What You Need To Know About Your Brand New PS5

With the PS5 becoming more available after two years on the market I wanted to cover some of the things you should know if you just got a PlayStation 5 system for the first time.

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[BraxtonKovary]

Congrats to everyone that got a PS5 for the holidays!

[KnicksBasketball]

Congrats to anyone who got a ps5! I’ve had mine for a year and I love it

[glassofraksi]

Found a disk version with an extra controller and 2.0 darkplates on marketplace for $400. Dude got it just for ragnarok less than a month ago. Made my new years. Bless him

[servonut]

I've had my PS5 for just over a year and I still learned something new with this video! Had no idea I set up the stand incorrectly. Also, didn't realize I could dim the controller lights. Thank you Spawn Wave!

[sangbeta]

The vertical stand is best. I have the PS4 and PS3 vertical also. Heat rises to and escapes out the top end and back of the system. They can stand a few inches apart from each other. If they were horizontal, there would have to be shelves between them, and that takes more space and reduces air circulation.

[Dgrealy]

I haven't been gifted a console in many many years, and tend to buy them myself. But God damn that feeling of pure excitement is something I will never forget ❤️❤️

[symboltherapper]

I got mine a year and a half ago but I still love watching videos like these!

[socialistprofessor]

I ended up a generation behind during grad school and it has made the hobby so much more financially tenable. Can't wait till the ps6 is announced so I can finally get one of these. :)

[FuriousTartan]

Be careful with your USB type A ports. Some people have had the blue plastic break off. Don’t over use them. I’ve had mine for almost 2 years with a problem.

[TheMrGiannisgr]

I’m watching because I just enjoy your PlayStation & Nintendo news videos.

Merry Christmas 🎁❄️

[ezyglide]

I did not expect to get a ps5 at all! And I would have been fine with that, as I was setting my eyes on a Steam Deck, since I was looking for a new gameplay experience and simply saw the ps5 as a fancier PS4 but no major changes. Lo and behold, my brother and mom both got me one, lol! am pretty excited to get games for it. God of War Ragnarok and Elden Ring here I come!

[robertw]

I didn't get a PS5, but my wife did get me my first Nintendo Switch. It's OLED Model. From everything we seen that seems like it was the best to get. I know everyone else already had a Switch, but I'm really excited about it. The last console I've had before this is the GameCube. I'm really enjoying my Switch. It's so much faster and looks way better than my GameCube. I'm finally playing BOTW. Btw the Zelda series of games are my all time favorite games. I've been wanting to play that game ever since it came out. It's so different than my favorite Zelda game OoT. It's a lot of fun so far.

[priorwitness]

Just got mine. I can't stress enough how awesome the controller is for the system. Just WOW! Playing God of War or Gran Turismo 7 with this controller is some "S" tier stuff. It's tough to go back to a controller of yesteryear after playing the new PS5 controller.

[luisugalde]

I bought my PS5 in July 2021, but still watched the video as a refresher. Great stuff.

[Woodzta]

I have two big gripes with the PS5. One is PS5 saves. If the PS5 game uses the native PS5 save system, you probably cannot delete, move, or copy individual saves for a selected game. In games like Ghost of Tsushima or Demon's Souls, any save you create in-game is permanent unless you delete your entire game save. The only way around this is to backup and restore your saves from the cloud before you created it in-game. Simply put, the PS5 native save system is inadequate and a large regression.

My second annoyance is not being able to copy PS5 saves to USB. Your only option for PS5 specific saves (not PS4) is the cloud. If you're offline, or you don't pay for Plus, you're out of luck. The 'workaround' here is that you can backup your entire Saved Data folder through the system menu. There are other annoyances like not being able to use any themes or change any colour schemes etc. but they don't bother me as much.

[DWS]

I have a ps5 already and know how to use it. I just love the entire Spawn cast. So I'm watching to support always. 🙂❤️

[Merco]

great recommendations, Got my PS5 around launch from sheer luck in the PS Direct queue. I second the stand and possibly a spare dual sense if you can manage it... I have not had an issue game interruption from a dead controller battery since that point. I also love the fact that Sony went the route of the NVME drive instead of a proprietary storage option, storage costs just keep getting cheaper.

A point I'd just like to bring up. Try to get the PS App on your phone and sync up to your PS5. I have had countless moments when I was away from my house and I found a crazy deal on the PS Store, purchased it, and set the download remotely (While my PS5 was in Rest mode). Came home to see the game downloaded and waiting.

It used to be that putting the console into rest mode 'might' cause the console to crash and force a start up... but I haven't seen that happen in almost half a year now. I think Sony patched a fix for it.

[ovaltinejenkins]

Sony should hire you and make THIS the introduction video to being a new ps5 owner lol.

[barryklinedinst]

It took 2 years and I finally found it. It's a nice piece of gear

[notagamer]

If you have yet to play ghosts of Tsushima, definitely get it for the ps5! It’s a fantastic game with a great story and plenty to do