Technology

Ps5 has no games

c'mon man it has like 1 or 2
- Demon's Souls and FFVII Rebirth. I counted them
- I'll be honest Spiderman 2 has me looking.
*exclusives Thankfully Sony saw the writing on the wall and began porting a lot of first party to PC.

Platforms like the Deck are the future IMO
- Hey! Look at me over here living in the future!
That's surprising, I've had loads to play since getting mine last year
- I was more reviving an old meme than anything else. Didn't expect it to start a conversation, lol.
- I've had PS5 since release. I have played a handful of PS5 games and honestly most of them have felt like slightly enhanced PS4 games. Very few have truly felt "next gen." Even fewer make decent use of unique DualSense features.
  
  I've mostly continued playing tons of PS4 games. PS5 seems kinda meh to me. Also as usual Sony has made a system software design and layout that feels needlessly restrictive and idiotic.
  
  This thing is basically a PS4 Pro Pro. And now the PS5 Pro will be a PS4 Pro Pro Pro.

They're right tho for $700 I better be able to fuck the PS5 pro

For $700 the PS5 Pro better make my father tell me he's proud of me.

Fun fact, the PS3, whose top model was $599 at launch, would have cost over $900 in 2024 dollars.

So this is actually not the worst it's ever been, even for this company, lol
- Okay but the PS3 came with a disc drive
- OK but I think it actually might be interesting to see the difference.
  
  That top tier model got you:
  
  WiFi
  
  a hard drive 3x bigger than the standard
  
  every type of card reader
  
  full backwards compatibility with previous console games
  
  bluray and CD player for home entertainment console use
  
  Now granted that last part is true for the cheaper model PS3 too.
  
  For the PS5 pro upgrade you get
  
  the same amount of RAM
  
  slightly better performing GPU under theoretical max use cases using updated hardware but not new
  
  a removed disk drive for less functionality
  
  2x times hard drive space when storage costs are at a historical low.
  
  The extra money used to get you more functionality. This refresh seems like more for number fetishists to scrape more dopamine from the bottom of the barrel and get ripped off apple style to dish out more for basic features.
  
  Yes they have charged a lot but this is not exactly a great sign of "see how they have always done this?"
  
  Edit: also wages haven't dramatically shifted since the PS3 launch so while inflation has ruined purchasing power to make it cost equivalent of $950, work hours needed to work to afford $600 is still the same thus making this new console still quite more costly. Its just you could buy more with same hours of work in the past.

For 799€ I could get 28 Blåhajar and a mini one.

So. Where are they?
- As I do not have 799, still in the Ikea. I only managed to save 2 + a mini one till now.

Here, after taxes and if you brought it with everything it costs ~1000€. That (and less) already gets you a decent machine nowadays.

With upgrade potential even. Maybe you save a bit of cash to get a weaker used Gpu and later on maybe a year or so you upgrade.

I just ordered an rx 6400 for 198€ to make a franken-optiplex windows game machine.

Sure, I had the old PC laying around for photoshop and 3dsmax (linux-complicatted softs) but man 800€ for a console I'm getting old.

I think that 800 dollars is just too much. The software stack underneath is BSD based.

If the Play station was a fully open device that could play games and run software from anywhere it might be more reasonable. However, not only do you need to pay for the console you also are stuck in the ecosystem.

Ps5 users have to pay for internet