• Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    6 hours

    I can get a fairly good gaming PC for a thousand dollars why would I pay $900 for a games console that’s basically worse in every way?

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13 hours

    “Computers that are just for games, that you can’t do anything else on… And we say what games, and also for lots of them you have to keep paying us to play them… And you can’t have any physical ownership of them anymore”.

  • switcheroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13 hours

    Maybe most people who would want to buy said systems can’t afford 1600 dollars for one when they can’t even afford groceries and gas? Huh, just maybe.

    (Used pricing from GameStop)

  • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
    18 hours

    Congratulations to PCs for winning the console wars :3

      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15 hours

        There are still many thousands of games playable on older hardware.

      • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
        15 hours

        Yes you can it’s just now comparable in cost to a flagship console

  • CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.socialEnglish
    12 hours

    I hardly ever use my Sony Netflix box anymore.

    Mostly because I stopped buying from them digitally because they won’t refund a game if you’ve downloaded a single solitary bit of data, and now they won’t sell physical copies so…

  • HalfSalesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18 hours

    As a PC gamer concerned about game preservation: good. Consoles are just walled hardware fiefdoms.

  • Yenaplus@europe.pubEnglish
    12 hours

    I wonder how gta will affect those numbers, and how those numbers will affect the pc release.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      6 hours

      I doubt it will have a huge impact. It’s not as if we’re at the beginning of the console generation most people will already have a PlayStation.

  • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18 hours

    I looked at buying a ps5 for the first time since it came out a couple weeks ago because I really wanted to play LOTR War in the North again.

    Its twice as expensive as it was when it came out.

    I just went home and grabbed my old ps2.

    Its absolutely insane that this console is so expensive right now.

    It is also the last PS I would get because I want physical discs.

    • NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.mlEnglish
      16 hours

      The ps5 that comes with a disc drive is useless, as the “physical” copies of games are just empty cases with redemption codes inside.

        • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13 hours

          Nah, that guy is a bit off. I’ve bought several brand new, 2026 titles this year and they all have discs in the box.

          • anthony43@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            16 hours

            I strongly oppose this view: with my disc drive PS5 I am able to play games I bought second hand and games I borrowed from my local library

              • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
                13 hours

                I have literally bought the last few brand new, 2026 PS5 games on disc. I’m getting Control Resonant this week on disc.

                If you mean GTAVI, then yeah that’s bonkers. But you can get most games with a physical disc currently.