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The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (15 children)

I’m genuinely curious to how those things are going to sell. My knee jerk reaction is ‘oh hell no’ but there’s a lotta console players out there that want the power but just don’t want to get into PC gaming. Of course there seems to be a lot of people still playing on last gen consoles too so I have no idea where that’s going.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (13 children)

The problem is the reason those people don't get into PC gaming is because they don't wanna spend $700 on a gaming machine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's not necessarily true. I want my gaming to just work, and that's not the case in Windows. It's becoming less the case with console gaming, but I can still be confident that when I buy a game for my PlayStation it'll actually boot, I won't need to use third-party software for controller support, and I won't need to tinker with drivers. That said, I already have a PS5. The TV I game on is still 1080p, so I don't understand what $700 would get me over my current hardware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can still be confident that when I buy a game for my PlayStation it'll actually boot, I won't need to use third-party software for controller support, and I won't need to tinker with drivers.

Sounds like your last pc gaming experience was in the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, steam straight up tells you if games have support for controllers, and they are all plug-and-play...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I did have to install 3rd part drivers for Dualshock 3. And I will follow a GitHub guide when the gaming PC is upgraded to Win11 and Logitech f710 no longer works. https://gist.github.com/bsamadi/4d4070658b7ea4ee7960cae40a7fccb4

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, you CAN actually use that 18 years old hardware with a PC. Try it on a PS5.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The other way around is actually supported

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it?

I don't have a ps3 controller to try, but the internet seems to say no pretty unanimously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I meant dualsense on PS3, not Dualshock 3 on PS5

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