I stopped at ps3. But when I worked at Activision, I learned that the ps5 was a great system to work on for development. It's too bad that they're fucking over consumers

Linux PC is the only option left

My ps3 was my last PlayStation couldn't justify a ps4 and the ps5 was a nightmare for all the games releasing digital only (or having a disc that was effectively a drink coaster due to the game still needing downloaded in order to play)

I've been team Sony since the first PS. PS5 is my last.

Dude I'm not even into consoles/gaming but this dystopian blade runner capitalism shit hits home every day now. Even frozen meals are becoming so tasteless/expensive I'm starting to wonder how decapitating someone will make it taste better.

I'm convinced that Sony and Microsoft formed an agreement to both enshittify. Sony dropped the ball but Microsoft isn't even trying to capitalise on that failure. Competition would usually immediately hit any signs of weakness but Microsoft isn't even doing it. From the looks of it, Microsoft is even doing their own mistakes alongside Sony.

The whole point of gaming consoles was to eek every bit of performance out of hardware by booting directly into the game rather than supporting a crufty general purpose operating system. The minute you do things like implementing a web browser interface to simplify development time at the expense of increased complexity, your product becomes functionally indistinguishable from a PC which your customers will switch to eventually to.

PS4 was my last one. I was up for getting a PS5 but it was too expensive when it came out and the scalpers got them all. I thought "No worries, I'll just wait and it'll get cheaper." And then it just kept getting more expensive forever.

I was team PlayStation until the Vita, which betrayed my trust.

How Sony handled the PS4 made me lose faith in the company as a whole, with how they handled PS Plus

And the PS5 just made it easier to never buy from them again.

Sony is only a good company when it’s trying to win, while loosing. See PS1 and the end of PS3 era

Last one I had was the PS3 and since I own most of the same games I have on it on PC, it seems kind of pointless. Plus it roars like a Jet engine and still gets high temps despite having re-pasted it.

I bought a ps4 for $20 in mint condition after being a die hard 360 player.

Its all linux from here, baybeee

I turned a refurbed gaming laptop into my last console. Runs nixos that boots straight into fullscreened gamescope -> steamos big picture ui. Best damn gaming srtup ive ever had

PS3 is the last gaming console I can get behind, even if it wasn't perfect. Everything has been enshittified to all hell since then and I just can't any more. I actually bought a PS5, but the experience was just horrible. All the good things (the games boot up incredibly fast, I was actually amazed) were just drowned out by the negative aspects. I sold mine not long after. Never again. Tech is a living nightmare and nothing is exciting any more, just privacy violations and hostility to consumers. Nothing is worth it.

Could at least have used the image of the PS5 with a disc drive in it...

My last Playstation was the PS4, there's not enough exclusive games on PS5 to make me buy it instead invest on my rig, also lots pf games who have been launched also runs on PS4, so it was meaningless anyway

I saw there is an exploit to root the ps5 and I just might do it. I could run the new emulator on it.

Same, fuck Sony

I regret my ps4 and happy I opted out when ps5 came around. Xbox has been faffing about since the 360 era. Consoles are no longer relevant.

Would've been perfect with the disc version of the PS5.

I picked up a used ps3 slim after my Xbox 360 red ringed, and it got some decent use as a netflix machine (back when that was cheap and still kinda new-ish) and a few games, but I noticed that I played damn few things on it overall, and beyond ratchet and clank and the first red dead, the exclusives didn't do much for me, so I sold it.

I didn't have a console for a long time afterward, over a decade. None of the newer options from Xbox or Sony appealed to me, especially with the requirement to pay a monthly fee to pay online (I only ever did a free trial of Xbox Live on my 360).

Then this year I picked up an old Wii with a balance board on a lark. Fuck me if it wasn't the best console I've ever owned.

Super easy to mod, tons of good emulators can run on it, wireless classic controllers are dirt cheap and feel great, tons of great exclusives, motion controls actually kick ass and feel fresh (resident evil 4 has been a blast with them), the balance board with Wii fit actually works great and is surprisingly unique and useful, it goes on.

Some may disagree, but honestly I think consoles peaked at the Wii, and its been downhill from there.

My last one was PS4 and I regret buying it now. I had like 40 games for PS3 and I thought I would probably repeat with PS4 but and at the end of the day, I only was interested enough to get 9 games. I'm just way too into doing things on the PC now and there's just not enough exciting exclusive content to justify consoles for me.

I gave away my previous Ps4, but now I'm in a weird spot where I don't have a bluray player. It sounds like getting a bluray drive for Linux systems doesn't seem to work very for drm reasons, so I'm trying to decide whether I should get a new drive for my ps3 or maybe get a new ps4. Ps5 is way too expensive. 🤔

back to high seas for me arggg