OdinHades said:
I don't know. I was a real fanboy back in the PS3 days. I loved that console and just a few years before I switched from my GBA to the PSP because I didn't like the DS all that much. Those were great times, brilliant games were releasing left and right and I couldn't afford to play them all. Gaming on PlayStation never got boring.
Nowadays I have way more disposable income, but what I am missing on PS5 are games that really interest me. Maybe it's me getting older and having less free time for gaming. But I just don't find anything I am really interested to play. Let alone something that would be exclusive for PS5. The console is sitting here and I barely ever use it. I mostly play on Switch these days. It's not like there are no more good games at all. Especially Indies still please me. But those games run fine in Switch, why the hell would I want to waste 200-300 watts to play something like that on the PS5?
And even if there is a graphically demanding game, I still get disappointed by the console. I browsed the PlayStation Store the other day, desperately wanting to find somwething I could play. So I stumbled across Kingdom Come: Deliverance and bought that game for 5 Euros or something. Only to find that it runs like dogshit. I know it's a PS4 game and all that probably didn't get a next-gen patch. But that gets me straight to the PS5 Pro. Why would I need that extra power if only a handful of games get to use it anyway?
I decided to get Kingdom Come on Steam, and now I am playing it in buttery smooth 60 fps. On my Lenovo Legion Go, so not even a high-end PC, but just some little handheld device. Which is even cheaper than the PS5 Pro. It's quite ridiculous. I don't want to say that everything is terrible with PlayStation these days and I'm sure many people enjoy the living crap out of the platform. But it sure feels different than 20 years ago. |
Nah, it's not you getting older. Everyone is saying the same. I'm here on my PS4 PRO waiting still and I can count the software reasons to upgrade on one hand with the only true defining reason on one finger in Baldurs Gate 3.
If you're lucky enough to be on high end PC good for you man. That's where I'd be now if I could afford it.
