The PlayStation 5 continues to smash it
No. It doesn’t. I’ve read lots of articles implying the rate of adoption was slow, and most ps5 owners were just playing a lot of ps4 games for a long time.
It was shocking to me how little I cared. After like 4 years I own maybe 3 PS5 games and finished none of them.
I’m still rolling with a PS4 Pro my buddy gave me when he popped for a PS5. Honestly not feeling like I’m missing out.
It is, however, also fair to point out that I have also built and maintained a Gaming Machine of Theseus for many, many years.
Gaming Machine of Theseus
That might be the best, most relatable thing, I’ve read in ages. When people ask how old my PC is it’s… well… which part?
If we go by oldest part, I’ve got a really good KW seasonic PSU from probably a decade ago that’s still going strong. But pretty much everything else has evolved at one point or another from when that was introduced.
I got a PS5 so I could play Demons Souls Remaster, when that game launched.
I haven’t touched the console since I beat the game. It has been sitting collecting dust for years, just like my Nintendo Switch did before I sold it.
I told my wife to not buy me a ps5, since I didn’t see any games I wanted. She did so anyway. I have yet to buy a single ps5 game, still working through all the ps4 stuff. I’ll buy a handle of ps5 games when ps6 is probably out. I’ve told her to NOT buy me a ps6 in the future, but she’ll probably ignore that as well.
Sony just introduced a low-power mode for PS5 that looks like groundwork for some kind of PS5-compatible handheld so this ”leak” sounds very unlikely from the get go.
Possible, but I think that particular feature is more aimed at EU electrical prices.
This low power mode has RAM running at half the bandwidth which will really kneecap performance but is a common way to increase efficiency in mobile devices. If it was about saving power they wouldn’t make adapting existing games this hard IMO.
