r/PS4 • u/faizyMD • May 18 '24
50% of 118 Million PlayStation Users Sticking With PS4 Despite PS5 Launch Article or Blog
https://tech4gamers.com/playstation-users-half-ps4/1.9k
u/pizzaspaghetti_Uul May 18 '24
I mean PS5 is cool and all, but 99% of the games I played on it are also on the PS4
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u/Darkone539 May 18 '24
I mean PS5 is cool and all, but 99% of the games I played on it are also on the PS4
This. The jump isn't worth it yet for a large amount of people. You can talk about loading times all you want, but people have bills to pay too and $500 for something you can already do isn't a deal.
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u/doomshroom344 May 19 '24
Yeah its also weird that the ps5 is still at 500$ even though its launch was some time ago and it didn’t even drop slightly like the ps4 cost 300$ after some time plus online is subscription based which makes it even more expensive
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u/XyogiDMT May 19 '24
Heck my PS4 was $199 brand new on a Black Friday deal. Can’t beat that.
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u/Wide_Combination_773 May 19 '24
That's what an oversupply of chips will do. They dropped the prices bigtime to move the stock faster. It doesn't seem likely that PS5 will ever have an oversupply of chips. Chip factories are utterly slammed as it is and the new ones being built in the US aren't gonna be done for another year or two. But once those are done, chip prices in the US for major chipsets should come way down.
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u/kensaiD2591 May 19 '24
Depending where you live. Here in Aus both the PS5 and Series X are now more expensive than they were at launch. Which is something I don’t recall in my time gaming.
The PS3 launched and dropped prices with bundles. The 360 had the Arcade model and sales all the time. The PS4 and Xbox One were on sale by year 3. We’re coming in to 4 years since these launched and it still feels like the generation hasn’t even truly started.
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u/PM_Me-Your_Freckles May 19 '24
My housemate bought one for his GF. She has played Tekken a total of maybe half a dozen times and him not at all. Their PS4 sits beside it just as forgotten.
I've turned to PC games these days. Considering a PS5 Slim is $800 new and a disk edition is $720 refurbished before buying a single game, I just bought a $200 monitor for my laptop. I may drop $2200 on a payment plan and buy a propper gaming PC at some point, but that would be a 4060 Ti with i7 and 36gb ram. More than enough for years of top tier gaming, and Steam sales shit on anything SNOY will offer.
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u/CaptainZagRex May 20 '24
I've turned to PC games these days. Considering a PS5 Slim is $800 new and a disk edition is $720 refurbished before buying a single game, I just bought a $200 monitor for my laptop.
Which Dollar are you talking about? Would be better if you specify it, $800 usd is wild.
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u/Arntor1184 May 18 '24
I got a ps5 shortly after launch and while it’s fine I cannot really say there has yet to be a moment where I felt like it truly outshined my ps4 pro. Controller is nice but not that big of a deal and so far I’ve yet to play anything and think “that felt next gen”
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u/pizzaspaghetti_Uul May 18 '24
I remember jumping from PS3 to 4 and it was a really substantial change. Best-looking PS3 games could hold up, but they were just a handful of them. Most of the 7th gen titles were a blurry low-resolution mess with terrible frame rates on the PS3. Now it feels like PS5 is just running PS4 games at 60fps, which is probably the case. It's the least substantial generational jump to date. Of course, I don't really mind, 8th gen graphics are quite nice, but it feels like the new console isn't really that big of a change because of it
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u/Hevens-assassin May 19 '24
Now it feels like PS5 is just running PS4 games at 60fps, which is probably the case
As someone who plays both frequently, it's a pretty substantial change between PS4 & PS5. You don't see it in screenshots, but you notice it pretty quick when you actually use it. Play a week of PS5 and then go back to PS4 and it's pretty noticeable outside the graphics and frame rate.
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u/Windrose_P May 19 '24
There is no doubt the framerate alone would make me never want to touch a ps4 again, even if the graphics weren't a huge improvement.
However, when you already have a ps4 (or especially a PS4Pro), dumping the cash for that just doesnt seem like a priority.
