After 5 years of owning a PS5, mine is off to a new home after gathering dust on a shelf for a year. I have had PlayStation’s since the PS2 era, and this is the first generation where it felt like a dead experience on PlayStation.
Playstation used to have great single player games and I still played those, but those games were all from the PS4 era. Instead Sony tried to do live service garbage and it was a disaster. Honestly if the PS5 did not have backward comparability to PS4, I don’t think I would have played anything notable on it. Add on that I have to pay a subscription for online play and it just feels like a waste of money to have a PS5.
I bought a used PC for under $200 and installed Bazzite on it. This little thing has crushed the PS5 for me. Huge catalogue of games and free multiplayer. Add emulation on top of that and my PlayStation could not compete.
Feels like the end of an era. Consoles are dead and PC’s and Linux gaming is the future.
Until mid 2024, our PS5 was collecting dust while we played the Switch every day, and my mom got it like 3-4 years ago…
We have like 5 PS5 games, and I’m 90% sure every single one of them got ported to PC or another console at some point. We probs only bought them cause they were on sale or smth since nobody has a PS5. We have been playing more PS4 games on it recently though. Gotta get through that backlog and all.
And now our Switch 2 follows in the PS5’s footsteps, collecting dustWe do have many PC/Steam games, and I like them for being cheaper, but I still just like console more for being easier to deal with. I was eager to jump at the recent FF7 Remake & Rebirth bundle sale on Steam, only to learn that the PC port sucked ass and apparently had jitter issues. My mom and I are not graphics freaks, we just want the game to work out the box, so I’ll just wait for a PS5 sale and get it then. The only game I really care about modding is Minecraft anyway.