I’m surprised you consider ps5 exclusives not that compelling. What types of games do you normally play?
I was also considering ps5, but with Sony doing a delayed PC launches there really aren’t that many exclusives to draw me in, since most of them end up on the PC. The only one I really want to play is Bloodborne, but I’m not buying a Playstation for that. I’ll just wait until they remaster it and port it to PC.
And it’s not like I don’t have an ever increasing backlog of games to play. I was fine without PS games and I’ll be fine with getting them on discount.
If it is for you then that’s great, but for me I didn’t even finish GOW so I don’t really have any interest in Ragnarok and Spiderman wouldn’t be up that high in my list of must plays that I would have to get a PS. Like I said, my backlog is huge so I can easily wait for a PC port and probably even a discount. Just to give a list of what games are still waiting in my backlog in roughly the order I’m going to play through them.
- System Shock reboot
- Warhammer 40k Boltgun
- Final Fantasy Crisis Core
- Doom Eternal
- Sable
- Everspace 2
- Guardians of the galaxy
- Outward
- Citizen Sleeper
- Hades
And in addition there will be games I will be playing when they release, like Starfield, Stalker 2, Space Marine 2 and Hollow Knight: Silksong (assuming it does release within the next year). And then I’ll also get to add some future discounted games to my backlog like Hogwarts Legacy, Jedi survivor, Final Fantasy 16 etc.
There are far more games I want to play that aren’t PS exclusives.
Well the older I get the more i slowly devolve into the same old games, Minecraft, Vintage Story, and Slay the Spire. Maybe some other games every so often, like last year was lots of Elden Ring. Hopefully this year will be Starfield but we’ll see how that goes.
I also find i have less and less patience to start a new “AAA” game where you like have to do like 1-2 hours (or so it seems) tutorial and cut scenes before really playing.
Honestly, this is our experience too. My kids play on their computers and the Xbox probably 90% of the time. The PS5 getting very minimal use. The switch at least has the virtue of being portable, and thus gets hauled around.
It’s confusing to me because there are next to no games on the Xbox that aren’t on PC, but PlayStation has a boat load of exclusives.
I primarily game on PC, so my Xbox One collected dust after I got bored with Halo 5 while my PS4 saw plenty of use from 2013 all the way through 2020. This gen I skipped Xbox entirely and just got a PS5.
