Well, I finally got my hands on a new PlayStation 5. I’ve waited for years to buy one when none were available, and now they are in stock on Amazon, so I bought one.

I don’t exactly have $500 to spend, so I am going to pay for it over the next 12 months interest free with my Amazon Prime Rewards Visa credit card. I also bought the 2 year warranty, so the final total per month is actually going to be $50.

My PlayStation 4 is still fine to play with, with the exception of an issue I’m having with it getting too hot when the screen is too white. That doesn’t make sense to me, but that’s when it gets too hot. When the screen is a lot darker, the fan runs quieter, but as soon as I’m playing on a white screen, typically with snow, or a bright sky in a video game, the fan sounds like the PlayStation is trying to take flight. I went to YouTube for instructions on how to dust the inside of it, but I don’t have the screwdriver required to unscrew the screws, nor do I have the confidence that I won’t break the entire system, so I just bought a new one.

It’s been several years that I’ve had this problem and basically I’ve just stopped playing with my PlayStation because I’m afraid it’s going to get too hot and it might blow up lol. I’ve seen videos of cell phones smoking and or blowing up from being too hot, and I don’t want that to happen.

My PS4 only has 500gb and the new PS5 has 1tb, actually 800gb of actual hard drive space I can use. That extra 300gb is awesome so I can have more games installed.

One positive thing with this new PlayStation 5 is that it is backwards compatible, which means I can install my PlayStation 4 games and use my PlayStation 4 game saves so I won’t lose any progress on any games that I’ve played. Also, I can actually play new games that are coming out that are only available for the PlayStation 5.

The games that I have installed on my PlayStation 4 are Minecraft, Terraria, The Elder Scrolls Online, Destiny 2, The Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga and Lego The Hobbit. I have the Sims 4, but that really makes the PlayStation get too hot, so it will be nice to play that again.

I look forward to playing video games again.