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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 11 months ago by 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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[–] 2 points 11 months 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)

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