PlayStation 5

“A second hand PS5 with about 12GiB of usable RAM is cheaper than the equivalent amount of RAM if bought new.”

“I paid $150 shipped a few months ago then maybe $40-50 for all the parts to run it.”

“It is indeed a good time. Latest firmware patched the recent exploit, but most or all boxed PS5s in stores should still be on old enough firmware.”

“My PC games always have a lot more issues and glitches than any of my PS5 games have had.”

“had largely caught up graphically or at least was good enough with its better library”

“You could buy another one used if they aren't ridiculously overpriced just so you can play exclusives.”

“I'd rather just put my PS5 on a VLAN and enjoy hassle free gaming with some downsides like not being able to stream my game to my friends on Discord”

“many of its cross-platform games came out on PS4 and original Switch with minimal compromise”

“Sony & Nintendo have great development studios making games people want to play”

“There are only three reasons I intend to buy a PS5 and Kojima games are one of them.”

“I like the graphics horsepower of my PS5, but a lot of the games I play, I'm just not sure I would notice the difference”

“I'm keeping my ps4 as long as the hardware still runs because at least I can still buy discs for it.”

“PlayStation recently sent out emails regarding this, effectively reminding people that they did not, in fact, own what they purchased”

“How many more choices do you need to allow Sony to exclusively sell their own software on their $400 MSRP hardware?”

“both companies also have an extremely important core functional need of keeping them secure”

“PS4 was a lot easier to program for but if compared to a PC with equivalent specs it was overpriced and much more locked down.”

“Sony is going download only, which means any attempt to collect playstation games in the long run becomes impossible”

“offline installs from disk are the biggest change that made ps5 games load so much faster than ps4”

“they've noticed and leaned into the not-giving-a-shit attitude after they had such a great console generation with the PS4”

“mislead into buying a PS5 with a disc drive thinking it'd be supported at least until the end of the product's lifespan”

“I bought a ps5 specifically so i could have a up to date playstation console with a 4k blu ray player”

“I don't discount a future where a console refuses to load a physical copy of the game because DRM impedes it.”

“One of the major reasons I upgraded to ps5 was because it would also allow me to play blu-ray movies.”

“not long after they've been updating their ToS to require you to sign in and phone home in order to continue to be allowed access to your digital library”

“A PlayStation 5 also requires you now to be online every so often (30 days?) for even your single player games.”

“The Pro hardware has an edge up on Microsoft, and I can get all the games I want to play.”

“the very definition of everything just works, and no kernel drivers to worry about”

“The only reason I wouldn't declare this the gold standard way to play games is because it currently relies on WiFi streaming”

“You can get a refurb PS5 for £250. Good luck building the equivalent PC for that.”

“Many games are still playable (and being released on!) the PS4, which is almost 12 years old.”

“PlayStations are actually really nice. It's an appliance that plays games without giving you trouble”

“they're far better at skating to where the puck is headed than most hardware tech companies”

“Bit me recently when I got a PS5 too, apparently there is a "new" thing called HDMI CEC, which for some stupid reason defaulted to "turn on TV turns on connected device"”

“Both Playstation and Nintendo Switch significantly exceeded xbox in terms of good games in the last decade”

“Consoles are e-waste in my eyes, perfectly good for other uses but locked to what the vendor wants to give.”

“Sony restricted hardware access under Linux. If they had allowed GPU access, there would have been no motivation to attack the hypervisor.”

“these consoles achieve long term stability for their games because they put effort into making THAT possible”

“the rasterizer was built for pumping out texture mapped, Gouraud shaded triangles at an impressive clip for the time”

“their various iterations of PlayStation console have all been popular despite being Sony products”

“A launch model PS3 and a PS5 can play PS1/2/3/4/5 game discs, as well as PSN games, so that's pretty good.”