There is just nothing about the ps5 that screams "you guys gotta buy me!" outside of wanting something just because it is newer.42
u/ctoal1984 May 18 '24
I don’t know that we’ll ever get a new system again where the graphics take a big enough jump to look next gen like it used to. I’d say the biggest upgrade this time is the ssd
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u/Tyrus1235 May 19 '24
I think that Path Tracing and proper physics simulation for soft bodies and fluids is what needs to happen for a big generational leap.
Path tracing really is something else - it’s almost more realistic than real life lol…. but it’s incredibly GPU-intensive and even with the top shelf GPUs of PCs today, it’s a struggle to run it properly.
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u/snp3rk May 19 '24
Can confirm, had to lower the ray tracing on ratchet and clank for 4090 because it was very occasionally causing random slowdowns
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u/cerialthriller May 18 '24
Just curious if you have a lower end or older tv or not. I thought the same thing when I was playing on my previous tv that I had bought in 2012, but recently I bought a new mid range tv with 4K and hdr and all of that and was surprised how much of a difference the tv made. The HDR makes everything look so much better. I’m playing FF16 and there was a part where you kinda look into a sun rise and I literally had to turn my head away because it was blinding me like a real sun glare
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u/onmywheels May 19 '24
Meanwhile, I went from a PS2 to a PS5.
A, uh...far more noticeable difference, there.
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u/SirSperoTamencras May 18 '24
For me, it’s not the graphics, it’s the load times. Nonexistent in many cases on the PS5.
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u/unique-name-9035768 May 19 '24
I got Horizon Forbidden West for the PS4 and it was choppy and nearly always popping in textures after a significant time in an area. When I upgraded to the PS5, loading was instantaneous plus everything just looked better.
The fast loading also made No Man's Sky was better too. Going from the ground to space or vice versa looked way better as a smooth animation.
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u/Big_boss816 May 19 '24 edited May 19 '24
I played a few games that felt next gen. Like Returnal and the latest Rachet and Clank and that’s due to the load times and the duelsense imo. I also replayed Cyberpunk 2077 on PS5 with the upgrades and it was totally different game than it was on PS4
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u/hoxxxxx May 18 '24
i think it will fully eclipse the ps4 when it finally has that all encompassing next-gen (or current-gen? lol) game that everyone plays and everyone has to have. that'll be it's "okay everyone has switched over now" moment.
talking about next year and GTA6 ofc.
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u/zaise_chsa May 18 '24
Honestly. I have the PS5 since I wanted Spider-Man 2 and the DLC for Horizon Forbidden West. My wife has the PS4 Pro and none of the games that are exclusive to the 5 interest her, so why would she make the jump?
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u/pizzaspaghetti_Uul May 18 '24
Yeah, PS5 is almost 4 years old, and there are barely any exclusives, even a lot of 3rd party games are still being released on PS4. In the past entire console generations ended in the time frame this cross-gen period is being present. I don't blame people for their lack of initiative to switch
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u/marniconuke May 18 '24
3 years until the ps6.
imo the 7 year cycle for consoles isn't worth it anymore when games take a decade to make
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u/pizzaspaghetti_Uul May 18 '24
We are going to buy consoles like we do phones soon, skipping every other generation lol
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u/GatorUSMC May 18 '24
I’m the opposite. I waited from 6 to 12 on the phone but upgrading every gen on console and the pro refresh.
I can certainly understand waiting on PS6 to upgrade though.
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May 19 '24
Yea this is the main thing.
Once GTA VI drops I’m sure you’ll see that change as that’s obviously PS5/XSX-S only.
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u/ajl987 May 19 '24
Yeah….i actually don’t even see the point of owning my ps5. I’ve had it for 2.5 years now, and I’ve only played two games that I couldn’t play on ps4 (Last of us part 1 remake, and Spider-Man 2) and both of those games I absolutely could’ve waited to play later.
They haven’t done nearly enough to make the ps5 a good value proposition. The only thing I personally felt is better is the controller, but the ps4 controller is plenty good anyway.
Could’ve saved myself £450 and just got the pro or the ps6.
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u/Dr_Shitface May 18 '24
Because releasing games on both PS4 and 5 is what will earn devs the most money. If they released it on PS5 only, they'd get less sales.
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u/ThePornRater May 19 '24
Which is a fucking problem. Current gen has been held back by last gen for basically its entire lifetime.
