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As we draw closer to the PS5's release date in late 2020, it's understandable that the rumor mill is working overtime. But, while some rumors hold a bit more weight than others, there are a few that need be taken with more than just a pinch of salt.
The latest PS5 'leak' posted on 4Chan is one such rumor, supposedly spilling a bunch of information on the PS5 reveal event which is expected to take place in February. The leak, which was reposted on Reddit, claims that the PS5 will be unveiled on February 5 at a PlayStation Meeting event for the media.
According to the leaker, the event will see Sony revealing the console's design and specs, several PS5 exclusives, a renewed focus on PlayStation Now, alongside the console's price and various other features.
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https://www.techradar.com/news/this-latest-ps5-rumor-sound-too-good-to-be-true
(Score: 2) by ledow on Wednesday January 22 2020, @12:22PM
I hear ya, on some points. Yeah, it's cheap enough to "just have" but I avoid subscriptions like the plague. Even my phone/Internet is on a month-to-month contract, so I can just cancel it any time I like.
"It's a computer that I can't do work on."
I have never stopped gaming to do work that wasn't absolutely necessary (e.g. emergency). I just close my email client and browser, at worst, if I'm distracted. To be honest, it's quite nice to flick between gaming and browsing. Maybe this is just a working practice
"Games on it don't ever need tweaking for my GPU. There is one configuration and it works."
I have never tweaked a game for my GPU. I choose, say, Medium, High, Ultra, and I'm done. I don't even update my graphics drivers. Everything on my Steam account "just works" including all the Assassin's Creeds, GTA V, etc. I can't imagine why you'd need to faff with those things. I spend more time turning off the damn game music than anything else.
My gaming laptop plugs into my projector. And works on a plane. It's just a high-end laptop, really, but it runs everything I need, including all the work stuff. Which I consider a plus. BTW My TV is a RPi with a DVB hat, and a large microSD card in it. It's literally my only TV, and is plugged into the projector but can stream anything (live TV, recorded, saved movies, etc.) to the laptop, my phone, Kodi, etc. It took me an hour to build. I haven't played with the config in 3 years of using it exclusively, except to add another RPi with another TV hat in order to simultaneously record/stream 2, 3, 4 channels via SAT>IP (depending on whether I use the 2 RPi's with hats, an extra DVB-T USB stick with dual-tuners, or an DVB-S stick I have that picks up satellite channels).
"I never have to do any tweaking for the console to make it work."
I can't remember the last time I changed anything on my laptop just to make a game work. It *might* be when GfW live died and Toy Soldiers stopped working on my previous Windows XP laptop. I am not joking. I got the DirectX and GfW working on an unsupported OS enough to play Toy Soldiers. Then I moved to 7 a year or so later.
"I haven't owned a desktop for ages and gaming on a laptop isn't the best experience. If I were to get a decent gaming desktop, it would cost an order of magnitude more than the console."
I paid £800 for my gaming laptop, and it was an old model when I bought it 8 years ago. It's about time for a replacement. You can spend £500 on a console easy. A gaming laptop, however, does *everything*. One device does the work of a dozen other devices... it's my TV, my games console, my movie theatre, my work machine, my virtual machine host, my programming environment (for personal projects), my travel machine (watching movies, etc. on a plane), etc. If it's not for you, okay, but I don't get people's hatred of gaming laptops.
"Console games still often support single-device multiplayer."
People come to my house for video games nights. I have a gaming laptop and a Pi4. That's it. Those people have every console known to man among them. But they come to me for all the games and playing on the bigscreen, with XBox wireless controllers, Wiimotes (used for lightgun games), G27 steering wheels, retro arcade cabinet, party games and bigger games (when the girls get bored and the guys get left to play!) etc. etc.
I can't say that my experience is your own. I'm looking at a new gaming laptop now. I'm playing to go straight to one capable of playing HL:Alyx, in fact. And I'll play it alone, or on the big screen in a party of people. I have a small list of games on my Steam that are in the "8 year old laptop struggles a little with these" category, which I look forward to enjoying properly. And my "gaming" hardware so far has cost me less than my TV licence. It'll cost me about £1500 to get a top-line one, and probably more for the actual VR headset, etc. (which I won't be buying until I know Alyx is a success)... but I will then literally live with that machine almost 24 hours a day for years - for work, play and holiday.