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.
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.