PS5 Pro Pre-Orders Were a Limited Edition Letdown - Beyond 865

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🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The limited edition 30th Anniversary PlayStation 5 hardware that was announced last week went up for pre-order, and statistically speaking, you probably weren’t able to get one. On top of maybe TOO limited quantities of the very cool retro-style versions of the PlayStation 5, PS5 Pro, PlayStation portal and both DualSense and DualSense Edge, the whole online pre-order system turned out to be something of a disaster. People waiting in queues for an hour or more, just to be told everything was out of stock. Or worse, being able to add stuff to their card, but blocked from purchase by technical problems. Considering how much of a mess the launch of this generation was thanks to scalpers, you’d think Sony would’ve handled this better. Actually they did, but only in Japan, where pre-orders of the highly sought-after special editions were limited to PSN account holders with more than 30 hours logged playing games, which presumably helped make things a bit more orderly. We also scratch our heads about the pricing of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, which is only ten bucks for people who own the game on PS4, which mysteriously doubled in price overnight on the PlayStation Store. And like, we get it, but also: c’mon. In other news, Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ delay into next year puts in a literal Samurai Shodown with Ghost of Yotei, and that probably isn’t great for either game. We also reflect on how it’s going to be difficult to narrow down what this year’s game of the year will be. Despite a handful of really good games, there don’t seem to be any clear crowd-pleaser standouts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.5	Griffin. What's up everybody? How's it going? Beyond? What's up?
1:21.3	Hey beyond what's going on max.
1:23.0	Thanks. Yeah, I was on vacation last week did anything happen did I miss anything nothing nothing whatsoever nothing I can think of Brian no no just a ghost of a week just to kind of just a real no nobody.
1:35.0	Yeah, were you lived mountains?
1:36.8	You didn't get a 30th edition, the PS5 pro and no one else did either.
1:40.2	So you missed nothing really.
1:42.3	So yeah, there's a bit to talk about.
1:43.5	I figure we could do some clean up on the state of play.
1:45.8	But I also want to talk about that, that PS 5 Pro limited edition, the 30th anniversary
1:50.1	one, which I feel like a lot of us were kind of on the fence about PS 5 pro and then that came out and we were like ooh
1:57.0	I kind of want one and a big part of that is the fact that you you know, usually when they put out these fancy limited
2:03.7	editions, they're like, they come, it's the base model and they come a few years after it's already
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