PS5 launch got fucked by Covid; having to fight bots that bought every last one in stock in seconds got tedious. Stores took nearly 2 years to have a ready supply in-stock…
After a disaster like that, I know at least I decided it was no longer worth “being a fan”. Add in the rising costs, the decline in quality of games and the over-monetization and it makes choosing which hobbies to engage with on a limited budget that much easier.
And I’ve been a Sony “fanboy” since before they even did consoles, so the PS5 was just extra-disappointing.
COVID made PS5s hard to get, but they made them a better value when they were still sold in stores at MSRP.
I don’t even know if component prices have went down to 2019 prices, I was shocked a while ago about what people thought was a good price for HDDs. They’re still way higher than they should.
Just for a GPU you’re looking at 50% of the price of a PS5. They’ll make it back off most people from being locked into their store. But they still sell disc models at least.
I found the ps4 very refreshing when I moved to it from 360. It ran well, the ui wasn’t mostly advertising space, and the controllers are still the most comfortable controllers I’ve ever used.
When the ps5 was announced I did the math, for the cost of a console, second controller, and a game I could buy the powerful budget pc I had bought the year before, so I just moved wholly to pc. I’m still using that same pc with very few modifications and it’s still doing excellent at everything I play. Turns out, when all your favorite franchises stopped making new games in 2014 and all the best indie games can run on toasters, you really don’t need to do more than general maintenance.
Then Sony showed their hand. They were the main reason cross save and cross play on warframe took 4 years to happen. Some of my cosmetics are still locked if I play the game anywhere other than a Playstation console. It’s one thing to set your price bar too high, it’s another to hold all my hard work in my favorite game hostage. So I’ll buy a ps5 when I can immediately hack it and load it with pirate games.
Eh.
I bought a PS5 because I really wanted to upgrade my GPU, but that was way more than a PS5.
And the haptic feedback on the triggers is fucking insane. I think those work with PC now tho?
But I hadn’t had a console since PS3 days. If we’re going by Ship of Thesius rules tho, my 30 year old gaming PC is probably still a little more powerful than a PS5.
I have my PS3 and PS4 Pro, and all the games I could want. Switch for Zelda and Factorio.
Other than the Demons souls remake, there isn’t a PS5 exclusive yet that’s made me want to buy one.
I suspect it will be GTA-6 when I finally get one and that’s late 2025.
I’m more the other way.
I got a ps5, but half of the games I’m playing are ps4 games.
Still I clearly don’t regret buying a ps5 even if the ps5 exclusives aren’t really blowing my mind with crazy graphics.
I think, owning a ps4 (or even a ps3) in 2024 is still great because games are already so good looking and expensive to produce that you don’t really need so much more.
I was already really satisfied with how good games looked on ps4 to be honest.
I might be getting old but it’s also why I don’t understand people getting excited about the rumored ps5 pro.
