WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.040 Don't you hate it when Sony makes two exciting product announcements and forces you to choose 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:12.160 between the sexy new smaller PS5 Slim and the old fat one with Spider-Man graphics all over it? 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:19.920 That's right guys, we got our hands on the Spider-Man 2 limited edition version of the PlayStation 5. 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:23.600 How did we do so with everybody scalping these things all over the place? 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:28.000 I'll give you one guess. It's Dbrand who sponsored this video. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:32.880 That's right friends, Dbrand is back with yet another knockoff Sony Pro... 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:40.240 Sorry, excuse me knockoff. I mean artfully reimagined Sony accessory product. 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:50.000 So instead of paying upwards of 200 to 250 US dollars for one of the original re-skinned dark... 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:59.600 most called them dark plates. PS5 replacement covers from Sony, you can pick up these ones from Dbrand that are totally 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:04.240 distinct and different for... what is their pricing? 00:01:04.240 --> 00:01:10.720 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. 00:01:10.720 --> 00:01:14.800 Presumably they're less expensive though and they've got Dbrand's extra ventilation hole 00:01:14.800 --> 00:01:20.560 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. 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:23.200 I've got the original Sony console right here. 00:01:28.160 --> 00:01:37.120 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. 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:40.720 The PS5 DualSense controller is notoriously difficult to skin. 00:01:40.720 --> 00:01:45.520 Not that Dbrand couldn't create a skin for it but because you guys couldn't apply them reliably 00:01:45.520 --> 00:01:51.920 because it's almost entirely curved surfaces. So if you want a reliable graphic that's going to look good and last on it, 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:55.440 the only way to do that is to either get a controller that has graphics on it or, 00:01:55.440 --> 00:02:01.840 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, 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:06.160 not to mention amusing history that exists between Dbrand and Sony. 00:02:06.160 --> 00:02:10.400 I went into this in a little more detail in my original unboxing of Dbrand's Dark Plates, 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:14.560 but in a nutshell, Sony released a console that was generally considered to be 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:21.840 not very good looking in the living room. Dbrand sought to address this by creating replacements for the stock side panels which, 00:02:22.720 --> 00:02:27.680 if I remember, come off a little something like that that come in different colors and had some 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:34.000 definitely not infringing but certainly cheeky little textured patterns in them and the like. 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:37.840 Sony then took issue with this and kind of went, 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:42.560 no, we own the replacement accessories market for the PlayStation 5. 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:46.320 Thank you very much. You will not be able to ship anything with this 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:51.840 square profile, so Dbrand countered with, well, we'll make a rounded one. 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:56.720 Now we're going one step further and even doing look-alike graphics for them. 00:02:56.720 --> 00:03:00.400 Let's see just how much alike they look. Actually, they don't look that much alike. 00:03:01.040 --> 00:03:08.560 I'm not a designer, so I'm not going to tell you guys what looks not infringing but more evocative 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:15.280 of spider webs or ropes or whatever the case may be, but I think Dbrand has done a pretty good 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:22.560 job. For me, the question is less one of design in spite of the talking points I have here that say, 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:27.840 if you agree with our assessment that their design is rather amateurish, then feel free to say so. 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:33.760 And more a question of cost and availability. You don't have to buy the limited edition of the console. 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:39.680 You can also get the original graphics from Sony in the form of just console covers. 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:45.600 The problem with that is that these are supposed to be available at the same MSRP as Dbrand's 00:03:45.600 --> 00:03:52.320 definitely non-infringing dark plates, but instead are going for as much as 200 to 250 US dollars, 00:03:52.320 --> 00:03:59.040 which is absolutely ludicrous given that you don't even get a Spider-Man themed controller to go 00:03:59.040 --> 00:04:05.040 along with it. You just get these plates for the console if you can even find them for sale. 00:04:05.040 --> 00:04:10.240 I do like the Spider-Man logo. I think my ideal would actually be a mix and match, 00:04:10.880 --> 00:04:14.400 which is going to look really stupid, but I'm going to do it anyway. One second, 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:20.560 I just want to see this, okay? What if we had one dark plate and one stock plate? 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:26.000 Oh, good. Now everyone's mad at me. Don't worry, Frankenstein Spider-Man PlayStation isn't real 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:31.440 and can't hurt you. I don't like it. It is shocking to me how close they got the fit and 00:04:31.440 --> 00:04:36.320 finish of these things to the stock plates. They really are easy to install. Both of them. 00:04:36.960 --> 00:04:39.360 Once you know how to do it, I always forget how to do this. 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:49.120 It's also amazing to me that aside from unboxing these and showing you both versions of the console, 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:54.320 the original and the arachno plate version, which of course also has a vinyl skin that covers the 00:04:54.320 --> 00:05:00.000 middle part of the console, D-Brand is sponsoring me to just play the new Spider-Man 2 game. I haven't 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:08.880 gotten to play it yet. Holy crap, this game looks good. Wow. This actually feels like walking around 00:05:08.880 --> 00:05:15.040 on a New York street, except that this lady isn't bumping into me right now. Oh, I'm so sorry, 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:22.720 everybody. Oh my goodness. Sorry, I didn't play Spider-Man in 2018. I heard really good things. 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:27.360 It's from developer Insomniac Games, who is perhaps best known for the Spyro games from the PS1 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:33.040 era and Ratchet and Clank. But now, as far as I can tell, going to be best known for the Spider-Man 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:41.040 series because number one was rated at something, I think, like 87% on Metacritic and this one has 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:48.800 broken 90%. It appears to be very well received. This has got to be the most lived in feeling city 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:54.880 that I think I have ever seen in a video game. Look at all this traffic. So, oh, sorry, sorry, 00:05:54.880 --> 00:06:10.240 oh, I'm sorry. Friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Okay. This is kind of freaking awesome. 00:06:11.440 --> 00:06:16.720 Can definitely see why people are into this. They did a ton of work on the optimization for 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:22.000 this game, apparently, as well. Getting it down to 10 seconds, according to what was a digital 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:27.840 foundry found this, 10 seconds from the PS5 loading screen to being in-game playing. Hey, 00:06:27.840 --> 00:06:34.960 look at that. It's LMG headquarters from last month. There it is. Whee. Apparently, the game 00:06:34.960 --> 00:06:40.080 features not only ray traced reflections, but in some cases, second reflections. So, 00:06:40.080 --> 00:06:49.360 Puddlegate is no more. Oh, let's try performance mode. Man, now that I've seen it in its full high 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:55.200 fidelity glory, I'm not going to lie. Kind of would rather play it like that. One thing, though, 00:06:55.200 --> 00:07:00.320 is Insomniac has a pretty good track record for bringing games to PC. So, hopefully, we will get 00:07:00.320 --> 00:07:03.840 a release of this and I'll get to play it. I mean, I guess technically I could take a PlayStation 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:16.560 or maybe even that one. Whee. Oh, wow, that is super cool. Man, the city feels huge. That's 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:22.080 got to be a big part of the reason they didn't bring this to PS4. There's just no way. I'm going 00:07:22.080 --> 00:07:29.360 to surprise this guy in his car. Hi. Are you bothered by this at all? No. Okay. We chill. Oh, 00:07:29.440 --> 00:07:35.840 no, they notice me. And you probably noticed this video is probably over now. Subscribe to 00:07:35.840 --> 00:07:40.080 ShortCircuit. See you later. Let the brand know they're not getting their controller back. Thanks.