State of Play...Station 5

The PlayStation 5 has been out in the wild for a full year now, those of us lucky enough to grab a hold of one have been experiencing the joys of next-gen power and the frustration of Sony’s baffling decisions. Those that haven’t managed to snag one are left wondering whether the elusive beast even exists. Anyway, here are my thoughts on the PS5 after a year with it.

Quality of Life

The PS5 hardware is truly amazing, it’s quiet, fast and really quite powerful. The PS5 software on the other hand is truly disappointing. This isn’t a criticism of PS5 games but rather the system software, which is worse than what is already available on the PS4. I previously stated in my review of the PS5 (I apologise for the shameless plug) that the PS5 OS should’ve been the same as the PS4’s, only faster.

Microsoft made the right decision to stick with the Xbox One OS for the Xbox Series because it meant that the console had many key features that wouldn’t otherwise be there at launch. When you think about it, it makes no sense to throw over 5 years of hard work down the drain to sell the gimmick of next-gen, especially when it comes at the expense of the consumer experience.

Instead of building on the excellent PS4 foundation Sony have opted to start fresh so that they could better sell the idea next-gen, as a result, we’re now almost a year into the PS5’s life cycle and the system is still missing basic features. Folders, themes, custom backgrounds, controlling the amount of content you see on your home screen…you can’t do any of this on PS5.

Even something as simple as the library is annoying, the design of it is fine, it’s similar to what we have on the PS4 just rearranged slightly. For some reason whenever you back out of the library it resets to default, so if you want your content arranged alphabetically you’ll have to manually do that each time you open the library. This might not seem like a big deal but without folders and the limit of content that can be displayed on the PS5 Home Screen, you’ll find yourself accessing the library a lot more often.

DualSense Nonsense

The DualShock 4 controller is one of the best selling video game accessories of all time and it wouldn’t surprise me if it was the best selling controller of all time. There’s a large number of DualShock controllers out there and a lot of them are being sold each month too, and yet Sony Interactive Entertainment doesn’t seem to want you to use it on the PS5.

You can use it to play PS4 games on PS5, it won’t work with any native PS5 games though, even cross-gen titles. Sony Interactive Entertainment claims that this is because the DualShock 4 doesn’t support any of the new DualSense features, which would be fair reason but there are two issues with this claim. The first is that you can disable all the new DualSense features from the System Settings and the second is that all native PS5 games can be played with a DualShock 4 controller when on Remote Play.

This tells us that the PS5 does have the ability to support the DualShock 4 natively, Sony just doesn’t want you to use it because they’d prefer for you to go buy the DualSense controller. Now you might be thinking “why would anyone want to use a PS4 controller on the PS5 when the DualSense is better?”

The thing is, whilst the DualSense controller is great it’s not really ideal for a lot of gamers for various reasons. I personally find the analogues to have far more resistance than the DualShock 4, which isn’t an issue most of the time. It’s only really noticeable on competitive and fast-paced first-person shooters like Apex Legends and DOOM Eternal.

Then there are all the Pro controllers for PS4 like the Razer Raiju and the Scuff range, all of which will essentially be obsolete on PS5, and finally, there’s the actual size of the DualSense. The DualSense is significantly bigger than the DualShock 4, which isn’t ideal for long sessions for those of us with smaller hands. Again, not a major issue but this wouldn’t even be an issue at all if Sony weren’t greedy.

Lacklustre First-Party Offerings

A lot of PlayStation fan(boys) are not going to be too happy when they read this but there really hasn’t been many great first-party tiles on PS5. I’ve played all of the first-party titles out so far except Sackboy: A Big Adventure and the majority of them have been disappointing. Part of the disappointment stems from the price, slapping a $70 price tag on a game will result in an increase in expectations and so far it’s hard to justify the price hike.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales are both really good games but both were also pretty short. In the case of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales this was understandable because it wasn’t a full-price game, at least in the USA. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, however, was a $70 game that could be completed in around 11 hours, this isn’t too far off previous games in the series but the $70 price tag did increase expectations and they simply weren’t met.

