Next gen is expensive

[Girth Certificate]

maybe it's an actual demo they are launching over PSNow. Play PS5 via your PS4!!!!!!

[rafaqat]

3 minutes ago, Hitcher said:

So what we saw before wasn't the actual game?

 

Probably means interactive thing that someone presenting can play with I guess?

[Majora]

14 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

Suspossed rumoured list of PS5 prices

 

 

The days of Sony launching the new Playstation console in Japan before the rest of the world are long gone. It's just not a priority market for them anymore when you look at sales. That alone makes me think the whole thing is bullshit.

[Shimmyhill]

21 minutes ago, Ghosty said:

 

The day that I am unable to buy a physical disc, is when I stop buying. £65 for a digital day one release? Pass.

Why would you have such an bizarre stipulation, are you giving up gaming next gen and assume you don’t game on PC (or Switch for pedantry)  There is no way the next round of consoles will have a disc!

 

I think the last time I paid £65 for a game was N64 days, 95% digital on PS4.....

[SeanR]

4 minutes ago, Hitcher said:

So what we saw before wasn't the actual game?

 

in-engine, but not "the game" probably.

 

I blame Ubisoft...

[Steven]

6 minutes ago, JohnC said:

I've not really kept up, but isn't that a sort of standalone add-on, like that Infamous thing, rather than a full game? That was also relatively cheap, wasn't it?

 

Yeah, that could be it. Still seems like a chance they wouldn't miss though. One game at launch and nothing at the JP console launch? 

[Vemsie]

 

[Ghosty]

13 minutes ago, Shimmyhill said:

Why would you have such an bizarre stipulation, are you giving up gaming next gen and assume you don’t game on PC (or Switch for pedantry)  There is no way the next round of consoles will have a disc!

 

I think the last time I paid £65 for a game was N64 days, 95% digital on PS4.....

 

Microsoft have been trying to impose their own DRM disc management and online account authorization for a few years now. This is always in the back of my mind.

[SeanR]

Just now, Majora said:

 

The days of Sony launching the new Playstation console in Japan before the rest of the world are long gone. It's just not really a priority market for them anymore when you look at sales. That alone makes me think the whole thing is bullshit.

 

 

 

 

[Isaac]

47 minutes ago, Steven said:

£29 for a game has my bullshit sensor on high alert.

 

Miles Morales isn't a full game.  

 

But I agree with you, I think it'll be a £40-45 title. £29 is way too low.

[Harsin]

There’s rumours it’s going to part of a package with a tatted up version of the first game. 
 

[teddymeow]

Is that 7pm UK time?

[grounded_dreams]

1 minute ago, teddymeow said:

Is that 7pm UK time?

 

Yeah 7pm UK (don't forget there is a pre-show from 6:30 too). Full time zones, incase anyone needs them:

 

West Coast US: 11am PDT

East Coast US: 2pm EDT

UK: 7pm BST

Central Europe: 8pm CEST

Asia/Oceania: 3am JST / 2am AWST / 4am AEST (Friday)

[teddymeow]

Awesome. Bloody kids better not mess about at bedtime tonight so I can see this.

 

#ParentingGoals

[Steven]

8 minutes ago, Harsin said:

There’s rumours it’s going to part of a package with a tatted up version of the first game. 
 

 

I'm thinking a tramp stamp or a tribal band will go down well with the kids.

[Steven]

2 minutes ago, teddymeow said:

Awesome. Bloody kids better not mess about at bedtime tonight so I can see this.

 

#ParentingGoals

 

It's on Thursday, I think.

[Steven]

14 minutes ago, Isaac said:

 

Miles Morales isn't a full game.  

 

But I agree with you, I think it'll be a £40-45 title. £29 is way too low.

 

Just the thought that the only game they can flog you out of the gate is under £30 makes me doubt the whole thing. I'd say you'd be more along the right lines at those prices.

[MansizeRooster]

It's a launch title. Regardless of what it'd normally cost, they'll flog it at the full price of a AAA game.

[K]

Insomniac have said that Miles Morales will be about 7-10 hours long, which seems like a pretty sensible length for a game to me. They’ve likened it to Uncharted: Lost Legacy, which not only felt pretty substantial, but was pretty much all killer, no filler. Sounds like a full game to me. 

[Isaac]

1 minute ago, K said:

Insomniac have said that Miles Morales will be about 7-10 hours long, which seems like a pretty sensible length for a game to me. They’ve likened it to Uncharted: Lost Legacy, which not only felt pretty substantial, but was pretty much all killer, no filler. Sounds like a full game to me. 

 

Uncharted: Lost Legacy launched at $40 RRP

[K]

4 minutes ago, Isaac said:

 

Uncharted: Lost Legacy launched at $40 RRP

I’m not quibbling on the price, just saying that 7-10 hours is a pretty substantial game. 

[Isaac]

1 minute ago, K said:

I’m not quibbling on the price, just saying that 7-10 hours is a pretty substantial game. 

 

And my statement that it's not a full game wasn't any value judgement on the length or quality of the game, more that they've already spoken about it being like an extended add-on to the original (similar to Lost Legacy) and so I don't expect it to retail at the same price as a normal AAA title.

 

Although it's a launch day game so perhaps they'll go for it anyway.

[footle]

1 hour ago, Mr Combo Breaker said:

a hundred dollars/pounds/euros difference between versions but only 5000 yen (like £36) in japan? sounds like bollocks. 

 

Japan hates spider-man cos he's blaaaaaaaaaaaack

don’t use Logic when reading rumours

[teddymeow]

29 minutes ago, Steven said:

 

It's on Thursday, I think.

 

They'd better behave then too! 

[Dudley]

1 hour ago, Ghosty said:

Suspossed rumoured list of PS5 prices

 

 

I continue to not believe any chart that makes it cheaper in the UK than the US.

[Alex W.]

1 hour ago, Ghosty said:

Suspossed rumoured list of PS5 prices

 

 

Nope. You can see from the press pictures that the "vertical stand" is also the horizontal stand, and you can see from looking at the thing that it doesn't have any way of being placed horizontally or vertically without it.

[Isaac]

Yeah I also agree that whoever made that has no clue about VAT and the current sterling to dollar exchange rate.

 

It's not going to be cheaper in pounds than dollars. The most we can hope for is parity.

[K]

There seems to be this persistent delusion online that a blu-ray drive costs £100, and that you could knock that amount off the price by removing one from a console. 

[SeanR]

4 minutes ago, K said:

There seems to be this persistent delusion online that a blu-ray drive costs £100, and that you could knock that amount off the price by removing one from a console. 

 

which is more expensive? the mechanical drive, or the BDA licence?

[Stanley]

11 minutes ago, K said:

There seems to be this persistent delusion online that a blu-ray drive costs £100, and that you could knock that amount off the price by removing one from a console. 

The £100 price difference is more to drive sales of the digital option than reflect the actual cost of parts + license. And how much is the cheapest standalone player anyway? I bet it’s a lot more than £100.