One of my close friends decided that she’s no longer enjoying games so she offered to sell it to me for really cheap (100$). I love gaming but since I switched to Mac a few years ago my choices have been very limited. I’ve been mostly playing indie games that are available on Mac. So I’ve been thinking about her offer.
The price sounds amazing but I’m not sure if it’s still worth it considering the PS5 has been out for a good few years now. What do you guys think? Should I take it off her hands or should I save for a PS5 or an Xbox instead?
My main monitor is 1080p 75Hz by the way (Acer KG221Q). So buying a new generation console would mean that I might have to upgrade my monitor as well.
Edit to add: A new PS5 would cost 7 times as much in my country. That’s also another thing to consider.
I’m still rocking my PS4 Pro and haven’t felt the need to upgrade to the PS5 yet. Plenty of good games on there and a lot of the new ones still release to PS4 too. There’s cool exclusives on PS5 but not $500 cool exclusives imo. Well, closer to $600 after purchasing the game. So I’ll continue to wait to upgrade. I’d say go for it because you can have a lot of fun on the PS4 still.
I still buy games for my PS4 and I am a very casual gamer who never plays online.
Picked up SF6 this month and it is awesome.
Any console that lets you experience games that you will enjoy is worth it. Who cares about being caught up, the PS4 has a ton of fantastic games, and $100 is a great deal.
Plus it has a large library of great games that can be found cheap/used. Easily worth $100
Most of what you’d be playing on PS5 are PS4 games anyway
I don’t know that looking at games as a release is necessarily a great vantage point, but they can certainly be seen as a haven for fun if you approach them with an open mind.
For me it was more of a switch from how I played vs what I played. I got into online MMOs some years ago and (like a lot of things I do in my life…) I threw myself into them for a while like a loony. I found I was investing far too much time and energy organizing events, raids, builds, spreadsheets, people, personalities, drama, ugh. It was like going to work for heaven’s sake! 😂
Eventually I got burned out and stopped completely. When COVID hit, of course going out wasn’t an option so I got back into playing more again but realized that I could still have fun without the whole hardcore approach. I became, for lack of a better description, part of the “filthy casuals” lol - something I have never for a minute regretted. My time is my own, I chase what I like, meet others in game, and just plain have fun now.
Who says you need to upgrade monitor for PS5? It supports 1080p 60 Hz perfectly fine, in fact most games run around 1080p when in Performance mode, and those that render higher res will give you free supersampling on that monitor.
PS4 and Xbox One were outdated and underpowered already on release, I wouldn’t bother with them when you can play the same games on PS5 usually with better performance and/or graphics