The Ratchet & Clank reboot for the PlayStation 4 was one of the best-received games of the PS4 era, it was slightly longer than Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart but it cost nearly half as much. Almost doubling the price of a sequel is certainly going to increase what you expect from it. The game itself isn’t bad but it’s not enough of a jump up in any area from the prequel.

Then there’s the remasters, Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut and Death Stranding Director’s Cut. These are three of the biggest releases on the PS5 to date and I can’t really justify any of them existing. “Director’s Cut” is just this gens pretentious way of saying remaster and given that none of those games is even five years old yet it’s pretty shameful.

Both the Ghost of Tsushima and Death Stranding Director’s Cut releases add some pretty significant content, which is available via upgrade paths or via an expansion, the PS5 version of the Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut expansion does however cost $10 more. For this, you get the standard improved performance and Japanese lip-sync, a feature which isn’t even implemented properly, as an exclusive feature because apparently, the PS4 version isn’t powerful enough to have it.

In the case of Death Stranding the Director’s Cut content isn’t available on PS4 at all and there’s nothing new that can’t be run on a PS4. It’s the same case with the Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, which is essentially a bonus chapter and yet for some reason, it’s not available on the PS4. The two standout titles from PlayStation Studios are the Demon’s Souls remake and Returnal.

Demon’s Souls, which was the Brotaku game of the year for 2020, has sold over 1.4 million copies after almost a year on the market which isn’t really that great. By comparison, Bloodborne sold over 2 million copies on the PS4 within just 6 months. Returnal on the other hand has yet to sell a million copies, the last sales update had it 560,000 sold as of July 2021. Both of Demon’s Souls and Returnal are great games and both should have sold a lot more, they haven’t because of the price.

As much as I love those games, I can say without hesitation that neither of them is worth $70. It’s easy to say things like “it’s only $10 more” but for those of us that don’t live in the USA the $10 increase for next-gen games means that we’re paying between $90-110 for the base version of a PS5 game and there’s no game that will ever be worth that asking price.

Games like Deathloop, Demon’s Souls and Returnal are becoming less accessible due to the price, these aren’t titles that most gamers are going to jump on without hesitation, increasing the price of PS5 games means that gamers now have to pick and choose the titles they want to play, which isn’t a great thing given that the competition hasn’t increased prices and has their titles available on a subscription service.

The price increase, remasters of games less than 5 years old, gatekeeping of content for PS5 that can run on PS4 and charging extra for the PS5 version of games when other major publishers are including both the PS4 and PS5 versions of games in the standard editions of AAA games are a bad sign for the future of PlayStation.

Uncertainty

Going into the PS5 era it’s clear that Sony Interactive Entertainment wants to distance itself as much as possible from the PS4, everything from the colour change to the new PlayStation Store on browsers makes that intention clear. Whether this was to sell the idea of next-gen or to take a fresh approach, it’s not the smartest decision from PlayStation.

It’s created unnecessary problems for PlayStation, this obsession with selling the idea of next-gen has led to what feels like a barebones UI on PS5, a PlayStation Store experience on browsers that’s three to five steps behind what already existed and several anti-consumer moves like not being able to use a DualShock 4 natively for PS5 games.

In time I’m fairly confident that these features will be fixed, we’re already seeing minor improvements like the PS Store on PS5 having a new games section and improvements to backwards compatibility that doesn’t require you to have a native PS5 version to take advantage of the PS5 hardware.

The thing is, most of these are problems that shouldn’t have existed in the first place. Hardware-wise Mark Cerny has built something truly great, everything else however has been somewhat lacklustre.

[z2g]

My take after owning one for a while:

Pros:
-Good launch games that show off hardware
-DualSense is a significant upgrade over the DualShock
-Great performance
-Quiet
-Back Compat w/ most ps4 games
-usb-c port on the front is great
-3D audio is cool
-load times are fast
-good games coming in the near future

Cons:
-Physically and comically huge - even compared to my Series X
-Often lower resolution than Series X on multiplat games (a bit less gpu power)
-Stock SSD is an annoying size.
-Complete lack of dashboard customization - no organization or even wallpaper capabilities. Not super intuitive either.
-media capture share options are extremely limited
-cloud saves/capture saves, game versioning/upgrades etc are straight up brutal compared to Series X
-DualSense battery could be bigger

[jznrpg]

Games generally have better frame rates on PS5 or at least equal to Xbox and native resolution is a waste of resources on any system , PC , whatever it is most gamers know this by now . What’s Xbox excuse for lower frame rates? Less power ?

