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Sony usually does preorders through their PlayStation website using PSN names as a way to weed out people and limit purchases. I used it for my PSVR2 and PS Portal preorders and it worked great. But you do need to be a bit proactive and get on it ASAP. The PS5 definitely has some untapped...

Hey, whatever works best for you! I would love it if games started offering locked 30/60 modes and just said "30" or "60" instead of "performance" and "graphics."

If you do decide to hop back into gaming, you'd probably find a lot of value in a Switch or a Steam Deck. The games you're interested in are well-represented on both.

Wait, you hate 60 fps because it usually means lower resolution or because its too smooth? In my experience, I would much rather have 60 fps than 30 but with 4K.

The Series X is held back by the Series S. Microsoft mandated that any Xbox games be able to function on both systems without missing features unless it's enhanced graphics, which means developers have to scale back some games and put in more time. PS5 games that also release on PS4 are a...

Edwin - if you're looking at Sony-published PS5-only games, then the list really is incredibly small. But when you look at how well Horizon and God of War run, and you look at how good the PSVR2 is, I think it's still a worthy investment to go from PS4 to PS5. That said, I'm not sure what...

What kind of games are you interested in, generally? Do you play on any other platforms?

Was it an HDMI version mismatch? Like you needed a 1.4 but had a 1.2 or something? It's very annoying to me that they created a wonderful standard with HDMI but then failed to just make it so every cable is the same version from the beginning.

I am very, very over the aesthetic and story concept of games like Stellar Blade. Which I guess is to say I'm over the anime-style stuff. Sonic? Not much interest, but it's good to see Sega actually managing the franchise well for a change. Judas looks like its trying too hard to be Bioshock...

Are you going right from the PS5 into the TV or passing through something else like a receiver? Do you get sound but no picture? I had a similar issue a while back and it was due to 2 things at once: too many pass-throughs (PS5 to receiver to wall plate to another wall plate to TV; signal loss...

You can absolutely save money by using something else to do remote play. Buy an extra controller, use your phone/tablet/laptop, buy a Backbone for your phone, etc. But the Portal gives you an extremely simple, seamless experience with perfect controls in a single device. For me, that's worth...

For premium ear buds, that seems to be a low to mid-range price. I always thought that was ridiculous, but I also think buying a cell phone for more than like $250-300 is ridiculous, too.

Got the Portal. It works shockingly well. My PS5 is hardwired to my router and I have 300 MB speeds (I think? Might be higher.) I was able to play the Portal in another room and get basically crystal-clear 1080p video and what felt like zero lag. I was playing Humanity, which doesn't really...

From what I read, it seems to be exclusively for remote play, to the point where there's essentially zero settings or options to really configure with it beyond like screen brightness or volume. So it doesn't surprise me that it doesn't have a built-in browser. That said, I'd imagine there's...

I haven't bought/played a Call of Duty game since Modern Warfare 1. I thought it was fine but nothing special and I had/have no interest in online. Never saw the appeal. On the topic of PS5, I should be getting my Portal this week. I'm actually pretty excited to play with it.

I believe the stand just adds some stability, so it's not REALLY necessary. However, I think the PS5 Slim comes with a horizontal stand but from the pictures it looks to be very different (a small clear piece of plastic to hold up the console at the cover seam). The original stand that came...

It's still so big that I have a hard time thinking of it as the "slim" model, but I think the removable disc drive is a great idea and should be a standard going forward in console gaming.

Nintendo themselves usually sell games on the actual cartridge, but a bunch of companies have sold Switch games where half the game is on the cart and the rest is a download. That's due to the price of the carts, with smaller ones being cheap and bigger ones being more expensive, which cuts...

The way they announced it (one week in advance, under another announcement) is kind of bad, but the price changes aren't too terrible, IMO. They haven't raised the price for the Essential tier/equivalent since the program started in 2010 and its all still cheaper than the equivalent Xbox...

For Sony, the only thing they could lose out on is Call of Duty. There are people who are big enough fans of CoD that they will only buy whatever Microsoft puts out next simply so they can get Call of Duty. Losing games like Starfield on PlayStation will probably hurt Microsoft (less sales)...

Starfield is a unique case because it was announced for PS5 then MS pulled it. If it had never been announced at all until after MS started buying ABK and was only announced as an Xbox exclusive, I think people would be less upset. It wouldn't surprise me if some people took Starfield into...

A lot of the comments I've seen online from the community seem to suggest the FTC bungled their case by trying to argue that this was solely about PlayStation vs Xbox and ignore other platforms, publishers, etc. I'm kind of surprised but also not that surprised. I think the fact that...

I interpreted your comments as "MS bought Bethesda solely for Starfield" instead of it being one of many reasons and that you were referring to online fanboys ripping on everyone involved over one exclusive game. Sorry if I got that wrong, my mistake.

When someone on the internet is making a clearly ridiculous point ("MS only bought Bethesda to make Starfield exclusive") then you should remember that they're nowhere near the majority opinion and shouldn't be given the mental energy you have already given them. A couple teens whining on an...

To my point: look at how much money was made from free-to-play games running ads. https://kotaku.com/xbox-ps5-switch-console-pc-revenue-profits-2022-1850552857

Microsoft was declared a monopoly in the 90s and they're doing it again. Not sure why people are defending that, even if Sony is making some arguments against the acquisition that don't totally check out. MS wants to buy their way into the mobile gaming market by buying King and expand their...

I bought 3 years up front with the $1 conversion deal and I plan to cancel when that runs out. Going forward, I don't even know if I'll buy another Xbox (skipped One, got a Series X) since their exclusive games aren't interesting enough to me, even with their acquisitions. I have a Switch...

Microsoft announced over the weekend that the "new subscribers get GamePass for $1" deal is done, meaning going forward everyone will be paying full price (unless you get discounted sub cards). This is one of those moves that a giant corporation will see as leading to a lot of revenue/profit...

"Disastrous for the industry" could mean that Xbox becomes the sole home for a lot of huge franchises, sticks them on GamePass, and then ends up jacking up prices while destroying the competition and become a near-monopoly through acquisitions rather than organic growth. That would be an uneven...

I don't think anyone sees it as MS winning the console wars, but rather monopolizing something that has been a boon to everyone's success. The thing that's concerning isn't really MS owning Call of Duty, but they'll own every Blizzard franchise (Diablo, Warcraft, Starcraft), all of the King...