Playstation 5 Console Discussion

[Julius]

Trophy lists have started going up.

Don't plan on having a look myself, but saw someone mention there are only a few additional trophies for the Spider-Man Remaster, and apparently the Demon's Souls list seems less of a grind than its PS3 counterpart? That's pretty cool. 

We're so close now. Just 11 days over here in Europe, and 4 elsewhere!  

Edited November 8, 2020 by Julius

[Sheikah]

Trophy lists have started going up.
Don't plan on having a look myself, but saw someone mention there are only a few additional trophies for the Spider-Man Remaster, and apparently the Demon's Souls list seems less of a grind than its PS3 counterpart? That's pretty cool. 
We're so close now. Just 11 days over here in Europe, and 4 elsewhere!  

As someone who got the platinum in Demon's Souls, I can tell you that this does indeed look a lot easier. Getting the pure bladestone in the original game for the trophy was bullshit.

[Julius]

Digital Foundry's final console review is up:

 

5 hours ago, Sheikah said:

6 hours ago, Julius said:

Trophy lists have started going up.
Don't plan on having a look myself, but saw someone mention there are only a few additional trophies for the Spider-Man Remaster, and apparently the Demon's Souls list seems less of a grind than its PS3 counterpart? That's pretty cool. 
We're so close now. Just 11 days over here in Europe, and 4 elsewhere!  

As someone who got the platinum in Demon's Souls, I can tell you that this does indeed look a lot easier. Getting the pure bladestone in the original game for the trophy was bullshit.

Haven't played the game before but I've heard bits and pieces thrown out on podcasts, is this to do with rare item drops? 

Because yeah, if there was a trophy attached to that...that is nonsense, and I'm glad it got removed! It's rare I go hunting for trophies anyways, but when I have, the worst ones have been RNG, item grinding related stuff. Which sounds even worse in a game known for its difficulty! 

[Goron_3]

It looks like the PS5 is getting rave reviews from critics, and deservedly so. It's a true next generation machine, and I haven't seen people this blown away by a console since the 360 and the transition to HD.

The only *mild disappointment* is the controller battery life but the fact that many outlets are claiming that the controller is a true game changer is fantastic news. In recent years, we've had Nintendo try to simply their controllers but what Sony have done is take the existing DualShock and innovate on it. Really exciting stuff.

[Ronnie]

Oh, I've not read what the battery life is going to be. I was hoping for 40 hours like the Switch Pro. As long as it's better than the ridiculous 6 hours on the DS4.

2 minutes ago, Goron_3 said:

In recent years, we've had Nintendo try to simply their controllers but what Sony have done is take the existing DualShock and innovate on it.

I wouldn't say Nintendo simplify their controllers, they innovate all the time. Rumble and analog sticks on the N64, analog triggers on the Gamecube, speakers and motion control on the Wii, the whole Gamepad as a concept on Wii U, and now removable joy cons with HD rumble, an IR camera on the Switch.

Great to see both new consoles getting good reviews though, exciting!

[Sheikah]

Can't wait for next Thursday now. The console and controller does sound pretty incredible, I can see it doing really well. They built up some really good exclusives and good will during the PS4's life and PS5 looks set to be a continuation of that.

The vast reduction of load times is something that's long overdue, I feel like it's going to make last gen feel archaic in that sense. I might see to selling my PS4 Pro now...seems like you can get around 200 quid for it on eBay and there doesn't seem to be any reason to keep it now.

[Julius]

10 days! 

New ad:

Worth noting: Gran Turismo 7,  Ratchet & Clank, and Returnal are all anticipated for the first half of 2021, and Horizon Forbidden West is anticipated for the second half of 2021. 

Edited November 9, 2020 by Julius

[Map]

Getting exciting now, wake me on the 19th.

[bob]

Oh, I've not read what the battery life is going to be. I was hoping for 40 hours like the Switch Pro. As long as it's better than the ridiculous 6 hours on the DS4.

Do you type this comment out each time, or do you have it saved to the clipboard for easy access?

[Will]

2 hours ago, Julius said:

Worth noting: Gran Turismo 7,  Ratchet & Clank, and Returnal are all anticipated for the first half of 2021

Oh that’s great news! I was expecting a long wait for GT7.

[Happenstance]

https://blog.playstation.com/2020/11/09/ps5-the-ultimate-faq/#sf239758641

Big PS5 FAQ

[Julius]

And the moment of worry and stress has arrived. Because of course it has. 

GAME has changed my console delivery courier/type from Royal Mail Tracked 24 to...Yodel (Free Next Day Year Delivery) 

Sent a ticket in, hope I hear back soon. I've had a bit of a nose around and from what I can see, it seems the change has been made to a number of other people's accounts, even those who paid for things like DPD Tracked 24. 

