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Until mid 2024, our PS5 was collecting dust while we played the Switch every day, and my mom got it like 3-4 years ago...

We have like 5 PS5 games, and I'm 90% sure every single one of them got ported to PC or another console at some point. We probs only bought them cause they were on sale or smth since nobody has a PS5. We have been playing more PS4 games on it recently though. Gotta get through that backlog and all. ~~And now our Switch 2 follows in the PS5's footsteps, collecting dust~~

We do have many PC/Steam games, and I like them for being cheaper, but I still just like console more for being easier to deal with. I was eager to jump at the recent FF7 Remake & Rebirth bundle sale on Steam, only to learn that the PC port sucked ass and apparently had jitter issues. My mom and I are not graphics freaks, we just want the game to work out the box, so I'll just wait for a PS5 sale and get it then. The only game I really care about modding is Minecraft anyway.

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_5-only_games

That's a very short list

I've pretty much always preferred PC. The backlog stretches back decades. Fewer subscription fees. With modern stuff like proton and dosbox, you can keep playing older games.

Exclusives were always a shitty incentive.

Modern consoles aren't even plug and play like SNES or PS1 era. Still need patches and shit.

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.

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 got into gaming console collecting as a hobby, (though on pause at the moment) and decided early on the ps4 and 5 are not a generation of consoles i want to purposely seek out anytime soon, so a bit of a different perspective, here.

My general rules for adding a console to the collection is 1) it has to be a good deal, no above market rate, because the hunt for a good deal is part of the fun for me, 2) it has to either be fully working or clearly repairable, 3) it has to have a disc drive, and 4) it has to be within budget.

The only console I found made post-360 that fit those rules was a 20.00 xbox one listed as for parts on shopgoodwill. They couldnt get it to boot fully, but it turns out the drive was just full and taking 5+ minutes to turn on.

Other than that, im not holding my breath on any other post-360 consoles making it into the collection within the next 15-20 years. Any fully working ones i find are/were outside of my budget and since theyre intentionally designed to not be repairable at home, the broken consoles within budget are too risky of a purchase. I took a chance on a 15.00 xbox one S model that wasnt turning on and wont be doing that again. I'll admit i'm no professional and sometimes a repair is just outside of my skill set, but it was the first busted console i couldnt even diagnose. It was frustrating as hell given the week prior i was able to bang out a recap for a Sega game gear and fix screen tear on a gameboy without a second thought.

My PS5 is collecting dust, I had blast of fun at first with the incredible demon souls remake, then returnal was absolutely incredible, I eventually bought horizon 2 and elden ring... And that's it, when it appeared that their game were released on PC too and when they decided to go for multiplayer game (which turned really bad for everyone) I had no reason to turn it back on...

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.

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.

Consoles died when they were forced online with accounts and went away from physical media.

I only have consoles older than a 360. 360 is where enshittification began but at least its playable without internet and there is physical media.

Otherwise pc for me

there's just no point any longer. the days of console exclusives, other than Nintendo, are over. the PS5 has a grand total of like 15 console exclusives, that's it, 15! what's the point? Why pay for a PS5 when I can play the same games it has for potentially cheaper on a PC? I mean hell even former Playstation exclusives I can now play on PC. There's absolutely zero point to throw down money on a Playsation or Xbox when better and cheaper options exist to play the exact same games.

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.

For the past few years I've found myself leaning more towards retro gaming, even, I've enjoyed buying consoles and modding them (nothing crazy, installing ODEs and what have you) and just playing old stuff. There's a lot from back then that I missed, or didn't finish, and they're far more fun even without modern game design than the stuff that comes out today looking like it came off an assembly line

I had a similar experience after the PS2, Gamecube and Xbox. Nothing lived up to that genation of consoles, been full PC since.

DualSense controller is fantastic when it's not suffering from stick drift.

Otherwise, every PS5 game I've bought and liked I ended up also buying for PC, where the experience is VASTLY superior. I no longer buy PS5 games. I simply wait for PC ports if a PS5 game releases that I really want.

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.

I use both, they have completely different usages. Pc is for single player games and modding, ps5 is for brain-dead end-of-the-night multiplayer with my friends. As much as I love PC gaming, consoles have a certain feeling of ease. Probably because I use my PC for too much shit lol

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.

Don’t think I will ever buy one. This whole generation has been a dud.

is PS5 that old already. it was pretty big hype when everything was locked down a nd everyone wanted one.

The opposite if anything. I use my PC for a few indie games and FFXIV. Anything I want to look nice, I use my PS5.

PC gaming hasn't felt affordable since the crypto craze.

absolutely my experience with the current xbox, I was a ride-or-die Halo fan until the last iteration, which I got the current-gen console to play, and it was so unbelievably mediocre that it killed not only my love for the game, but multiplayer games in their entirety. Xbox is pretty much just a media center for the TV now, and now all my games are through steam or emulated on a refurbished PC I got from newegg about a year ago

I'll do you one better: even PC games have been so uninteresting that for my recent PC build I didn't even bother with a GPU.

Only reason I got into this generation is that the Series S was so cheap I could set it up for me and my SO to play games together. With Xbox you can buy one copy of a game and have both people play it at the same time, so for $200 (cost of the Series S when we bought it) we could play co-op games that didn't have splitscreen.

I'm currently trying to push her into a steamdeck of similar so we can migrate away from the consoles.