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[Icymanipulator]

I played Skyrim for a few hours today on my PS5 and it was fine \_0_/

 

[KyoZz]

I guess if you count "winning" as getting it 2 years after everyone else has already played it.

I honestly don't care if I have to wait 2 years especially if it comes with better framerate and all the whistle and bells. Not to mention we don't lack games to play on PC.

The only games I am eagerly waiting are GTA 6 and Ghost of Tsushima 2 but even then it's not worth investing in a pro.

 

[Cakeboxer]

"The best way to play PlayStation titles is on PC"

Of course, but what has that to do with this firmware update?

 

[Mr Moose]

Recent Windows update made my motherboard say the CPU was 127C and made the fans run at full. Had to update the BIOS to fix that shit.

Was playing the new season of MWIII and had really bad light flashes in Domination zones.
Wasn't sure if it was a "feature" (if it was, it's terrible as it makes the game unplayable), but I did switch from PS5 to PC immediately after and didn't experience it again since.

Was it the jump scare thing?

 

[Luipadre]

Maybe thats why plucky squire crashed 3 times for me and it corrupted my save aswell after the 3rd crash...

 

[drganon]

So what's the point of this article? Oh, the paragraph dedicated to shilling for PC gaming and disparaging console.

Wouldn't be an arthands thread without that.

 

[PectacularOz]

Yeah graphical glitches are unheard lf when gpus get new patches every week. /sarcasm

 

[Killjoy-NL]

I miss second half PS3 era Sony

Second half of PS5 seems to be stacked as well with new games from their main studios.

 

[Cyborg]

My god this nonsense about PC and play on PC and it plays better on PC. Fck off.

 

[DanielG165]

Wait, wait, 20 hours a DAY?

I can barely go for 3 hours before I’m done nowadays lol. 20 hours a day is… Something else.

 

[BlackTron]

I can barely go for 3 hours before I’m done nowadays lol. 20 hours a day is… Something else.

Give the guy a break. He used to go for 26 hours a day, but he's been working on it.

 

[hemo memo]

Yeah, that makes sense. I was wondering why FF16 kept crashing and glitching on me.

 

[Hookshot]

It's a novel approach, making the old games worse so your new Pro looks better.

 

[DenchDeckard]

My god this nonsense about PC and play on PC and it plays better on PC. Fck off.

Like many have said. Its the new "Thing" that everyone is running with. Supposedly the marching orders from Microsoft.

 

[Three]

Maybe thats why plucky squire crashed 3 times for me and it corrupted my save aswell after the 3rd crash...

I played plucky squire without any issues on the latest firmware for a few hours last night. Didn't really have any issues. I think this is just coincidence and nothing to do with a firmware issue (unless people are talking about a beta firmware on an insider program?)

Like many have said. Its the new "Thing" that everyone is running with. Supposedly the marching orders from Microsoft.

Well they did invent the use of FUD after all, so I wouldn't be surprised if it were.

 

[Physiognomonics]

Sony new method to encourage people to play on PC?

 

[FrankWza]

Second half of PS5 seems to be stacked as well with new games from their main studios.

I was going to blame the PS5 Pro but it's not even out yet. But I was being sarcastic

 

[vkbest]

My GOD you are so right. It's ridiculous how lame this article is. Why is he begging people to play on the PC?

This is the result from Sony strategy. I warned this some years ago. If you port your games to other platform, when bad things happens such as "Concord", "non new games", "hardware or software problems", etc or your announce higher prices, your clients and your haters will look to the alternative didn't exist some years before (PC).

 

[DenchDeckard]

Sony new method to encourage people to play on PC?

Plot twist. Sony wants everyone to move to PC too as they can't be assed with the stress of dealing with these expensive assed PC components lol

 

[Doctor Hades]

Thankfully, I only play first-party and third-party Sony published games on my PS5 and buy all other third-party games on PC. I am only playing Astro Bot at the moment on PS5, which is running fine on the new firmware, but have started playing Final Fantasy XVI... on PC having previously been playing it on my PS5 where it ran fine at 30 fps.

 

[Astray]

Tom's Hardware shilling for PC so you click on their affiliate links..

 

[RagnarokIV]

Planned obsolescence at play! Upgrade now!!11!

 

[M1chl]

How much of an issue it is? Few block appears on the screen or something more severe?

Also devs, adhere please to best practices in framework which you are using, shit like this in unrelated instances happens quite a lot, because someone feels smart

 

[hemo memo]

It is more probable that this is a result of Sony's incompetence rather than a deliberate tactic.

 

[adamsapple]

It's a novel approach, making the old games worse so your new Pro looks better.

They really *are* trying to be the next Apple

 

[Hookshot]

They really *are* trying to be the next Apple

Went into work the other day and someone was moaning how their iPhone battery was "gone", even the plastic charging cables crack and break, and plastic is supposed to last thousands of years.

Big companies should spend more money in testing and improving stuff not looking for ways to fleece us.

 

[StueyDuck]

Wait till they find out how regularly windows fucks shit up with their updates.

 

[Kokoloko85]

My GOD you are so right. It's ridiculous how lame this article is. Why is he begging people to play on the PC?

Microsoft money isnt even trying anymore to not be obvious..

 

[ToadMan]

I didn't notice any problems with an OG PS5. What did I do? Platinum astro. MvC2!!! And some GT7.

Funnily enough people said the same about a recent Samsung one update, which also didn't seem to cause me any problems.