I'm really hoping it's some type of error, or something they can look into, otherwise, I don't really rate my chances of it arriving next Thursday 

[Sheikah]

And the moment of worry and stress has arrived. Because of course it has. 
GAME has changed my console delivery courier/type from Royal Mail Tracked 24 to...Yodel (Free Next Day Year Delivery) 
Sent a ticket in, hope I hear back soon. I've had a bit of a nose around and from what I can see, it seems the change has been made to a number of other people's accounts, even those who paid for things like DPD Tracked 24. 
I'm really hoping it's some type of error, or something they can look into, otherwise, I don't really rate my chances of it arriving next Thursday [emoji20]

Ah, you wanted GAME to provide a Royal Mail option? Well that's only available to their GAME platinum card holders, or those paying the £30 topup.

Seriously though...howcome you ordered from these hacks? [emoji14]

[Julius]

17 minutes ago, Sheikah said:

Ah, you wanted GAME to provide a Royal Mail option? Well that's only available to their GAME platinum card holders, or those paying the £30 topup.

Seriously though...howcome you ordered from these hacks?

I don't believe that's true, at least not in this instance, as my original order had Royal Mail Tracked 24 as the delivery type for my entire order - and still is for my accessories. The console is the only item to have its delivery type and courier changed. And, like I said, this has happened even to those paying for DPD 24 and other delivery methods. 

And I went with them because that's one of the places where pre-orders went up first, straight after the PS5 September event, but above all else, because of the Royal Mail delivery option. I live a 5 minute walk from my local Royal Mail depot, and have never had an issue with them; the latest I've had something arrive is about 13:00, and I'm at work until 15:30 on launch day anyways. Royal Mail is definitely the best option for my location, so that's why I stuck with them. 

I had initially hoped to get one with ShopTo, but they kind of seemingly blundered their weird queue system, and in hindsight I probably could have nabbed another backup with Amazon or someone else (I mean, I was keeping an eye on it all for a friend anyway)...

But it is what it is  from what I've seen elsewhere with the updates on the Series X | S deliveries due today, it doesn't look like a different retailer would've necessarily done any better.

Out of my hands now anyways, just got to try to stay optimistic I guess. But, based on my past experiences with Yodel, that's not easy 

Edited November 10, 2020 by Julius

[Jimbob]

1 hour ago, Julius said:

I don't believe that's true, at least not in this instance, as my original order had Royal Mail Tracked 24 as the delivery type for my entire order - and still is for my accessories. The console is the only item to have its delivery type and courier changed. And, like I said, this has happened even to those paying for DPD 24 and other delivery methods. 

And I went with them because that's one of the places where pre-orders went up first, straight after the PS5 September event, but above all else, because of the Royal Mail delivery option. I live a 5 minute walk from my local Royal Mail depot, and have never had an issue with them; the latest I've had something arrive is about 13:00, and I'm at work until 15:30 on launch day anyways. Royal Mail is definitely the best option for my location, so that's why I stuck with them. 

I had initially hoped to get one with ShopTo, but they kind of seemingly blundered their weird queue system, and in hindsight I probably could have nabbed another backup with Amazon or someone else (I mean, I was keeping an eye on it all for a friend anyway)...

But it is what it is  from what I've seen elsewhere with the updates on the Series X | S deliveries due today, it doesn't look like a different retailer would've necessarily done any better.

Out of my hands now anyways, just got to try to stay optimistic I guess. But, based on my past experiences with Yodel, that's not easy 

Aren't Yodel the ones who literally throw parcels over fences?

GAME stores re-opened in Wales yesterday, my local one was hounded by people asking about pre-payments for the PS5.  At the moment, they're prioritising Xbox orders as that's out this week.  From speaking to someone in-store yesterday myself, they should be in a position by either Friday or Monday to start pre-payments for the PS5.  Was only down asking if they could hold my Sackboy pre-order and include it in the PS5 bag.

ShopTo have started processing my Pulse 3D headset and Miles Morales.

[Julius]

15 minutes ago, Jimbob said:

Aren't Yodel the ones who literally throw parcels over fences?

GAME stores re-opened in Wales yesterday, my local one was hounded by people asking about pre-payments for the PS5.  At the moment, they're prioritising Xbox orders as that's out this week.  From speaking to someone in-store yesterday myself, they should be in a position by either Friday or Monday to start pre-payments for the PS5.  Was only down asking if they could hold my Sackboy pre-order and include it in the PS5 bag.

ShopTo have started processing my Pulse 3D headset and Miles Morales.

Haha yep, and leave them out in the rain. Or don't deliver them at all. Joys. Then again, I don't have a fence for them to throw it over as I've moved into an apartment...so that's a win, right? Unless they just throw it at the wall of the building instead...  sent their Help Desk a DM on Twitter too, we'll see how that goes. 

