I'm close to buying my 1st PS5 console but should I buy it from vinted £420 or pay Sony Full price and get my warranty instead ??

Latest charity shop and Facebook market place 👀 😁

I am having trouble with the 2step verification as I don't receive the code on my phone nr, and I've been trying to reach support for 3 days now... are they ever available?!

I've been getting that stupid message that they're experiencing "a high number of requests and can't assist you at this time"

Anybody know another solution?
I don't have back up codes...

Hey all - I don’t know about you guys but I’ve been quite excited for a couple of released / upcoming games. Mainly the list consists of:
• Ghost of Yotei
• 007 First Light
• Wolverine
• Assassins Creed Black Flags Resynced
• & goes without saying, GTA 6
Since the news broke that PlayStation is going digital, I’ve cancelled my PSN renewal and will no longer buy digital games, only physical - idk about you lot but prices are still mad and I feel it’s a waste buying a game, finishing off the campaign and then just have a shelf full of discs I won’t revisit

Anyone interested in creating a group to trade disc games once complete? I’m usually not in any rush and it would save a whole lot of money - I recently bought the new AC Black Flags for PS5 and happy to trade it for any of the games mentioned above if anyone else would be keen to play it
Selling games privately is tedious work and selling them to CEX or Cash Converters feels like a rip off

Based in the West Midlands
Not sure if this idea would work but happy to explore!

I'm £2.99 short of renewing my PS Plus. I already have £5 in my PS Wallet but can't cover the rest until my payment comes in. If anyone has an unwanted UK PSN code with a few pounds left or a spare code they won't use, I'd be incredibly grateful.

What's the one thing you'd change about the PS Store's search if you could only fix one?

Genres are too broad to get you to what you actually want. Action could mean a soulslike, a twin stick shooter, or a walking sim with combat bolted on. What I actually want is tagging, both the standard kind (co-op, roguelike, metroidvania) and something closer to user-submitted tags, so you can filter down to the exact kind of gameplay you're after instead of a genre bucket that covers fifty different things.

Curious what everyone else would fix first. Better search matching, faster new release visibility, something else entirely?

As someone who is less than 8 months from being 'legal' this is fucking ridiculous. I can play a game with full nudity+ sex scenes, with mods to make yourself bustier or have a longer schlong, but I cant talk to my friends? (who are all the same age as me) Honest to god, this country sucks.

I've have long thought of how the PS5's own search/browse actually works, and the gap is bigger than I expected for a platform this size.

Some things that stand out:

• No way to combine filters. Genre, ESRB rating, and player count, for instance. You get curated rows (Featured, New Releases) or a single flat genre browse, not a real filtered query.

• Search is unforgiving of small formatting differences: punctuation, colons, alternate spacing. A slightly "off" search can return way fewer results than it should.

• There's no way to sort or filter by score at all, and no separation between critic and community sentiment in the UI. You either already know a game's reputation or you don't.

• Discovery outside Sony's own editorial picks is close to nonexistent. There's no "show me co-op games under $30 rated T or lower" type of query, even though the underlying catalog metadata to support that clearly exists somewhere.

Curious whether this bugs other people as much as it bugs me, and what specific gap annoys you most? Feels like a real limitation, and I wonder if anyone actually find the way the PS5 presents games as usefull?

Is this shop legit? planning to pre order a game, does anyone have any experience buying from them? and how was it?

about 2 days ago, i was locked out of messaging, parties, and discord calls, basically any form of communication, until i can get age verified.

the thing that confuses me is that... no one else i know has been affected by this? i've asked 3 different people, and they all aren't restricted at all, despite all of them saying they haven't done the verification?

it's not account age, as one of the people i asked has only had an account for about a year, whereas i've had mine for around 5 years

can anyone explain why i'm the only one who got affected, and if there's any way around the verification without giving up my info?

thanks in advance!!

I don’t know if this is the place to ask this, but should I sell my PlayStation? I lost access to my account, and I can’t get it back, and I really don’t want to make a whole new account and buy all the games I like, when I could just sell it and buy a PC and play more games than I can on PS.

Atached to this post is a link to the petition to vote for the UK government to discuss preventing Sony’s choice to replace upcoming PlayStation games with digital codes.

For the Britons and Northern Irish reading this, I implore that you consider the reproductions of what Sony plans to do:

\- upcoming PlayStation releases will not reach the second hand market

This removes competition for game prices. Sony would be able to uphold £70 game prices years after release without second hand markets to undercut them, eventually lowering prices to be consumer friendly time after release.

\- PlayStation can delist games without alternative ways to play them

Does anyone remember what happened with P.T.?When a digital only game was delisted despite public demand to keep the game available. Sony would be given the choice to remove any of their games without alternative ways to legally play them. You will not own your games. You will hold a licence to play a game only as long as PlayStation will let you. If disc production was to continue then these releases could still be legally played and you will still have the choice to own your games.

I would be grateful for anyone to sign this petition or to share it. This may be an uphill battle but I see hope that we as consumers in a high standing crowd can all seek justice the this corporate greed.

Hi everyone!

I’m planning to buy a PS5 Pro and recently saw a post mentioning that some UK banking apps (like Lloyds and Monzo) were offering cashback on purchases from PlayStation Direct.

I’ve checked my Lloyds app, but the offer doesn’t seem to be there anymore. I don’t have a Monzo account, so I was wondering if anyone with Monzo could check whether the PlayStation Direct cashback offer is still available?

Also, wanted to check if anyone is aware of any other UK banks currently offering cashback for PlayStation Direct purchases? Any recommendations would be really appreciated. Thanks!

UPDATE: The petition now has 20 initial supporters and is under review by the UK Parliament petitions team. The initial supporter stage is now full, so the link cannot accept more signatures.

Thank you to everyone who helped. If Parliament approves and publishes it, I’ll share the public petition link here.

Hi everyone,

I asked the mods before posting because I didn’t want this to come across as spam or self-promotion.

I’m trying to submit a UK Parliament petition about protecting ownership rights for console games sold in the UK, including PlayStation games.

This is not anti-digital. Digital games are convenient and many players prefer them. The concern is that if the industry moves fully towards digital-only distribution, players may lose rights that physical games have traditionally allowed, such as lending, resale, transfer, collection, preservation and long-term access.

The petition asks the UK Government to protect ownership-like rights for console games sold as purchases in the UK. That could mean either keeping games available in a transferable physical format, or giving digital purchases equivalent rights to lend, resell, transfer and retain access.

This is currently only the initial supporter stage. Before Parliament reviews whether to publish a petition, it needs 5 initial supporters.

Only British citizens or UK residents can support UK Parliament petitions.

Thanks.

I have had my ps5 for 3 years and would really like to swap it for the pro. Do you guys recommend that I should or just stick to the standard ps5.
I generally play call of duty….dead rising…last of us…battlefield. Thx

been thinking of buying a ps5 for a while now (awful timing) and just wondering about people's experiences with them? Thinking of getting a "good" condition console rather than "excellent".....any advice please?

So 5 weeks ago they shipped out Cronos: The New Dawn and after about 10 days of it not coming it went down as lost.

Had to do some forms etc…

They sent out another copy and it’s now been 8 days and it still hasn’t arrived.

Anyone else finding them a bit more unreliable?

Is this the worst move ever by Sony? Do we see any way back from this incredibly silly move?