And my PC has been solid too!

Damn. Better buy a few lottery tickets.

 

[justiceiro]

Less than a week after announcement of the pro, huh?

 

[Three]

Went into work the other day and someone was moaning how their iPhone battery was "gone", even the plastic charging cables crack and break, and plastic is supposed to last thousands of years.

Big companies should spend more money in testing and improving stuff not looking for ways to fleece us.

Plastic cracks and breaks easily and doesn't last thousands of years, especially when exposed to the sun and alcohol (and I don't mean drunkeness but actually come into contact with alcohol). It doesn't fully decompose easily though, that takes thousands of years.

 

[Preseznik]

Recent Windows update made my motherboard say the CPU was 127C and made the fans run at full. Had to update the BIOS to fix that shit.

Was it the jump scare thing?

I don't think so, but I play with my sound off.

It was the in-game lines that denote the Domination zone, they flared up like in one of those videos where the graphics card is fried.
Except it was only on PS5 and only on those domination zones.

I guess possibly it's a problem with my PS5, since I haven't seen it happen while playing on my PC or Xbox.

 

[skit_data]

Although it might seem contradictory, I see this as somewhat of a healthy sign that they're tinkering with some deeper parts between the regular "stability improvements" and QoL features. Issues will of course be resolved fairly quickly, or face a lot of bad PR.

 

[Zacfoldor]

Honestly, how dare you try to get me to buy a PC for gaming when you run a PC website, but act like it is for my own good?

Are yall seriously on here claiming that Sony did this on purpose(lol okay, sure) while not even mentioning that this website, "Tom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC Enthusiast" has no motivation to try to get you to swap to PC gaming?

Don't you even realize that PC gaming has dropped in popularity lately while console sales are up? PC gaming is 50% of mobile but console is almost 75%. Look at it here, right here:

WSJ - PS5 shipped 61.7M and Xbox Series 28.3M WW, as of the end of june 2024, PC Sales Falling

PC Sales Falling

www.neogaf.com

Maybe they are trying to reverse that trend.

But I'm sure "Tom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC Enthusiast" is totally unbiased. Do you see how me accusing them is kinda silly? You saying sony did it on purpose is of course many levels crazier.

I have a great gaming PC too, but I don't use it. You know why? Because most of the time I am either installing mods or after one single crash(from the mods), uninstalling them all and testing to see if it is my computer fucked up or if it was the mods, instead of just enjoying the game.

Hate everything I said? Well if you disagree it all boils down to one singular point. If you buy a console, you are buying the right to own and game on a console as long as it doesn't get stolen or destroyed by you. You are protected and Sony is forced to fix your games and work for you to make sure you are 100% warm and happy. Acting like building a PC is the same thing or somehow safer and easier or a bigger guarantee stuff will "just work" is peak, PEAK, delusion. Sony or someone(without you doing anything at all) will fix this shit, and soon. There is safety in numbers. When you build a PC, some obscure part someday will go bad and you will just be stuck with a PC that restarts every once in a while and your gaming experience is just defined like that. Every wow raid had that guy whose PC just restarts. There is safety in numbers with uniform hardware and claiming uniform hardware is an advantage of consoles is not something new that I made up, it's something that has been accepted since gaming existed and is still true today.

 

[Fess]

I guess if you count "winning" as getting it 2 years after everyone else has already played it.

You have to wait and risk having a storyfocused game spoiled, those are the big negatives.

But you also get a more patched up game, and with Sony you can get DLC included, plus higher framerate and better graphics and mods.

Occasionally I play games early on PS5 (Astro Bot!) but for most games I now take the waiting approach for a first time playthrough on PC. Used to double dip but I’m over that. And it’s okay. It’s def annoying to not be aboard when hyped people here talk about the games but in 2 weeks people move on to talk about other things. And great games don’t age like milk.

 

[IntentionalPun]

My GOD you are so right. It's ridiculous how lame this article is. Why is he begging people to play on the PC?

Media just desperate for clicks, we really don’t need anywhere near the amount of web sites we have for gaming.

This whole article is based on a Reddit post and some tweets where people are just assuming issues are firmware related. They might be, but people are literally mentioning in that Reddit thread some of the bugs existed before the update lol

 

[thismeinteil]

This video will never not be relevant. Sadly.

 

[squallheart]

This explains why this happened to me lol and yeah I know haven't finished ff16 since launch game makes me dizzy.

 

[mckmas8808]

That Microsoft money be flowing, huh?

 

[poppabk]

This is the result from Sony strategy. I warned this some years ago. If you port your games to other platform, when bad things happens such as "Concord", "non new games", "hardware or software problems", etc or your announce higher prices, your clients and your haters will look to the alternative didn't exist some years before (PC).

Yeah, a few glitches or crashes in my game and I am ready to go out and buy $1000 worth of games hardware and another $1000 to rebuild my software library.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Yeah, a few glitches or crashes in my game and I am ready to go out and buy $1000 worth of games hardware and another $1000 to rebuild my software library.

Just to have more glitches and crashes on average.

 

[Ronin_7]

What is that clown talking about

 

[Shake Your Rump]

I love the thread title change. Accurate.

 

[Zathalus]

Are people surprised that a PC centric site like Toms Hardware would say to play on PC? You wouldn’t be surprised that PlayStation Universe would tell you PS5 is the best, or that Nintendo Life swears by the Switch would you?