SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Remember the days of buying disks to play games on a console? Right. Like, yesterday. Sony is upping its game for digital delivery with the introduction of PS5 Digital Edition which is currently available to be pre-ordered by PSN members in good standing. This sets the PS5 apart from the other consoles from the last generation making it one step closer to having all games delivered by and available only from The Cloud.
Interested? Register on-line to get your chance to pre-order. Pricing has not yet been announced.
Does this mean rootkits will be distributed from The Cloud instead of by disk in the future?
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
Sony Introduces Digital Edition PS5 with No CD-ROM/Blu-ray
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 45 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Grelb's Reminder:
Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above
average drivers.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Sunday August 30 2020, @11:15PM (1 child)
We already knew there would be a Digital Edition with no disc drive over 2 months ago, when they had their game footage + console reveal [youtube.com] event.
The funny part here is that in order to maintain their long-standing game of chicken with MS/Xbox, Sony is opening "pre-orders"... but without telling you the real price. They absolutely 100% do not want to be the first to announce pricing, so they can make last minute adjustments to undercut Xbox. The pre-order with no price gimmick was leaked/mentioned by Moore's Law is Dead [youtube.com] a week or two ago.
Microsoft's strategy might work better. PS5's Digital Edition drops the disc drive but keeps the overall specs the same. They might cut the price $100 or more, sell it at a loss, and be fine with that since all purchases will have to be made through Sony's store. Xbox on the other hand is cutting the GPU of their cheaper model, while keeping the CPU the same. So it should run the same games, but at 1080p instead of 4K, for instance. This could cut their SoC and other costs significantly and they might even try to give it away for free* (* with a 2-year subscription to the online services). Xbox One was thrashed by PS4 sales, while Xbox 360 vs. PS3 was more even. Interest in PS5 is higher as measured by video viewer counts, and Xbox embarrassed themselves with their Halo Infinite trailer debacle.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday August 31 2020, @01:06PM
We've been using our PS3s 99%+ disc free since 2010... originally bought it as a BluRay disc player, but quickly decided that BluRay was not sufficient value for money. As for games, never met a disc based game more compelling than the games that were available from the hard drive.
🌻🌻 [google.com]