Oh yeah, the swapping of the O, X button for cancel & confirm doesn't sit well with their home base fans, most fans already flipping tables
Will Sony make an U-turn decision on this?

For me, I actually welcome this move, for us the "inter-region" gamers have been tortured in that XO purgatory hell since PS1 era

cos some games has built-in button mapping which are unchangeable

can't remember which games I played recently, on screen prompt me to press O to continue, I pressed O no response, have to press X, talk about confusion there

also standardization lets the dev to waste lesser time for button mapping, just stick with right button as cancel, bottom button as confirm across all systems

from my untrained eyes, I wouldn't say the PCB is engineered efficiently, a lot of wasted space there
I can safely say that a PS5s/PS5 mini is definitely coming in near future once they redesign the PCB

using liquid metal for TIM is a major plus point there, but the fan, it's similar centrifugal type found in PS4, which contributed to the loud jet engine noise, compared to XBsX, axial type which runs quieter and has higher flow,

Lastly the M.2 slot for storage expansion:
Good point is it's easily accessible without the need of any tools, except a screw driver to screw down your SSD, also a lot of space there for those SSD with heatsinks
Bad point is it looks like an enclosed space without any airflow, I don't see any air vents there, hope I'm wrong, as highspeed SSD can run very very hot! If it's an enclosed space without any airflow, your SSD got a huge heatsink also is useless

Anyway, IMO in terms of engineering like heat management & PCB design, XBsX is a winner there

IINM Sony MY pre-order is by invitation only

AMD is the biggest winner here

both chips probably are made in the same factory in Penang

gone were the days of competing consoles will be using different chips, it's actually surprising to see both camp using both AMD's CPU & GPU

ah, forgotten about current gen, brain still stuck in PS3 era console wars

good news from other camp, next gen game tested (Dirt 5) on 1440p/120Hz, and it's can sustain 120Hz consistently

let's wait to see how PS5 can handle it

120Hz console gaming on TV is nearer than you think

Do it like me, start from scratch again, but on easier difficulty

It's almost certain that we won't be getting an official launch of PS5 here this year
likewise for the next camp which is launching this week, bad news are trickling in, seems we won't be getting any imported units here this year as well

So both sama sama no joy this year

And seems we won't be getting the new consoles this year

scalpers are gonna having a field day come holiday season

Please please refrain from buying and supporting those cut throat scalpers no matter how deep your wallet is and how desperate you are to play PS5

The only way to stop them is to stop buying from them
When the buying stops, the scalping can too

Sony is pissing off more fans by disable the M.2 SSD expansion slot on launch
just because they have yet to start testing the compatibles SSDs

Sounds like Sony really dropped the ball in PS5 launch compared to other camp, you can see a lot of online comments the existing PS4 fans are pretty pissed at Sony, and are jumping camp to other side.

1. not all has fast internet
2. most prefer to have at least a few games to switch around to play, what's the point of having instant resume/switch game features if the storage is limited?
3. next gen games are huge, put 2 COD games in it and it already took up more than half of the storage

well, to be fair, any consoles put into such case with minimal ventilation sure gonna overheated

other camp teardown reveal they are using M.2 SSD that is replaceable, another win there

So if by chance your storage is corrupted, you can just swap out the SSD with a new one, whereas PS5 is as good as a door stop

Since the initial speed test on past gen games between the two shows that XsX standard M.2 SSD is loading faster than PS5 custom soldered on SSD, I wonder if their so called "customised" high speed SSD is optimised for PS5 games only

This post has been edited by greyshadow: Nov 10 2020, 08:34 AM

it's confirmed
https://sea.pcmag.com/gaming-systems/40172/...-digital-m2-ssd

it's using M.2 2230 format, which unfortunately it's a lot harder to find in the market

Also MS is pretty anal about letting end user changing their own storage, it's not as easy like PS swapping out the existing storage with a new one, there are a lot of hoops or hacks you need to perform in order for you to DIY storage replacement on Xbox
well at least the chance of it become a deadweight is slimmer compared to PS5

new Sony PS5 cluster

I wonder how many of the actually allocated stock for end up in the physical pre-order
lets say a shop claimed they are only allocated 20 units by Sony, the actual allocation could be as many as 40 as the 20 could be taken by their own staffs

Updates from Impulse 5 mins ago

This post has been edited by greyshadow: Nov 12 2020, 11:03 AM

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