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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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[–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Hokay, here goes.

I love my PS5. Unfortunately, it's hooked up to the TV, and has Netflix. So my partner is often watching the shows they like, esp. since I have severe enough ADHD that it's gotten hard for me to finish television shows and movies. So I don't get to use my PS5.

I've got a pretty nice computer, but right now the only game i have on it is Outer Worlds 2, which is pretty rad. I play for a few hours every other weekend or so, when I'm not too busy with shit that needs to get done right now.

I kinda miss playing on my PS5, but, oh well.

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