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Don't you hate it when Sony makes two exciting product announcements and forces you to choose

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between the sexy new smaller PS5 Slim and the old fat one with Spider-Man graphics all over it?

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That's right guys, we got our hands on the Spider-Man 2 limited edition version of the PlayStation 5.

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How did we do so with everybody scalping these things all over the place?

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I'll give you one guess. It's Dbrand who sponsored this video.

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That's right friends, Dbrand is back with yet another knockoff Sony Pro...

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Sorry, excuse me knockoff. I mean artfully reimagined Sony accessory product.

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So instead of paying upwards of 200 to 250 US dollars for one of the original re-skinned dark...

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most called them dark plates. PS5 replacement covers from Sony, you can pick up these ones from Dbrand that are totally

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distinct and different for... what is their pricing?

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They give me all these talking points, they don't even give me a price. I don't know, I guess you'll have to go to the link in the video description to find out.

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Presumably they're less expensive though and they've got Dbrand's extra ventilation hole

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so you can expect your console to run cooler and quieter. First things first though, let's see if this thing is worth all the hype.

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I've got the original Sony console right here.

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Oh it comes with a controller too. I'm not that into skinned consoles but I can definitely see why people would be into this.

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The PS5 DualSense controller is notoriously difficult to skin.

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Not that Dbrand couldn't create a skin for it but because you guys couldn't apply them reliably

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because it's almost entirely curved surfaces. So if you want a reliable graphic that's going to look good and last on it,

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the only way to do that is to either get a controller that has graphics on it or,

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I don't know, take it apart and paint it or something like that. While I'm getting this cracked open, it's probably worth touching on some of the complicated,

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not to mention amusing history that exists between Dbrand and Sony.

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I went into this in a little more detail in my original unboxing of Dbrand's Dark Plates,

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but in a nutshell, Sony released a console that was generally considered to be

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not very good looking in the living room. Dbrand sought to address this by creating replacements for the stock side panels which,

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if I remember, come off a little something like that that come in different colors and had some

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definitely not infringing but certainly cheeky little textured patterns in them and the like.

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Sony then took issue with this and kind of went,

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no, we own the replacement accessories market for the PlayStation 5.

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Thank you very much. You will not be able to ship anything with this

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square profile, so Dbrand countered with, well, we'll make a rounded one.

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Now we're going one step further and even doing look-alike graphics for them.

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Let's see just how much alike they look. Actually, they don't look that much alike.

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I'm not a designer, so I'm not going to tell you guys what looks not infringing but more evocative

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of spider webs or ropes or whatever the case may be, but I think Dbrand has done a pretty good

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job. For me, the question is less one of design in spite of the talking points I have here that say,

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if you agree with our assessment that their design is rather amateurish, then feel free to say so.

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And more a question of cost and availability. You don't have to buy the limited edition of the console.

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You can also get the original graphics from Sony in the form of just console covers.

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The problem with that is that these are supposed to be available at the same MSRP as Dbrand's

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definitely non-infringing dark plates, but instead are going for as much as 200 to 250 US dollars,

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which is absolutely ludicrous given that you don't even get a Spider-Man themed controller to go

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along with it. You just get these plates for the console if you can even find them for sale.

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I do like the Spider-Man logo. I think my ideal would actually be a mix and match,

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which is going to look really stupid, but I'm going to do it anyway. One second,

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I just want to see this, okay? What if we had one dark plate and one stock plate?

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Oh, good. Now everyone's mad at me. Don't worry, Frankenstein Spider-Man PlayStation isn't real

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and can't hurt you. I don't like it. It is shocking to me how close they got the fit and

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finish of these things to the stock plates. They really are easy to install. Both of them.

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Once you know how to do it, I always forget how to do this.

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It's also amazing to me that aside from unboxing these and showing you both versions of the console,

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the original and the arachno plate version, which of course also has a vinyl skin that covers the

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middle part of the console, D-Brand is sponsoring me to just play the new Spider-Man 2 game. I haven't

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gotten to play it yet. Holy crap, this game looks good. Wow. This actually feels like walking around

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on a New York street, except that this lady isn't bumping into me right now. Oh, I'm so sorry,

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everybody. Oh my goodness. Sorry, I didn't play Spider-Man in 2018. I heard really good things.

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It's from developer Insomniac Games, who is perhaps best known for the Spyro games from the PS1

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era and Ratchet and Clank. But now, as far as I can tell, going to be best known for the Spider-Man

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series because number one was rated at something, I think, like 87% on Metacritic and this one has

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broken 90%. It appears to be very well received. This has got to be the most lived in feeling city

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that I think I have ever seen in a video game. Look at all this traffic. So, oh, sorry, sorry,

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oh, I'm sorry. Friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Okay. This is kind of freaking awesome.

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Can definitely see why people are into this. They did a ton of work on the optimization for

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this game, apparently, as well. Getting it down to 10 seconds, according to what was a digital

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foundry found this, 10 seconds from the PS5 loading screen to being in-game playing. Hey,

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look at that. It's LMG headquarters from last month. There it is. Whee. Apparently, the game

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features not only ray traced reflections, but in some cases, second reflections. So,

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Puddlegate is no more. Oh, let's try performance mode. Man, now that I've seen it in its full high

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fidelity glory, I'm not going to lie. Kind of would rather play it like that. One thing, though,

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is Insomniac has a pretty good track record for bringing games to PC. So, hopefully, we will get

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a release of this and I'll get to play it. I mean, I guess technically I could take a PlayStation

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or maybe even that one. Whee. Oh, wow, that is super cool. Man, the city feels huge. That's

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got to be a big part of the reason they didn't bring this to PS4. There's just no way. I'm going

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to surprise this guy in his car. Hi. Are you bothered by this at all? No. Okay. We chill. Oh,

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no, they notice me. And you probably noticed this video is probably over now. Subscribe to

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ShortCircuit. See you later. Let the brand know they're not getting their controller back. Thanks.