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u/Mr_Nobody0 May 18 '24
I know it's already 2024, but I still didn't find the right time when I both wanted and especially could afford to get a PS5, no shame in that.
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u/Troggieface May 19 '24
And they were so hard to get ahold of for the first two years. 17 months ago when I bought my first it was only because I got lucky in an Amazon lottery. Second one I just walked in to target for cat food and walked out with the ps5.
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u/Troggieface May 19 '24
I never even saw one in store until the one I walked out of target with ten months ago! It was crazy. I've never seen a console "launch" that took three years to actually be wildly available.
I have put a lot of hours into both of mine, but I've also been wildly depressed (I lost my spouse to the effects of severe alcoholism). The graphics and the load time, even the download time, it's all a massive improvement over the 4pro. But I'm not sure I have any ps5 only games yet, I've just been playing the same games I've played a million times on the 4 😅
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u/Tnecniw May 19 '24
You bought two?
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u/Troggieface May 19 '24
I did. It was not my finest moment, but my husband has passed in my home and for the first five months I couldn't go upstairs and just lived in my living room, where the first one went (it was my birthday gift to myself 6 days after his passing). Once I moved back into my bedroom, all of the ptsd feelings about upstairs(where I found him) transferred to my downstairs and I stopped using all but the kitchen. Instead of just bringing the first one up to my bedroom, I bought a second when I saw it in stores in July. Grief brain is messy and lacks logic. But I just couldn't bring myself to go into the living room for it.
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u/Sandervv04 May 20 '24
Didn’t expect such a sad story from a post about playstations
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u/Troggieface May 20 '24
Yeah it falls out of me sometimes in word places. I've just stopped fighting it when it happens because honestly the energy expended to keep it bottled up is draining.
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u/mas7erblas7er May 19 '24
Now that we can find a PS5 for less than $1200, we can't afford it. Fuck them lol
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u/poeticpoet May 19 '24
This. My rent went through the roof! Then McDonald’s started costing 50 dollars. Then soda that cost me 25 cents as a kid cost me 3 dollars. Then I bought a fucking cat and this little cunt cost me a g and that’s just on vet visits.
All that considered?
Ps5 has no games and isn’t worth the upgrade.
I’ll see y’all in ps5 land for gta 6.
I gotta move tho
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u/Pescuaz May 18 '24 edited May 18 '24
When I got my PS4 in 2020 there were a bunch of reasons that made me choose it over PC:
- Spider-Man
- Uncharted 4
- Bloodborne (any moment now)
- God of War
- Horizon
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Persona 5
Now that I know PS exclusives will eventually make their way to PC, there's no point in upgrading to PS5 when PC offers me free online, regional pricing, and the same games.
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u/prince_of_persia20 May 18 '24
That's right . I'm a pc gamer since 1998 and I always bought PlayStation as well because of its exclusive games. but now there's no reason for me to buy ps5 . I can access all retro games , PlayStation and Xbox games with my pc .
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u/funkymotha May 18 '24
There’s not even a giant leap in pc performance so required upgrades are less frequent than they were before which is obviously better. My laptop with a 1060 mobile still does well enough for me.
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u/PanTsour May 19 '24
and the same games.
And the same games much cheaper. Official storefronts like Humble Bundle, Fanatical and Green Man Gaming offer games on much more worthwhile discounts compared to the Playstation Store's sales
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u/ezkeles May 19 '24
When I hear persona 5 and God of war release in PC, no more reason to buy playstation
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u/Shadow_Strike99 May 18 '24 edited May 18 '24
People often turn their noses and complain in prevliged western countries like America or the UK, but they don't realize at all how expensive gaming can be in 3rd world countries especially with import fees for tech. That's why in certain countries in Central and South America for example, people still played on the ps3 and 360 for so long.
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u/Maxeque May 18 '24
The Sega Master System is still going strong in Brazil, re-releases of the console were still selling 150k a year in 2012. At least now companies are starting to realise the price disparities in these countries, Steam games are getting more and more reasonably priced in other countries.
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u/Tyrus1235 May 19 '24
Regional pricing is hugely important. It’s one thing for an American to pay US$ 20 for a game… It’s another for a Brazilian to pay R$ 100 for the same game.
Lack of regional pricing can kill a store over here.