[LOGICWINS]

What’s Playstation’s excuse for having less games that support 120fps compared to the Series X?

https://m.youtube.com/watch...

What’s Playstation’s excuse for not having an FPS Boost feature for BC titles?

Less power?

[ApocalypseShadow]

Logic, what's Xboxes excuse for not displaying a 12 teraflops difference? What happened to all that hype similar to the cloud when multiplatform games are virtually identical or play better sometimes on PS5?

What's their excuse for copying a share button from Sony from last gen but do nothing else to innovate their controller? No one in the industry talks about the Xbox controller AT ALL. Like...AT ALL.

[Tacoboto]

@LOGIC some of the 120fps titles perform more stable on PS5 compared to XSX. Certain areas in COD titles are slightly improved, then games like Ghostrunner are significantly more optimized for PS5.

Halo Infinite MP feels like a lock to 120fps for me but Campaign has some hits to smoothness. We're still in the early years where developers are spending significant effort optimizing for base X1 & PS4. Both platforms are equally capable of 120fps and logic dictates that you can't use backwards compatibility as a frame of reference for these machines. BC titles are BC titles not built for the machines of today.

@Apocalypse Don't feed a bad comment with an equally bad comment. The Elite Series 2 kicks ass and Sony finally gave us freaking back-paddles in the last six months of the PS4's life only to make that $25 never-in-stock accessory useless for every PS5 player. You'll be recharging that DualSense 4-5x before replacing the Series controller batteries even once too.

@jznrpg Except for obvious cases of poor optimization, frame rates are typically within 1% of each other. At launch, Xbox publicly reached out to partners about issues. After that, you'll have cases like Avengers where Framerate edged better on PS5, but Avengers rendered at full-res on Xbox. The PS5 version ran with checkboard resolution (half-res). Muddier but slightly smoother. Or much crisper but slightly less smooth circumstantially unless you have VRR. That's not a fault of the platform in cases like that when developers obviously make different decisions on different platforms

[ApocalypseShadow]

Taco, notice how you had to deflect and talk about ANOTHER controller that's not even packed in or is the MAIN controller in the box? That costs twice as much but is still talked about less than the Dual Sense for features?

You should be embarrassed.

[RaidenBlack]

I've also noticed this weird loop hole in the initial PS5 PR: "DualSense is mandatory to play PS5 games"
Astro's Playroom can played on PS4 via Remote Play using DS4.
Hence I pointed it out in early 2021 in N4G comment section, & added ... DS4 and DSense should be forward and backward compatible respectively. And as usual ... got downvoted.

[Tres21]

Ok ill bite mostly cause I'm bored. I know this seems cliche and specially on n4g but I want to say 1st that I'm more of an xbox player than ps5 that being said I was able to get a ps5 1st and it has been awesome alot of the things in ur opinion in mine have been great.
S9.breaking it down
Quality of life: honestly I never liked the ps4 ui so I'm good on this new 1 certain simple things take a sec to get used 2 but overall very satisfied plus alot of the old features I never used so no biggie 4 me I do missed the web browser but that's a me issue tho and more so to do with psvr on why I used it. The library I did notice that minor issue the yesterdayday when I was scrolling thru my library thought it was odd but I hadn't noticed it since march.
I will point out the speed upgrade for loads on games is fantastic (genshin impact) I hopped on the pro for my daughter and fast travel was not as fast as I'm use 2 now.

Dualshock: I admit I knew nothing of remote play that u can use the controller on any game that's interesting but helpful to know while I haven't used remote play in the future that info will come in handy I have a 5year old and the smaller controllers work better for his hands while the sense feels great in mine plus I Don't lik Mr. Sticky fingers on my red controller.

