Half Of PlayStation Players Still Haven't Upgraded To PS5

If they would make them backwards compatible I would be more likely to upgrade it still bugs me that they stopped doing that. I miss my old PS3. That thing was awesome I even installed Linux on it and had emulators working… the good old days.

It is backwards compatible, though?

Yeah my mistake. It is with ps3 games. My default is to think everything is terrible now. It wouldn’t be that hard to support back to ps1 I’d pay extra for the option.

I have appreciated the backwards compatibility of my Xbox. The studio closures and dearth of games, less so

Get a PS5 and become less than appreciative about bad backwards compatibility AND studio closures.

You can (and I have) play PS4 games on PS5.

First thing I did when I got the PS5 was buy a bunch of cheap used PS4 games for it.

I didn’t realize I was assuming that was over. Well good on them. Long live the used game market!

I upgraded to PC running Linux instead

Here are the trends with previous consoles:

PS1 : 455 -> PS2 : 512 -> PS3 : 180 -> PS4 : 58 -> PS5 : 15

Xbox : 106 -> Xbox 360 : 214 -> Xbox One : 12

Nintendo 64 : 129 -> Nintendo Wii : 328 -> Nintendo Wii U : 38 -> Nintendo Switch : 174

where is the GameCube or xbox series?

I don’t think Xbox Series has exclusives. All of their stuff is on PC afaik.

There is no listing in the source for Xbox Series, however Gamecube shows 80 exclusive titles.

So the Xbox one series (aka Xbox one 2) has zero dedicated games?

It depends on how the source categorized the information and how Microsoft classifies the Xbox One versus the Xbox One Series (whether as being two actual different consoles, or two versions of the same console.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3ASingle-platform_video_games

There is only one entry for anything related to Xbox One as far as I can see so I expect the 12 it notes are distributed across all versions of the Xbox One, or that there are 0 dedicated games for the Xbox One Series proper.

And that’s why the newest console I own is a Switch, and everything else I play is on PC.

I’ve even moved all my Switch playing to PC hahaha

Now do the same for PC

The source notes that for Mac there have been 2 exclusive games across all versions, and for Windows, there have been about 2560 across all versions. There doesn’t appear to be a listing for Linux unfortunately.

That’s super interesting. Do you have a source you could link for this data?

They’re a gamer what other credentials do you need?

I just referenced the data in the wikipedia container article here for some select consoles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3ASingle-platform_video_games?wprov=sfla1

That’s a good thing - as the consumer.

The less exclusives, the better. We don’t need lock-ins, we need open platforms and open systems. If I want a plug&play gaming experience I can buy a console, if I want maximum performance and quality in a more maintenance and setup intensive package I can build my own PC.

its almost like it needed the exclusives to be worth it

For real - it’s so nice nowadays being able to play nearly any hot new game I want to on my desktop. Never been a huge fan of consoles - keyboard+mouse was always far more natural for me, but then again I was big into C&C and SC when I was a kid. The only console I’ve really loved since the N64 is the switch, and that’s largely because I can bring it on a long flight and fuck around in ZELDA: BOTW or TOTK for hours on end, which is awesome (I tend to avoid putting games on my personal dev laptop, and it also only has an iGPU).

MKB is more natural because controllers are redesigned constantly to create a false sense of innovation. The fundamentals of controlling a figure on a screen have not changed, nor have hands.

Jesus, only 4 games in that otherwise short short list ring a bell for me.

Shouldn’t FF16 also be on this list? Given that FF7 Rebirth will almost definitely see a PC port, I don’t think the ongoing development of an FF16 PC port should exclude it from the list.

Its a good time to be a PC player. I mean, it was before. But it is now, too.

All the games are in both consoles. If amything, it’s dragging down PS5 ppl.

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Half Of PlayStation Players Still Haven't Upgraded To PS5(kotaku.com)

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