It’s serviceable/usable on my crappy internet. Probability much better on good internet.
Probably the case for a lot of places. Wife walked into a Best Buy in Las Vegas for Lego Star Wars and they had two disc systems on the shelf.
A quick non PS5 note - but sony related. AFAIK the PSP-GO did not have any type of "redemption" or consolation for you if you had any disc games you wanted to play on the new smaller console. If you wanted to play them on the PSP go, you bet your butt you were buying them again.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90185895/buy-a-psp-go-and-sony-will-convert-your-old-umds-to-digital-versions
I haven't had any luck. Been registered a few weeks after release, nothing. I reregistered just now in case. Guess we'll see.
I had a similar problem when Sony started the program. I even registered twice with my PSN account that's been active since 2006. So on a whim I created a new account, I registered using the new account and within a couple weeks I get an email about the invite. Just an FYI, that still doesn't guarantee you'll get a PS5 but your chances go way up because the invite on the date they set last around 5 hrs.
I hadn't used a psn account since the ps3. Signed up for direct and got an email like 3 weeks later giving me the opportunity. Skipped out on it since I was in the process of getting married. Ended up snagging one from a Best Buy drop 3 weeks ago.
Same issue. I signed up on Sony's web page before the PS5 was released. I've never gotten an email from Sony in 1.5 years to purchase. Thankfully I found one in Feb 2021 at a store for at-cost.
You got a PS5 and a spouse?!
No kidding. Potential spouses are all over the place. PS5s are hard to find.
Funny enough I was at Best Buy at that time picking up my Switch OLED
I got lucky twice. I snagged a PS5 disc based while spamming the Walmart mobile app. I also got a 10% employee discount when I worked there. I was about 8 months after the release. A couple of weeks ago, Sony sent me an invite and I snagged another PS5 disc version although I had to purchase a controller as i'm not a PS Plus member. But yeah, they still are hard to find. What's even crazier are the used prices for the PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro. They are almost selling for what I paid for them. I still have a Slim and Pro. Because of the shortages it's best to hang on to what you got.
Until PS5's become easier to get, used PS4's are going to have a high asking price. I could see them drastically dropping in price when PS5 stock becomes more stable since PS5 backwards compatibility gives you little reason to own both a PS4 and PS5 unless you went for a discless PS5 or have one of the few games that don't work on a PS5 (or you still have P.T. since they disabled that one from being BC).
I have no doubt you are right. Intel's CEO said last week that the chip shortage looks to continue well into 2024.
I do wonder with the second hand market for used PS5s, if the better launch PS5 model is more valuable since the revision has cheaper parts. I was thankful to know I had the original edition after knowing Sony lowered the quality of the heatsink.
I have not encountered that with the Launch model. Supposedly that was addressed with a Firmware update. I have put my launch PS5 in and out of Rest Mode and I haven't encountered any issues.
That is true but the Launch PS5 will probably be just as reliable as Sony continues to make revisions. Sony went to a new process called Liquid Metal instead of thermal paste.
It still happens to some people. There's a big Reddit thread about it if you Google it. I think it's a hardware defect. There's no proof that only launch models are affected but I haven't heard of anyone with the revision with the same problem. Still, I would just get the revision for the controller upgrade alone since the changes to the controller reduce the chances of drift and trigger issues
How can you tell you have a revision model and not a launch model? I bought one from Sony about 6 weeks ago (haven't had time to open it yet) so it could be something that sat in the corner of one of their storerooms for 2 years (as unlikely as that seems).
There’s different model numbers on the box, on the lower corner. If you got it from Sony direct you surely have the ‘lesser’ model. It's amazing how much empty space is in them now after the revision.
If you got it 6 weeks ago it's the revision. PS5 isn't something that would just sit in a storeroom. They're sold out everywhere. I bought mine at the end of January from PlayStation direct and it was the revision
It is better as far as cooling. But neither are likely to present a problem and if you didn’t know you had the revision you wouldn’t know if you never checked and Vice versa
Nah, there are updated articles that prove that the revision actually runs cooler. I don't think the difference really matters, but the revision is actually superior if you care about things like that.
I have model CFI-1015A. I bought mine about 4 months after the PS5 launched.
How does the shuffle work? Like I entered for the disc edition with the blue controller and it says I'll get an email from noon to 6 PM PST but not sure what that means...? I'm assuming not everyone who enters will be picked but if I am picked and get the email, do I have a 6 hour window to buy the console? Or do I have to keep checking my email from noon to 6 and do a mad dash to buy the console?
