PS5 Discussion

DrDamn

Jogort I’ve stuck with just the internal drive for now. I have an external with all my PS4 games on but I’m not plugging it in until a firmware or two hit.

Only issue I’ve had so far is DS not starting up. A shutdown and start resolved that. I’ve also been careful about shutting down games and only occasional use of rest mode.

Brave

DrDamn if it’s for DS then rest mode shouldn’t be needed tbh. It saves every minute or so iirc, as do most souls games (so you can’t quit and try again).

I’m just avoiding it entirely until I know it’s safe. And yeah, no external drives of any kind for a good long while

Jogort

DrDamn yeah I think I’m gonna leave the usb HDD with PS4 games out for now and eject it if I’m fine playing PS4 games.

Jonbwfc

I have had one ‘pull the power plug’ lockup so far, which is recovered from OK after a drive check, and a couple of game crashes. Generally speaking I do a reboot after a game crash just in case it’s actually left it in a wonky state you can’t immediately see.

Gordon

There’s a firmware update out this morning. I’ve installed it and nothing has exploded yet.

Deej

Mine had a moment on the first day with an external drive which I mentioned at the time. I did try another drive yesterday and it was fine but it still didn’t like the first one even though PS4 uses it.

I’m staying clear using them on PS5 for a while just to be safe.

Gordon

I’ve been using rest mode and an external drive since I got it. No problems at all as of yet. Dirt 5 has crashed a couple of times but I’m pretty sure that’s down to the game being buggy, not the OS.

Brave

Gordon I think it’s definitely down to the games in most instances of the rest mode issues, as Miles Morales just got patched to fix its own rest mode problem.

I’m just not comfortable with it because I don’t know what other games are having issues (although I do know
MM wasn’t the only culprit) and if I buy a new game it feels 50/50 at the moment whether that would also run into problems.

Jonbwfc

Just a quick PSA - if it’s a game that’s ‘cross gen’, click ‘option’ on the icon and go to ‘game version’ and it will tell you whether you’re running the PS5 or PS4 version and I think let you swap between the two if you have both installed (although I don’t know why you would have…)

Brave

Jonbwfc I think the only reason right now is NMS. If you want to play VR you have to use the PS4 version. Which is just daft imo.

Alex

Jonbwfc I don’t see this option, where is it?

Jonbwfc

Alex
Go to ‘home’
go across to the game (say No Man’s Sky)
Click the option button (three horizontal lines right of touchpad)
bottom option says ‘Game Version’
select that. It shoud pop up a list of what versions you have available.

Gah, for some reason you can’t screen record this, and the screenshot doesn’t show the submenu. Here’s a phone pic…

Alex

Ok thanks. I still don’t see it, maybe it only appears when there are multiple versions to show.

Brave

Alex it does seem to be context sensitive like that. For instance, patch notes don’t seem to have a section in the options menu until the dev actually adds a note.

At least that’s what I think is happening. I’ve only seen the section so far in PS4 games that have been updated. I’m assuming they won’t have made that a PS4 only feature.

Jonbwfc

Brave I don’t think they are - NMS got an update on PS5 today but there’s no patch note section in that menu. Not that their patch notes on PS4 ever said much but still…

Gordon

Jonbwfc I don’t have a link but I’m pretty sure I read that patch/update notes are only available for PS4 games. I really hope they’ll be added for PS5, it’s a very useful feature.

Alex

I just found out about the PS+ Collection on PS5. Basically, if you have PS+ then on PS5 you get access to the following games for free:

Bloodborne
Days Gone
Detroit: Become Human
God of War
Infamous Second Son
Ratchet and Clank
The Last Guardian
The Last of Us Remastered
Until Dawn
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
Batman: Arkham Knight
Battlefield 1
Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Zombies Chronicles Edition
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
Fallout 4
Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition
Monster Hunter: World
Mortal Kombat X
Persona 5
Resident Evil 7 biohazard

This is very good if you don’t have a previous PS4 collection to play, some of the absolutely best games of last gen on there. Also something I didn’t know about.

DrDamn

Alex I’d love to get confirmation that list will grow and update as the generation goes on. There are some notable omissions (more recent PS Studios games and HZD for example). Jim Ryan has hinted at some sort of GamePass alternative on PS5 and maybe this is the basis?

Brave

This is kind of what I was concerned about. Re game sharing. It’s not exactly the same thing but I was convinced they weren’t going to be quite as tolerant as they had been.

https://www.thesixthaxis.com/2020/11/27/sony-is-reportedly-banning-people-sharing-access-to-the-playstation-plus-collection-on-ps5/

DrDamn

Brave this seems like a very specific case of exploitation of a PS5 bonus and people actually selling the “service” too. This isn’t game-sharing as “we” know it. 😉.

Brave

TBF. This seems to be related to people really badly abusing the system, but I think it shows there are limits here and that Sony only just about tolerates it, especially under Jim Ryan.

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