Mid-gen vibe check: How would you rate PS5 so far?

[IcaroRibeiro]

8

Few but very good first party
Excellent legacy library, with easy access to hundreds of old games for small prices
Superb third party support, many excellent games came out this gen
Overall good performance and technology, dualsense is really a good controller
Games run quickly and smoothly and there is a lot more of colour and charm in art design compared to PS3 (and to some extent PS4) which were kinda of dull art-wise
BC, pretty much all my PS4 library got a free update which improved my experience with those games

Negatives are

- Having to pay a very expensive service for online, which made me move my multiplayer games to Steam
- Price increase for consoles, services and games
- Subpar mid gen refresh with PS5 Pro, and diminished value over the course of the gen with the system slowly getting less and less valuable compared to what PCs can offer for similar prices



PS5 was a great console at launch, offering great tech for an affordable price. The problem is for some reason Sony was not able to reduce production costs effectively. Now I can built a PC around a 4060 Ti which is just better all around compared to a PS5, with much less expensive games and without paying for online. In 2020 was great value, in 2025 PS5 is a good value, kinda. In 2028 it will be a bad value, which is kinda ironic considering only in 2028 we will have "enough" next gen exclusives to maybe justify a console 

It's a console that reafirm that generations of consoles are fucking stupid and detrimental to consumers. It's something that stopped made sense during PS3 era but console makers and console gamers alike keep pushing even if they are completely pointless. But alas I see this a industry-problem rather than a PS5-problem, so 8-grade it is