1st party: I disagree the games have been amazing there hasn't been an over abundance which is cool for me cause my gaming time is limited now but there has been been fair amount put out thru last year and the price truth be told I did not know I buy my games second hand or on sale I have those kids and it's a must when u hav to buy 2 to 3 copies of every game heck the returnal I got a week after release at the pawn shop for 30bucks which thinking about it I did know they were 70 cause I looked it up then and seen 70 to see if it was worth it and wondered why that store was charging more but figured they was trying to get over. But the price doesn't hurt the quality and I'd argue it's worth it but again I'm not paying full price.lol

Uncertainty: while I look at it wish it was a different color no biggie overall the system has far passed my expectations and then some so much so that I haven't opened up my X yet since I got it in July so the ps5 since the day it was sitting on the Meijer shelf in March has Certainly been a bright spot for me and I can't wait to see what else comes out.

[ghostliving]

To be honest this article is a complete rubbish. A friendly suggest to readers, don't waste your time to read this.

[TheDoomedGuy]

Too late. Gave a long response though. It was pretty lame excuses and he contradicts himself throughout a bit.
Complains they titles are lackluster. But says he loves the games....yeah that doesnt make sense. He chalks it up to the $70 tag but you dont have to buy them at that price...so the price makes them lakcluster according to this guy because theyre not long enough...so he'd prefer longer dragged out games simply because.

Complains about dualshock not being usable with the lackluster games...that use the dual sense features. But he should already have 1 dual sense to play those games.....

Messy thoughts.

[IanTH]

Some of this is fair, some of this is general issues ($70 is same on XB & Square is trying it on PC), and some seems more like "This just in: being an early adopter isn't the best experience".

And let's not forget, Xbox changed their user interface drastically so many times on both the 360 & XBO I kind of lost count. They would have been insane to try something new after literally just settling on one. I hated trying to navigate that thing; with as little as I used it, I felt like something always moved, or was in a nonsensical place. I do think Sony throwing out the entire UI design may have been a bad call, but I also think changing things can be good - some of the features, like putting trophy info front-and-center when hitting the home button, seem useful. Maybe they could have bolted that onto the current PS4 interface, but I can't say for sure sticking with the old would be the best call either.

I haven't bought a PS5 yet because I will use it mostly as an exclusives machine, and a few games aren't worth that price yet. By the time there are enough, the early games will be cheap (helping to fix the expensive game issue). And Sony is showing a willingness to bring titles to PC, so I am trying to figure out how hard they're going to lean into that.

I already was primarily a PC gamer, but I bought an XBO when Spencer said XB is important, it'll have exclusive games because that is important to the identity and to its gamers...and then a couple months later, he did a complete 180 and my purchase became worthless. I don't want that to happen again. So that's kind of a con, I guess, though I still can't run out to the store and buy a PS5, so that matters quite a bit less lol.

[TheDoomedGuy]

Good on you. I myself pruchase a laptop for gaming purposes. I have the ps5/laptop setup. I make sure to play 1st person shooters...as much as possibe...on the laptop. On the ps5 I play exclusives and everything else. Oh also play RTS games on laptop.

[jznrpg]

PS5 is great . The UI fine I have no issues with it and the store . The controller is awesome , too resistant ? Come on that’s funny . It looks like to me your trying to find thing to nitpick about to try and make Xbox look good but they had no games for the year besides a timed game that’s already on PS5 and do you mention that in your comparisons ? . I don’t paying for games , someone has to to support the industry or we won’t dictate the games we get . I do t want a bunch of free to play MT filled games like MS is hoping to hit on . I’m happy to pay $ for my hobby . Gaming is not a welfare program . It costs 10s to 100s of millions of $ to make big games . Uncertainty and distancing itself from PS4 ?? They are still making crossgen games and all PS4 games are playable on PS5 all of them . PlayStation has been delivering great games for 25 years there is no uncertainty in that .

[EazyC]

"The UI is fine"

Dude...it's categorically worse than the PS4's UI. That is unacceptable.

[DFresh]

My take owning both systems.

PS5:
Pros:
•Great exclusives that showcase power of PS5.
•Dualsense controller is a game changer.
•3D Audio is awesome.
•High frame rate, amazing visuals and great performance.
•Really fast loading times.

