Funny little video.

The only people this console is for is the kid that chooses 200 McNuggets at the drive through.

Well it's up to you that you choose the PSVR titles and side of the things. The PSVR is relatively new tech and maybe there is some games for it. But it's more casual and it's not the thing the most of people buy this generation consoles for. This is your specific case. There were much more AAA games back than and even the mediocre games were okay for play while now we don't have so much games to begin with, and the ones we have are almost all ports of old titles, remakes and re releases, and the truly new ones are either available on last gen or just aren't so good. It's only a few of them that are good. The true PS5 exclusives for example that aren't available on PS4 and aren't old games are just 2, the PS3 had more for it's first two years, and we are including the first 4 years of PS5 here. Of course the PS3 library as you said got better and better with the time, but even in those first 2 years where it wasn't so great, it was still better than the PS5 one for it's first 4 years.

For the backward compatibility, yes you have now full backcompat with the last gen, and you had one with the PS3, but only for the first models, that were the bad ones. But you had full 100% backcompat for the full generation of PS1 titles with upscaled visuals and again better loading times. Yes it may be old now, but back then this was only 2 gens behind. Which is like having full 100% back compat for PS3 now. On top of that you could play almost all of the PS2 games for the first 2 years of the PS3 models. And also the reliability didn't came now with the PS5 or the PS4. We have consoles that we don't need to worry about revisions and overheating since 2008 onwards (from both Sony and Microsoft). But yes, as I said this is the one thing that will be better for every other gen other than the 7th gen, the first years where the consoles are more reliable.

As for the controllers, of course that if you give your good durable PS3 controller or any other for that matter to children and compare the use you can't expect to have durability long, it's children after all, there is no matter the controller. I am talking the general use of those controllers by normal grown people, when you take some care of your controller. I haven't had any problems with them for years, charging port included. I played many many hours before, I have had sessions of 15 hours with no stop, so sweat on the controllers, and angry pushes and all that and have been charging my controllers every time it was needed, no problems there whatsoever. And I haven't met people with problems on theirs let alone drifting. Drifting become popular after PS4. it wasn't a thing before.

Yeah by this point in its lifespan the PS3 had Uncharted 1/2, Killzone 2, God of War III, Resistance 1/2, Infamous, Motorstorm 1/2, Little Big Planet, Ratchet and Clank Tools of Destruction & Crack in Time, Bioshock 1/2, COD Modern Warfare 1/2 and World at War, Dead Space, GTA4, Red Dead Redemption, Batman Arkham Asylum, MGS4, Vanquish, Fallout 3...

PS5 absolutely pales in comparison.

COVID, diminishing returns, and rising costs are to blame. But if we are to count multiplats, crossgen and console-exclusives, PS5 arguably has the better library. It's subjective.

Cross gen is the problem. If Ragnorak, Sackboy and Forbidden West were exclusive I don't think people would be complaining as much.

That's the thing though, the PS3 justified itself with a ton of great software that was not only unavailable but impossible on PS2; by contrast, nearly 4 years after its release, PS5 still feels like a PS4 Pro Pro rather than its own generation.

While we can blame diminishing returns, the pandemic, and the economy for that, at the end of the day, people are allowed to feel that the PS5 is underwhelming and has yet to justify its existence.

People are allowed to feel it's underwhelming, but they're not allowed to feel that it's yet to justify its existence lol. I get what you mean though, I'm disappointed myself.

I mean, I think it would be a valid opinion to say both PS5 and Xbox Series have yet to justify themselves as a new console generation when most games are still coming out on hardware from 2013.

The PS5 Pro is completely unappealing to me personally. But some people are having weird responses to this. Why shouldn't they be allowed to sell an optional expensive premium console? People act like Sony punched them in the teeth because they have a niche expensive product that isn't for them.

Not every product they make has to be for you and the mass market.