Watch them enforce a proprietary storage device that is extremely overpriced sending the whole thing spiraling down into oblivion. Fingers crossed I’m wrong.
Proprietary storage is Microsoft things now. Xbox series needs specific ssd to expand the storage, while PS5 can use any SSD that has enough speed
It was a callback to the Vita (I have one) era with the stupidly priced proprietary expansion cards. I got a 16GB one, had to sell a kidney to get it.
I honestly don’t know how this is supposed to succeed unless it’s literally a handheld PS4, and even then, the market for that over a Steam Deck is likely minuscule.
As a Vita fan, FUCK YOU Sony!
I am in a similar boat. And it isn’t just Vita, they did same with PS VR and PS VR 2.
If it isn’t their main home console, Sony can’t be trusted to support it with their first party titles.
Going to wait for actual announcement and details to make up my mind about this, but don’t care about it in general, and I doubt there is much they can say about it that would make me buy it on day 1.
Fuck Sony. It’ll be garbage and they’ll do something moronic with it like most of their decision making the last 15 years.
Vita owners will complain about memory cards, but they overblow that issue. It was a bit of an issue. THE issue was Sony forgot they had a handheld. They quit really giving a shit about it after only a year or two. They barely pushed it or pushed for games on it.
The memory card complaints are just lemmings. The issue was bigger than that.
yeaaaa no thanks. They are about 2 or 3 generations too late for that. After what they have tried to pull with the ps5, plus the price point and the fact that it would be a worse more restricted system than the steam deck. I’ll keep my deck where I get an overall better experience + no monthly sub fee.
My PS5 already spins its fans up loud enough to drown out the TV from clear across the room, so if they expect to create a device that runs PS5 games at comparable quality and also make it handheld, I don’t foresee this device actually being usable. The fans will be louder than any speakers they’ll want to fit in there and the thing will be the size and shape of a cinderblock.
I could be wrong, and I have been before, but if I am this time I’ll be pretty surprised.
Have you tried cleaning the fans? They aren’t difficult to access.
It’s less than six months old and has its own dedicated shelf… I did think to check that, but no, it came right out of the box being this loud.
Now that I think about it though, I haven’t seen any other PS5s in person to compare, so for all I know I just have a bad unit.
My PS5 is 4 months old and my fans have never been that loud. Not even when two have been on and running at the same time. Granted we weren’t playing disc games, but still… Fan noise shouldn’t be that loud
You know what, now that you mention it, you’re actually completely right. It’s the disc drive making that noise. The fans are loud, but tolerable, the disc drive is the loud one. Hot damn. I never actually put 2 and 2 together there, I just went and checked it after what you said, and yeah it’s the drive.
So, actually, I was totally wrong, and I highly doubt Sony is going to try to make the PS5P run discs, so that’s an interesting turn of events.
