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 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.