Playstation 5 Catch-All

Brilliant Dyni, happy to hear you snagged one! This is hopefully gonna be a cracking first full year for the PS5.

Finally, cross buy installation issue fixed

This has been driving me batty for the last week+ since I finally started playing Immortals Fenyx Rising. From my PS4 disc, I installed the PS5 version. And then every time I turn my system on since, the disc would start installing the PS4 version in the background. Had to cancel it over and over.

Had my first attempt at buying a PS5 Tuesday. Sold out in less than a second. When will this end.

Shadout wrote:

Had my first attempt at buying a PS5 Tuesday. Sold out in less than a second. When will this end.

When they stop selling for $1300 on ebay. which they are still doing as of this morning.

Who are you all following to get stock updates?

I can go find a few guys on twitter that were good to follow if you need

My brother used the Hotstock app and had luck with it. He was able to get a PS5 from BestBuy after about a week of trying.

Anyone try the Nioh Remaster on PS5? Been thinking about grabbing it since I love Souls games and haven't played this series. Playing Demons Souls at 60fps was great, I bet 120 for Nioh would be awesome.

Phades wrote:

Anyone try the Nioh Remaster on PS5? Been thinking about grabbing it since I love Souls games and haven't played this series. Playing Demons Souls at 60fps was great, I bet 120 for Nioh would be awesome.

I have Nioh 2 that I got for $10 over the holidays so I can use it to get the free upgrade. I've still been playing Nioh 1 PS4 though and haven't beat it yet. So I haven't installed/upgraded 2 yet.

You don't get the free upgrade for part 1 but do for part 2 and any DLC you have for 2. So if you can find the 2nd one cheap you can save some money.

There's Nioh and Nioh 2 threads here.

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Phades wrote:

I have Nioh 2 that I got for $10 over the holidays so I can use it to get the free upgrade. I've still been playing Nioh 1 PS4 though and haven't beat it yet. So I haven't installed/upgraded 2 yet.

You don't get the free upgrade for part 1 but do for part 2 and any DLC you gave for 2. So if you can find the 2nd one cheap you can save some money.

There's Nioh and Nioh 2 threads here.

I sprang for the PS4 version at $10, but I'm confused. If you've never played it, what's the right order of operations here - install the game, buy the DLC if you want it, then upgrade to PS5 version?

EDIT: Just saw the Nioh 2 thread, think you answered it there.

Phades wrote:

My brother used the Hotstock app and had luck with it. He was able to get a PS5 from BestBuy after about a week of trying.

Anyone try the Nioh Remaster on PS5? Been thinking about grabbing it since I love Souls games and haven't played this series. Playing Demons Souls at 60fps was great, I bet 120 for Nioh would be awesome.

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Nioh is great. On last gen you have to make compromises if you want to run at locked 60fps. You get all the frames and all the bells and whistles on PS5. It is more about learning a deep combat system and managing ARPG style loot compared to the lore and world building of a Souls.

I just got mine and I am wondering if there is anything I should do or things I should know. If you have tips or good videos that talk about using the PS5 tell me please!

Mine took forever to get connected. Several time outs while loading and logging in. So it depends on the servers.

The screw is only for upright setup.

Side placement is a bit wonky.

You'll need to do some controller updates plugged in as well as system updates.

farley3k wrote:

I just got mine and I am wondering if there is anything I should do or things I should know. If you have tips or good videos that talk about using the PS5 tell me please!

1) If you've got a backlog of PS4 games, I strongly recommend getting an external hard drive drive, because internal storage will fill up very quickly. There's a System setting that will have the PS5 automatically install all PS4 games to the external drive, which is perfect if you the external drive is an SSD; testing during the initial launch of the PS5 showed that there's no advantage to running PS4 games from the internal storage vs. an external SSD.

2) If you're a PS+ member, navigate to the PS+ section of the store, because PS5-owning PS+ members have access to the free "PS Plus Collection", a set of 18 games that are definitely not shovelware, although many have previously been monthly PS+ games, so you will likely already own some of them.

3) Speaking of the store, while Sony removed the Wish List feature when they redesigned it, there's a new Wish List that's only available on the PS5 version of the store - it's not available on the web store or the PS4 store. I've always used the Wish List to earmark games that I won't pay full price for but would pick up at a sufficient discount - you can easily scroll through the list when sales are on and see if anything's gotten a sufficient discount.

4) While the DualSense has a physical button to turn off the built-in microphone, you can also default to it off in the System Settings; unless you do so, the default is to have the microphone on, which I think is a terrible choice.

5) You don't need Sony's "Pulse" headphones to experience the PS5's "3D audio"; any stereo headphones plugged into the DualSense (standard audio jack) will get 3D audio once you enable that feature in System Settings. 3D audio is not available via external speakers, although pre-launch Sony said that would be coming later; personally, I'm not holding my breath on that - being able to compensate an infinite variety of speaker setups to an infinite variety of room acoustics is a tall order.

6) If you have a PSVR, you'll need to get an adaptor to use the PSVR camera on the PS5 (the camera available for the PS5 will not work for PSVR). Fill out the form here and Sony will send you the adaptor for free. The vast majority of PSVR games work perfectly well on the PS5 via backwards compatibility (Sony has stated that PSVR only works via BC), although you'll need to use the Dualshock 4 for non-Move-controlled games, since the DualSense doesn't have the big light on front that the PSVR camera uses to track the controller. A few games have been patched to work even better on the PS5 than on the PS4, including Dreams and No Man's Sky.

