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.
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PS4 and Xbox One were outdated and underpowered already on release, I wouldn’t bother with them when you can play the same games on PS5 usually with better performance and/or graphics
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.
An Xbox Series S might be a happy middle ground. It’s current gen, like the Series X, but with a lower resolution target 1080p or 1440p generally, compared the the PS5 and Xbox Series X 4K. It’s significantly cheaper too.
PS4 and Xbox One won’t be getting any more first party games, and increasingly less and less first party ones.
Although if your friend is chucking in her games too, could be worth it if you haven’t played them.
Funnily enough, I have another friend that wants to sell his Series S and switch to PlayStation. A while ago he said he’s willing to sell it for 200 bucks. But I had have heard so many negative things about the Series S I kindly rejected his offer. Negative things such as how most games are capped at 30 fps, how the games look blurry, how it’s holding back the quality games that would have been developed if it didn’t exist etc. I can ask him if he’s still looking for a buyer actually, but again, I don’t know if the Series S is a good console. It certainly doesn’t seem to have the reputation PS4 has.
The Doom 1.0 demo, at the time, fitted on one and a half HD 3.5" floppy disks and was absolutely mindblowing. It really felt like taking a look into the future of virtual reality and showed what the peak technology of the time (silky smooth on a 486 DX2 with a PCI graphics card … there was one at school I had access to, lol) was capable of!
Not a game, but the State of the Art demo for the Amiga was similarly mindblowing … a full music video on one SH floppy disk :-)
Oh yeah, all the time. I’ve never finished Skyrim because it feels so overwhelming. No Man’s Sky presents a similar kind of challenge for me, though that one also pings my danger sense really hard - I have this weird fear of deep water and space. Places where I can’t see what’s on the other side and might come after me. That’s why I’ll never play Subnautica.
There’s obviously a huge backlog of games. So if you’re a patient gamer then you could absolutely be happy with it for awhile. But the age of crossover games seems to be over as publishers are fully embracing PS5/SeriesX
I’d say it’d be worth it; imo PS5 is rather “useless” unless you care so much about FPS now, might be a good idea to buy it in 2-3 years where it’ll actually have more than half an exclusive (+the price will drop further by then)
I am happily gaming with my refurbished PS4 I got for about 130 usd 2 years ago. I find the graphics still pretty decent and the gaming experience is top notch.
Yeah. I think picking up the PS4 isn’t a bad idea at all. You would get the benefit of being able to sell that PS4, while you keep saving, if you still want the PS5. I’m confident you would get your money back out of the PS4
Up until before FFXVI launched? Probably. Now they’re for sure moving away from PS4 though. You can still get recent games on it but going forward I wouldn’t expect much.
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So this is what I would do. https://ps4linux.com/batocera-ps4-v1-tutorial/
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
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.
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.
An Xbox Series S might be a happy middle ground. It’s current gen, like the Series X, but with a lower resolution target 1080p or 1440p generally, compared the the PS5 and Xbox Series X 4K. It’s significantly cheaper too.
PS4 and Xbox One won’t be getting any more first party games, and increasingly less and less first party ones.
Although if your friend is chucking in her games too, could be worth it if you haven’t played them.
Funnily enough, I have another friend that wants to sell his Series S and switch to PlayStation. A while ago he said he’s willing to sell it for 200 bucks. But I had have heard so many negative things about the Series S I kindly rejected his offer. Negative things such as how most games are capped at 30 fps, how the games look blurry, how it’s holding back the quality games that would have been developed if it didn’t exist etc. I can ask him if he’s still looking for a buyer actually, but again, I don’t know if the Series S is a good console. It certainly doesn’t seem to have the reputation PS4 has.
The Doom 1.0 demo, at the time, fitted on one and a half HD 3.5" floppy disks and was absolutely mindblowing. It really felt like taking a look into the future of virtual reality and showed what the peak technology of the time (silky smooth on a 486 DX2 with a PCI graphics card … there was one at school I had access to, lol) was capable of!
Not a game, but the State of the Art demo for the Amiga was similarly mindblowing … a full music video on one SH floppy disk :-)
Oh yeah, all the time. I’ve never finished Skyrim because it feels so overwhelming. No Man’s Sky presents a similar kind of challenge for me, though that one also pings my danger sense really hard - I have this weird fear of deep water and space. Places where I can’t see what’s on the other side and might come after me. That’s why I’ll never play Subnautica.
There’s obviously a huge backlog of games. So if you’re a patient gamer then you could absolutely be happy with it for awhile. But the age of crossover games seems to be over as publishers are fully embracing PS5/SeriesX
Just save for PS5/Xbox, I recommend PS5 cause their exclusives atm actually are quality works(with good track records.)
But like with anything else, you should just check what games you actually like and want to play, then pick the more cost efficient approach. :)
Go for it. If money’s a major concern, there are many PS4 demos you can’t play on PS5 and there are still only so many PS5 games that aren’t on PS4
Depends on what you want to play.
I use mine for WipEout Omega, Both GoW games, and both Horizon games.
That’s it for me, as I’m a PC player otherwise.
I’d say it’d be worth it; imo PS5 is rather “useless” unless you care so much about FPS now, might be a good idea to buy it in 2-3 years where it’ll actually have more than half an exclusive (+the price will drop further by then)
I am happily gaming with my refurbished PS4 I got for about 130 usd 2 years ago. I find the graphics still pretty decent and the gaming experience is top notch.
Yeah. I think picking up the PS4 isn’t a bad idea at all. You would get the benefit of being able to sell that PS4, while you keep saving, if you still want the PS5. I’m confident you would get your money back out of the PS4
Up until before FFXVI launched? Probably. Now they’re for sure moving away from PS4 though. You can still get recent games on it but going forward I wouldn’t expect much.