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I only got a ps5 two years ago and I'm set with games for years. I'm still working through PS4 games I never got round to. The idea of a new playstation at this point, particularly after the chip shortage debacle, seems absolutely absurd.
slaps a sale sticker on his PS5
"was I a good paperweight?"
no
What even happened in this generation? There was nothing that separated it lmao. Realistically the only thing the next gen can add over this is full ray tracing from ground up, even something like frame gen would be proper embarrassing because a console is supposed to have all graphics baked in.
If MS goes Windows on Xbox then that might genuinely be the way forward atp
But why? They are barely supporting the current hardware.
investors want new product. lack of new product is 'stagnation'.
I'm guessing the cash cow needs some milking. Especially with new lucrative technology lurking around the corner. "Milk before it's overdue"
Nah, I'm good.
I used to say PC + Nintendo, but Switch 2 looks like enshittification caught up with Nintendo.
So just PC now.
Steam Deck ftw
I can play my steam games I bought over a decade ago on any hardware. Its awesome. I just got hadies 2 as well and it works flawlessly on the SD.
And that's just steam. I just don't see buying an Xbox/PSehatever/switch5000. Most games come out for everything now. Who cares?
At the very least, the console cycles are a good indicator of when it makes sense to build a new PC.
Man, I was soooo excited about the PS5, but then it turned into such a shit show to get one that I just put my money into my PC and I never even got around to picking one up when availability became more reasonable. I don't think I'd ever really want to get back into the console gaming space anymore.
Although I had the same experience, I was finally able to get one after a few months. I was very happy I got one over building a PC because at the time PC GPUs were ridiculous amounts of money, and I felt the PS5 was a great deal over the PC. I ended up building a new one in 2023 a few months after prices started falling a bit finally and thought it worked out perfectly.
I still use my PS5 more than my PC just because it sits in our main room and has the nicer TV screen. Everything has its use. If anything, I am always disappointed. I built such a nice PC and haven't used it as much as I would have liked by now.
the ps5 just came out, what do you mean
Right? It only has 3 games and they're already talking about a new one? They should give it a few years at least before giving up.
It seems soon because it feels like barely anything came out in terms of exclusives for the PS5. Naughty Dog didn't even come out with anything that wasn't a remake.
Sony spent this entire generation making live service games are were DOA or failed after years of development.
People generally buy Sony consoles for their single player exclusives. It seems like that is not a factor to consider for their next console.
I’m not interested in PS6. I’m more interested in building a Steambox to avoid Windows 11.
Same I when it comes to my next upgrade I want to go AMD GPU next time around for the best Linux support.
It's a night and day difference compared to Nvidia.
Nvidia is not going to give a crap until the ~~money laundering~~ AI bubble pops.
The best situation for consumers is for games to come out on as many platforms as possible. Exclusives are cancer. It's awesome to see less and less of them every generation.
Well for me Sony exclusive means Sony produced games, and they've just not released in that department. I'm PC now so its not exclusive for me anyways, but it does matter for console players choosing between Sony or Xbox. And Sony has really under delivered this gen with games from them.
Didn't Microsoft buy up a shitton of studios- killing some of them? I wouldn't consider exclusives a good indicator of health necessarily.
That's been the only selling point of consoles for me. They mostly all come out on the PC now so more an observation of how Sony's releases this gen has been really lackluster compared to previous gens.
Yes they did:
FASA
Digital anvil
Lionhead
Ensemble Studios
...
I have no interest with the way the industry's going. Not to mention it will probably cost $700 or more.
Even if I was in the market the way they manufacturer & sell them you won't get one for list price for the first year or two
I think I've turned my PS5 on maybe 30 times since I got it. They just hasn't been anything released for it that I've been interested in basically it's not been anything released for it.
I bought a 3070 and a pair of 1440 gaming monitors, maybe $1000 total, and I feel like an asshole not having time to play my favorite games.
Mine has seen some use.. but its nowhere near what I was expecting when I bought it. I own it for the exclusives and while I did enjoy them (GT7, Ragnarok, Spider Man 2, Astro Bot, Death Stranding 2), I also think I could have done without them and waited for the eventual PC release. I hope Intergalactic (Naughty Dog) remedies my feeling towards the console, but so far, nothing it's seen has been generation defining.
Most probably skipping consoles after this gen.
Too early. It doesn’t even feel like the current generation has really established. Just got the PS5 Pro, and don’t think it’s such a big improvement over the base model. PS6? - na thanks!
Not that the PS5 was a major upgrade to the PS4. Sure it can produce some better graphics, but the UI is such a downgrade.
I'll never understand why they made an option to silence the beep at startup, but they push the boot up and login music through the TV when headphones are connected to a controller. That's so much more annoying and last so much longer when you're trying not to disturb other people in the room.
You can change the default audio device through settings. I set mine to headphones, so it just starts through it, and if I needed to switch, i do it through the menu.
I have it set to automatically change to headphones when they're plugged in and for all audio to go through headphones when they're plugged in, however the startup music and log in screen music still play through the TV. After logging into a profile, it'll switch over to headphones for all audio.
I've even left my headphones plugged into the controller after manually choosing headphones for all audio and then turning the PS5 off and on again and it pushes startup and login screen music through the TV.
Better bet your ass that Copilot will be on whatever M$ decides to push out.
It will just be a PS5 with a sticker on it and $500 more.
/s
Big mistake. They barely have games for the current gen.
And then not release a single game built for or exclusive to it until 2035. Hard pass.
Too soon. I still haven’t got a PS5 yet.
They should release consoles when there's a significant leap in hardware that devs are waiting to take advantage of. The last few console releases have been boring. Don't get me started on not only the lack of games but the lack of new types of games. Too many remakes and remasters demanding high prices.
i feel like barely any good games came out on it utilizing its hardware to its potential?
sometimes it feels like the world is kinda moving off consoles for being too restrictive. and I wonder if there will be a future where these two companies just keep making consoles to fight each other while not selling any.
just two giant, hot black chunks of plastic locked in an eternal battle of corporate obliviousness for all eternity.
edit: this comment was meant as a funny and not a serious.
At this point I‘m going to assume they‘ll both essentially be handheld PCs. It‘s the only device I could even imagine a market for in 2 years.
I wonder how much they’re paying Rockstar to delay The Only New Release of that generation; which will doubtless be available on PS5/XSX anyway.