r/consoles

A few years ago, Crunchyroll (bought out by Sony a year or so prior) bought out the absolute best online manga and anime retailer in the US, Rightstuf, with the promise of maintaining that company's pro-consumer model. The sales, the packaging quality, the item selection, etc.

Very quickly the packaging became horrible, and people were very upset. They also never did kept their promises of maintaining rightstuf's model for their seasonal sales. Then they removed access to the store for non Crunchyroll members.

Today, they have removed all manga and most blu-rays. They're slowly trying to force people into a world where consumers own nothing in the most anti-consumer way possible.

I know there are many people that try to hope for an all digital market allowing for good pricing, but history shows that the opposite is true. I've seen many people holding out hope or claiming people are doomers. All things many said about the rightstuf buyout. And here we are. Just felt like I'd provide further reason for caution.

I just got a brand new Samsung S95F and an S95H TV for my home. One TV in my office, one in my living room. Both have a PS5, a Switch 2 dock, and a raspberry pie 4 set up with a retro gaming image…

I have 8K capable HDMI cables running from the TV through the walls to where the consoles and cable box are connected.

I need a good 8K potentially capable HDMI switcher. (or at least one that will run the 4K at 120 Hz for the PlayStation) The old one that I have every time, the 4K signal goes through it from the PlayStation it flashes and glitches… Does the same thing if I switch it to the TV feed… It’s a cheap $40 to port switch that I bought off Amazon years ago for both.

So I’m looking for a recommendations. The TV guy who set it up today said I should look for something that’s 48 GB throughput capacity for the 8K potential.

I saw these two:

https://a.co/d/09ZUYmNo

https://a.co/d/0cWuH71y

Any opinions on these or better recommendations? I don’t wanna break the bank something around $100 mark is fine. Suggestions?

I don't care if it's second-hand or if it's the S or X version, I just want it to have disc. Also, I'd like to know if there's any known performance difference between the S and X versions? This question is mainly because I want to play GTA 6.

Edit: it’s HMG-2650.

When I was young, we had a games console. I’d say it was around the early 80’s that we got it, but can’t be sure if it was new at the time, or already old.

I feel it was branded hanimex (I’m in Australia). But maybe that’s false memory.

It had hard wired controllers, with quite a few buttons on the top plate.

When you change games, you also change a faceplate cover on the controller - to know the button mapping for that game.

Pretty sure it was grey/silvery in colour.

The controllers were rectangular, with a joystick / knob on them.

From my googling a colecovision looks similar, but not quite right.

What I mean by that is that like with how they kept the Dashboard itself looking the same on both Xbox Series and Xbox One outside of the differences in Wallpapers, I kinda hope the same would be done with the design of the console where it resembles the Series X heavily instead of just looking completely different.

I mean, the Series X itself already looks like a PC tower in itself with the inclusion of a disc drive, it would probably work more for the concept of the console doubling as a PC itself with access to PC games on it as well as potential additional storefronts. Of course it would need to have more storage to work with that like maybe 2 TB. That could be a bit difficult in itself but that is a whole other thing altogether.

On top of that I HOPE they don't try to call it anything but Xbox Helix. The name already has a good ring to it when the codename was revealed, it doesn't need to have something out there to try to make it stand out.

What do you guys think? I don't think I've ever seen this much hate toward Sony/PlayStation. At this point, they might have become one of the most disliked companies in gaming, or maybe the most hated gaming company.

The PS6 could end up being the new Wii U, or even worse, if Sony keeps going in the direction they're heading.

And honestly, I wonder how sustainable this strategy is in the long term. PlayStation is arguably Sony's most important business, yet they're increasingly making decisions that seem to kill the very audience that made the brand so successful.

I genuinely believe that in 10 years, consoles as we know them might be dead. And if PlayStation eventually becomes primarily a publisher rather than a platform, I'm not even sure people will still care enough to buy their games.

Maybe I'm completely wrong, but I've never seen the PlayStation brand feel this disconnected from its audience.

Hey everyone,

I’m writing this post out of pure frustration, hoping to see if others have faced a similar issue or if I just drew the short straw in the manufacturing lottery.

Shortly after my 2-year warranty expired, my PS5 completely broke down. The console freezes at the login screen, fails to load system menus, and displays padlocks on all my digital titles. After troubleshooting extensively (Safe Mode, rebuilding database, full system reset) and consulting hardware technicians, it turns out to be a total motherboard/internal SSD failure.

What makes this situation infuriating is that the console was kept in pristine condition—cleaned regularly of dust, properly ventilated, and used normally. Because Sony decided to solder the storage directly onto the mainboard and pair it cryptographically with the processor, a simple storage failure basically turns a €500 console into a paperweight.

It feels completely unfair for a premium, well-maintained product to die out of nowhere right after the warranty ends due to an internal component flaw. As a loyal user with a library full of games and active pre-orders, being left with zero reasonable repair options from official channels is hugely disappointing.

Is it worth holding onto a ps4 when I have a ps5? I'm debating on transferring my saves and selling the ps4. I'm typically a collector and never sell my consoles but these days I can't even afford to buy new games anymore. I have quite a few consoles. Xbox, Xbox 360, XBone, Series X, Ps2, Ps3, Ps4, Ps5, GameCube, and Switch. The 360 is the Halo 4 edition and the XBone is the GoW edition. Everything else is standard.

But Xbox is my most beloved game console company :)