PS5 thread 2.0

jones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122819017#Comment_122819017

I did the exact same, I've been dipping in and out of horizon forbidden west (wow), Alan wake 2, demon souls and Spiderman 2. Last night just stuck to Alan wake 2 as I'd never played it. Looks great but not the same fidelity level as horizon/Spiderman but it's still great.

The pro is one hell of a machine which looks so much better in person than on streams. I think pssr is a game changer

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122819225#Comment_122819225

I'd probably get a pro if I hadn't gone through all the PS games I wanted to play on the PS5 and slim. (PS5 was my first ps). I'd say they have the coil wine/fan noise down to acceptable levels now and less randomness in manufacturing. Still, it's an expensive machine that you've then got find a disk drive for.

Potential-Monke

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122819893#Comment_122819893

Yeah, it's missing something new. Would probably be amazing if I hadn't played all the games I like already. Might spin up HFW just to see. OG PS5 didn't have the fan noise, but again it's still only a fraction of noise of the PS4 Pro!

Still though, my €1K pc wouldn't get close to the level of quality and fps that the PS5 Pro can, and it's way louder too. This is definitely a console for enthusiasts or wealthy first time buyers. But it does need the right tv to get the full experience.

Either way, I'm happy with my purchase.

Grumpypants

The optional disk drive I'm starting to see in a different light.

I don't like digital only consoles, and I bought a disk drive right away, as I've loads of disk games across PS4 and 5.

But at the same time, if it made the pro €100 more expensive by glueing a disk drive to it, then it's making it very unaffordable for lots of people (when it's already pretty high).

it's a move that lets those had had bought a disk drive for their slim avoid having to pay again as they can just clip it off and move it over. Or those that are all digital at least have the option.

Same if they reuse it for the PS6. They just have to make one console and just make it fit that same disk drive.

It's much more like the pc style. If you upgrade your motherboard and processor you normally can reuse some of the other parts.

SuperBowserWorld

If Sony/MS/... made it easy to transfer, trade digital games then their would be no need for a disk drive at all.

Basically all digital content should be easily transferrable and traded. We have the technology.

JimBurnley

Anyone had issues installing the disc drive to the ps5 pro? Mine won't recognise it. Pretty sure I did the installation correctly as it's fairly simple. Now not sure if its issue with disc drive or ps5 pro... is there any merit in contacting Sony customer service.. 🤔

Grumpypants

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122825403#Comment_122825403

No issues. I just plugged it in and then on boot up it installed and updated and registered it to the console.

No harm contacting Sony. They will prob just get you to check for software updates. But they might have a step to pair it again.

jones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122825403#Comment_122825403

Did you set up the pro first before adding the disk drive? I had read that you need to install updates and set up the pro before installing the disk drive but then read on Reddit people where installing it at the same time as set up and it was fine.

I set my console up first then installed the disk drive it registered and I'd no issues at all.

Jordan 199

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122825403#Comment_122825403

Sounds like your console. You will need to turn it inside-out, followed by upside-down, followed by downside-up and lastly, outside-in.

😉

JimBurnley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122825833#Comment_122825833

I originally tried doing it all together, but also tried complete reset of console, setting it up on it's own, then the disc drive. Still no joy. Gonna have to bite the bullet and return both to Sony to fix. Least both brand new so under warranty and haven't traded my OG PS5 yet

TitianGerm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826239#Comment_122826239

Where did you buy them? Would you not go to the retailer first and gave them replace them?

JimBurnley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826292#Comment_122826292

See that's a problem. ps5 pro Smyths, disc drive Currys. Don't know which is causing the problem

Romero

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826239#Comment_122826239

Hi Jim where did you buy the console and disc drive from? If Smyth's might be worth dropping down to them to check it out sometimes they have lads who can check it for you depending on branch.

Is there power going to the drive? If you try and feed a game disc into the front of the drive does pull the disc in?

Jordan 199

I saw this quiz on Push Square.

I got 7/10.

Penn

Also 7/10. I was doing so well but they got tricky in the second half.

JimBurnley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826330#Comment_122826330

I got 4/10. No wonder i can't install a bleeding disc drive...

gandalfio

Will a PS2 disc work in a PS5?

Wanting to play Medal if Honour on the PS5.

TitianGerm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826304#Comment_122826304

I'd bring the disk drive back first and see if a replacement will work. If it doesn't then console back to Smyths and if still no joy I'd be onto Sony.

Jordan 199

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826354#Comment_122826354

😄😄😄

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826368#Comment_122826368

No. Pretty sure only PS4 disks are backwards compatible with the PS5. Anything older than that you'd have to check the PS Store or PS Now to play them digitally.

jones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826304#Comment_122826304

This is what I'd do go straight to Smyth's/Currys and replace. I think it's more likely to be an error on the disk drive than the playstation itself but who knows. If there's power going to the disk drive and it's ejecting disks etc it's probably fine. Did the console recognise the disk drive at all? Try to register it etc?

Romero

Not a bad score 😀

Romero

No it won't seen a guy on YouTube try different games and PS2 games didn't work with the pro here is the video he tried different discs ignore him trying stupid stuff like wii games etc tries the older PlayStation games at the start.

https://youtu.be/EX7R1aEUyPc?si=YtAXVNrGFGVjDrrH

Grumpypants

PS2 games are on cd and the PS5 only has a blue ray laser so can't read them. You might be able to get it digitally

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826575#Comment_122826575

Would that matter? I would have thought bluray disk drives could still read CDs? The OG PS3 was bluray but was still compatible with PS1/PS2 games, or is it that it had a separate laser for them?

Can't the PS5 also play normal DVDs and not just blurays? (asking because I genuinely don't know the answers to these questions, I always just assumed the reason the later PS3s and then PS4/PS5 couldn't play the older games was due to the cell/engine/processor whatever rather than the actual disk drive)

johnny_ultimate

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826636#Comment_122826636

Watched a standard DVD on the PS5 just yesterday and it worked fine.

There may be messy tech reasons why they can’t read older PS discs, but it’s a real shame that is the case - especially given how basically the entire Xbox library is still compatible with the Series X (a few individual titles aside). Even Sony’s digital emulation and available back catalogue leaves a lot to be desired given what they were doing back in the PSP / PS3 era with digital rereleases.

corcaigh07

9/10, bloody second guessed the Cerny question 😅

Penn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826655#Comment_122826655

Yeah. I'm not great with technical terms, but I always thought the thingy they did with the PS3 was meant to be so awful to work with that they had to build a new thingy for the PS4 which meant it couldn't be backwards compatible with the PS3 (and so they didn't bother with trying to include BC for the PS1&2 either), and even now the thingy struggles with digital backwards compatibility for PS3 games.

Grumpypants

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122826636#Comment_122826636

You're right. I had heard that before. But it can read DVD and Blueray, so I'm not sure now 😁. It must be simply emulation then.

SuperBowserWorld

Software wise PS5 can do PS4 stuff natively, previous stuff is emulated AFAIK.