Cons:
•Needs more backwards compatibility support.
•Console design is weird.

Xbox Series X:
•High frame rate, amazing visuals and great performance.
•Really fast loading times.
•DX10 Support is cool.
•Great backwards compatibility support.
•Great system design.
•Xbox Game Pass is great.

Cons:
•Not many exclusives to showcase system power.
(Halo Infinite is a great start though.)
•Not much improvement to the controller.

I really like and play both systems a lot.
No matter what system you get it will a vastly superior from previous gens of consoles.

[waderae]

" I personally find the analogues to have far more resistance than the DualShock 4"

Literally the same analogues.

[IanTH]

Wonder if he was comparing a new DualSense to an old DualShock. The sticks are going to loosen up at least a little over time with repeated use.

[Tacoboto]

Quality of Life: Agree with you on this. I spent the last 45 minutes on my PS5 not playing a game. The system needed an update, I didn't have enough storage to install Ratchet. I moved 100GB of PS4 games to my external - you have to sit in the UI while it moves. One game always fails to move but there's no valuable info or an error code. It then needs to copy the 3.2GB update file. On Xbox, the updates download and install, there aren't two separate steps, and usually you can start a game mid-install.

By going to a new UX it seems they kept in software management paradigms that were accepted back in the PS3 day. It looks great on a 4K display at the expense of usability.

DualSense Nonsense: Completely agree there too on the shafting of DualShock 4. They basically killed the PS4 accessory ecosystem because of the new controller. Remote Play working with Xbox controllers especially proves that, I believe.

Have to disagree on the games though. Returnal will probably take me years to beat, but I'll stick to it eventually. Demon's Souls Remake is one of my favorite games ever. I have no uncertainty that I'll love Ratchet and that the PS '22 lineup excites the heck out of me. Issues on the platform aside, the games matter most and Sony publishes the best... and they know it, too

[TheDoomedGuy]

Okay sure.

Im a gamer first and I play games naturally and usually 1 at a time. Obviously because if you play multiple you may lose interest in another you're playing and have a hard time getting back into it.

Quality of Life:
Im a gamer. I play games. I dont replay older games either. So...that said. My games are clearly and easily accessible from the initial UI. Everything else is extra and irrelevant to me as I get consoles to play games. And the ps5 UI is clean, not cluttered and super easy to navigate. I've tried to navigate throught the most current version of the xbox UI and man is it a convoluted mess just 1 year from the last time I managed to get a sense of it. There are menus within menus of things I dont even care much about. To easily navigate the store is even more difficult. Even typical settings have several steps to get to. PS5 settings are all mainly in 1 place and easy to scroll through. Anyways thats my experience comparing both UI.

First Party Offerings:

ps4 offerings were: resogun, killzone shadowfall, infamous last light and knack.
ps3 offerings were: resistance was the only meaningful exclusive release.

Now lets compare within the 1st year and at launch with the ps5
Demons Souls Remake, Astrobot, Sackboy, Miles Morales....all great and meaningful games.
Followed up closely by Returnal and Ratchet which were also critically acclaimed games.

You may not like the $70 price tag but thats irrelevant as the industry is making it clear that they simply want to raise the price...And i've also not paid $70 for any title yet. I use trade credit, deals or used games to get games cheaper. So no. What I pay for it should not in any way give me any sense of expectation requirements regarding length or even quality of the title. This also has nothing to do with whether the games are good or not. So making them seem lacklustre because of the price tag is nonsense. Are the games good or not? Yes..all of them were and are in fact extremely high quality games for launch titles and 1st year launch window games.

"As much as I love those games, I can say without hesitation that neither of them is worth $70. It’s easy to say things like “it’s only $10 more” but for those of us that don’t live in the USA the $10 increase for next-gen games means that we’re paying between $90-110 for the base version of a PS5 game and there’s no game that will ever be worth that asking price."
You love the games and therefore they are good but because of the asking price that has little do with the content of the game they magically become lackluster? Even you say no game will ever be worth that asking price so whats the point even including it as part of your argument...no game will ever not be lakcluster based on the asking price. Moving on...

