 PlayStation 5 There's not much to say right now that you probably don't already know about PlayStation 5 Most of you guys saw the reveal event that unfortunately I was unable to stream this time around and most of you have seen some of the news that's run up since then and I'm a Nintendo guy got I got my Mario shirt on all that jazz you guys know the drill around here This is Nintendo Prime But we do talk about other things besides Nintendo and the new generation of systems coming out the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X are among those things that I want to talk about and I want to cover some of their games as well and I think this is one thing I need to give Sony the absolute utmost credit for E3 this year was canceled Sony has not been there wasn't planning to be there this year was not there last year But they ended up doing their PlayStation 5 reveal event and I'm air-coding this because they kind of unveiled the specs I guess earlier But they unveiled the system in a way that traditional systems would be unveiled during a time period when E3 was supposed to be taking place before it was canceled and Sony wasn't even gonna be there and yet they dropped the most E3 of E3 like digital events Trailer after trailer after trailer of new games Mostly new games besides the Grand Theft Auto stuff and even the GTA 5 stuff was like new content So they dropped a whole bunch of info on new games new trailers all this jazz and then they gave us the system So first let's talk about the primary reason we even play Like on these systems. Why don't we care about PlayStation 5 or the series X or even a Nintendo switch? It's about things like the games now. I mean, this isn't the greatest example platform, but you get the gist of it like we care about the games and I If you're into Sony games if you're into what they've done over the years, you know, go to Toshima coming out Obviously the last of us it last was part two on its way You know that they showed off a lot of games and they're very very Sony like games Including like project a this or whatever. It's called. That's coming. I believe exclusively from Square Enix They're they're very Sony like games Sackboy was obviously kind of the Breath of fresh air and they're you know taking a twist off from little big planet That I feel like was probably desperately needed at this point Not that little big planet is a bad series But it's nice to see a different take almost 3d-esque Mario take which I think is great for Sony to do that I think they desperately are short on franchises like that But everything they showed looked great. It looked fantastic I mean, maybe the most impressive showing was probably Ratchet and Clank because Ratchet and Clank despite some During the live stream, you know, there was some degradation, but you can now see you know much clearer in post clips That you got to see what that SSD can do because The big thing with the PlayStation 5 is it is essentially less than the Xbox series X in almost every single way Until you get to this speed of the SSD It has a sustained 5 gigabytes or 5.5 or something like that per second of read slash write speed And this basically allows them to seamlessly Bring in all these worlds together with a well much loading time on the Ratchet and Clank trailer Which definitely looks like pure gameplay Showed it off the best in terms of seamlessly loading a billion things at once as they're going through worlds and all that It was it was a really fantastic display of what that SSD can do that while Some of that will be able to be done by the standard M.2 SSD Which is also particularly fast can reach up to six gigs, but not sustained On the Xbox series X again The exclusive games on Sony are just gonna be a little bit more seamless than some of the exclusive games on the Xbox series X in terms of loading things in that's just an advantage that Basically Sony has because of the way the controller works. It's not really the SSD itself It's the controller that controls how the data flows. They have a customized controller that's allowing those speeds Who knows maybe a revision of the Xbox series X on the line also includes a similar customized Controller that lets their M.2 run even faster. I think they're both using PCI gen 4 SSD So, you know the controller is what's gonna be the limiting factor there And so who knows that's something that Microsoft might improve on in the future But right now PlayStation 5 has an advantage there And I think one thing that became clear in this reveal of all the games Is that Sony's bringing the goods they're bringing the goods like they do every single generation Some of these games are gonna come now like, you know, the new spider-man games coming out this holiday for probably a launch game The big launch game. We know that Halo Infinite's kind of like the Xbox series X launch game Although it'll still be on the old Xbox and so it's gonna be interesting to see How it being a cross-platform game is a launch game is going to affect things now breath of the wild Is it anything to go for it's not gonna affect anything at all except for in the positive for the Xbox series X and Most fans based on some early polls I've seen do think that Halo Infinite is a bigger launch game than spider-man even though the spider-man game sold really really well last Time around on PlayStation 