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Gamestop telling customers not to put PS5 in rest mode(want opinions)
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Sounds like a bored employee telling old wives tales to sound inciteful. You think this completely rando GameStop employee already figured out something that's gone unnoticed from the rest of the internet including other reviewers who've had weeks with the console?
PS5. This happened with two different externals that both worked without issue on my PS4 Pro.
You better use it extensively to make sure that your PS5 is not lemon. If it's going to brick, make it brick when under warranty.
"Xboxes catching fire"? From people blowing literal water vapor into them? I think I've found the problem.
Yup lol i purchased the 1 year warranty so I'm not too concerned
I'm sure the guy at GameStop making $8 an hour REALLY KNOWS what will and won't brick a PS5.
What is this thread, even? How is it even still open? OP clearly baited everyone as they dipped out after the first post and never came back.
What is this thread, even? How is it even still open? OP clearly baited everyone as they dipped out after the first post and never came back.
Getting tech advice from a Gamestop cashier is the same as getting a political opinion from your family's facebook posts. And yes that would include me if I were behind the register.
Been using PS5 for a couple of weeks and have had it in Rest Mode pretty much the entire time. No issues. And yes, I also have an external HDD attached.
Yep.
I have known a few awesome Gamestop clerks that knew what they were talking about. And you know what? Gamestop fired them because they weren't selling enough snake oil.
I know it's not the employee's fault that they have to peddle Gamestop's bullshit, but trying to sell scratch protection warranties for blu ray discs? Really? I've always felt bad for parents going into a Gamestop that have no idea what they're being sold. I'm sure plenty of them have walked out of that store with dozens of pre-orders, 2 warranties they'll never need, a pro membership they'll never use, and of course a brand new subscription to Game Informer.
Actually never had a problem with rest mode before, but today my PS5 keeps crashing while trying to play the Spider-Man games and I did enable partial rest mode just to charge controllers then full rest mode while downloading them.
I saw this: https://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/1326383782254047232?s=21
So, now I'm going to see if a full system reset can make either game run for more than 30 seconds after the intro cutscene.
I saw this: https://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/1326383782254047232?s=21
So, now I'm going to see if a full system reset can make either game run for more than 30 seconds after the intro cutscene.
I just put my PS5 into rest mode for the first time half an hour ago. Oh man I'm scared to turn it back on. Quick question: So do we press the power button once to put the PS5 into rest mode and hold it to turn it off?
Reminder that this happened this year. I wouldn't exactly trust anything Gamestop has to say about a non Xbox console. https://www.resetera.com/threads/ga...-strategic-partnership-with-microsoft.302759/
This was the issue I was having that went away when I stopped using externals.
Probably was trying to sell them some warranty or something.
I would never listen to retail staff lmao
I would never listen to retail staff lmao
Fuck gamestop and all, but this is just silly conjecture. There's absolutely no way a company tells their employees to make random lies that could alienate Sony. That email would have leaked immediately.
The clerk in question most likely just read a tweet or two and ran with it.
I've never attached an external drive to the ps5 ☹
Played a couple of other games without issue, though.
you're going to want an official posting/response on that
A GameStop employee saying that is different from all of GameStop. The person just probably read Reddit.
No way Gamestop actually told their employees to do it, but I can see how that kind of micro culture could be cultivated among some employees because of this.
Yo a guy outside my GameStop said my Ps5 would brick unless I upgraded the membership I just signed up for to platinum which costs a fair amount but only amounts to 10% off used games that cost under a certain amount by the way do you want to preorder the third dlc for GAAS game you've only heard of but don't play and did you want a warranty on your new game it only costs 4.99 THREE 99 with a platinum membership and did you want a receipt emailed to you