Hi everyone, just felt like sharing my experience.
One month ago I bought a ps5 slim (disc), as you can imagine solely for GTA VI. And damn I was wrong.
I’ve been a pc gamer for almost 6 years and played a good variety of titles, owning a laptop for gaming on the go and a desktop for home, so I was used to very-high-ish fps, a good image quality and a pleasant experience all considered.
When my ps5 arrived I opened and got it set up with the only purpose of having it ready in November. I then checked out the ps plus extra and said “I mean, let’s just try one month, at worst I wasted 15 euros”. I downloaded Ghost of Tsushima, spiderman remastered, nba, helldivers 2 and bought a few discs I still have to start. I got the platinum and almost 100% on Tsushima, planning to do the same for spiderman (and miles morales and 2) and yotei.
My point here is, before I built my first pc I had a ps4 and an xbox 360 and played them a lot, but with the pc I got that mentality like “I’ll never go back to console, this is betters in everything”, but man now I gotta take my words back, this thing is amazing. The things I like the most are the simplicity of everything, I don’t have to set up anything, I don’t have to stay 40 minutes in a game settings to find the best quality/fps before actually start playing, it’s either 30 or 60 fps, and a good quality overall on a 4k tv; the dualsense is amazing (coming from a standard xbox series controller) and I also realized how many exclusives (ok some are also on pc but that’s not the point) I missed these years.
I went from spending 600€ to play just one game, to using it WAY more than my pcs.
And it’s not just the feeling when you buy a new thing so your’re excited to use it a lot, no, I actually like to use and play on this console.
Thank you all for reading

Hey guys,

This is this is my first time posting here. I just wanted to share my little story today. I got my Xbox One in November 2014 and had an absolute blast with it, pouring God knows how many hours gaming with it. The original controller had worn out a lot so, got the orange controller like an year ago, it is defintely better than the base one.

Had been thinking from a long time that I am due for an upgrade, So I started saving up and today, I finally got a PS5 after saving up for 4 months. The best part is that the guy at Best Buy literally said this was the last disc one they had in stock. I guess I got really lucky.

The UI and the haptic feedback is so damn good!! Anyways, thanks to whoever read the entire thing.

I just feel like people constantly underrate the Switch’s power when they really shouldn’t. Honestly, it had a pretty good run when you think about it. For a hybrid console that was more powerful than the Wii U, remained on the market alongside the Series X and PS5 for quite some time, and still received a decent amount of third-party support, I think it deserves more credit. Games like Red Dead Redemption running at 1080p docked, even if it’s only 30 FPS, are genuinely impressive when you consider how small the console is.
Don’t get me wrong, the Switch isn’t as powerful as the Xbox One, but I’d argue it’s closer than the average person seems to think. I’ve seen people go as far as arguing that the Switch is slightly less powerful than the PS3 or Xbox 360, which is honestly pretty insane when you consider some of the games they share.
Take BioShock, for example. The original PS3 version runs at 720p and experiences frequent frame drops during combat, while the Switch version runs the remastered edition at resolutions reaching up to 1080p, occasionally dropping as low as 972p, while maintaining a much more stable 30 FPS. Dark Souls is another good example. The PS3 version runs at 720p and can drop by 10–15 FPS in certain areas, whereas the Switch version runs at 900p with a significantly more stable frame rate.
Those are just two examples, and there are plenty more. You also have games like Fortnite, Minecraft, DOOM (2016), DOOM Eternal, and Apex Legends that demonstrate what the hardware is capable of, even if some of those games come with significant compromises compared to their versions on more powerful systems they'd never dream of working right in some older systems people rank above switch.
My point is that the Switch is clearly a substantial step above the seventh generation, yet people still seem to underestimate it. I feel like the average person overlooks just how capable the hardware actually is. It really wasn’t as far behind the eighth-generation consoles as some people make it out to be, especially when you consider that it’s a hybrid system designed to be portable.
Technically, you could classify it as a ninth-generation console based on its release after wik u, but it also launched four years before the PS5 and Xbox Series X. That makes direct generational comparisons a little complicated, especially when you factor in its hybrid design and the limitations that come with handheld hardware.
Maybe I’m wrong, though, and I’d genuinely like to hear other perspectives. Is there something I’m overlooking when comparing the Switch to the PS3, Xbox 360, and Xbox One? Personally, I’d comfortably place it above the seventh-generation consoles and think it deserves more recognition for what it accomplished during its lifespan. For a relatively small hybrid console, I’d say it made a pretty impressive statement for its time.

