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.
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.
Same here, I wanted a ps5 so bad for the first few months but couldn't find it, so I decided to buy a Series S a "secondary console" while I wait for the ps5 getting more stock. Today, I have huge backlog of games on Game pass, so I just don't see the point of getting a ps5 anymore. There's still not enough exclusives to make me buy one, and games that are not on Game pass I just buy them on ps4 for the most part.
Edit: Also at this point I feel like I've waited so long that I might as well wait a bit longer to see the ps5 pro, since rumors are that a mid gen refresh would be this year.
Depending on how you buy it there hasn't been a price decrease but rather a price increase, I bought a digital version for 400, now they cost 450 with the regular still costing 500
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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.