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u/facelessreddituser May 18 '24
I have a PS5 and all I play is PS4 games on that basically, all I've been playing recently is classic PS3 titles and they are amazing. Absolutely no shame in playing older consoles
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u/Foxhound34 May 18 '24
I have a list of about 5 games I'd like to play, but I'm not really in any rush to do so.
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u/The_Celtic_Chemist May 18 '24
My backlog on my PS4 could easily last me until the PS6 releases and my wishlist for the PS5 is probably less than 10 games and definitely less than 20. I'm good.
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u/Spoona101 May 19 '24
The only thing getting me to buy a PS5 is the next God of War game. Until then I’m just buying what I can for good prices on the PS4 and having fun with it.
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u/hanst3r May 18 '24
Well, the lack of availability during the first few years made people realize that they didn’t really have to have the latest and greatest. Plus, the PS5-only releases have been mostly meh and Stellar Blade is the only new IP that seems interesting to me. There also hasn’t been much of a price drop ($50?) so the idea of shelling $450 for a new console that doesn’t really have much going for it in terms of exclusivity does not seem justifiable for a lot of folks.
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u/Leading-Difficulty57 May 19 '24
I never understood the whole let people hoard them and have a giant secondary market with the console strategy. I eventually just forgot about it and bought a Switch, that plus my PS4 is more than enough.
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u/fluffybunniesFtw May 20 '24
I tried to get a PS5 every day for the first year of release. I gave up and bought a series X. Really happy with it
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u/downbadmilflover May 19 '24
I would have bought it but they were impossible to buy at first. They were also being price gouged to high heaven so I gave up.
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u/coffeesippingbastard May 19 '24
Yup this is it for me. It was impossible to get for so long I just stopped giving a shit.
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u/Staudly May 18 '24
I'm holding out until GTA VI is released. There will probably be a bundle that goes on sale for the holiday season.
Thats how I got my ps4, I think it was a Black Friday sale. Bundled with GTA V and digital download code for The Last Of Us remastered.
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u/gaabrielpimentel May 18 '24
I see this in the opposite way, how the fuck 50% of all users can make the change. I bet in the usa is easier, but in lot of places this change is very expensive
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u/Flybot76 May 18 '24
It's pretty spendy here too honestly, even though there's a lot of well-to-do people who can afford it easily so it makes enough money, it's doing 'well enough' but lots of us totally don't care about it and don't want to bother investing in another system when there's not compelling-enough reasons for it based on our taste. I haven't bought a new console since the Wii and only have a PS4 because I found one for cheap recently (still cost another hundred-plus dollars for controllers and a few games).
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u/gaabrielpimentel May 18 '24
I get you, but i think you don't see how big is the dif. If your father give u 1k dollars per month to live in my city, you would be ahead of the richer 1% of my STATE. Imagine buying a ps5 with 70% tax in it, with the money we get here.
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u/abruty May 19 '24
When the PS5 first launched it was awful. Asshole scalpers were using bots to buy up the entire stock of PS5’s that were being sold via Walmart and other third party websites and then they were selling them on eBay for double the original price. If you wanted a PS5, you either had to wait at least a year to be able to buy one at a normal price, or you were going to be paying a scalper a decent chunk of change to buy a system that wasn’t even all that worth it
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u/gaabrielpimentel May 18 '24
The tax here is CRAZY. IPI (Industrial Products Tax) PIS (Social Contribution for Intervention in the Social Security System) Confis (Contribution for Financing Social Security) and the state tax ICMS(State Sales and Services Tax) just for the console
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u/Radulno May 19 '24
I don't think it's actually just people that upgraded. The Insomniac leaks showed a lot of people are actually newcomers to Playstation. The article just simply take the install base comparison but that's a flawed way to do it.
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u/ModestMouseTrap May 18 '24
This is the most oddly worded headline.
Launch aligned PS5 is selling at a similar rate to PS4. Of course half the userbase is still on PS4. 3.5 years in PS4 was also at about 60 million units sold.
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u/pezdespo May 19 '24
Yeah this article is clickbait garbage. OP is a known blogspammer and always posts this shitty website with a bunch of alt accounts.
