Red Mosquito

JuanHamm wrote:Are any of you planning on switching platform?

I'm a ps4 user, but I'm very jealous of gamepass, plus my ps4 kinda sucks for streaming. I'm on the fence

Not switching, but I am intrigued by GamePass and Xbox. I may get one mid-generation if there is enough exclusive content that I am interested in.

Pre-order through Sony was painless. Had a waiting room with a countdown and once I was in it took 2 minutes with no slowdown.

Wow that's awesome; I've pretty much given up at this point. Probably will try to score one as soon as they goon sale at midnight, 12 Nov

Antonline.com has preorder bundles available. Got one

Not sure if true: Walmart.com will have additional preorder stock tonight at 9:00.

True: Walmart has cancelled in store preorders to avoid chaos and queuing.

tree_ wrote:Antonline.com has preorder bundles available. Got one

What's in the bundle?

Monkey_Driven wrote:

tree_ wrote:Antonline.com has preorder bundles available. Got one

What's in the bundle?

extra controller, miles morales advanced luxury edition, demon souls all at full price. Might end up cancelling but dunno. Never played the ps4 Spider-Man and its included in luxury miles... lotta money but might be worth it

tree_ wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

tree_ wrote:Antonline.com has preorder bundles available. Got one

What's in the bundle?

extra controller, miles morales advanced luxury edition, demon souls all at full price. Might end up cancelling but dunno. Never played the ps4 Spider-Man and its included in luxury miles... lotta money but might be worth it

Oh man, Spider-Man was great!

Not sure if I should trust antonline

tree_ wrote:Not sure if I should trust antonline

I've never even heard of it?

Me either

Seems legit.

Yeah but who knows how long shipping may take ... still might be my best option currently

Good they acknowledged it, but it seems like better messaging could have avoided most of the mess.

Really curious to learn more in the future how much COVID-19 has disrupted their marketing and supply chain.

Microsoft has done a much better job, but they also had no first party games of note to launch this year either. They could devote everything to it.

Monkey_Driven wrote:Good they acknowledged it, but it seems like better messaging could have avoided most of the mess.

Really curious to learn more in the future how much COVID-19 has disrupted their marketing and supply chain.

Microsoft has done a much better job, but they also had no first party games of note to launch this year either. They could devote everything to it.

Microsoft has quietly had a really good year with games like Ori, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Tell me Why, Gears Tactics, Battletoads, Wasteland 3 (not exclusive but helped funded by Microsoft) etc. None of them are on the scale of Sony’s but its been a good year for quality, IMO. Shame that Halo wasn’t ready for launch.

scrub12 wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:Good they acknowledged it, but it seems like better messaging could have avoided most of the mess.

Really curious to learn more in the future how much COVID-19 has disrupted their marketing and supply chain.

Microsoft has done a much better job, but they also had no first party games of note to launch this year either. They could devote everything to it.

Microsoft has quietly had a really good year with games like Ori, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Tell me Why, Gears Tactics, Battletoads, Wasteland 3 (not exclusive but helped funded by Microsoft) etc. None of them are on the scale of Sony’s but its been a good year for quality, IMO. Shame that Halo wasn’t ready for launch.

Forgot about Flight Simulator and Ori!

some hullabaloo about ps5’s size

tree_ wrote:some hullabaloo about ps5’s size

It's a big one.

Looks good to me. Not too big.

Man, that $720 was a tough spend, and a surprise to Raz who was expecting $500. But with some 'splaining (will end up buying games and extra controller eventually) she gets it and I think I'm going to keep this pre-order just to be sure I get one. I don't totally trust Antonline and that I will be receiving order within 5 days after Sep. 12th, but glad I spent through Amazon with their money-back policies, just in case.

Wasn't so sure about the games, either, Spiderman special deluxe launch edition and Demon Souls. But I think these are great choices because I haven't played the PS4 Spiderman and there's a remastered version of it included. I also haven't played the original Demon Souls (or any of the Souls games prior to Bloodborne), so that's a huge plus also.

What I'm also excited about is revisiting RDR2, GOW, and LOU2, also comparing/contrasting Madden 21 on the new rig, to see the performance enhancements and what not. Also just been holding out playing these oldies til the new console for more to be excited about.

Looking forward to November, let's go woot woot ?!