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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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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm a pc guy, but I wish the trigger haptics for the ps5 took off. I only got to try them a few weeks ago, but they felt cool.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have the ps5 trigger haptic working in Hades 2. Linux PC (Garuda Dr460onized). They do feel very nice but the first time it happened I thought my buttons were breaking from being hard to press.

Hoping for more adoption too, but it is a niche thing. Not everyone has the controller.

[–] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

I have the controller and it’s honestly too big and heavy for my hands for longer play seasions. I don’t like it at all even tho I love the haptics.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago

The haptics/adaptive triggers are the best thing about the PS5 and it's not close.