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.
I stopped buying consoles and switched to PC after the PS3, and this is why. Not specifically because of GTA, but this image really sums up the problem for me.
To really hammer the point home: the PS2 actually had 5 GTAs, and there were 2 additional GTAs released in that time period on other consoles.
EDIT: Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories are the extra 2 on the PS2 (originally released on PSP); Chinatown Wars and GTA Advance on various systems, if anyone’s curious.
GTA’s what?
PlayStation’s what???
Could not agree more
I have everything from the Atari 2600 to the PS3/Wii/360, but quit after that because the PS4 and XBone were weak consoles with horrid loading times and bad framerates in games. At least the PS5 and new Xbox have decent hardware, but I’m never going back to consoles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_5-only_games
That’s a very short list
There is exactly zero game I want from that list.
And it will get shorter as the exclusives make their way to PC. Ghost of Yotei and Wolverine are very likely to.
This is great for the industry.
When you also factor in that Valve is releasing the Steam machine, maybe Sony will have to actually compete with somebody and offer a better value. Price cuts. More storage. Bluetooth audio compatibility (seriously how is that acceptable in 2025???). More PSVR2 games, or even provide some tools or incentives to release PSVR2 versions of PSVR games.
Heck, this incentivizes Sony to just develop and publish better games as a whole too. Not that they’re bad or anything now, but it has seemed like a lot of what they’ve done has been safe. 3rd person, over-the shoulder, cinematic experiences. I’ve played God of War, Horizon, Ratchet and Clank, and Uncharted for the PS4 and PS5 and they all kind of feel like the same games just re-skinned. I miss the days when insomniac did unique and creative stuff instead of just cranking out Marvel tie-in games.
I’m a pc guy, but I wish the trigger haptics for the ps5 took off. I only got to try them a few weeks ago, but they felt cool.
I have the ps5 trigger haptic working in Hades 2. Linux PC (Garuda Dr460onized). They do feel very nice but the first time it happened I thought my buttons were breaking from being hard to press.
Hoping for more adoption too, but it is a niche thing. Not everyone has the controller.
I have the controller and it’s honestly too big and heavy for my hands for longer play seasions. I don’t like it at all even tho I love the haptics.
The haptics/adaptive triggers are the best thing about the PS5 and it’s not close.
Some of these games aren’t even released yet! Astros playroom was the only one I really enjoyed. That is sad.
Astro Bot is amazing. Probably not worth the price of admission if it is the only one you care about, but nevertheless a great game.
The Internet blows up more often when an exclusive is announced. Fuck exclusives I’m not getting FF7Rebirth if it’s not coming out on PC > there’s no game on that exclusive list that makes me want to buy that console > repeat. Nintendo barely gets away with it by trying to make platforms with a physical gimmick that can’t be ported to PC (yet).
They actually can be ported. Dualshock/dualsense for example, or steam controller supports gyro sensor, so you can play whole “TLOZ: Breath of the wild” and second game on emulator on PC. Other games too, actually, even most gimmicky one’s. WiiU games is a bit more tricky due to second screen, but there not a lot of games that fully used it or used at all.
Daheck? I really thought it should be at least twice as big as this one.
And will get even shorter now they’ve seen the bajillion dollars dropped into Sony’s lap by making Helldiver’s 2 available on PC and then Xbox, and cross-platform play available between all three.
The coming generation might be the last gen of console wars. Xbox has already said its coming, PlayStation I think are likely to be next.
I made the move to PC exclusively about 15 years ago. I can probably count on both hands the number of games that have released since then that both interest me and I have been unable to get through Steam, emulation, or piracy.
Edit: I also have a massive backlog, so I’m not exactly concerned with being unable to play that small handful of games either.
i moved from GB3ds, because switch/swsh was doing it me already. plus i was already playing mmorg online which i had partial subscription.
I’ve pretty much always preferred PC. The backlog stretches back decades. Fewer subscription fees. With modern stuff like proton and dosbox, you can keep playing older games.
Exclusives were always a shitty incentive.
Modern consoles aren’t even plug and play like SNES or PS1 era. Still need patches and shit.
This generation (PS5 & Xbox series) offers only slight graphical improvements over the previous generation. I have not expected anything amazing with it. There is nothing new with the technology that allows leaps in the gaming experience.
Now that PC can play many console “exclusives”, the main advantage of console is only ease of use and costs. With Bazzite/SteamOS the gaps are closing quickly.
Did you set your expectation too high for the console?
