PS5 Is Best-Selling Game Console Ever Through Five Months

@twelveoucer: ofcourse they're adding both digital and physical. It's the same system minus the disc drive.

@twelveoucer:

Their or they're? Seriously, it's not that goddamned hard to know the difference.

@twelveoucer: How is there any issue with adding together both models? Does the disc drive version somehow count more than the other one??

The price and game lineup (which I think is pretty good) would not hold back sales at all during these first few months when hardcore fans and early adopters are going to buy up every console you make. Kinda universal thing for every console launch

@twelveoucer: I think you’re jumping through hurdles in denying Sony’s success and not realising that they simply had more production/assembly lines going than Microsoft. Microsoft were unprepared (yet again) in a lot of ways. They had no launch games. However, you can bet there’s a hella lot of Spider-Man fans out there. There’s other deciding factors to consider. It was the most sought after tech of the year. People were bored during Lockdown and wanted to play some Playstation. Scalpers bought dozens of them at a time. Playstation has great games. That’s what gamers like. I don’t know what math you’re doing but it’s not like the Series X has had much advertisement. That’s because they don’t have a AAA to even promote their new console with.

@Radar: If B was true, there’d be very little reason to scalp if the success rate of selling one was that bad.

@bdrtfm: Even as a stockholder I don't care.

@bdrtfm: You sound fun at parties

@kgsg-19-2: So am I, it sits perfectly on my lap.

@WarGreymon77: ps4 game upgrades aka division 2 visuals, ray tracing, frame rates, cyberpunk works , faster load times, faster boot up times, not noisy, duel sense controller...and soon RETURNAL, FAR CRY 6 and a handful of others, would you like me to continue?

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@WarGreymon77: The improved load times in destiny 2 are alone worth it for me. In a session I can literally get twice as much done now.

@WarGreymon77: Excuse to play the beauty of DS Remake. There’s also a lot of Spider-Man fans out there.

@WarGreymon77: Village, Returnal, Demon Souls, Ratchet and Clank 60fps 4K update. And more?

@WarGreymon77: to play ps5 games straight away

@interrupting_cow: A single PS5, or any other item really, can only be counted as sold by the company once. Just because one PS5 might go through 5 hands before being used, doesn't mean Sony counts it as 5 sales.

@interrupting_cow: Which is what's happening w/ the xsx too and unfortunately people are buying scalper consoles. So what's your point?

@quinnd6: To be fair I won't be playing or even still owning a PS5 in 20 years, probably why I don't really care.

@quinnd6: nobody cares because its not really a problem. PC's are the same. When the CMOS battery dies all bios settings are lost and it likely won't boot let alone play games. Not that It's ever happened to me in 20 years of gaming on pc so i can't see it being a problem on playstation.

If your CMOS battery dies before either your drive, ram, cpu etc do I'd be very surprised. The battery is one of the most reliable parts in the system. And of course this is also only a problem if Sony permanently switch the servers off. And they could still release a firmware update before that happens that disables the time and date check if needed. Even if they don't do that 20 years or so down the line. Big whoop. My ps3 has been next to my tv all the time I've owned a ps4 and now ps5 but it hasn't been switched on in over 3 years. If it completely died now i wouldn't be that bothered and that "only" came out 15 years ago.

@quinnd6: are you telling me that years from now, if my system fails I'll have to purchase another one? Bummer