So there's a very good chance that a few generations from now this will just be an expensive paperweight? Like I've accepted that most games need online connections these days, and so do the consoles, but now we even need it for the add-ons?
The article says it's for the initial pairing.
It's still worth paying attention to in terms of repairability when the drive dies, but it shouldn't actually affect my usability if I buy one, personally. I'm guessing they're worried that without signing the drive, it will be a huge piracy/hacked game vector.
Why have you accepted this? Why would anybody accept this?!
Suddenly not interested in the article itself when it detect my ad-blocker.
If you click the small button below turn off your ad blocker that says "I turned off my ad blocker" it should work. Tell me if it doesn't and I'll keep that in mind in the future.
Do you have the right ublock origin filters enabled? It didn't trigger on my end.
I didn't mess around with settings etc. Basically anytime I saw the full page detector thing I just close the tab. I do exactly this for any site I visit basically, there are too many other things to do, if they don't want me there I don't have to stay.
Just buy a damned computer already, people.
Consoles are nice for TV setups, unless you use steamOS, which is also nice for TV setups.....
You can pretty easily boot to steam big picture regardless of OS.
It's nice, but it's not perfect. My gaming pc currently uses big picture but I still have recurrent issues at times. Like the inability to fully disable the guide button for certain "games" when that would be a super useful extra button for emulators like retroarch.
Couch gaming is just not that great on PC sadly. I'll deal with it because it's the only way I get close to exactly what I want, especially with the emulators. But it sure as hell doesn't replace an actual console experience that I find myself using way more than my PC that I have probably spent more on over the years than my PS5 cost, which is also more powerful since my pc setup is pretty old (still on a 1050Ti).
I've got a PC plugged straight into my living room TV. There are solutions to consoles becoming unnecessarily locked down.
Consoles are easier. I just want to open the box, plug it in, and play.
Just need to download new firmware for a few hours. Load the game you wanna play, then download that update. And then download the new season.
That isn't unique to consoles. I have plenty of games on PC that tell me I need to install some third-party launcher and then update the game when I try to open it.
Lol, you never have to update drivers? Updating console firmware is rare, easy, and doesn't take a few hours.
Season downloads apply to PC as well. They get auto updated anyways so it isn't a factor for either case.
Sure, but that all happens automatically, and will simply work when it's done. It won't come up with some bs conflicting error with some other program I don't even know about on my computer.
So there's a very good chance that a few generations from now this will just be an expensive paperweight? Like I've accepted that most games need online connections these days, and so do the consoles, but now we even need it for the add-ons?
The article says it's for the initial pairing.
It's still worth paying attention to in terms of repairability when the drive dies, but it shouldn't actually affect my usability if I buy one, personally. I'm guessing they're worried that without signing the drive, it will be a huge piracy/hacked game vector.
Why have you accepted this? Why would anybody accept this?!
Suddenly not interested in the article itself when it detect my ad-blocker.
Here’s an alternative article that won’t do that: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/10/ps5-slims-new-external-disc-drive-requires-online-pairing-before-use/
If you click the small button below turn off your ad blocker that says "I turned off my ad blocker" it should work. Tell me if it doesn't and I'll keep that in mind in the future.
Do you have the right ublock origin filters enabled? It didn't trigger on my end.
I didn't mess around with settings etc. Basically anytime I saw the full page detector thing I just close the tab. I do exactly this for any site I visit basically, there are too many other things to do, if they don't want me there I don't have to stay.
Just buy a damned computer already, people.
Consoles are nice for TV setups, unless you use steamOS, which is also nice for TV setups.....
You can pretty easily boot to steam big picture regardless of OS.
It's nice, but it's not perfect. My gaming pc currently uses big picture but I still have recurrent issues at times. Like the inability to fully disable the guide button for certain "games" when that would be a super useful extra button for emulators like retroarch.
Couch gaming is just not that great on PC sadly. I'll deal with it because it's the only way I get close to exactly what I want, especially with the emulators. But it sure as hell doesn't replace an actual console experience that I find myself using way more than my PC that I have probably spent more on over the years than my PS5 cost, which is also more powerful since my pc setup is pretty old (still on a 1050Ti).
I've got a PC plugged straight into my living room TV. There are solutions to consoles becoming unnecessarily locked down.
Consoles are easier. I just want to open the box, plug it in, and play.
Just need to download new firmware for a few hours. Load the game you wanna play, then download that update. And then download the new season.
That isn't unique to consoles. I have plenty of games on PC that tell me I need to install some third-party launcher and then update the game when I try to open it.
Lol, you never have to update drivers? Updating console firmware is rare, easy, and doesn't take a few hours.
Season downloads apply to PC as well. They get auto updated anyways so it isn't a factor for either case.
Sure, but that all happens automatically, and will simply work when it's done. It won't come up with some bs conflicting error with some other program I don't even know about on my computer.
I did, still gonna buy consoles because i can
Oh no! Anyway....