NX Gamer has received his PS5. He's been testing the PS4 game patches with the PS4 Pro and it looks like they've implemented some of the Oodle texture compressed stuff already that will be used for next gen games.

What it means is PS5 games should have smaller footprint, higher quality assets and improved performance. On top of considerably lower load times. Pretty cool stuff.

Two weeks till NA launch? As @Hiku is the one updating the title of the thread, the countdown in here now follows the site he shared.

It counts down to New Zealand launch which is the first place in the World to get PS5: https://yourcountdown.to/playstation-5

Bold: Hopefully not. Rather Microsoft than Google. With Microsoft I can at least play the games on my PC.

Sony isn't fooling around these days.

For the past few years, Sony has shown great interest in expanding its 3 pillars of entertainment. Thus in the future, Games, Music, and Movies will be accompanied by Anime as a 4th pillar. Sony already owns Aniplex (one of the world's biggest and most popular anime production companies), Animax (the world's biggest anime television network and most popular anime distributor in Japan), Funimation (one of the world's biggest anime distributors and streaming services), and Manga Entertainment UK (the biggest and most popular anime distributor in the UK).

In April 2020, Sony also acquired a 5% minority stake in Bilibili (the biggest anime site in China) for $400m. And according to Nikkei Asia, the entertainment giant has now entered into final negotiations to acquire Crunchyroll (one of the world's biggest anime distributors and streaming services). Sony could pay more than $950m as talks wind up with parent AT&T (link).

Exited to try out the new controller. What is said about it really got my hopes hop that we are in for something special.

This kinda tranforms it into being a Spider-Verse game. Brilliant addition.

Reading through the Ultimate Spiderman comics atm and getting hyped for this. Love the choppy animation thing they have going on, to replicate the cartoon frames feel.

The suit looks pretty good as well.

It's such a clever detail and Insomniac has confirmed that it's a suit mod that can be attached to other suits or unequipped if you just want the suit.

Insomniac is on a roll with Spider-Man and Ratchet & Clank. Those $229m that Sony paid for them is money well spent.

Shadow of the Colossus-like game "Praey for the Gods" is the latest title getting free PS5 upgrade. List now counts 42 games.

Assassins Creed Valhalla – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 60FPS)
Atelier Ryza 2 – Free PS5 upgrade
Borderlands 3 – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 60FPS)
Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War – Free PS5 upgrade with the $70 Cross-gen edition (native 4K 120FPS)
Control – Free PS5 upgrade with the Ultimate edition
Cyberpunk 2077 – Free PS5 upgrade
Dead by Daylight – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 60FPS)
Destiny 2 – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 60FPS)
Dirt 5 – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 120FPS)
DOOM Eternal – Free PS5 upgrade
Far Cry 6 – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 60FPS)
FIFA 21 – Free PS5 upgrade until FIFA 22 launch
For Honor – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 60FPS)
Ghostrunner – Free PS5 upgrade
Grand Theft Auto V – Free PS5 upgrade
Guilty Gear Strive – Free PS5 upgrade (60FPS)
Hitman III – Free PS5 upgrade with the digital version
Horizon: Fobidden West – Free PS5 upgrade
Immortals Fenyx Rising – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 60FPS)
Kena: Bridge of Spirits – Free PS5 upgrade
Little Nightmares 2 – Free PS5 upgrade
Madden 21 – Free PS5 upgrade until Madden 22 launch
Maneater – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 60FPS)
Marvel’s Avengers – Free PS5 (dynamic 4K 60FPS)
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Free PS5 upgrade
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 120FPS)
Mortal Kombat 11 – Free PS5 upgrade
No Man's Sky – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 60FPS)
NBA 2K21 – Free PS5 upgrade with the Mamba Forever edition (native 4K 120FPS)
Outriders – Free PS5 upgrade
Planet Coaster – Free PS5 upgrade
Praey for the Gods – Free PS5 upgrade (60FPS)
Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 – Free PS5 upgrade
Rainbow Six: Siege – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 120FPS)
Ride 4 – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 60FPS)
Riders Republic – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 60FPS)
Sackboy: A Big Adventure – Free PS5 upgrade
The Elder Scrolls: Online – Free PS5 upgrade
The Witcher III – Free PS5 upgrade
Watch Dogs Legion – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 30FPS)
WRC 9 – Free PS5 upgrade (native 4K 60FPS)
Yakuza: Like a Dragon – Free PS5 upgrade

Looks like a load of updated games, nice :D Hopefully they'll add a 4K patch to GOW.

Digital Foundry posted their unboxing and impressions of the PS5 and Series X and Controllers. They seemed really impressed with the DualSense and Richard Leadbeater who is usually lets say a bit more Xbox biased (lol) called it revolutionary and John had nothing but praise for the controller.

That end tease as well. Something really surprising coming up.. Really want to know!