[TheDoomedGuy]

Uncertainty:

Next gen has always distanced itself from previous generations. Microsoft hasnt done so this gen and I would say that is due to their inability to innovate. By making a leap that comes with growing pains they will be able to move further into the future potential with technology. Sometimes leaving the old behind is necessary.

You complain about not being able to use dualshock for ps5 games but you also clearly stated they are lackluster...and at this point there arent many. I myself am playing a lot of ps4 titles on ps5 that i hadnt gotten around to but obviously if you want the ps4 version then get the ps4 version. It'll be much cheaper since money is an issue. Some of those come wiht the ps5 upgrade. Sony obvoisuly wants people to experience the awesome dual sense and wants to create a clear defining line between old gen experience and next gen. Controllers have been bought every generation of consoles...not even close to a big deal and the dualsense is totally worth it.

This new console has been the biggest leap in tech for consoles and it has come with the best launch window titles in a very long time. Sure if you use the ps5 for other things those features may be missing but the UI is almost identical and has barely changed from the ps4 making it an easy tranistion and showing us that playstation already had and has had for a long time a functioning UI...unlike how xboxUI changes every 6 months.

[Elda]

I'm enjoying my PS5 immensely but my only small gripe is that there's no themes or wallpapers,no web browser & no PlayStation Live app.

[rokos]

What an article:
I wouldn't call the UI a disappointment as none of the features mentioned could be considered essential, moreover I believe that the software engeneeres

[rokos]

What an article:
I wouldn't call the UI a disappointment as none of the features mentioned could be considered essential, moreover I believe that the software engineers are smart people while deciding the OS have considered that possibility and dropped it for a good reason.

The Dualshock and Dualsense part new consoles come with new controller it is included in the box as well, maybe they are trying to avoid scenarios of poor compatibility between the two generations similar to DS2 on PS3 has issues on games that require motion controls. Also the controller has software updates which opens some room for refinement.

The first party offerings comparing Demon Souls and Returnal to Bloodborne just isn't fair in my opinion as the game came a little later in PS4s lifecycle 2015 where the console had a larger userbase and that shows in those games attach rate.
I agree the extra $10 for an upgrade for the Directors Cut games.
The $70 pricetag is being tested at the moment in my opinion and by the looks of things is here to stay as other publisher are starting to ask for the same price even on other platforms(PC).

[ApocalypseShadow]

Totally lackluster article. As ghost living said above. It's a waste to read. Just nitpicking and contradictions. Games are lackluster for price when the writer loves the games? Ridiculous. Says the article is not a criticism of the games but then criticizes the games. And, look around. There's this thing called inflation and waiting for a sale. Talks about sales of games when PS4 had tens of millions of consoles on the market to sell games. PS5 is still new and not everyone buys every game.

Saying Sony is wrong for supporting DS for PS5. Wants DS4 to play natively on PS5 games. But Sony supplies you a DS in the freaking box. Use that. It's like saying, "Sony, why try to innovate your controller?" "Just give gamers last gen like Microsoft."

And, he leads into the UI as well. "Sony, why are you trying to innovate and start over with your UI?" "I just want the same as before." Just be like Xbox and do nothing new for your next console."

As we have seen with PS3, PS4 and now with PS5, features will be added over time that plays up what PS5 can do for the console and for the gamer. Was the writer born yesterday? Give them time. Talk about entitled and impatient.

Complaining about size and color of the console as if they have anything to do with the games being played or developed. You're not looking at the console. You're playing the games on a screen. And even then, there's nothing wrong with the color or size. Xbox size doesn't have any bearing on games played on the screen. If small size mattered, there'd be a lot of consoles in the past not purchased because they were bigger than the competition. Such ignorance. And there were so many color changes by every console manufacturer in the past. Nintendo, Sega, Microsoft, etc. Total buffoonery.

This opinion article is lackluster. I wish stupid opinion articles had a disagree button. Because it would be pressed.

