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Sep. 22nd, 2020 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyMy games shop called me today and said they can get me a PS5 day one \o/ I actually called them yesterday to pre-order a game and just asked a bit more about the situation, and they said they thought they'd definitely get enough PS5s to sell me one, they just didn't know if it would be on launch day. Which I was happy with to be honest, launch day would be nice but just knowing I'd get one in the launch window was good. But now they've confirmed day one. And I can go pay off the full amount right away, since I have it, and get the money out of my account so I don't accidentally spend it. Hurrah! Now I just need to figure out where to put it, since apparently the PS5 is massive, and given the size of the hard drive and the fact you can't transfer your progress from PS4 games to PS5, I feel like I would like to keep my PS4 as well. We'll see.
Xbox has bought Bethesda though, a games studio which makes the Elder Scrolls series (ie Skyrim), Fallout, and publishes a bunch of others. Bethesda games are some of my favourites really - although the company has gone a little bit odd recently - and it will be a bummer if they're now going to make those series exclusive to Xbox. Everyone seems to think it's wicked and shows Xbox are now investing in exclusives, but really they're just doing what they did before and buying up studios and sequels to already popular games, and kind of restricting access. Which I don't think is that great, or on a level with what Playstation is doing. But I'm a Playstation fangirl. And they didn't make Minecraft exclusive to Xbox when they bought that, and a popular Bethesda spokesman is still saying things about 'bringing games to everyone' which doesn't sound very exclusive, and they'll probably still be on PC anyway. But if they do make them exclusive, despite all this, it will suck.
I'm finding the idea of a lockdown Christmas a lot harder than the idea of a lockdown spring/summer, to be honest. It feels weird, but you could still go outside in the nice weather during lockdown, and who wanted to be at work anyway? Having time off really just felt like the summer holidays when I was a kid. But during winter, I really look forward to a lot more indoor activities. The idea that I won't be able to casually go to see films, or go Christmas shopping, or go to a favourite cafe for a nice warm meal, or Pizza Hut for a night out - feels a lot more jarring than just being told to stay home for 23 hours of the day in the spring, for some reason. I have to think very hard about whether I want to go to a local farmshop for some pumpkin pie, like I do every Halloween. If I'm even allowed to, depending on how many more restrictions come in. And I get the feeling Christmas trade in the shops this year will not be what it usually is. But it's what we've got to do I guess. And hopefully only for one year. So I guess we'll just have to see how it goes.
Xbox has bought Bethesda though, a games studio which makes the Elder Scrolls series (ie Skyrim), Fallout, and publishes a bunch of others. Bethesda games are some of my favourites really - although the company has gone a little bit odd recently - and it will be a bummer if they're now going to make those series exclusive to Xbox. Everyone seems to think it's wicked and shows Xbox are now investing in exclusives, but really they're just doing what they did before and buying up studios and sequels to already popular games, and kind of restricting access. Which I don't think is that great, or on a level with what Playstation is doing. But I'm a Playstation fangirl. And they didn't make Minecraft exclusive to Xbox when they bought that, and a popular Bethesda spokesman is still saying things about 'bringing games to everyone' which doesn't sound very exclusive, and they'll probably still be on PC anyway. But if they do make them exclusive, despite all this, it will suck.
I'm finding the idea of a lockdown Christmas a lot harder than the idea of a lockdown spring/summer, to be honest. It feels weird, but you could still go outside in the nice weather during lockdown, and who wanted to be at work anyway? Having time off really just felt like the summer holidays when I was a kid. But during winter, I really look forward to a lot more indoor activities. The idea that I won't be able to casually go to see films, or go Christmas shopping, or go to a favourite cafe for a nice warm meal, or Pizza Hut for a night out - feels a lot more jarring than just being told to stay home for 23 hours of the day in the spring, for some reason. I have to think very hard about whether I want to go to a local farmshop for some pumpkin pie, like I do every Halloween. If I'm even allowed to, depending on how many more restrictions come in. And I get the feeling Christmas trade in the shops this year will not be what it usually is. But it's what we've got to do I guess. And hopefully only for one year. So I guess we'll just have to see how it goes.
