I’ve never skipped a console gen starting from Super NES, PS1 through 4 plus the Switch Oled 5 years after launch of the OG Switch

It seems like exclusives are rarer now with Sony and Xbox pushing games to PC and Nintendo spending resources on remasters. COVID made it incredibly difficult to own a PS5 and they have some disappointing exclusives as well

What do you think? Any reason to own a PS5 or PS5 pro?

  • caut_R@lemmy.worldEnglish
    264·
    10 months ago

    The reason is PC part prices. If you want an affordable in on modern gaming, you get a PS5 or Xbox. Yeah, you can get used parts, change settings, upsampling, upgrade down the line. But tell that to the person who just wants to buy a machine that lets them play games, hard to convince people to likely go through a bigger hassle, pay more, and have to assemble, set it up, and manage it themselves. I own a gaming PC and an OLED Switch, and if a friend asked me, I‘d tell them to just get a PS5. I would‘ve said something different five years ago.

    • swayevenly@lemm.eeEnglish
      91·
      10 months ago

      I still would recommend a PC. Prebuilts do exist and it’s not like I’ll leave them hanging if they had any questions.

    • Nelots@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      It’s not even that much more expensive to just build a PC that has similar strength to the PS5. At least not anymore, now that prices are coming back to reasonable numbers. Used parts aren’t even necessary. $500 plus the $80 to $160 a year you’re forced to pay for online, and a PS5 ends up being quite expensive. You could build a solid PC for $700 nowadays, and it will end up being cheaper in the long run due to free online and not needing a whole new system every generation, (and pirating).

      Of course, taking this route comes with downsides as well. Nobody can deny using a console is going to be far simpler than a PC, so even if consoles were more expensive, I believe they’d still have a large consumer base. Games will run better on console than they will a similarly powerful computer, since they can be optimized for one or two sets of hardware instead of a hundred. And the biggest issue is of course that building your own PC and buying all the parts comes with a lot of research and some risk.

      So I agree with you for the most part, but I disagree that PC part prices are still the big issue they were 2 years ago.