So there’s a very good chance that a few generations from now this will just be an expensive paperweight? Like I’ve accepted that most games need online connections these days, and so do the consoles, but now we even need it for the add-ons?
The article says it’s for the initial pairing.
It’s still worth paying attention to in terms of repairability when the drive dies, but it shouldn’t actually affect my usability if I buy one, personally. I’m guessing they’re worried that without signing the drive, it will be a huge piracy/hacked game vector.
Why have you accepted this? Why would anybody accept this?!
Suddenly not interested in the article itself when it detect my ad-blocker.
Here’s an alternative article that won’t do that: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/10/ps5-slims-new-external-disc-drive-requires-online-pairing-before-use/
If you click the small button below turn off your ad blocker that says “I turned off my ad blocker” it should work. Tell me if it doesn’t and I’ll keep that in mind in the future.
Do you have the right ublock origin filters enabled? It didn’t trigger on my end.
I didn’t mess around with settings etc. Basically anytime I saw the full page detector thing I just close the tab. I do exactly this for any site I visit basically, there are too many other things to do, if they don’t want me there I don’t have to stay.
Just buy a damned computer already, people.
Consoles are nice for TV setups, unless you use steamOS, which is also nice for TV setups…
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I had never heard of this before. This seems really cool!
You can pretty easily boot to steam big picture regardless of OS.
It’s nice, but it’s not perfect. My gaming pc currently uses big picture but I still have recurrent issues at times. Like the inability to fully disable the guide button for certain “games” when that would be a super useful extra button for emulators like retroarch.
Couch gaming is just not that great on PC sadly. I’ll deal with it because it’s the only way I get close to exactly what I want, especially with the emulators. But it sure as hell doesn’t replace an actual console experience that I find myself using way more than my PC that I have probably spent more on over the years than my PS5 cost, which is also more powerful since my pc setup is pretty old (still on a 1050Ti).
I’ve got a PC plugged straight into my living room TV. There are solutions to consoles becoming unnecessarily locked down.
Consoles are easier. I just want to open the box, plug it in, and play.
Just need to download new firmware for a few hours. Load the game you wanna play, then download that update. And then download the new season.
That isn’t unique to consoles. I have plenty of games on PC that tell me I need to install some third-party launcher and then update the game when I try to open it.
Lol, you never have to update drivers? Updating console firmware is rare, easy, and doesn’t take a few hours.
Season downloads apply to PC as well. They get auto updated anyways so it isn’t a factor for either case.
Sure, but that all happens automatically, and will simply work when it’s done. It won’t come up with some bs conflicting error with some other program I don’t even know about on my computer.
I did, still gonna buy consoles because i can
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It’s bizarre that you have to pay for online on consoles.
They are not even hosting the game servers! In some cases the games use P2P so there aren’t even any servers.
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Wut
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Computers aren’t cheaper though. Hell, you can barely even get a decent GPU for the price of an entire console.
Got my rx6600 for 250 cad (180usd) and it ran every game I threw at it at medium-high
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Pair a RTX2060 with a 5800X3D and you have a gaming system that no console can compete with for the same price
But I don’t need to buy an entire pc “every generation” I can just buy a new GPU, and a low tier XX60 series or equivalent is always going to be faster than a console.
Except the year the new console is released since they’re being sold at a loss, assuming they’ll make up the difference in game sales.
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And if you’re that stretched for money, you can always pirate games much easier on a PC than a console. Legally grey but morally pirating because you can’t afford is fine.
If you want to play every new AAA release on release, sure, something like gamepass/ps plus is cheaper. You can also get gamepass on PC fwiw, so it’s not really a good argument for consoles. I usually just wait for games to go on sale for $10-20, plus it gives time for the games to actually get patched and function properly. I’ve also been dumping thousands of hours into the same 3 or 4 games for the last decade, so really I could have spent nothing on PC gaming other than a few hundo on a new GPU a couple years ago.
And for most people, you need to have a PC anyway. Consoles are not good at doing your taxes or editing documents. So the alternative to a gaming PC isn’t just a console, it’s a console and a weaker PC bundled together. The price difference between a budget laptop and a kickass gaming rig is going to be less than the price of console.
I like when I wait a month and get 25-40% off the release price that was already cheaper than the console release price.
I like even more when the game ends up being shit and I just don’t buy it at all. I’ve saved so much money because of this it’s actually a bit nuts.
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