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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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[–] Sprinks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I got into gaming console collecting as a hobby, (though on pause at the moment) and decided early on the ps4 and 5 are not a generation of consoles i want to purposely seek out anytime soon, so a bit of a different perspective, here.

My general rules for adding a console to the collection is 1) it has to be a good deal, no above market rate, because the hunt for a good deal is part of the fun for me, 2) it has to either be fully working or clearly repairable, 3) it has to have a disc drive, and 4) it has to be within budget.

The only console I found made post-360 that fit those rules was a 20.00 xbox one listed as for parts on shopgoodwill. They couldnt get it to boot fully, but it turns out the drive was just full and taking 5+ minutes to turn on.

Other than that, im not holding my breath on any other post-360 consoles making it into the collection within the next 15-20 years. Any fully working ones i find are/were outside of my budget and since theyre intentionally designed to not be repairable at home, the broken consoles within budget are too risky of a purchase. I took a chance on a 15.00 xbox one S model that wasnt turning on and wont be doing that again. I'll admit i'm no professional and sometimes a repair is just outside of my skill set, but it was the first busted console i couldnt even diagnose. It was frustrating as hell given the week prior i was able to bang out a recap for a Sega game gear and fix screen tear on a gameboy without a second thought.