Or mod your PS4 and play lots of free games.

Perhaps it’s good guy Sony trying to pull players in the right direction with their gaming hardware,

Funny.

or maybe it’s a method designed to coax players away from a withdrawing platform that they’ve started sunsetting.

'The PS5 sales have not met our expectations.'

But yeah, one can feel the limitations of the PS4. Whoever wants to buy a PS5 will have bought one by now, more so considering it's really not an affordable buy in any way. At this time, it might be the fomo addiction which would push someone into buying a new console that pretty much tethers you to its subscription models.

Breaking news: Company wants consumers to buy new product. Details at 11.

They should be offering an upgrade deal, especially as everyone's raised prices on consoles lately.

I always wanted a PS4. Never got one. I think the PS3 is better than the Xbox One. Yes, I'm aware the PS3 was the rival of the Xbox 360, and the PS4 was the rival of the Xbox One. I said what I said. I had the PS1, PS2, and PS3, and the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The Series X is a fine machine, but it's what the Xbox One should have been. I felt that both XB1 and PS4 were nerfed by a bottleneck in the drive, but the PS4 made it easier to swap out for a SATA SSD, mitigating that factor — or so I'm told. The Xbox One had a rough start (requiring the Kinect sensor most people didn't want) and it didn't get much better. Still, it was not a bad game system, it just needed an SSD, a problem the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S directly addressed.

My ps4 died and so I upgraded to ps4 emulator.

I don't think it's especially egregious for a company to advertise it's new hardware on it's platform. I do think that the form of system messages is unfortunate though.

I had a period of unemployment last year during which I had to sell my PS5 to pay my power bill. I'm working again, but it'll be years before I can afford another video game console. I hope my launch-era PS4 keeps hanging in there, I'm worried for its hard drive.

I have played both and it doesn’t feel like much of an upgrade. Especially, for the price. Hard pass until it’s severely discounted.

If they're so desperate to get people to switch, why don't they sweeten the deal? The PS5 console is still too expensive. It's ridiculously expensive for an older console. They could at least include an extra controller or other accessories.

Instead, like every other evil corporation, they're about to use the stick on us by making things worse to try to coerce us into buying something a lot of us can't afford.

Where were they on launch and the years after? I was on the hunt for one to upgrade from my PS4. I joined Discord groups and followed Twitter accounts and joined Sony’s list to supposedly buy one directly from them. I ended up giving up with all the supply in my area being with scalpers for years.

Oh well. Too little, too late, Sony.

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