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fog wrote:Providing the Hermes delivery guy doesn't just drop kick mine into the Tyne (I'm not optimistic) then I'll be posting impressions too.
Oh oh..heard interesting things about Hermes... Good luck.... Sure you'll be fine!
Thanks. Mine just arrived. Delivered by an old bloke in a clapped out Skoda, the sort of transaction you normally omly see in a dimly lit pub car park these days.
Conversely, my ShopTo delivery, which I got for my brother-in-law, arrived at 8:30am via DPD and couldn't have been more professional. ShopTo has been great throughout, keeping me regularly informed, and will certainly be getting my business over Amazon in the future.
fog wrote:Providing the Hermes delivery guy doesn't just drop kick mine into the Tyne (I'm not optimistic) then I'll be posting impressions too.
Oh oh..heard interesting things about Hermes... Good luck.... Sure you'll be fine!
Thanks. Mine just arrived. Delivered by an old bloke in a clapped out Skoda, the sort of transaction you normally omly see in a dimly lit pub car park these days.
Conversely, my ShopTo delivery, which I got for my brother-in-law, arrived at 8:30am via DPD and couldn't have been more professional. ShopTo has been great throughout, keeping me regularly informed, and will certainly be getting my business over Amazon in the future.
Must dash, Astro awaits.
Indeed a mate ordered through ShopTo and good great service. His arrived in the specified one hour window...
Enjoy Astro... Looks to be a great game and showcase for the new controller. Do like the fact that Sony are a bit more adventurous than MS with their offerings! Really hope we see some good use of the controller tech inside DualSense this time around.
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A light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Steam/Xbox/PSN User Name: CypherQ Switch - 8177-9514-5116
In an email to customers, Game said: "Due to the volume of PlayStation 5s in the UK market and the size of the product, the launch has led to UK-wide delivery challenges for all retailers and couriers."
It goes on to say that it has had to use "multiple couriers" to get the consoles delivered on time but then singled out Yodel, saying the firm has "informed us that not all orders due to be delivered by them will be delivered on release day".
MattyP wrote:
At least you have something to look forward too...
I'm sure I'll be fine with the Xbox.
To be honest, I'll probably play an hour of Astro and then never get near it again as it will become a permanent Fortnite/Rocket league device for my son (or whatever the next big horrible multiplayer thing is).
Which is just as well as my wife saw the box size and said 'I hope you don't think that's going in the *beep* living room!'
Had a frustrating few hours with the PS5 to get the sound working correctly with my surround sound box.
Put in AC Valhalla and had no speaking voices. All the other sound, but by dialogue.
I cursed Ubisoft a few times and put it down to an early bug, so went over to the Spiderman Miles Morales - same issue.
Realised at this point it had to be the PS5 and not buggy software, so went to the sound settings
Found that the PS5 was defaulting as 7.1 surround, whereas I only have a 5.1 surround so assumed by changing that setting it must be that. Didn’t work.
Set it to 2 channel however and it was happy after that. I was not as I want the surround.
Found the issue was the digital output version. Set that to Dolby DTS, put the 5.1 back on, and bingo!
You got something sat between the PS5 and the audio device? Sounds like it's not doing the HDMI handshake properly, and that's often caused by switch boxes
WiteWulf wrote:You got something sat between the PS5 and the audio device? Sounds like it's not doing the HDMI handshake properly, and that's often caused by switch boxes
TFO wrote:PS5 finally delivered
Took over an hour to download the 868Mb day one system patch as every bugger with a new mach8ne ws trying to do the same.
Have to say, The Astro game is bloody brilliant
Awesome. Must admit really want to have a tinker with Astrobot and the new controller.... Supposed to be a great experience! Just can't bring myself to part with £350/450 for another new toy!
Patches seem to be a thing these days with new consoles. Guess it's to be expected really as things are being constantly updated these days. One reason why I went back to the PC for a while was the fact that the console experience had almost become like a PC experience. Updates etc. However not only updates they seem to take an age on consoles too. Switch was OK though. That was really quick at updating when it needed too. Guess it isn't as complex though.
A light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Steam/Xbox/PSN User Name: CypherQ Switch - 8177-9514-5116
Still get the feeling it will be wasted, pretty much everything will have a PS4 version and a majority an Xbox version, so developers will be lazy.
And by lazy I mean have an impossible deadline to meet and a million things to develop/change/fix.
Yes, this is my fear too. It's basically what happened with the Vita: 95% of games were ports from other platforms and didn't take advantage of the additional hardware available.
Good luck.... Sure you'll be fine!
At least you have something to look forward too...
