Captioning the 9th Generation: The Public Suicide of PlayStation

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NyanNyanNekoChan said:

I own a PlayStation 5, I don’t have any games for it, and I don't see a compelling reason to buy any. The games are stuck in 4K 30fps pugatory, which feel abysmal when my PC can run the same games at or near 240fps. Even if I'm interested in an exclusive (Ghost of Yotei) I'd rather wait for it to come to PC.
If Sony go down the path of locking titles to their console as a way to force hardware sales (effectively condemning those titles to run poorly compared to what’s possible elsewhere) it won’t make me loyal, it’ll just make me resent the brand.

Also as a PC gamer... I can mimic your sentiment to a point.

For me, buying the PS5 on launch day was not even about PS5 games, it was about PS4 games running better than they ever did, I am a big advocate for Physical and Backwards compatibility... Games that never got the "enhanced" treatment on Xbox, tend to look and run better on Playstation. I.E. Dragon Age Inquisition is full 1080P on PS5, 900P on Xbox Series, not a big difference in the grand scheme, but it's important to me.
I have managed to accrue a decent PS5 physical library, but for the most part... I actually spend very little time gaming or collecting for it, I use at as a blu-ray player more often than not. - Most of the games end up on PC, so I have little reason (Outside of being a typical collector) to actually power it up.

But this is also an even more catastrophic issue for me with Xbox.
About this time last-generation I had about 200 physical games easily on my shelf for Xbox One.
Xbox Series? I have about 40. - No point me buying a game like Oblivion remastered if it's on PC, it's cheaper, runs better, looks better -and- it's digital only. - If it's digital only, I'll just buy it on PC exclusively.

Switch actually dominated my wallet and game collecting the last few years... And even though the Switch 2 has started poorly with only a couple of games being "collectable" (Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart World, Tears of the Kingdom and Cyberpunk with Donkey Kong dropping a month later) there isn't that prolific release cadence of 3rd party's releasing full released cart games. - It's E-Waste Game Key Cards/Code in a box dominating the shelf, which makes my choice easier.

I don't see myself spending anywhere near the same level of cash that I did with the Xbox One/Playstation 4/Switch consoles due to the fall of physical and rise of digital, in essence I am being pushed out of the console market... And that's fine as well... More focus will be towards my PC.