Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X

I take it back, this 2022 doc references Q2 FY2023, which was I guess something like July to September 2022. They're currently up to Q2 FY2024, so anything mentioned here is old news. Except for Matt Booty.

microsoft hard at work trying to suck even more than sony, i see

https://twitter.comy/brookgamingfans/status/1715337068401021284

let's try that again

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i just ordered a Pi55 Slim directly off the Sony website. they claim it will be shipped to me in a few days. why yes that smug energy is coming directly from this post, why do you ask

Hot tip, if you buy two of them and stack them, it doubles the storage, and you can play two games at once. I call it the PS Phat, you should try it.

Make sure you get the one with the disc drive, feels like they're subtly trying to phase those out

Yeah I got the one with the drive. Otherwise I’d have no way to play my Cheers box set!

hah, nice.

Josh technically that's called the PS10.

Yeah, but on the street it's the PS Phat, or the Phat Stack. Everyone knows that.

Can't even remember the last time I put a disc in my PS5... glad I spent $100 to have a drive I don't use lol

Yeah I still haven't ever put a game in mine. Thought it'd be good to have a 4k BR drive though, and it sort of is, except it's so insanely loud when it spins up that I end up having to switch to headphones to stop the machine drowning out all the dialogue.

I use my drive for Blurays and it's not noisy at all except for a moment on start up

I got Spider-Man: Miles Morales on disk and it pretty much lives in my drive

As someone who only plays one game at a time, I use the disk drive all the time, depending on what I am playing. Alan Wake Remastered I just played on disc, Wolfenstein 2 I am playing digitally.

yeah, I'd read about the disc drive being noisy before buying my ps5 and was concerned but honestly it has been totally fine and not an issue.

I have however noticed recently that for some reason it can't play certain DVDs, I just get some error code and a message that it can't play that disc (DVD plays fine on a stand-alone DVD player). Not sure what's going on there.

I still mostly buy on disc (or disk? disk makes me think of a floppy disk) though. It's fun to still be able to give or lend a game to a friend once you're done with it.

I've found it fine for regular BR discs but it's specifically the 4k discs that send it into overdrive (do 4k discs spin faster than normal blurays? I mean I can imagine why they might need to but I've got no idea). It's not always loud straight away either, sometimes it'll be an hour into a film before it starts ramping up. Totally possible I've just got a duff one.

My PS5 plays 4K films pretty much silently after the initial spin up. The XBox X is much louder for that purpose.
I rarely buy any games on disc or otherwise unless deeply discounted.

I do appreciate being able to play lots of XBox 360 and some XBox games on disc on the series X as I have a good few of those.
The PS5 only seems to support PS4 & PS5 games on disc though.

I mostly rely on my gamepass or ps plus subscription for new things to play.
My backlog of games-to-play owned for older platforms and the PC is inhumanly long at this point.