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 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.