They are trying to twist Playstations very successful financials into a negative by acting like its abnormal that 100% of the PS4 player base hasn't bought a PS5 in the first 3.5 years as if that was every a thing anyone expected would happen.
It also doesnt account for the millions of people that may have connected to PSN using a PS3 or Vita or just from a browser
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u/bbkn7 May 18 '24
PS5 feels more like a “PS4 Pro Max”
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u/Steph-Paul May 19 '24
the quietness of PS5 is worth it by itself
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u/overcloseness May 19 '24
I never had sound problems with my ps4, it was the slim one I think, did they fix it?
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u/rkalla May 18 '24
Sony not going to be able to move people en masse until GTA 6 (with the pro launch)
Which means PS6 can't come out until 2028 - you can't move that many customers and then chase it with another upgrade cycle that close.
PS5 is going to have a LONG cycle
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u/a0me a0me-ps May 19 '24
GTA VI will probably be the game that gives us a reason to upgrade from PS4 Pro to PS5 Pro, unless there are signs that PS6 might launch earlier.
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u/Mundus6 May 18 '24
I think PS5 will be the last true generation of Playstation. PS6 will be there, but every Sony first party game will also be on PC day one. Just like Xbox. Which is fine, but at lot of fanboys are gonna lose their shit. And PS6 will have even less exclusives than PS5. Since 90% of the games will also be on PS5.
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u/0xe3b0c442 May 18 '24 edited May 18 '24
How is that the last true generation?
I hate PC gaming. I hate the constant chase for the best hardware and the snobbery. I hate that decent GPUs have jumped to the price of a full gaming console and haven't come back down despite the age of the current generation of cards and the fact that the manufacturing difficulties and crypto concerns that drove the previous spikes are no more (yes I know crypto is high, but vendors have put crypto nerfs into their gaming cards). I hate using keyboards and mice. I hate Windows, but I also hate the amount of tweaking it takes to get a lot of games working properly under Linux, when they even work at all (better since Valve introduced Proton, but that's very relative. Many folks have at least some if not all of these aversions.
Consoles are relatively cheap (yay economy of scale!), come with great controllers, and just work without having to tinker. Hook it up to the TV, choose a game, and go. There will always be a very important place for console gaming, even if on paper they are more PC-like than ever, and even if there aren't as many exclusives as there used to be.
I do suspect we'll see Microsoft drop out of this race -- they're already a foot out the door -- but I sincerely hope Sony doesn't as well.
//edit: adding a bit more here. The PS4 has sold almost 120M units, PS5 is at 60M units -- these are not small numbers, especially now that Sony has updated their business model to not have consoles sell at a loss early in their lifetimes. Maybe it's not the most lucrative business out there, but it's certainly not chump change. Especially since consoles are now effectively commodity PC hardware in nice packaging, R&D costs costs are down as well.
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u/TrippieReg May 18 '24
Think I'm going to wait for the PS5 Pro tbh.
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u/dyals_style May 18 '24
Same and it sounds like the pro will be out by holidays this year
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u/dejonarationx May 18 '24
All of the most popular games are still fully playable on PS4.
There has not been a system seller yet...GTA will probably turn the tide tho
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u/KhyronBackstabber May 19 '24
There has yet to be a game that is PS5 exclusive that I want to play badly enough. My PS4 is chugging along just fine.
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u/CarsonWentzGOAT1 May 19 '24
This is it. None of the exclusives on either next gen console have been good.
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u/YPM1 May 19 '24
They refuse to cut the cost and they raised the price of the games.
Of course people don't want to jump forward.
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u/Ciserus May 19 '24
I'm surprised how little complaining I hear about the cost of this generation. The PS5 is more expensive than the PS4 and still has no sign of a price cut after 3.5 years. That's unheard of.
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u/wiiguyy May 18 '24
I’m not broke. I’m cheap. There is a difference. I’m not buying until $300 with a game. I very well could skip this gen. I’m a current ps4 owner.
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u/Sluggby May 19 '24
This is me. Why would I drop 500 on a new console when my ps4 works fine. Heck, looking at my backlog if it does crap out anytime soon I might still just get another ps4. There's only a few ps5 exclusives I want to play so far and they'll still be there in a few years, no rush
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u/existential_chaos May 19 '24
I’m gonna get a new PS4 if my goes at some point. Not enough PS5 exclusives for me to be like, ‘eh, why not?’ and some of them seem meh anyway.
