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I sold my PS5 yesterday after a year of not touching it. To me this console generation was a complete failure and has pushed me to PC gaming. Any others have a similar experience? (lemmy.ca)

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After 5 years of owning a PS5, mine is off to a new home after gathering dust on a shelf for a year. I have had PlayStation's since the PS2 era, and this is the first generation where it felt like a dead experience on PlayStation.

Playstation used to have great single player games and I still played those, but those games were all from the PS4 era. Instead Sony tried to do live service garbage and it was a disaster. Honestly if the PS5 did not have backward comparability to PS4, I don't think I would have played anything notable on it. Add on that I have to pay a subscription for online play and it just feels like a waste of money to have a PS5.

I bought a used PC for under $200 and installed Bazzite on it. This little thing has crushed the PS5 for me. Huge catalogue of games and free multiplayer. Add emulation on top of that and my PlayStation could not compete.

Feels like the end of an era. Consoles are dead and PC's and Linux gaming is the future.

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[–] almost1337@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

I bought a PS5 shortly after release, mostly due to my gaming PC at the time having no end of issues and not owning a console since GameCube. I upgraded the gaming PC last year, but I still play the PS5 or steam deck primarily because the room my PC is in sits between both my kids' rooms and the only time I can game is when they are asleep. It also makes for a decent Blu-ray player for the three Blu-ray movies that we own. (Rankin-Bass Christmas specials that grandma got for the aforementioned kids)

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Only reason I got into this generation is that the Series S was so cheap I could set it up for me and my SO to play games together. With Xbox you can buy one copy of a game and have both people play it at the same time, so for $200 (cost of the Series S when we bought it) we could play co-op games that didn't have splitscreen.

I'm currently trying to push her into a steamdeck of similar so we can migrate away from the consoles.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

Nope! The Switch is friggen awesome.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -1 points 2 days ago

Maybe you're just getting older OP.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I'll never go back to pc gaming, it's never worth it, and I prefer playing from my couch. The main problem with the current gen of consoles is that there still really hasn't been a game that actually shows off the full power of what can be done. Gta6 probably will... If it even gets released this Gen

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 2 points 3 days ago

I do 90% of my PC gaming from a giant lovesac. Either with a controller, or a lapboard for keyboard and mouse with a long powered USB cable and built-in hub:

https://us.nerdytec.com/collections/couchmaster%C2%AE?sort_by=price-ascending

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