There’s a lot to be said for having a clean setup that’s pleasing to the eye. My partner spent a looong time handling all the cabling behind our entertainment system but it was SO worth it. Not a single cable in sight, and it makes us happy every time we look at it! Looking at your setup, it even looks like the PS5 is smaller in black 
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Agree completely. I tied up the cables behind the TV stand but there’s not many. 3 AC plugs including the TV, 2 HDMI cables and 2 Ethernet cables. Since I have a few feet of space back there, the PS5 cables are to the right of the TV stand behind the PS5 itself and the XSX cables are to the left behind the XSX.
Yes!!! It does look smaller!! I really don’t understand why Sony didn’t go all black. SMH. My only visual complaint now is the controller not having the colors on the buttons but that’s a minimal minor issue that I can ignore. Overall though, im hyped!!!
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Why not removed the extra shelf and stand them both up?
I prefer the consoles laying down flat.
Best yet, stand them up behind the TV out of sight.
Black ps5 looks way better. I still can’t find one though I’m not actively looking. I’ll wait until there’s a black proper version. God of War is the game I want to play so I’ll wait until then
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Question about Rift Apart
I remember when they first showed the game and were going on about the rifts, I felt like I was being bullshitted a little bit. The way they were hyping it up as this incredible new feature that would blow people’s minds and change gaming felt like too much. What I was seeing seemed more like a cool gimmick that would be almost like an on-rails sort of, carefully curated thing each time it happened and I said as much. A clever way to take advantage of an SSD by changing the on-screen assets very quickly, but still a gimmick
Was I wrong?
I ask because I’m not hearing much in the way of effusive praise for the rift system and have even noticed some comments about it not being as impressive as hoped
It can change game design just as Cerny claimed…it just isn’t the case that this was as transformational in R&C as ppl thought. Since the game was revealed initially, we have seen similarly impressive use of SSD’s with the UE5 tech demo running on XSX and due to bugs in R&C found that the game isn’t actually doing what was being claimed. Even if it were doing what was claimed, there was loading happening gradually in the background behind the on rails and flying/falling sections.
That said, the game is incredible from a visuals pov despite that. And the gimmick thing is true, however the best platformers are always designed around gimmicks. It’s a super well designed game through and through by the sound of it. Just needs a lot of testing to iron out bugs and Sony’s framing of it wrt its SSD use is…sketchy.
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Deleted my above posts because it was blocking this one. Finished platinuming Rift Apart. It’s cute and fun enough. But—
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Written for children, no nuance or edge
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Hyper linear, funnest when opened up
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Awful and unnecessary mini games, rift pockets
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Rifts we’re cool at times and gimmicky in others
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Surprisingly unpolished
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Terrible trophy list (collected everything assuming there were corresponding trophies including upgrading weapon levels)
This is like a solid 7/10. I think the franchise is tired unless they really revamp the formula going forward. It also needs to be said that this is overpriced at $70 and should have been cheaper, like Returnal, which was highway robbery.
Also, I guess rest mode is just fucking broken on the PS5. It feels like I’m beta testing this POS at times.
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Upgrading the storage on PS5 is an absolute joke and it’s not even guaranteed to work.
Sony built such a second class device, every feature seems to be half baked or missing the whole picture. They need a serious overhaul of their hardware and software team.
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Even worse, they are not taking any responsabilities. They don’t give you any indications about what is working or not, and if it is not working, it is on you. What a mess.
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The SSD storage expansion solution appears to not be a solution. lmao.
So happy that PlayStation 5 is my secondary exclusives only gaming console. 
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They don’t even have a compatibility check implemented for the devices. I would expect that at a minimum, even the X360 had that with external USB devices two generations ago.
This is the worst of the PC Gaming experience. No guarantee it will work even if all the specifications are met. No way for the user to know if they encounter odd behavior later on if it’s the device or not. They’re always left guessing what it might be. Is it just the way the games are meant to behave or is it from their NVME?
Also, what happens when (not if, it’s guaranteed to happen) people put in NVMEs without any heatsinks? Will the console detect issue, issue a warning, shutdown, or just let the device fry itself? Kind of like that recent Amazon Studios video game that fried top end RTX 3090 video cards.
This is surprising even for Sony.
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I think a lot, and I really mean a lot, of the PS5 average users will have big troubles with their SSD’s, with Sony not even trying to help them.
They outsourced the compatibility list and testing to their users in a Beta test. Jim Ryan is a genius.
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This really really looks like the kind of thing they should have hammered out before release, not something they make players beta test what, eight months after launch?
Absolutely. But it’s not even really released. While I don’t think it will be in beta for long, it’s been a very odd last two years, where anything can and did happen, so don’t consider it done until it crosses the finish line. 
When you have stuff like this and the fact people put the console upside down lol just to name two things, it is clear to see the PS5 is not a particularly well designed machine.