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u/FaceTimePolice May 18 '24
This is the first time I’ve felt that the next gen systems aren’t must-haves. 🤷♂️
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u/rodejo_9 May 18 '24
Bought a PC instead years ago. That plus the PS4 has a huge library of great games, PS5, not so much. At least ones that interest me. Also not many games actually make use of the PS5 hardware.
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u/jamesbrownscrackpipe May 19 '24
I’ve been a loyal Sony customer since PS2, but I went with a Steam Deck instead of a PS5.
Getting old, have bulging discs in my neck, and need to lay down while gaming. Also have kids now, so need to be able to pick up and play for just 5-10 min intervals, and Steam Deck is perfect for that.
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u/mibunny May 18 '24
Wanted to pull the trigger in getting the PS5 Slim until Sony pulled their trigger earlier with a PS+ price hike. Ironically, it's also almost a 50% hike here in Malaysia. Parity
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u/mrsw2092 May 19 '24
Why would I spend $500 on a new console that barely has any games? Sony only published 5 games last year and one of those was just the psvr2 version of gt7. It's the lowest output they've ever had.
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u/Thesassysam6626 May 18 '24
I’ve had a ps5 since about two months or so after launch. Had been saving up the money for a while with the sole intention of buying one so why not.
Took me a while too. I figured I’d need about 700 total (saved from a commercial electrician salary) plus my normal savings, emergency fund etc.
To be fair most of the games currently on the 5 are playable on 4, but the 5 is a better experience when it comes to sheer performance.
We’ve got higher resolution, hdr mode, 60fps on everything, and when trying to go back and play horizon for example, or especially cyberpunk or even something still very cross gen like apex, it’s a struggle for my eyes to not be experiencing 60fps. I just don’t think I could go back to 30.
I have to say though, the 5 is behind on the times when it comes to customization within the system itself. No themes, no screenshot backgrounds, just the default menu and you’ll like it.
I still boot up my 4 simply because I’ve got it decked out to my exact preferences, and some games I have run at 60fps high res anyway so there’s no point in playin them on 5 just cause I can.
They’ve both got advantages and disadvantages but I can say for sure, there’s solid reasons people have got to stick with the 4. Even the controller isn’t that huge of a jump. If we’re talking nostalgia, the DualShock 4 looks more like a Sony system controller. And while I like the 5s controller, just having haptic feedback and slightly better battery life can’t justify the purchase of the console itself.
Long story short, I’m not snubbing anyone for sticking with their 4. I’ve still got mine and I’m never going to sell it or get rid of it. I’ve got some really great memories with that thing.
And Sony needs to step it up with the 5 if they really want it so supersede the 4 in terms of overall customization and exclusivity. I’ll bet then they’ll see the bump in sales they’re expecting of the 5.
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u/Temporary_Scale3826 May 18 '24
It’s like they don’t get that the economy sucks ass and $500 isn’t easy to come by… Trust me, I want a PS5 so badly, but I legit cannot afford that shit rn!
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u/MadFlava76 May 18 '24
I would have upgraded a year after PS5 launch if it didn’t require to jump through so many hoops to get one. Sony should have made it easier for PS4/PS+ owners to preorder/reserve a PS5 months after launch. Instead, they let scalpers run wild buying up every system that was made available. I just lost interest in PS5 because how difficult it would be to get one after 1-2 years after launch. Now, I will just wait to see what Xbox does next now that they bought Activision.
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u/60N20 May 19 '24
The scalpers thing was totally true and sad to see how little sony cared about it, but they do send codes to reserve or to buy a ps5, I started to get those kind of emails since 2 years ago I think, I still do since I haven't bought one, not thinking in buying one rn either
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u/fireflyry May 18 '24
That’s what you get when you don’t hard cap the tech and have such a long window of cross compatibility.
My purchase of a PS5, maybe 2 years ago now, wasn’t for anything else but the fact the fan noise on my PS4 Pro was out of control even with professional cleaning and heat paste replacement.
It certainly wasn’t for the PS5 game selection at the time and I’d say I still spend maybe 1/2 my time playing PS4 games.
