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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)

submitted 1 day ago by qwestjest78@lemmy.ca to c/askgaming@piefed.social

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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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[–] cloudless@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This generation (PS5 & Xbox series) offers only slight graphical improvements over the previous generation. I have not expected anything amazing with it. There is nothing new with the technology that allows leaps in the gaming experience.

Now that PC can play many console "exclusives", the main advantage of console is only ease of use and costs. With Bazzite/SteamOS the gaps are closing quickly.

Did you set your expectation too high for the console?

[–] qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I loved my PS4 with RDR2, Last of Us 2, Uncharted 4, Far Cry 4 and 5, Dying Light, Firewatch, Spider-Man.

I thought the good times would keep rolling with a quiet and more powerful console. Instead I ended up continuing to play PS4 games on it, but almost all of those games are on Steam now where there is a much bigger library.

So yeah, I had higher expectations than I got. Sony duped me into thinking I needed to upgrade when they had peaked with the PS4

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Upgrade a PS4 console with a SSD and you really don't notice any difference between it and a PS5 on most games.