For me it was €79 (gotta love that VAT).

Still, considering the hours of entertainment I’ll get out of it, the price-per-hour feels reasonable to me compared to other forms of entertainment.

I bought it on PS5 and I’m having fun playing it. Sure, it doesn’t do anything new, the gameplay is very familiar and the enemy AI is dumb as rocks, but you get to play in the Star Wars universe, the locations look great and the story so far seems decent enough (although I’m not that far into the game yet).

Not every meal needs to be a 3 Michelin star gourmet affair, sometimes having a Big Mac with fries is perfectly fine.

Oh I agree they should. Physical game sales are a PITA.

I bet that hardly anyone buys the add on drive and they use that as a reason to completely drop physical media support in the PS6.

I’m a Mac guy so I’m a bit out of touch with the state of PCs. I know PCs usually are a few years behind technology wise, but I’m kind of surprised they still don’t have bluetooth as standard. The technology is decades old.

What does coffee have to do with anything?

We obviously like different kinds of games. A large part of the games that interest me are PS5 exclusives, at least at launch.

Roguelikes.

Roguelites.

Chess.

Deck builders.

Not my cup of tea.

More broadly, games with different narrative choices (eg: Witcher 2 has two mutually exclusive middle acts).

I kinda like it that it makes my decisions in the game more impactful. If you’re going to go back and play the other option anyway, then it kind of makes the decision meaningless.

Even a great movie is worth watching multiple times of its story has any appreciable depth.

That sounds more like a you problem.

I see you don’t replay games, so why even own a console if you only play a game once?

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here. If I don’t play a game multiple times I shouldn’t play it at all?

How are story games shallow? They are much deeper than the next generic multiplayer shooter. I happen to like stories in all forms, books, movies, series and video games. Video games are unique in that they allow you to be part of a story. For me the story is the single most important thing of a game. Often I simply play games on easy or story mode, mainly to keep up the pacing of the story.

You’re not going to play any of your PS5 games in 5-10 years?

No, I only ever play through a game once. After I finish the main campaign I’ll never touch it again.

Why would I play a game I already played when I could play a new game instead?

I also am a Mac user who has a PS5 and a Steam Deck and honestly my SD is collecting dust. It’s a cool bit of hardware but it has too many compromises. The main problem is that it’s just not comfortable to play on. The screen is too small and the way you hold it you end up constantly looking down at is, which is just not ergonomic. The PS5 is also on in seconds from rest mode, and has the benefit of being hooked up to a 77” OLED and a nice 5.1.4 surround sound system.

I don’t play old games. I don’t even play PS4 games on my PS5.

I have no other use for a desktop PC.

Because they have the best hardware and the best desktop OS. Nothing comes close.

For self-hosting I have several Linux and *BSD machines, but that’s server-grade hardare, not gaming hardware. None of those machines even has a GPU.

Drawing I do on my iPad Pro, for everything else I have a MacBook Pro. If I got a desktop PC it would only be used for games, I have no real need for non-server PC hardware.

99.999% of the games on Steam are low budget crap. On PSN it’s only like 98%

But nowadays it seems like they’re just as expensive, still not as good for specs and the games are just as bug-riddled as PC games half the time.

No they aren’t ‘as expensive’, LTT did a video a while back where they tried to build a PC that could beat a PS5 for a similar price. They had to buy used parts to match the price and the PC did not include a controller ($69). If you’re going to use used parts, then also compare it to the price of a used PS5.

And Sony has been releasing all their big hits on PC anyway so yeah really no reason for me to get a PS5 that I can see.

Sure, if you want to play old-ass games, get a PC.

I don’t understand why I would buy a PC when I can get a PS5.

In a MAME machine maybe, but the original arcade cabinets all have custom hardware.