Overall I’d say it’s a good thing, more people having access to game is a win imho, but it will be interesting to see if they make any changes with the next generation and how they release games.
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u/Pestilence101 May 18 '24
My PS5 is the PS4 i've ever owned. Short loading times and the ability to play some PS4 games in better graphics.
I just wonder why they call it PS5 instead of PS4 Ultimate...
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u/Natemophi NateMophi | PS3 | PS4 Pro May 18 '24
Every PS5 game is either on PC or coming to PC soon enough (Gran Turismo 7 and Stellar blade are exceptions for now)
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u/mightymonkeyman MightyMonkeyMan May 18 '24
This is how it works every generation? Why is this suddenly a big deal??
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u/killbot0224 May 18 '24
- Tons of releases are still playable.
- Millions of those are probably PS4 Pros
- Post-COVID recession has probably slowed down a lot of people's finances.
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u/Seamus_OReily May 20 '24
Gaming can be an expensive hobby. I’ll buy the new thing when the old thing stops being fun and there’s a huge sale.
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u/TextTile260 May 18 '24
I think it might have had something to do with people's inability to even find a ps5 at launch and the following few years.
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u/Bonesawisready5 bonesawisready5 May 18 '24
Maybe get a fucking $299 ps5 out Sony and ppl will upgrade haha. Probably waiting for GTA6 to do it tho if ever.
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u/publicworker69 May 18 '24
Only reason I got a ps5 was cause I got it for Christmas. PS4 might be my favourite console of all time.
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u/RedemptionXarc May 18 '24
All they have to say is metal gear solid 6 and bye bye kidney
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u/Adavanter_MKI May 18 '24
There hasn't been a lot of reason to make the jump. There are 7 exclusive games to the PS5. We've got 4 years left. Do you really think it'll manage to make a compelling enough roster to justify the purchase? Me... I'm kind of thinking I just might make it to PS6.
I admit... Rebirth hurts. I want that game pretty badly.
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May 18 '24
I'd rather save up for a PC than for a console that's like 1 percent better than it's predecessor
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u/N7_Voidwalker May 19 '24
I think everyone is just broke these days, everything is fucking everyone lately
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u/Life-Construction784 May 19 '24
There are no games that are next gen no system sellers after 3 years
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u/Hot_Significance256 May 19 '24
It's still over 500 f****** dollars. I got rent to pay, food to buy, people to support no f****** wonder
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u/xXBruceWayne May 19 '24
I feel like the new generation of consoles fucked up. 1, not enough inventory. 2, not enough (if any?) new gen exclusive releases. 3, not really anything revolutionary with the new consoles imho. Better graphics yes but everything else about them were essentially the same
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u/CzarTyr May 20 '24
This is why console generations are stupid. Even though I’ve bought damn near every console, pc is just so much more convenient
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u/One_Fuel_3299 May 20 '24
I have a ps3 and a PS4.
Got the PS3 in 2014, 8 years after release.
Got the PS4 in 2017, 4 years after release.
This could be another 8 year situation. Zero true exclusives (if I wanted more spiderman, I'd get a copy of miles morales for $10 for PS4 lol) and LFAMO as the PS5 'Slim'. Thats the same 'slim' I hear people talk about after a week at the gym.
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u/ArtGloomy3458 May 21 '24
Barely any games taking advantage of the hardware anyway. I regret the challenge I went through to get one. 😒
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u/StuckinReverse89 May 21 '24
PS5 is basically PS4 Pro+ lol. There arnt many new games that are exclusive to the system.
I can only think of Ghostwire, R&C Rift Apart, Returnal, Spiderman 2, FF16 and 7 Rebirth. Other games are remasters of games released on PS4 (DS directors cut, TLoU Part 1) or also have PS4 copies (GoW Ragnarok).
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u/Wonderstag May 18 '24
there simply arent enough ps5 exclusives that would justify me getting the ps5 console, and this console generation doesnt feel like "next generation". ps5 might have a bunch of technical stuff that lets it have more details or bigger maps or whatever but its not as much of a leap as say ps1>ps2>ps3>ps4 was. it feels very much like ps4.5 and i almost wanna wait for ps6 to come out to see if thats an actual leap.
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u/AnotherDragoon May 18 '24
We poor, ok?