Playstation 5 Pro

Otherwise, in terms of specs and price, I am somewhat amazed that the console market is clinging on to life at this point. The PS5/Series generation pushed me to PC and I’m really not understanding the appeal of the consoles anymore beyond the convenience of not needing to do assembly.

The consoles are just giving you hardware that PCs already had years ago and isn’t even really beating it on price all that well.

This thing is $700 and you’ll end up with a better system if you build a new PC with a $500 graphics card at about $1000 total build cost. And then you have way more flexibility overall and a much larger game library.

and now with realistic graphics, even games are starting to all look the same to me. i feel that the limitation born art and era-specific traits of the pre-HD era have been lost.

i just dont feel anything looking at these new games. but then i'm not young anymore.

Honestly speaking though, I don't "get" Sony like I "get" Microsoft and Nintendo's business strategy. This feels like the PS3 launch all over again, a big console with a never-before-seen price tag, with few headline features besides "graphics". It appeals to the core fanbase, and absolutely nobody else. It's like Sony thinks they have Nintendo-tier market control.

I dunno, maybe they're leading up to some big software change that will really wow their users. It's a good day to be an offline PC gamer though (especially if you want to catch up on the state of Bloodborne emulation).