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ALL ABOARD THE NON-EXSISTENT HYPE TRAIN

There is an absolute frenzy for these consoles right now. Why? I don’t know. I don’t want one. For me it’s about playing the games. I don’t need a Series X to play Cyberpunk. It’ll run fine on my Xbox-whatever-amount-of-terraflops-edition I have now.

They sold out instantly online last week, mostly because bot and scalpers were in overdrive trying to capitalize on what would probably be bad security on Microsoft and Sony’s websites. The price on eBay was immediately 4 or 5 times the amount of the purchase price. Neither is worth $500 right now, let alone $2k. 

Here's my favorite games from the E3 2020 Sony PlayStation Press Conference.

#10 Godfall™

Wow! What a bland and boring looking game. What happened to Gearbox? Did they just get lucky with Borderlands? I mean REALLY lucky. I can’t think of anything that worked out well for them. That Alien game, it was based on lies. The people were very pissed about that one and that game didn’t stand a chance when it went to market. That FPS LOL clone game came out around the same time as Overwatch right? And that didn’t survive either. I don’t know what to tell you about this game. I hate watching the trailer. Maybe we’ll see a better display of what this game is down the road. And here’s a pro-tip… Don’t use random music dubbed over your entire demo. We want to hear the sound effects.

The 2020 evolution of the PlayStation. Here is our first look at the PlayStation 5.

Rumored to be $700 and launch with a bunch of games that may not be a big deal to some. Like me. Don't listen to me. I play a lot of Caravan Stories right now and not a lot else. I recently installed Horizon Dawn and am about to give it a try for the very first time. Horizon Dawn 2 was shown during this press conference, so I figure I better be ready for that. The game always looked like fun.

The new PlayStation 5 will launch with a discless version, called the Digital Edition. This version of the console will be strictly for those of you who do not do physical copies at all. I'm a big fan of that style too. Owning a digital copy is easier to keep in your long term library. If you have to buy and keep old consoles just to play because you only have on disc, it does get harder if you don't have proper storage for them. So hopefully on PS5 I can download old PS4, PS3, etc. that I purchased digitally and they will just work. Am I dreaming? Have we come to that era?