So now would be a good time to buy a PS5, keep it in boxed until this is released and use it to pirate all the games?
This might be the bigger task than the actual jailbreak
If you wait until later, the units in the shops will also have patched firmware.
Going through the hassle of wasting time and nerves to pirate games that are very cheap to get after a few months after release or in sales is beyond my comprehension.
First thing it downloaded a 10 or 20 Gb patch...
Here is one website keeping track of it happening to various degrees: https://delistedgames.com/
Sometimes the game simply disappears from the store front but you can find it in your library. Sometimes it disappears from your library too, and you can request it via some process (https://delistedgames.com/get-your-games-back/). Sometimes you need to write the company in order to get a new key to whatever platform it is still available.
And sometimes it's just lost, with no recourse.
If you buy a single player game digitally you should continue to have access to it for the life of the console as long as you aren't banned for doing something like disputing a credit card charge. (Which admittedly is a concern.)
Nobody bought P.T.
The Scott Pilgrim game was delisted on the Ps3 when the license expired, and I can still download and play it today. Being delisted just means new customers can't buy it.
There's no way Sony's terms of service allow developers to pull games from the library after purchase, that would be a remarkable business failure on their part given how much leverage they have in negotiating the TOS with developers.
I returned a faulty game as is my legal right under UK law, Steam said they didn't allow that because they had their own much more restrictive rules. Eventually, I raised a PayPal dispute and PayPal choose to refund me (the amount was ~£1). They retaliated with restrictions to my account ... such restrictions as retaliation for fair exercise of rights granted by law is something that needs addressing.
I've noticed that game libraries, like Steam, now explicitly try to remove consumer rights with a click-thru pseudo-contract that directly contradicts UK law (roughly 'you give up rights to a refund'; whilst the Consumer Rights Act explicitly applies to digitally supplied goods).
Just thought this was a related point of note. Suppliers of intangible media have a little too much free rein.
I have hundreds of video games. On steam I think it's over 200 titles. I can't tell if something I purchased ever disappeared from there. What I do know is I have lots of titles on my account that aren't sold on Steam anymore. Some GTA games with the original soundtrack, several EA titles that used to be sold on Steam once upon a time.
Is there a way to use this site to check my gaming accounts to see if I lost any games?
I am amazed at the number of high quality games on there for a relatively small monthly fee. Buying one new game at full price is the equivalent of around 6 months of game pass. So for the same price I can either have 2 new games a year, or have access to hundreds of games.
Subscription services like that make piracy completely redundant. Game pass is spotify for games, and I haven't bought or pirated music since I started using spotify
Meanwhile, Sony's missing many landmark titles from two generations, and your only option for playing PS3 games on a PS5 is streaming.
PS3 had a shaky launch precisely for that reason, it launched at 599. The PS4 launched at 399 (a hundred bucks cheaper than the Xbox One btw and one the reasons it got a massive lead since the beginning)
Not to take away from Microsoft's achievement (and commitment) here, but of course much of that is dependent on remote servers to supply the necessary patches, or in some cases going so far as to just treat the original disc as a DRM dongle that enables an entirely image to be downloaded.
This is backcompat that allows you to play titles from the last twenty years right now, and that's still a huge improvement over anything Sony or Nintendo have done in the last generation or so [1], and reflects the degree to which Microsoft sees that as a killer feature of Steam. But it's not super likely that this will still work in another twenty years— the only archival-quality solution is keeping the old hardware working or hoping for the best with emulation.
[1]: But do note that a Wii U can natively play Wii games, and can be jailbroken to natively play Gamecube games, since all three systems are iterations of the same underlying platform. The launch versions of Nintendo's handhelds always supported at least one prior generation of game card/cartridge as well. And of course the initial "fat" SKUs of PS2 and PS3 could both play the generation of games immediately prior— and none of this required internet access.
We like this so much we sent an older Xbox One to a third friend with the idea to get him to buy Game Pass so we can all play together.
I dread the end of this early growth period for Game Pass.
In the West maybe. To keep up with Playstation example, in my country you can buy 6 new PS5 games with the minimum salary.
I'm not sure that says much either way.
https://www.bal.com/bal-news/singapore-minimum-monthly-salar... says min salary is 3k sgd
https://store.playstation.com/en-sg/concept/10000956 says Gran Turismo is 98 SGD
so I am puzzled
Btw, Germany also didn't have a minimum wage until fairly recently.
I know there are cheaper alternatives, but gaming branded hardware is far from being cheap. Specially middle-high GPUs.
And for most people that want to upgrade their computers or a specific item, they prefer to buy something that will last at between 3 to 5 years.
A stand, chain lube + cleaner, tubes+tube patch kit, chain brush, floor pump, chain drive tool, cable cutter and a set or two of wrenches/screwdrivers cost you more then a 200/300 euro switch plus at least one 60 euro game?
And you bought these? You didn't inherit all this stuff from your grandparents together with an "Oma fiets" or two when you born?
jokes aside, I do imagine that you might have more specialized tools. specially if you're working with some of the older sport bicycles that need love.
Sure, you can choose to buy a PC... but that's not a requirement (or indeed a preference) for lots of people in the hobby.
It's cheaper to fly to America and buy game consoles or PC hardware and fly back than it is to buy them in Brazil. Just be sure to hide your price tags from customs (or have a nice little bribe ready)
I learned a ton of English, strategy, stress management, shortcut keys, programming and whatnot from games. Some games also took a lot of my sanity, sleep, relationships with living beings, etc. :)
Don't feel bad enjoying a hobby. The universe is your playground.
If you enjoy a hobby then it's not useless, enjoying it is the point of a hobby! So enjoy playing video games, growing houseplants, playing golf or whatever hobbies you have without feeling guilty about not producing as much as you could.
I don't know about you but I started programming because of Minecraft and learning about running a business by playing prosperous universe and this gave me some insights that make me suspect that money and it's non neutrality is the biggest unrecognised problem in economics. Remember economics 101 doesn't even have the concept of money or time. In fact econ 101 is an utopia that we want to reach, not how economics works in practice.
Positive reinforcement is worth more than people complaining that you are wasting your time by doing the wrong thing. People on HN say you should be curing cancer instead of building a factory in factorio. The former is a poorly defined multidimensional non linear search space with high chance of failure, the latter is a well studied problem with tutorials and guides. That is negative reinforcement.
Getting free games per month or even getting access to a back catalogue of games with Game Pass or Playstation Plus is a monthly $9 to $15.
That's less than people pay that smoke.
Or maybe you want to do machining(high end hobby), now you need a garage which will cost you ten thousands of dollars or you rent one for a hundred or maybe four hundred dollars per month. Then you need machines which cost more than 5k dollars and you guessed it, you will require multiple machines like that.
In Bolivia when I was teen, I loved to go to the markets and buy pirated PS2 games. Each one would be about 10 bolivianos. (Around $1.50 ish?)
Without these pirated games myself and all of my friends and people I knew would not have been able to play games period. Imagine buying a $60 + import tax for ONE GAME on a Bolivian salary? Ludicrous.
I'm very happy the PS5 will finally open and allow gamers in third world countries to play. The PS3 and PS4 to my knowledge never had that freedom the PS2 did back in the day.
Also note that there are thousands of games that are free to play on PCs. There are even lots of old commercial games that can be downloaded for free now, legally.
Just because you can't afford a particular game doesn't mean that there aren't other options. As a teen I couldn't afford every game I wanted either.
It's not just about saving 50 bucks every now and then. At least for some, it's about satisfying intellectual curiosity as well.