4 and people are kind of curious that if this is is this even like spider-man 2 Is this a new one or is this just a really big expansion of DLC pack that they're gonna release as a standalone think like For Nintendo fans think like the new Luigi you stuff that they did on Wii U where you could like it's like an add-on DLC for Super Mario Super Mario Bros. You but you could buy it standalone physically and just play that and not play the other The other rest of the stuff you have to get in the original game So it'll be interesting to see what happens there, but obviously a lot of people feel like Halo Infinite's a bigger game But that aside, I mean Halo's like the franchise like for you know, Microsoft their their flagship I Think that Sony obviously showed off a lot more games And that's ultimately why we play do any of these games necessarily justify Needing a next-gen system in terms of the visuals and all that in some regards you could say yes But a lot of it's going to be in the finer details And are we going to get full 60 FPS on all these games is horizon zero dawn to Going to be running at a full 60 FPS, you know at 4k or whatever. They're promising for resolution. I don't know But I do like what I see in terms of the games And if nothing else is clear here the power difference between the series X and the PlayStation 5 are going to be near Imperceivable to most people now, there will be some resolution differences. There will be some frame rate differences I'm sure I'm sure there'll be a slight bump in resolution at times on On Xbox series X and there might be a little bit more stable frame rate in some regard with some multi-platform games But when it comes to exclusives, they're gonna look absolutely stunning on PlayStation 5 And they're gonna look absolutely stunning on Xbox series X And yes, PlayStation 5 is the one touting the actual true Exclusives where they're not gonna do as many of the games also running on PlayStation 4 pro whereas Microsoft's gonna allow them to make them for the old Xbox and the new Xbox for like the next two years or so I think just to kind of pump up the value of game pass and we'll get into the game pass valuation later So I think it's a fair point of comparison for how these two systems really are going to vary at launch And it's very interesting now. There's some things that they did confirm PlayStation 5 will be fully backwards compatible or close to fully backwards compatible with most of the PlayStation 4 library We assume every exclusive PlayStation 4 game that Sony owns the right suit will be able to be played on PlayStation 5 day 1 That I think it's a fair assumption at this point, but they didn't address things like how are they gonna handle? Remasters or or stuff like that We know like if you buy one version of a game on Xbox and it's an exclusive for sure You're going to get the Xbox series X version as well when you pop that disc into the series X You're gonna download an update that's gonna give you all the better visuals and all that stuff They didn't say that we're gonna do that this time around so say you buy the last of us part 2 on PlayStation 4 Chances are that game will run as is on a PlayStation 5 But are they gonna allow an a free update that's gonna give you better visual and performance? Or they're gonna release a last of us part to remastered later and double dip in this like they did this prior generation I don't know but that is something that some people are wondering about since Microsoft has been very forefront in saying We are going to allow you to have these games on the system And we're gonna allow third parties to do that as well Which Assassin's Creed as an example is one such game that you buy it on one system You get the upgraded version on the new system with Xbox series X So it's something that Sony obviously needs to address at some point But it's not something they're focused on right now right now the games they showed look great And it's to be expected I don't know how many of them are actually gonna come out anytime soon because we tend to Sony tends to tease a lot of games early in console generations that end up not coming out for two or three years, but They look good and there's nothing to be I guess disappointed in in terms of the quality and the breath and and the Variation of the types of games we're getting out of Sony. I think it all looks good in my book now This gets into the system itself now obviously Very distinct look. This is gonna be a console generation. You can't forget the look of the system It's very unique very different for Sony Sony's always gone with like a black slash gray box And it's been very practical And Yeah, that's basically all you can really say Microsoft themselves has always kind of used more PC like chassis's and that makes like the Xbox series X Make a lot of sense the way that that system is made in the way that it looks but a PlayStation 5 looks completely distinct It's taller by all regards other than the Xbox series X, but it's not quite as wide It can be set on its side although it looks a little weird on its side It's clearly meant to stand up vertically which will give probably some people some issues With some of the current TV stand setups because a lot of TV stands don't necessarily have like a really tall shelf space but It looks very very distinct and you could tell