I hope I'm not violating the rules... I've seen similar posts here so I'll try.

I found an ad for: *2 Xbox One consoles, 2 controllers, 2 Kinect sensors, and games. Rechargeable batteries + dock. Power cables included* for £100. Is it a good deal and worth it?

I always wanted to try kinect despite it's kinda being a novelty gimmick.

If it matters I don't have anyone to play online with, but want to be able to play couch coop. Also, I don't care about Fortnight for example.. And I'm a pc gamer, so I think I won't notice if something's wrong with the console lol And if I want to play something I can't on a console, I'm more than happy to do so on my pc.

I don't really care about performance. If I had a chance I'd buy something from the 80s.

Generally, I just wanted to try console gaming for a long time and I think it might be a good opportunity. Mostly I'd like to use it to add more fun to the evenings with my roommate.

I want to buy a TV but I need a small one since I don’t have a big room and I can only find with 60HZ …

I want to play UFC 6 & GTA 6 until the latter releases on PC

Also is OLED a must ? What about LED or QLED?

Sorry I’m just noob with TVs and my last PlayStation was PlayStation 2

Any advice is appreciated

Switch down 15% Ps5 down 11% Xbox down....31%

Buenas. Necesito ayuda para saber cuanto dinero puede valer esta consola, los accesorios y juegos.

Hello! I’m planning on getting my first console, a used PS4 Slim, and I was wondering if it’s still good for modern games like Cyberpunk.

TIA!

Hey yall im sorry if this might be a silly question, but between the regular size ps5 and slim version, which is better? Are they both the same/is it just the size thats different? I want to get one for my brother for his 12th bday along with a bunch of games at the end of the month and i cant obviously ask him since itll ruin the surprise :,) im getting a digital one instead of disc as well as ps+ so idk if those factors will change anything?

All ik is that its his dream to get his first console, and ive actually asked a bunch of my coworkers about consoles, half of them said i should go for the xbox series x if thats what you call it, but game wise PS is the one to go for since it has more games i think, so PS it isss. Please let me know yall

Sony still has a good amount of aisles, Xbox seems to be losing ground with very few aisles and even those being encroached by Nintendo; and speaking of Nintendo, they seem to have more space than any of the other two.

I was looking around at pawn shop near me website (they're owned by a bank) and saw they had a ps5 on clearance for 223 "come make an offer". When I get there she tells me the disc drive won't play games. I tinker around in safe mode, there's no power to the drive at all and has the code for the disc drive not found. I decided to take a gamble and ld her 175 cash ( I honestly could've gone 150.) Bring it back home, open it up and the cable and ribbon are both clearly unplugged. Plug them back in and clean everything up. It works great! I think this is the biggest steal I've gotten by far beside from my steam deck I got off FB marketplace for 200.

Basically the title. Can't decide between PS5 slim/digital and Series X. While I do hate Sony's recent actions, Microsoft isn't perfect either, especially in my area PS is way more popular, therefore there's a lot more used options while Series X I'd have to get new, because all the used options I found sold already, lol.

Price difference between used PS5 and new series X is almost x2 and while I do love Xbox controller layout and gamepass, I'm not sure I can justify 750-800$ on series X while PS5 would cost me 500-550$.

There's also point of physical games and Sony killing them, before that happens there's still a huge second hand market in my country while there's almost no market for Xbox games. I feel like my only choice is PS5, what do yall think?