Otherwise, GAME have been fine, and it's been going as smoothly as I could have wanted it to. Processed payments for my DualSense, Pulse 3D headset, and Media Remote over the weekend, should be shipping today or tomorrow. 

And ShopTo have processed Miles Morales and Demon's Souls, so those should be here in the next few days too.

Only thing which might not arrive from them this week could be the DualSense charging station, but I don't really mind waiting on that anyways! 

[martinist]

Well i'm fucked. ShopTo gave my order away.

I was supposed to pay for it by the 31st of October which they only informed me about when I went to check my order today.

I'll pick one up next year I guess.

[Julius]

Well, while I'm still waiting to hear back from GAME about who is going to be actually delivering the console, they've just taken payment for it. So, yay? 

This ResetEra thread seems to suggest everyone's delivery courier/service has changed to Yodel, so I wonder if it might be a system issue? Because there are people they've charged for delivery who have also been downgraded. 

Seeing more tweets about it pop up, but nothing from GAME yet to anyone in terms of a response. Probably still overwhelmed by today's Xbox orders. Maybe. 

48 minutes ago, martinist said:

Well i'm fucked. ShopTo gave my order away.

I was supposed to pay for it by the 31st of October which they only informed me about when I went to check my order today.

I'll pick one up next year I guess.

Sucks to read. ShopTo are usually really great, hence why they're so trusted (myself included), then they manage to completely bottle the next gen launches. 

Edited November 10, 2020 by Julius

[Jimbob]

GAME messaged me, i can pre-pay for my console from today until the store closes on the 18th.  Plan to pay tomorrow when i go to collect my copy of Sackboy, then it's a case of going in and picking it up on launch day.

21 hours ago, martinist said:

Well i'm fucked. ShopTo gave my order away.

I was supposed to pay for it by the 31st of October which they only informed me about when I went to check my order today.

I'll pick one up next year I guess.

Did they email you at all, they did for me but cancelled my console order middle of October.  Shopto usually are pretty good, but botching next gen launches isn't good for them.

[Cookyman]

Thank you Amazon.

[drahkon]

Why are you so angry?

[Cookyman]

 

16 minutes ago, drahkon said:

Why are you so angry?

I'm smiling on the inside....

[Hero-of-Time]

37 minutes ago, drahkon said:

Why are you so angry?

Probably because he's still waiting for his actual PS5 to show up.

[Jimbob]

It's weird that we'll get our new games and accessories tomorrow, but it's another week for the console.  Sony love to tease.

[Julius]

Have tracking info now for everything arriving tomorrow, so that's nice. 

On the other hand, still haven't heard back from GAME about delivery for the console changing from Royal Mail to Yodel, and looking on Twitter/ResetEra, I genuinely don't expect to. Hundreds of instances I've read now where people have paid for DPD/Royal Mail and been charged for it but it's been changed to Yodel without any confirmation, and GAME seemingly haven't got back to anyone. You would think that someone over there would have cottoned on by now. 

I raised a ticket yesterday morning and DM'd them on Twitter, but looking at their site for contact details, there's seemingly no other way to contact them: in their infinite wisdom, they no longer have a customer service number you can call as they have transitioned to working from home, and their support page points you to the live chat on their website, which is absolutely nowhere to be seen. 

Part of me remains hopeful that it's an error across the board, especially seeing as all accessories and games are still being shipped by DPD and Royal Mail, as was originally the case. The other part of me is designed to figuring out whether my PS5 turns up in pieces, or if it even turns up at all. And then there's the optimist in me, too, somewhere back there, hoping I get one of the few Yodel drivers who actually does their job. 

Going to be an unnecessarily stressful next 7 days or so waiting to find out what's actually going on. 

 

UPDATE: check Twitter for the 40th time today for an update on this, and of course there's a page hidden on the GAME site somewhere about this, which someone had to do some digging for. 

Quote

Delivery Update for PS5 Orders

Due to the volume of PlayStation 5 orders that we are sending and the impact on the UK delivery network as this is a UK launch by Sony across multiple retailers, GAME orders will be shipped using three different couriers - Royal Mail, DHL and YODEL. All three couriers use a tracked delivery service and updates will be sent to you by them to the email address that you placed your order with.

GAME will be shipping these to the couriers in time for them to deliver on release day. For updates please keep an eye for notifications from either Royal Mail, DHL or YODEL.

Seems like all of those charged now, from what I can tell, are the first wave of pre-orders from 23:00 on the night of the September event...and we're the ones who have had Yodel dumped on us. A 1 in 3 chance and I end up with by far the worst option. Don't even have the option for DPD anymore. 

Woo. Well, I at least hope everyone else enjoys their PS5 next week 

Edited November 11, 2020 by Julius