Sony is primed to start selling refurbished PS5 consoles, which it promises will be "as good as new".
  • EvilBit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 months ago

    93/100 is a fraction. This is meaningless.

    Edit: to be clear, the HEADLINE is meaningless. The actual cost from the article is £390.

  • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    This is like when supermarkets put the short-dated food in the ‘reduced’ section: I kinda always expect it to be ‘was £3, now 30p’, but it’s usually ‘was £3, now £2.89’

    £390 is so close to the retail price for new, that if was going to get one, I’d probably just do that.

  • Pooptimist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    I’m really happy now that I upgraded my desktop pc as a lifelong PlayStation player. Life gets on the way of having most of the time anyway, so it doesn’t matter if I play games at release or wait a few years until it comes to PC. I also find myself loving mods more and more, which is impossible on consoles

  • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I feel like this console generation has dragged on and on with so few exciting new games. I’ve been waiting to buy either a PS5 or a Series X and when I look down the exclusive lists I sigh with boredom. What happened? Was it games as a service that happened?

    The previous generation wasn’t anything super exciting, but it feels like we’re just trending downwards. On consoles I want big, flashy experiences, not indy games. Nothing against indies, of course, but I can play those on my Steam Deck.

    • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      GaaS has made gaming so boring. Fun for like, two months. But with no story and tons of nerfs, they quickly become rather samey feeling. I miss the Halo 2 days where games had a story. Or genuine innovation, like Rocket league, and its ability to be cross platform. That was GaaS done right, until Epic bought them and fucked it all up.

    • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Well, for starters Xbox was dead on arrival, they had no system sellers lined up and the series S has held this generation Xbox back since the beginning. Sony on the other hand started off well, but then got the GaaS hard on and almost all of their gaas projects are failing hard. That’s why they barely have a library of exclusives.

      Not to mention this generation has also been a technological flop (not just on the consoles side but also on the PC side). The next big thing to change gaming is ray tracing, but the tech is still too raw to fully utilize it. Because of that we’re largely getting the same tech as last gen, just higher fidelity.

      And considering console exclusives started coming to PC I think there’s even less of a consumer pull towards consoles. A lot of PC gamers owned a console and now they don’t need one because the get to play their console games on PC at higher quality with better performance.

      The next generation needs to be marvelous or I think console gaming, as we currently know it, will be dead.