Well if it does come out then its a must buy!!

Trust me no need to rush. When you play it for a few times then it feels exactly like you play on a PS4 Pro. Despite the improvements. The only game best to showcase DualSense ‘newness’ is Astro’s Playroom and that’s it. You put in any other games it feels like your regular DS4.

My opinion is that if you already have a PS4 Pro and missed out this time PO stock and eager to get any units at way over the RRP, better don’t. You won’t miss much.

Play games on your PS4 Pro and wait out patiently for the PS5 to come out abundantly then go get it.

The hype was there definitely but not worth the extra spending over the RRP.

Those who POed in November also haven't gotten theirs. You ordered on launch day in December dude. If I were you, Id expect nothing.

But their websites undoubtedly are bad in so many ways.

Finally you got it SenQ boi

Bro, like I said, some who POed back in Nov haven’t gotten theirs. You saw on the site showing the stock was available on launch day in December and you placed your bet and bought it. So if I were you, I’d expect nothing, as in, nothing at all, including expectation to be placed in 2nd PO. If their own brick and mortar shops don’t take names for 2nd PO, what makes you think their sites would do that?

If you ever read back in the previous posts shared by others, their sites are terrible. Not only for PS5 PO. As far as I remembered, their sites have always been bad and terrible. Having said that, again, if I were you, I placed my bet, but then I’d expect it would be ‘glitches’ or ‘technical errors’ that their CS will usually tell for cancellation of order.

Just saying. Good luck in finding ones with ready stock at RRP now.

Just wanna share, those who really mati mati wanna get a stock now and can’t wait at all, you can try on Carousell. You can expect above RRP but some units, are really negotiable.

Don’t ask me how I know. I tried negotiating with some sellers (not buying at all, just wanna understand something here). And some, I guess, really don’t have the holding power to the stocks and just wanna get some profits. Subject to your own negotiating power of coz. If you straight lowball people, good luck.

I don’t condone buying from these scalpers, just advising those who really mati2 cannot wait like if you can’t play now, you’d not be able to sleep at night perhaps.

Don’t ask me which sellers. Go find on your own.

Too ridiculous because they expect some bargaining is gonna take place logically. But you have to remember some of these guys are out there trying to make money and you will be surprised on how some gambled away trying to make some serious profits that they would've hoped for but simply don't have the holding power to their own stocks because they need to pay off whatever credit card they charged the units on.

The best thing is in times like this if Sony My would announce like a good news of stocks coming up and they will be in a big worry. In which that's what I would have hoped for.

I've read that Sony is ramping up productions so there's that.

Need to use adapter that can detect the IO chip being used. The key is to find backbone adapters, not brands like Ugreen/Orico ones because they would use their registered Microsoft drivers for extended storage. They are functional as intended, to be used as extended storage but somehow firmware update via USB is not possible as they recognise the enclosure controller instead of the IO chip on the m2 itself.

This post has been edited by emy_xvidia: Sep 22 2021, 09:01 PM

It's a hassle. You can either blame Microsoft for their ease-to-use automatic driver installation or perhaps its the Toolkit itself from Gigabyte who fails to take into consideration for people who don't have computers that has extra m2 slots/ people who don't have computers at all.

And the thing is, when you release this so-called firmware updates, those who have their m2 cards already are surely itchy to have them updated and surely would encounter this issue and get baffled on why some manage to update and some don't.

Gigabyte should make update instructions easier because they put the fw update as console update. Not all console gamers have Windows PC btw.

Haha chill la bro. In the end of the day it's just a console. If you have ever played PS4 Pro, then roughly it'd be the same minus the load time. And not all games load fast. I've seen many who bought the PS5 because of the hype and end up play like once a week for <2 hours and be done with it. Sadly play those games like Overcook. Lel. And some put PS5 on a 1080P monitor and expect to get out-of-the-world experience out of it. I don't look down on those who don't have the budgets to buy good TVs but my point is, you'll get good experience even out of the PS4 Pro still if you have a good tv to begin with. Life isn't all just about gaming. It's what you're able to see also. So if you don't get the PS5 now, maybe save up some money for a better display and maybe one day you'd feel that you don't feel that rush in getting the PS5 coz you can do other things on your good TV. Some other perspective to look at.

