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I used to say PC + Nintendo, but Switch 2 looks like enshittification caught up with Nintendo.

So just PC now.

At the very least, the console cycles are a good indicator of when it makes sense to build a new PC.

Right? It only has 3 games and they're already talking about a new one? They should give it a few years at least before giving up.

Are we over the chip shortage, what year is it!

Sony spent this entire generation making live service games are were DOA or failed after years of development.

People generally buy Sony consoles for their single player exclusives. It seems like that is not a factor to consider for their next console.

I’m not interested in PS6. I’m more interested in building a Steambox to avoid Windows 11.

The best situation for consumers is for games to come out on as many platforms as possible. Exclusives are cancer. It's awesome to see less and less of them every generation.

Didn't Microsoft buy up a shitton of studios- killing some of them? I wouldn't consider exclusives a good indicator of health necessarily.

Not that the PS5 was a major upgrade to the PS4. Sure it can produce some better graphics, but the UI is such a downgrade.

I'll never understand why they made an option to silence the beep at startup, but they push the boot up and login music through the TV when headphones are connected to a controller. That's so much more annoying and last so much longer when you're trying not to disturb other people in the room.

investors want new product. lack of new product is 'stagnation'.

I'm guessing the cash cow needs some milking. Especially with new lucrative technology lurking around the corner. "Milk before it's overdue"

Three years or so.

We've got tons of new types of games that have emerged over the years, but they sprout up at different levels of system requirements. The games that need the new hardware are the ones with the largest development budgets.

I bought a 3070 and a pair of 1440 gaming monitors, maybe $1000 total, and I feel like an asshole not having time to play my favorite games.

Mine has seen some use.. but its nowhere near what I was expecting when I bought it. I own it for the exclusives and while I did enjoy them (GT7, Ragnarok, Spider Man 2, Astro Bot, Death Stranding 2), I also think I could have done without them and waited for the eventual PC release. I hope Intergalactic (Naughty Dog) remedies my feeling towards the console, but so far, nothing it's seen has been generation defining.
Most probably skipping consoles after this gen.

Ghost of Yotei has been a banger so far. Otherwise, I haven't even plugged it in for over 2 years.

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The PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 are both ridiculously successful.

https://cordcuttersnews.com/playstation-5-shatters-sales-records-with-74-9-million-units-sold/

While it might not feel like anyone cares about consoles, they are still selling a lot of them.

Although I had the same experience, I was finally able to get one after a few months. I was very happy I got one over building a PC because at the time PC GPUs were ridiculous amounts of money, and I felt the PS5 was a great deal over the PC. I ended up building a new one in 2023 a few months after prices started falling a bit finally and thought it worked out perfectly.

I still use my PS5 more than my PC just because it sits in our main room and has the nicer TV screen. Everything has its use. If anything, I am always disappointed. I built such a nice PC and haven't used it as much as I would have liked by now.

Nah, this is about where the last two console cycles would release new hardware. It's the confluence of a lot of things at work here.

Needs ai processor

The hardware potential was reached on day one. Everything looks a little bit nicer than PS4 but games need to push ray tracing which is beyond what the system was designed for.

Had the same gut reaction but then realized it’s basically only 1 year ahead of schedule. It REALLY doesn’t feel like the PS5 has been out for 5 years now.