7) By and large backwards compatibility is a dream on the PS5. Almost every PS4 game runs at least as well as it did on the PS4 Pro, some with modest improvements, and some run with really impressive improvements. Those latter are primarily Sony first-party games that have been patched to take advantage of some of the PS5's architecture even though they're still running in BC mode; primary among them are God Of War, Days Gone, Ghost of Tsushima, No Man's Sky, and Destiny. Even unpatched games, however, at the very least take advantage of SSD launch and loading speeds in ways that they never could on the P4.

Evan E wrote:

1) If you've got a backlog of PS4 games, I strongly recommend getting an external hard drive drive, because internal storage will fill up very quickly. There's a System setting that will have the PS5 automatically install all PS4 games to the external drive, which is perfect if you the external drive is an SSD; testing during the initial launch of the PS5 showed that there's no advantage to running PS4 games from the internal storage vs. an external SSD.

I think you need a USB 3.2 external drive that does 1,000MB/sec to get the exact same speed. A lot of the drives out there are 3.1 drives that only do 550MB/sec.

I've still been waiting for sales on those again. Some were cheap at black friday but I didn't have the PS5 yet.

So this one would be good....correct?

When searching Amazon you get a lot of wrong results even when I put in USB 3.2 external drive. Only a few of them say they are 3.2

and does anyone have grip recommendations? I noticed in the short time I played last night that I find the controller very slippery and I want more grip.

farley3k wrote:

So this one would be good....correct?

When searching Amazon you get a lot of wrong results even when I put in USB 3.2 external drive. Only a few of them say they are 3.2

and does anyone have grip recommendations? I noticed in the short time I played last night that I find the controller very slippery and I want more grip.

Flex seal? jk

I think with the current meme/news thing the best joke would be "gorilla glue!"

farley3k wrote:

So this one would be good....correct?

When searching Amazon you get a lot of wrong results even when I put in USB 3.2 external drive. Only a few of them say they are 3.2

No that's one of the slower ones. Has to be an SSD with the 3.2, not a regular HDD.

Still I've seen some videos and the load time may only be a few seconds different. But the 3.2 1000/s drives are supposed to get equal load times to the internal drive for PS4 games, which is pretty incredible.

For the money it's probably fine though. Or wait until prices come down and/or you fill the hard drive before you need more.

I read somewhere that Samsung T7 worked well with PS5 (I guess all USB3.2 SSDs work equally well though). Bought one back at Black Friday.
As soon as Sony releases the PS5 I might know if it is true

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082YGLNGR...
Price seems a bit high when its not on sale though.

Yeah that T7 is the one I almost bought but then didn't have a PS5 yet.

In the end I found a 1TB 3.0 drive in the office collection of junk and am using that. It won't be as fast but it was the right price.

farley3k wrote:

In the end I found a 1TB 3.0 drive in the office collection of junk and am using that. It won't be as fast but it was the right price.

I am curious how it works for you. I have a 2TB 3.0 as well and am curious in case I manage to find a PS5.

Unless currently-PS5less folks run across an insane deal on a fast SSD, I'd recommend waiting until you get a PS5 to spend money on external storage. Remember that there's a slot for extra internal storage that Sony hasn't yet enabled but has said they will in a patch, so that may be a more appealing (and faster) solution by the time you acquire a PS5.

Garth wrote:
farley3k wrote:

In the end I found a 1TB 3.0 drive in the office collection of junk and am using that. It won't be as fast but it was the right price.

I am curious how it works for you. I have a 2TB 3.0 as well and am curious in case I manage to find a PS5.

I installed God of War and it worked well. I am not good with detailing exact load times, etc. but it loaded quickly, and I think it looked a bit better. It certainly was not slower or uglier that the PS4 version so I am happy. It saved space on the SSD which was what I wanted.

God of War just got a PS5 performance patch though. It would probably be better to move it to internal now.

One minute into this video there's a load time comparison. If yours is taking longer...

Stele wrote:

God of War just got a PS5 performance patch though. It would probably be better to move it to internal now.

When I started the game from the external it offered me the option for performance mode so I think it works even if the game is loading from an external drive.

Performance mode means 60fps; it has nothing to do with load times, and will work even if you were loading the game from an external non-SSD magnetic drive. The only difference internal vs external/SSD vs magnetic makes is load times (and possibly pop-in as a game streams in textures from storage).

Cool so then I think I will leave it on the external slow drive. It am not worried about loading in a game like GoW because it doesn't have loading screens after the first load so it seems like a perfect way to get improved visuals without wasting SSD space.

Yes, with God Of War loading times are superfluous. My external SSD, a Samsung T5, is only USB 3.1, but it's still orders of magnitude faster than the upgraded SSHD I had in my PS4 Pro, so even though I keep all my PS4 games on it I still am amazed at the load times every. single. time.

I got lucky and managed to order a PS5 early in the week and have it delivered tomorrow, the one day this week that I don’t work. It was important that it not be delivered today because neither of us would be home and package thefts at my building have skyrocketed since the beginning of the pandemic.
So what happens as soon as I got to work this afternoon? A delivery confirmation for my expensive and highly desired new console. One more hour until I get to go home and see if it’s still sitting in the lobby waiting for me.