And the only game that makes good use of the new rumble feature of the DS5 is the Astro Playroom. The rest that I know of, the rumble is standard. In fact, from my own experience on normal games, the rumble of my Elite Controller 2 feels more solid and robust than the DS5. I ended up playing my Xbox SX more than my PS5 honestly. Finished AC Odyssey and now playing Valhalla. AC Valhalla Gold Edition on Xbox only costed my RM220 (US version). You hardly get this kind of deals on the PS except after a year or two or on Sony's own special occasions.

This post has been edited by emy_xvidia: Sep 25 2021, 12:14 AM

My point on my previous post was intended for people who lose sleep/become angry because they still can't get the PS5 now. 60fps is great, but since when console games below 60fps become unplayable? Upgraded PS4 games are still PS4 games graphically. If 60fps is the only benchmark of having a PS5, I'm saying those who still don't have the PS5 won't lose as much till it made those who were so desperate in getting one fell for the scams on Lazada. And you have to remember, PS4 Pro Enhanced Games, the choice of having Performance Mode are still there if you fancy 60fps.

Don't know which store are you looking at, but mine still shows RM319 for Valhalla Gold.

This post has been edited by emy_xvidia: Sep 25 2021, 11:49 AM

That's a great price for Valhalla Ultimate.

When I bought mine for Xbox, I compared prices on both systems first and it was at full retail price on PS. On Xbox you can get legit keys outside of the store of which most of the time you can get good deals even outside of their own official store promo period. I don't buy games during promo period just because they have discount. I usually buy games that I wanna play and maybe on the later system, it's more advantageous for people like me coz sometimes the deals are more frequent throughout they year than on the PS Store

Anyway not to compare both systems here.

And not related but Valhalla still got bugs even after one year of release.

But what to correct bro? I did say after a year or two OR on Sony's own special occasions. Whereas as comparison that you can get a deal (relatively throughout a year) for Xbox because you can buy the game key from legit sites and claim the keys from Microsoft Store. The deal on the later system is easier to find because you don't have to depend on Microsoft own store to wait for better deals. And I'm not even talking about changing the Xbox region to Argentina for even better dirt-cheap deals. Some key-selling sites occasionally put out discounted codes for relatively new games. How much discount is another matter altogether as it depends on the timing of your purchase of a game but its not surprise really to find good deals as many key-selling sites are competing with each other in prices. And that's with me sticking to US region on my Xbox system.

And if you're the type of people who buy first, play later (for discounted games) then you would save a lot. But could also end up having so many games and not even finishing em. Which is still a waste of money in my view.

My point in all this is not to compare systems. Merely stating from my initial post previously that to those who don't own the PS5 yet, you don't miss a bunch of things yet. This holds true especially for those who have the PS4 Pro and are looking for the PS5 and still can't get them. The hype of getting one and end up getting cheated is really dumb. Put efforts in securing one from official stores as many times as you feel like doing so, but if still can't get it, get on with it. Some have expressed anger and become so toxic in nature just because they can't get a PS5 is really dumb. Chip shortages don't only affect Playstation but other industries as well. Being angry to those who keep on scalping and selling and yet they are still doing it. What are you gonna do about it?

And mentioning Xbox here plays as an alternative as well. I've seen some selling their used Series X at ~RM2.5k and for me that's a good deal (despite it being imported and used.) I'd go for it if I didn't have any consoles yet instead of being angry over and over again over the failure of not able to own a PS5 yet.

