19/02/21, 17:24
Somehow, with some luck and trying about a dozen times, I managed to grab a PS5 from Amazon on Tuesday. So there were games of “follow the nice Amazon lady for 3 hours while she slowly takes it further away from me before eventually coming back to deliver it”. And then several games of “swapping external drives around, and copying loads of stuff between them and the PS4 to eventually get it all onto 1 shiny new 5TB drive, while swearing at Sony’s stupid decision to only let you plug in a single external drive”.
I’m impressed by the PS5 though. Ok, it’s huge, but it’s so quiet. And actually starts (from turned off, not rest mode) quicker than my TV. Not impressed by the UI, which is just terrible so far. And not just because they swapped pressing and holding the PS button. It can get very confused and slow at times, although that might be because it’s going mad doing something with the external drive. Like deciding to download all the