I loved my PS4 with RDR2, Last of Us 2, Uncharted 4, Far Cry 4 and 5, Dying Light, Firewatch, Spider-Man.
I thought the good times would keep rolling with a quiet and more powerful console. Instead I ended up continuing to play PS4 games on it, but almost all of those games are on Steam now where there is a much bigger library.
So yeah, I had higher expectations than I got. Sony duped me into thinking I needed to upgrade when they had peaked with the PS4
Upgrade a PS4 console with a SSD and you really don’t notice any difference between it and a PS5 on most games.
My PS5 is collecting dust, I had blast of fun at first with the incredible demon souls remake, then returnal was absolutely incredible, I eventually bought horizon 2 and elden ring… And that’s it, when it appeared that their game were released on PC too and when they decided to go for multiplayer game (which turned really bad for everyone) I had no reason to turn it back on…
I’m so glad they ported Returnal to the computer with full Dualsense support—what a dope ass game!
I just hope they port their new game at some point too.
I got into gaming console collecting as a hobby, (though on pause at the moment) and decided early on the ps4 and 5 are not a generation of consoles i want to purposely seek out anytime soon, so a bit of a different perspective, here.
My general rules for adding a console to the collection is 1) it has to be a good deal, no above market rate, because the hunt for a good deal is part of the fun for me, 2) it has to either be fully working or clearly repairable, 3) it has to have a disc drive, and 4) it has to be within budget.
The only console I found made post-360 that fit those rules was a 20.00 xbox one listed as for parts on shopgoodwill. They couldnt get it to boot fully, but it turns out the drive was just full and taking 5+ minutes to turn on.
Other than that, im not holding my breath on any other post-360 consoles making it into the collection within the next 15-20 years. Any fully working ones i find are/were outside of my budget and since theyre intentionally designed to not be repairable at home, the broken consoles within budget are too risky of a purchase. I took a chance on a 15.00 xbox one S model that wasnt turning on and wont be doing that again. I’ll admit i’m no professional and sometimes a repair is just outside of my skill set, but it was the first busted console i couldnt even diagnose. It was frustrating as hell given the week prior i was able to bang out a recap for a Sega game gear and fix screen tear on a gameboy without a second thought.
Still use Switch because A) got kids, and B) doctor says I will die if I don’t regularly play Zelda and Mario. Other than that we gradually play more and more on PC and with the upcoming new PC I probably go full Switch emulation.
Consoles died when they were forced online with accounts and went away from physical media.
I only have consoles older than a 360. 360 is where enshittification began but at least its playable without internet and there is physical media.
Otherwise pc for me
Even then, the 360 tries to sell you a new Xbox on the homescreen now
Ew. Mines not online so I haven’t noticed
Yep, bought a ps5, then 6 months later, bought a gaming pc. Now I am more on the pc than I am the console. I don’t see myself buying another console, outside of Nintendo. And that is only because I still have young kids.
Nintendo sucks. Buy your kids a steam deck
Don’t worry, I had my 6 year old(youngest) sitting at the pc yesterday playing tiny glade. She loved it.
For the past few years I’ve found myself leaning more towards retro gaming, even, I’ve enjoyed buying consoles and modding them (nothing crazy, installing ODEs and what have you) and just playing old stuff. There’s a lot from back then that I missed, or didn’t finish, and they’re far more fun even without modern game design than the stuff that comes out today looking like it came off an assembly line
I had a similar experience after the PS2, Gamecube and Xbox. Nothing lived up to that genation of consoles, been full PC since.
Hokay, here goes.
I love my PS5. Unfortunately, it’s hooked up to the TV, and has Netflix. So my partner is often watching the shows they like, esp. since I have severe enough ADHD that it’s gotten hard for me to finish television shows and movies. So I don’t get to use my PS5.
I’ve got a pretty nice computer, but right now the only game i have on it is Outer Worlds 2, which is pretty rad. I play for a few hours every other weekend or so, when I’m not too busy with shit that needs to get done right now.
I kinda miss playing on my PS5, but, oh well.
I got so excited thinking I read outerwilds 2 but alas it’s only outerworlds
there’s just no point any longer. the days of console exclusives, other than Nintendo, are over. the PS5 has a grand total of like 15 console exclusives, that’s it, 15! what’s the point? Why pay for a PS5 when I can play the same games it has for potentially cheaper on a PC? I mean hell even former Playstation exclusives I can now play on PC. There’s absolutely zero point to throw down money on a Playsation or Xbox when better and cheaper options exist to play the exact same games.
