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#2603374 13-Nov-2020 15:21

I did mine at about noon yesterday and it also took maybe a minute. Gigabit fibre (Voyager), over Ethernet.

Installing Demon's Souls, on the other hand, was thumb-twiddling time.

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#2603396 13-Nov-2020 15:33

PsychoSmiley:

Anybody on older hardware (receivers/TV) had experiences using this yet? All my stuff is HDMI 2.0 so I'm interested to know how things work out. Given there is no 1440p option (yet), I have a feeling that I'm going have issues with 4k/HDR being limited to 30hz unless dropping the YCbCr works (or is possible)?

Only spent 15 minutes with it so far, but it's playing well with my 2013 Panny plasma via my 2016 Yamaha RX-V381 AV receiver.

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#2603440 13-Nov-2020 16:26

spoonynz: Is it me or is valhalla rubbish compared to the others??

Can you expand on that? I was thinking of picking it up.. 🧐

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#2603445 13-Nov-2020 16:30

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gehenna:

Played through a few hours of Miles Morales on Fidelity mode last night. Wow, so pretty, and the enhancements to combat for Miles vs Peter from the original game are great. I think the story is shaping up very well too. Sometimes the city looks ultra realistic when you're swinging through Manhattan. It's incredible.

The controller really is transformative. I hope devs to more with it over time. I described it to my friend last night as almost like the surround sound version of a controller. Once you use it you'll know what I mean. Make sure to play through some of the Astro game that comes out of the box to get a good understanding of what it can do.

I agree with everything said so far. Other than the obvious improvements of the hardware on the Xbox Series X from a processing perspective (which feels huge), it feels a bit meh to me, but the PS5 + PS5 controller is a massive generational step. Because I had a SSD in my PS4 Pro, the performance increase isn't as noticeable.

That is disappointing on the performance increase over the ssd in the ps4 pro!

ps4 games and of course the original ps4 hardware were never designed/enabled/programmed for SSD, and as such were very slow at loading even with a pro and ssd.

What games have you played that haven't shown much improvement on the ps5- were they ps4 games?

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#2603481 13-Nov-2020 17:08

I would take it with a grain of salt. It's early days and there aren't many games but like my subsequent comment said the load times for me are substantially faster than my pro with SSD.

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#2603484 13-Nov-2020 17:12

dclegg:

sultanoswing:

I skipped the PS4 generation (in fact this is the first PS I've actually bought - previously PC / Nintendo / emulation only. So - lot's of back catalog of PS4 games to work through now :)

Start with The Last of Us Remastered. It's one of the PlayStation+ Collection games.

or God of War, or Spiderman Original, or Resogun which is cheap as chips and stupidly good fun.

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#2603485 13-Nov-2020 17:13

dclegg:

sonic1989: did anyone realised day one software update 0.8gig to be super slow? mine says 6 hours till download is complete

Did mine about 10:00PM last night. Was lightening fast for me. Wasn't timing it, but felt less than a minute. Definitely better than PS4 updates used to be. I've got GB fibre here, and the PS5 is on Ethernet.

Same. Mine took maybe about 1-2 minutes.

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#2603487 13-Nov-2020 17:15

gehenna: I would take it with a grain of salt. It's early days and there aren't many games but like my subsequent comment said the load times for me are substantially faster than my pro with SSD.

That's good and a relief to hear. Part of the attraction was reduction in load times.
the ps4 pro with ssd was still slowww

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#2603489 13-Nov-2020 17:20

Yeah, I wasn't really saying it wasn't any faster, but the difference from std hdd to ssd on the xbox is night and day as you'd expect, but SSD to SSD but faster machine, will be faster, but at least in what I have been doing, didn't feel as massive, because for me at least, it was pretty quick before. To be fair, I mostly played Resogun, and Spiderman last night, there isn't much room on the drive for much more than that LOL

By the time I moved across the games I am actively playing plus 2 I am playing sporadically, my old data, saves etc, it was complaining it didn't have the disk space to continue updating anything.

It's fairly frustrating the low amount of usable space available + the lack of supported options for putting another drive in. Hopefully, that announcement can't be far away.

It's a bit naughty them not just allowing any NVME Gen 4 HDD's to just 'work'. Apparently, they need to be "whitelisted" to be supported. I understand wanting to control the experience, but, well, hurry the hell up and take my money already!

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#2603491 13-Nov-2020 17:22

I never bother to put an SSD in my PS4 Pro. At the time when I swapped in a 2TB HDD all the benchmarks said there was minimal improvement over a spinning disk as it wasn't optimised for SSD.

The PS5 is a joy to play. click play and you're in the game so quick. Die, and respawning is almost instantaneous. I expect I'll spend more time gaming this generation than last purely because of the load times.

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#2603492 13-Nov-2020 17:23

I can't find one. Vodafone had them for sale yesterday "from lunchtime" which was a bit vague. By the time I was free to look at 1220 they had sold out.

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#2603493 13-Nov-2020 17:24

Senecio:

I never bother to put an SSD in my PS4 Pro. At the time when I swapped in a 2TB HDD all the benchmarks said there was minimal improvement over a spinning disk as it wasn't optimised for SSD.

They said that, but in my experience, it was mostly chalk and cheese. I had a 2TB hybrid and moved to a 1TB SSD and it was night and day.

Also, I often took my PS4 with me on holiday, so having to not worry about crashing the heads during transit was a nice plus.

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#2603502 13-Nov-2020 17:56

networkn:

Senecio:

I never bother to put an SSD in my PS4 Pro. At the time when I swapped in a 2TB HDD all the benchmarks said there was minimal improvement over a spinning disk as it wasn't optimised for SSD.

They said that, but in my experience, it was mostly chalk and cheese. I had a 2TB hybrid and moved to a 1TB SSD and it was night and day.

Also, I often took my PS4 with me on holiday, so having to not worry about crashing the heads during transit was a nice plus.

Agree.
I too had a 2TB hybrid, and when I switched to ssd it was only slightly faster initially - except with certain games and then it felt up to twice as fast - Battlefields, COD's, uncharted, doom, Witcher, all seemed to benefit a lot more from the ssd.

It was still too slow in my opinion from save points etc, but think that was more to do with the architecture etc so the drive was no longer the bottleneck.

Good point on travelling with it too - also took it away and was nice to know disk wasn't a risk in the car.

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#2603549 13-Nov-2020 21:07

dclegg:

sultanoswing:

I skipped the PS4 generation (in fact this is the first PS I've actually bought - previously PC / Nintendo / emulation only. So - lot's of back catalog of PS4 games to work through now :)

Start with The Last of Us Remastered. It's one of the PlayStation+ Collection games.

This was my first choice from the free download. Never played TLoU so be interested to see what it is like.

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#2603553 13-Nov-2020 21:40

itey: Heya, I have a launch ps5 available in Tauranga / Mount Maunganui. Due to moving house, changing jobs, and some summer travel I won't be able to use it much until late January, so I figure it would bring more joy to someone else.

I can't really be bothered shipping etc, but if anyone knows someone in this region who can pickup let me know.

Selling for rrp. No scalping. But please don't buy it and sell it on as that is a dick move.

Did someone already buy it off you? Otherwise I'm keen to pickup from you this weekend.

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