This generation is the first time that a console that is half a decade old has continued to rise in price instead of falling.
They want us to pay an assload up front and also pay more for games and to play online compared to PC? This will probably be my last console.
Paying to play online is what got me off the consoles.
100$ per year x 10 years = a pretty decent pc. (At least until recently).
The PS4 is the last console I'll ever own.
PCs are even more expensive, but the gaming value over time is huge, especially if you factor in 🏴☠️.
Well, when you add the cost of the console to the cost of the online subscription... Not sure the pc is all that much more expensive.
Also, just with Steam sales, the amount of money you save is pretty impressive.
Lastly, when that pc dies, my next pc will still be able to play all the games from the previous pc. Not quite the case with consoles.
All around, pc is a clear winner.
Did I mention I installed Bazzite? It rocks. Microslop gets to eat a bag of dicks and to me, that's worth all the money in the world.
I bought a replacement video card on 2019. It was replacing my 10 year old card. When I built my new PC, it was replacing a pc I begrudgingly installed win7 on. I have emulators from up to PS2. Pc gaming has crazy ROI.
Seriously is. You can have whole console collections of Roms and they only take up a speck of your external hard drive. Glorious.
Also iirc they're adding age verification for a bunch of online features, like chat. But not for the online store, because of course not :P
Lol... It was foolish of Sony to retire from the PC market... Exclusives will not entice people to buy a PS5 in this economy.
Yeah, it seems like the exact wrong time to do that. Hope it bites them in the ass.
I'm sure they will go back on their decision.
Only if gamers force them to by not buying their PS5 games. Inshallah!
I bought a ps5, and like what exclusives?
Since 2020 I bought like 6 games? (At least ones that aren't remasters)
Horizon forbidden West, god of war Ragnarok, ghost of yotei, GT7, Spider-Man2, and returnal.
Of these only 2 are still exclusives.
Not great value for a ps5, I thought I'd be buying more single player exclusives but there just aren't that many.
Even if Sony locks down future titles to being exclusive, they are not making enough to justify a console over a pc.
You missed out on Astrobot. Ratchet and Clank was a pretty good tech demo, also.
Cause everyone is broke and gas prices keep rising making everything in our lives more expensive.
And the console is like 8 years old, so anyone who wants one already has one.
Not surprised, cost of living is way up and it’s been on the market for half a decade now
I know it's true, but it just doesn't feel right. I even worked with PS5s for 4 years and it still doesn't seem right
I still remember driving home with my damn PS4 to play the new God of War like it was yesterday. This time business needs to slow tf down.
That's the neat part. It doesn't slow down, on the contrary.
It seems like consoles are in a death spiral of price increases and lower sales.
I’m in a good spot financially and can afford new games and consoles on release date if I choose to. However I generally wait a few years after their release.
I haven’t bought a new release game or console for myself in over a decade and I’ve only bought one or two titles at full price for my kids in the last three years.
It just doesn’t seem worth it.
Same. Been just playing random indie games that I find on sale. Way more fun. The only game I'm even eyeballing is baldurs gate which I'll play one day so I'm in no rush.
Companies would be foolish to release new consoles any time in the next 3 to 5 years. None of this is going away anytime soon.
It's still fucking ridiculous that billionaire literally just bought the world's computing supply for a decade to build something no one wants and no one even knows how to make profitable...
It's getting to the point where it only makes sense if they don't want us to have computers anymore.
They've deluded themselves into thinking they can achieve full ai and take over the world. These tech billionaires got their money young and never grew up because of it
Upside is that it means they'll go full throttle until they smash into the economic equivalent of a pilon barrier. Maybe we'll get lucky and see some of them kill themselves a la people jumping to their deaths at wallstreet when the great depression set in.
Look a man can dream, and I dream of death and bloodshed.
Right, but the fact that this is obvious means that anyone who DOES release a console in this time period is going to be able to capture a lot of market share since they have little to no competition.
Well it has what, 6 exclusive games?
I wanted to make a joke about foamstars, but it's also available for the ps4.
Instead, here's the wikipedia article with all 23 present and future ps5 exclusive games.
23 fucking games. I'm pretty sure the PS1, 2, 3, AND 4 had that many within a year of their releases. The fuck are you doing sony?
Wait when did people start demanding exclusives instead of complaining about them
If you're trying to sell a game console, what can that console offer except exclusives? It's more a comment at how bad at business these giant cororations are than a complaint.
Sony: "I can't hear you over the sound of me shooting myself in the foot."
I cannot get big picture mode to work for shit, it’s probably my tv but I have a bunch of steam stuff unplayed.
I'm sure that there's some rule of economics that says once most consumers who would buy something have bought it, sales will drop.
I'm happy with my linux machine. Consoles would have to be a lot cheaper to be tempting. Or I'd have to make a lot more money.
Don't most people who want one already have one?
Yup. And if they don't, it's cause they can't afford it, so a price increase certainly isn't going to help things
I recently looked into buying one, and the cost is just so prohibitive, especially when you take into account that you have to buy another controller and a stand because the stand isn't even included. And I would also want one of those chargers. And that doesn't even include the games that are expensive too.
I also noticed that whenever I look at games for the PS4, it says in a disclaimer that the game might not work right on the PS5. I don't know what's going on with that, but it doesn't inspire confidence.
It's just a cover-their-ass disclaimer. PS4 compatibility is pretty good in general, I think only like two games don't work.
Don't forget that you also have to pay them $10 a month of you want the luxury of playing those expensive games online
They must have seen that study that says Xbox users are better at sex.
Lol at the downvotes. It was a joke guys, but here's a link hahaha
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