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.
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 had been a PlayStation gamer since PS1 and the PS4 killed it for me. I had bought a lot of digital games during the PS3 era; I was all in on PlayStation. I even bought digital copies of PS1 games I had the discs for to save wear and tear on my discs. I bought the official USB memory card adapter that let you plug your PS1 and PS2 memory cards in and import your save data.
I bought the PS4 and none of it carried forward, not even PS1. I kept it for a bit and played some CoD and Fallout 4 , but eventually sold it and migrated to PC.
Don’t think I will ever buy one. This whole generation has been a dud.
The Switch was the last console I bought, but even that felt like a step toward the bland corporatization of Nintendo. Not that they weren’t always an insane corpo (see the NES publishing restrictions in the 80s), but it really felt like they lost their spark when they lost Iwata.
Meanwhile, my PC can play games from any generation. Even if they’re not on Steam or GoG, I can rip my physical games and emulate. I don’t lose access to any of that when I upgrade my PC, either. It’s the only way to go, imho.
I’ll never go back to pc gaming, it’s never worth it, and I prefer playing from my couch. The main problem with the current gen of consoles is that there still really hasn’t been a game that actually shows off the full power of what can be done. Gta6 probably will… If it even gets released this Gen
Steam Big Picture mode (like what the Steam Deck defaults to) makes PC couch gaming super easy. I haven’t played anything with or needed a mouse and keyboard in ages.
I play my PC from the couch. You should consider Steam OS/Bazzite
I play PC games from my couch and from my bed.
You can play PC games via Steam Remote Play, Parsec, Moonlight, or even cloud streaming. You can use any device: TV, tablet, mobile etc.
Or just connect your PC directly to the TV and play from your couch.
What makes you think it is not worth it?
I do 90% of my PC gaming from a giant lovesac. Either with a controller, or a lapboard for keyboard and mouse with a long powered USB cable and built-in hub:
https://us.nerdytec.com/collections/couchmaster®?sort_by=price-ascending
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
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.
Maybe you’re just getting older OP.
The ONLY reason I got and still have a PS5 is for Bloodborne and Demon’s Souls Remake. If they had PC ports, I’d also sell my PS5.
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.
I had a similar experience after the PS2, Gamecube and Xbox. Nothing lived up to that genation of consoles, been full PC since.
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.
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.
GTA’s what?
PlayStation’s what???
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.
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.
Nope! The Switch is friggen awesome.
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.
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.
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.
The haptics/adaptive triggers are the best thing about the PS5 and it’s not close.
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.
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.
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.