Every month? You showed the link for the price history of Valhalla and mentioned every month? Lol. The price it went down to the lowest was only recently. I showed the other price as a way to make comparison of the deal is more constant (throughout the year as in you don't have to particularly wait) on the other platform because you can buy games from 3rd party instead of hoping for the official to store to hold a sale, such in a case for PS Store. I guess you didn't read well of my points earlier (instead choosing to argue about pricing with me) and don't write so well and yet feel that it is rightfully yours to boast when trying to correct me when you yourself don't read that well. First time owning a Playstation bro?

Too long for you? Then stay on FB PS group FFS.

Wanting the PS5 is not wrong. It's just that IF a person doesn't get it till it makes him becoming so toxic in nature is dumb. Over a bloody console? Some desperate guys even went for those bogus sellers on Lazada/Shopee and got scammed. Lucky still able to refund on Lazada. But still someone must have gone mad over a few nights waiting for Lazada to process back the refund etc. Can't get now surely get later. A lot waited and eventually got em.

Some I know put names because of wanting to play initially and when calculating the total cost of ownership with expensive games nowadays, ended up changing mind to 'selling' it. Easy RM500-700 profit over a unit. And this keeps repeating. Some who own it already, buy another one to cover his unit cost. And you wonder why everytime PO opens, got snapped up so fast. Now its not only the scalper, common folk is doing it. And those who still don't get it lose their minds. What a world.

And those who still put up hopes in Sony's Official Stores to hold a PO and keep missing it, maybe try befriend with Harvey Norman salesperson. I for the lulz contacted a branch close to me and they were taking names for the upcoming batches due to arrive in 2 weeks time. I didn't snatch one up. Its a matter of asking around sometimes. They didn't really publish it because of their limited allocated stock but they did take orders in limited amount.

This post has been edited by emy_xvidia: Sep 25 2021, 04:44 PM

Global problem. Blaming here and there also still shortage. For me learn to live with it and learn to be patient.

Those fellas who bought those 3080 for RM10k++ last time surely, slowly, and eventually regret and feel like sh#t for being so dumb. Especially those who bought the cards purely to play games. Lol.

Nowadays PS4 also people scalp and sell back wor. Impulse opened up PS4 bundled sale recently within minutes sold out. Surely some of those stocks would turn up on Carousell. People lost a lot of money during this endemic and now they surely find ways to make one. I have no issues with these guys honestly because what can you do? Scold them? And yet they are still selling. In fact hundreds of units. There's nothing you can do except move on and wait for the next PO to show up. The key is to be patient only.

That, and those PS+ free games. It's like a bragging right over a piece of console that plays games. Ended up playing PS4 games most of the time and brag on how great DS5 is on those games.

And those who don't have it yet and miss it, curses over and over and over again on FB pages of all the retailers on Malaysia. Its like a routine already.

Yo bugger. What you see as discounts now is because of this.

At least try to Google up yourself and saving up some embarrassment for yourself. What the bloody F. Definitely one of those bloody toxic kids on those FB groups.



Edited : They even put up ads on FB for it.

This post has been edited by emy_xvidia: Sep 25 2021, 08:22 PM

Yea I remembered that event. In the end not suing right coz he managed to get one?

So then you tell me what did I say wrong when I wrote 'on Sony's special occasions? In comparison, on Xbox system when the official store doesn't do discount, you can still buy games off the-official store where multiple sites provide all-around good discount throughout the year. That is giving alternative to those mati mati must play next gen. Or in other words, if you still don't want that, learn to be patient instead of crying out loud for not being able to play PS5. And my topic started on this, instead you were trying hard to correct the pricing part whereas you had serious difficulty in comprehending my explanation and comparison of buying games from both stores from my 2nd post onwards.

I never asked anyone to go buy Xbox. It was mentioned as an alternative. My clear-cut point is you don't miss much if you don't have a PS5 now. You clearly have problems understanding points being brought up.

New on PS Store? So you're the only one who played since the PS3 era? Lel. What a guy.