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.

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.

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.

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!

“meaning the other 59 million must still be using the PlayStation 4.”

That’s not what that means.

As of last December there were still 2 million active PS3 users.

https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2023/12/26/ps3-monthly-active-users-report/

I’d imagine there’s still a limited number of PS Vita and PSTV accounts too.

I stopped at the PS2…

I don’t think PSN applied to the PS2, started with the PS3.

PS2 didn’t have networking apart from the odd firewire port and a very expensive devkit.

Still the best console of all time so that’s a pretty solid stopping point

The best console is still foot with bash.

Hacked Vita is still great.

Hacked Vita with RetroArch is so so so much fun!!

Hacked vita is goated

I had a lot of fun with my Vita even without hacking it. It had a longer lifetime than people realize, in part through digital sales and indie games that were planning to do PS3/PS4 releases anyway.

One of these years my children will discover the PS3 hidden unused in the entertainment center since they were born, and there’ll be 2mil+1. Muhaha.

When a new generation starts, I hook it up in the living room, move the previous gen to the bedroom, and mothball the oldest gen.

So when I kick off, my kid, or grand kids, are going to discover organized boxes of gaming gear. I’m sure it will be all over whatever passes for social media then. :)

Currently:

Living Room - PS5, Xbox Series X, Steam Deck Dock.

Bedroom - PS4, Xbox One X, Switch.

I still use my PS3, enough great and cheap games and can play my PS1 and 2 games on the big screen with wireless controllers.

Newer games I play on PC anyways.

Was gonna say, I never bought a PS4. My PS3 is still kicking.

I just got a second one because it was peanuts and came with two good controllers while mine are all kind of subtly broken.

I do actually have a PS4 with 5 controllers because once bit. I don’t know if I’ll find the time, but if I feel like playing something stuck on the three like infamous or demons souls, I can.

Maybe I’ll get the 5 one day. And maybe I’ll find that emulation can solve the old title problem.

Sometimes I forget it is a thing.

PS5 owner here. Me too.

I still have a PS2…

I have a ps1, 2, 3 and 4, a psp, a vita, I also have a NA snes, OG xbox, xbox360 and xbox one. I pretty much don’t play with any of them, I work too much…

It’s like all we heard about the PS5 was that it was super hard to get when it came out and then it kind of disappeared from our collective consciousness

XBox has always been a weird console. It never really competes with Nintendo because NIntendo always does its own general thing and also slides neatly into the kids and family market. So it competes with Playstation by default. Except Playstation actually has contracts with good studios to make exclusive games. What’s a non-Halo exclusive for the XBox? Back in the day, you’d play games like Gears of War, Halo (obviously), Fallout 3, Psychonauts, KOTOR, COD, etc. I can’t think of a single meaningful game on the most recent generation for the XBox.

One of my favorites was Project Gotham, but they shuttered that studio in favor of Forza which just isn’t as good.

It is still super hard to get

I’ve seen them stocked in my local stores for the past year. The Xbox series X/S as well. I kinda thought it was like that everywhere now? Are they really still sold out and being scalped for crazy mark up prices where you live?

You are right, I haven’t checked for a while, I thought it was still unavailable. I ordered one yesterday.

It did? Who’s collective consciousness are you attached to? It’s a huge fucking hit.

Well, the numbers show otherwise.

Yeah that and it’s still super expensive and does not have system sellers for me. Eg. Uncharted.

Also I don’t need another PC, thank you.

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

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