I agree.
I’m not going to get into arguments about specific FPS numbers as I don’t have the data to hand. However, I really don’t agree that the PS5/Series X are over hyped. The hardware is mightily impressive for the cost. I had no problems at all with the performance of games including GoT, Returnal, GT7, CoD, miles morales and ratchet and clank. All ran fine on my 4K 55” OLED. Yes of course there’s all kinds of things going on behind the scenes but the end result is that games perform well.
PS5 digital RRP is currently £389.99. You couldn’t build much of a new PC with that budget. I’d guess they make a loss on the hardware knowing they have people locked into the PS Store eco-system.
I’ve moved to gaming pretty much exclusively on PC now but I’m well aware the value for money is terrible compared to consoles.
How is it impressive exactly when you have to choose between nice graphics/RT or be stuck with 30fps which can tank in a lot of games like Elden Ring... A console that doesn't actually do 4k native and just uses variable resolution and most of the time 1440p or less, yet claims 4/8k on the box and uses bs marketing slogans like 120fps!
When this gen was advertised it was
extremely over hyped! It definitely did
not live upto the 'next gen' factor.
There is barely any games for either console that haven't come from the last generation, and certainly not enough to justify the £60-70 a game rip off cost! Let alone to buy them digitally and use the pathetic on board storage that quickly runs out of space and doesn't allow you to use the full 931gb or whatever it is once formatted, yes you could expand it but then that's money again?
Most people with consoles like to have the game boxed/on disc, it's part of the aesthetic and collection factor, alongside not having to keep faffing about deleting things cause your games take up too much space for your pathetic restrictions of built in storage, as a console gamer you just want to put a disc in install it and go, not sit there for years downloading 90-160gb! Let alone
have to be online...
Every console gamer dreads it when the update screen pops up, I've never seen a single gamer say "yay, I did want to play my game but sure I'll wait an hour now instead of enjoying my game hence turning it on"... And the servers are always hit and miss with the speeds for the downloads.
They weren't cheap when they came out, £650 and £550 for disc/non disc editions.
As someone that always has consoles alongside pc's, this generation was extremely disappointing. All the games worth playing I'd done on my ps4, fact. There's probably 5 maybe 7 new games I could have got for it, most of which were again offered on ps4, so completely pointless, there has been zero focus on creating new games, all they did this generation was rerelease last gen games for a quick cash grab! Pointless!
No one would buy a PC for that budget so that's irrelevant! The same as you had to buy your 55" OLED to play your ps5... Those together are easily pc price! However factoring a new/used GPU for the cost of a new console
is a
relevant comparison...
