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 thought the adaptive triggers were cool as heck. The rest of the controller was whatever, though. I like the features, but the dpad and buttons all felt like shit. Oh, and those shitty start/select buttons are so bad that whoever designed those should be put out of their misery. The white is great, but bring back the colored shapes for the square/tri/circle/cross.
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.
is PS5 that old already. it was pretty big hype when everything was locked down a nd everyone wanted one.
I had a similar experience after the PS2, Gamecube and Xbox. Nothing lived up to that genation of consoles, been full PC since.
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
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
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.
Don’t think I will ever buy one. This whole generation has been a dud.
Maybe you’re just getting older OP.
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.
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.
GTA’s what?
PlayStation’s what???
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.
Could not agree more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_5-only_games
That’s a very short list
Daheck? I really thought it should be at least twice as big as this one.
There is exactly zero game I want from that list.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, stick drift is annoying as shit. I need to see if I can fix that.
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.
i moved from GB3ds, because switch/swsh was doing it me already. plus i was already playing mmorg online which i had partial subscription.
