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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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[–] Peacock@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I stopped buying consoles and switched to PC after the PS3, and this is why. Not specifically because of GTA, but this image really sums up the problem for me.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To really hammer the point home: the PS2 actually had 5 GTAs, and there were 2 additional GTAs released in that time period on other consoles.

EDIT: Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories are the extra 2 on the PS2 (originally released on PSP); Chinatown Wars and GTA Advance on various systems, if anyone's curious.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

I have everything from the Atari 2600 to the PS3/Wii/360, but quit after that because the PS4 and XBone were weak consoles with horrid loading times and bad framerates in games. At least the PS5 and new Xbox have decent hardware, but I’m never going back to consoles.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

GTA's what?

PlayStation's what???

[–] qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Could not agree more