you know that they have their normal version what we're calling the normal console with The disc and then they also have an all-digital version which we assume will probably like 50 bucks cheaper more on pricing in a moment But you could tell that the design of the system was clearly designed for the all-digital one and they kind of Slapped the Blu-ray player on the other one I don't know it looks kind of weird because you can definitely tell the digital one looks more sleek I'm not sure which one I'm getting at this point probably gonna end up with a physical one, but I don't know I Don't know I it's difficult because all games have to be installed anyways, and there's like 825 gigs I think on the internal SSD although there's an expansion bay and that doesn't sound like much But it's probably more like it's a one terabyte SSD But you have all that taken away down to 825 for redundancy because SSDs need that kind of space for redundancy So when you see one terabyte on the Xbox Series X It might be a true one terabyte of usable space But it's probably more like a 1.3 terabyte drive with 300 or so megabytes there for redundancy purposes Plus you have to you know minus the space that's used by the operating system Speaking of the operating system They didn't talk about it much during the show they didn't show anything off about it in particular But apparently the entire UI is completely revamped and redone from PlayStation 4 to be sleeker with new features and all that This is in contrast to the Xbox Series X which is basically confirmed to use or being confirmed to use Just the standard Xbox one interface except it's sleeker It's faster and they've added in some of the new features You know the switching between games and all that that wasn't present And we've seen some of this in action already to kind of get a feel that yeah, it's going to be familiar Whereas PlayStation 5 might be very different PlayStation over the years has always used the more DVD menu style For a long time, you know, if you've ever owned a DVD player or a blu-ray player, you know the menu style That's basically what a PlayStation's been forever. I've never been a big fan of it But it is simplistic and it's familiar And apparently it's going to be different in the net. So we'll we'll see what happens You know, we haven't seen much of that But we're supposed to apparently hear about it soon I feel like we're gonna hear about everything soon because these systems launch in five months So there's gonna be a lot of information coming out still beyond that Obviously, uh, you got to talk about the price of the system There was at one point a leaked price on play Asia for 699 for the disc version of the system that has since been taken down I don't know if that was just a placeholder price. I don't know if they just made it up. Nobody knows According to John from spawnwave. He has put out there. They're like, hey, I talked to some people I know it's a u.s. Retail and they don't even have any clue what the price is gonna be people that would know if they knew ahead of time So I don't I'll take that for what you will I think most people are anticipating a 499 price point And some of this is supported by Sony who are there One of their head guys has come out now and said, hey, look, we're trying to focus on value with the pricing Which makes people feel like they want to make the PlayStation 5 look like it's a good value They did that with PlayStation 4 granted Xbox one help them with their weird pricing and you know Forcing connect on people made the fort the 399 price point feel really valuable at the time I don't know that we're gonna see a difference in price point this time around I have a feeling that whatever the Xbox series X is priced at whatever the PlayStation 5 is priced at will probably be the same price range But I do think that Sony is trying to prepare people for a more expensive Generation at launch. Some people think that might mean 599 with it with the PlayStation 3 But to to reveal that you got to make people so wet in the pants and that they want the system before they reveal The price that the price feels like it's a bargain and granted at 599 You might not even be able to build a comparable PC that could touch a PlayStation 5 in terms of its performance So in that regard it still could be a good value, but we'll consumer see that as a value I don't know I think most people are expecting 499 at this point because that's what the Xbox one X came out yet PlayStation 4 pro those are solid launch prices. Those systems did okay better for for Microsoft and Sony But that could be a price point. They're trying to prepare people for and then the digital version at you know A cool 449, but again, this is just guessing and estimates and we have no idea for all we know These systems are gonna be 600 bucks a pop and for all we know Microsoft might just say screw it and Put it at 399 because they don't need the money off the sales of the box they want money off subscriptions and They're just going to undercut and lose money per system massively in order to outsell PlayStation 5 Which is something Microsoft is in a very unique position to do because the video game division at Microsoft isn't a big deal in the Grander scheme of their whole business So it'll be interesting to see what's what's going to happen with the price battle because