[Tacoboto]

"But Sony supplies you a DS in the freaking box. Use that"

That ignores his entire point on the controller. Sony enables DS4 support, and even allows the Xbox controller to be used, during Remote Play. Personally, it's the fact that if there's a 4 player game that comes out on PS5 I want to have as a party game, I have to spend $150 on two more controllers because my DS4's are paperweights. MK11 is a better experience on PS5 with the PS4 version because it doesn't even use the haptics one bit, barely looks different and you can use any controller you want.

Imagine if a PC game forced you to use a mechanical keyboard on Ultra settings, it's dumb and only helps Sony for us need to buy a new DualSense.

[Jivesh]

Jeez you're pressed over this, LMAO

[Shiken]

What I find funny is that the PS5 has more to offer in its first year than the PS4 did...hell way more if you look at the first two years if God of War and Horizon don't get delayed again. This review is unrealistic.

[Jivesh]

PlayStation is my main platform but say anything bad about it and the fanboys immediately assume you like Xbox...

[Angry_Chainsaw]

Can anyone here tell me why today any person, like me, who owns an quite a good PC gaming desktop (AMD RYZEN 7 5800X, ASUS ROG STRIX X570 E-GAMING, 2 x 16Gb G. SKILL TRIDENT Z NEO 3600MHZ CL-16, ASUS ROG RTX 3060 12Gb, 2 x 1Tb SAMSUNG 970 EVO SSD, ASUS THOR 850W PLATINUM, ASUS TUF GAMING GT501, plus HDD's, SATA SSD's, capture card etc.-this is my ROG, but it can be much less powerful) should buy any Xbox Series console, when via PC Xbox GamePass, each PC owns not only identical games to Microsoft consoles but also a handful of games that aren't on Xbox consoles?
PS5 console gaming are purchased for exclusive games that are not on pc or that will be on PC in 4-5 years. PS5 is purchased for games such as Spider-Man, GOW, FF, HZD, Wolverine, Souls - like games, Forspoken, Returnal, Ratchet & Clank etc. And I'm not pay for any PS5 games more than 50$, because I'm waiting for deals, and like example of my story now is FIFA22 for PS5 44$, Deathloop 40$, CoD Vanguard 40$,and many more new games, such as Back 4 Blood for 34$!!!
PS5 had more than 7-8 exclusives since the launch of the console alonenPs5 is purchased for exclusive games that are not on pc or that will be on PC in 4-5 years. PS5 is purchased for exclusive games to play on big screen (such as LG OLED 55 CX or some other brand mark TV with HFR, ALLLM, VRR etc.) of which are some games smaller, some games are bigger, but they're all is exclusive!!!
What has XBSX offered from the games since the launch of this console, which can be played only on that console? How much money do you need to upgrade the SSD on the XBSX console with a 2Tb proprietary SSD? I pay for my only 300$ - Gigabyte AORUS 2Tb SSD with excellent heatsink (and I also have external WD BLACK HDD 4Tb for almost my all PS4 game library)...
Only thing which SONY must to do is to unite PS PLUS and PS NOW and to turn more games in (new games but also old remake or remaster of older hits from PS3 and PS2 gaming era) ... That's all from me.
P. S. Dinamyc Theme and Customize Theme are things for PC, console is for playing the beautiful games from bed or comfortably couch...
You wanna play every game in 120fps or higher at 2K or 4K resolution with so much grafical integracy, buy yourself a PC and good luck with that today with all scalpers and balloon pressed price of components... I'm only buy new CPU last year and new GPU (sold my ASUS ROG RTX 2070 SUPER and AMD RYZEN 9 3900X CPU, donate a bit more money and upgrade my "new" PC from 2020th...
PlayStation forever - when we talk about consoles. I can't understand americans (Canadians, Norge, German's etc.) who have much more money than me, and who cried about the price of the new GPU, CPU, SSD etc... I work as a doctor, sci.dr.med. with specialization (5 year's after graduation) and I have monthly less than 1200€, but still I can buy to myself all components, peripheries, gadgets, audio-video stuff, also a VR (Oculus Quest 2 and PSVR bundle) for gaming pleasure, without any sacrifice...
Regards from the Serbia 🇷🇸

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I think the PS5 is a great console. I left console gaming after the PS3, primarily because I could not play most games at 30 fps anymore. The PS5 with its performance mode on many games solved that