Microsoft could potentially just undercut Everyone besides the switch, but again, that's obviously a very different quote-a-quote inferior system So yeah, I think that it's interesting now terms of the games I think I saw this on a forum thread somewhere someone mentioned like oh Sony showed off all these games at launch That's potentially $480 worth of games that I want to buy And by the way all the games they show won't be at launch, but It's like okay Yeah, 480 bucks worth of games and then someone's like yeah Or I could spend 10 bucks on game pass get all of the exclusive games plus all future exclusive games Plus they keep adding new and new content Kingdom Hearts 3 as an example They just keep adding content to the system to make it more and more valuable to make game pass amazing You know and if you have 50 million people subscribe to game pass versus only 5 million in sales for a game at 50 million It's probably gonna outpace The 5 million especially since there's a monthly fee or a yearly fee associated with that 50 million So you're gonna keep getting money even if those people aren't playing certain games And I think that it's a very different strategy You can still buy the games individually and all that but obviously Microsoft is opting to offer a more I guess a more consumer-friendly way a more Netflix way of enjoying video games versus Sony who hasn't announced anything similar to that program yet And it's gonna be interesting to see how that goes down obviously Sony right now looks like they have a lot of exclusive games And the system looks looks unique. I mean can we just talk about the look of the PlayStation 5 for a moment? Some people call them an alien console. I've seen a lot of memes out there. I have soar on all that stuff I get it. It's different. It's very unsony like But I kind of dig it. I don't know Maybe it's just me maybe because I'm so used to like Nintendo systems from like the lunch pail to Like the weird we stuff like I don't know. Maybe I'm just you know the doggo with the switch I don't know. Maybe I'm just used to weird console designs But I kind of like what they're doing in PlayStation 5 and I don't know I think Xbox series X is fine, too It's a standard HTC PC type of case and I'm cool with that And supposedly they're listening on the cooling We've known about that for a while where they're gonna make the system not so loud as it compared to like PlayStation 4 Pro Especially so we'll see But I'm ecstatic about PlayStation 5. I'm actually excited for PlayStation 5 It'll be my first Sony console that I plan to actually own at launch And you know who knows maybe I'll review some games or something I have no idea what I'm gonna do with it yet besides for the MLB the show But I'll figure it out as we go because there's a lot of great games And I think one major difference that I guess kind of goes in Microsoft's favor Is that they're like almost fully backwards compatible with every generation of Xbox? Like they are from the OG Xbox all the way through Xbox one They are backwards compatible, but not every game But most of the games whereas PlayStation 5 only goes back to PlayStation 4 games and only most of those games But still I think that there's a lot to love about PlayStation 5 This isn't me trying to tell Xbox series X over it. It's way too soon for that Obviously we could talk about how the system were unveiled I think both companies have actually done an excellent job in how they've handled this I know it's felt like we were waiting for ever and we probably should have had this press conference before we had or press conference See what I'm saying like it felt like E3 We should have had this event probably before the GDC event the GDC event should have happened after in my opinion But it is what it is I can't deny that I think Sony pretty much hit a grand slam in how they Handled this digital presentation unveiling the PlayStation 5 We haven't even gotten to the controller. We already knew a bunch about the controller as it was But it's obviously more ergonomic Haptic feedback all that stuff, you know, they're trying to make it feel kind of like the HD rumble We're trying to make it very Feedback like except even better since obviously you have the feedback in the triggers that we don't have on switch So I don't know I think it looks great. Do I think it's a switch killer? No, of course I don't think no matter what Sony did it be a switch killer because I don't really view PlayStation 5 and Xbox series X as The the more indirect competitors with switch that are all competing in the same space but and competing for mind share of gamers, but PlayStation 5 doesn't replace a switch. So switch doesn't replace a PlayStation 5 either So it's kind of one of those things that I think everything can coexist at least for a few years And then we'll see what Nintendo has coming next But I don't know you guys let me know what you think about the PlayStation 5 reveal and everything down below I know a lot of this is just old information for you guys But I'm just I didn't get to talk about it And so I finally got to talk about it took me a few days or whatever I finally talked about it good to go we can move on to our next news story and all that But thank you guys so much for tuning in. I entertain the rubber jams from Nintendo Prime Whoo, catch you guys in the next video