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Anyone Seriously Considering Sitting the Next Generation Out, Or at Least the Launch?

I think

  • Yes

    Votes: 266 62.6%

  • No

    Votes: 159 37.4%
  • Total voters
    425
I think at this point in my life, I'm good with only owning a Nintendo platform and a device that plays roms for everything up to the Dreamcast.
 
Cross-gen is here to stay, will be years into the PS6 era before games truly take advantage of the hardware. The PS5 Pro will function as a solid crossgen platform thanks to PSSR, and I'll upgrade when the inevitable PS6 Pro debuts.
 
I make enough where the only factor is will it have games. And given that I bought a Switch 2 on launch, I say I'm pretty liberal with that factor.
 
No matter how frustrating Sony is as of late, and despite what will probably be a crazy price, I can never resist new hardware. The PS6 is a day-one buy for me. I love Sony's exclusives, and their systems always seem to punch above their weight thanks to that Cerny secret sauce.

That said, if they think I'm ever buying another one of their VR headsets they're out of their damned minds. It's the only Sony purchase I've genuinely regretted.
 
I'm not getting a ps6 at launch. I bought a ps4 and PS5 at launch. Don't regret it, but my PC is so good that I can wait this time.

Since I recently sold my ps5, I'll hopefully have some great, cheap, ps5 games to play on the ps6 as well.
 
The last two PS I bought on launch day. This time around I'll wait until there is an exclusive I desperately want. Otherwise I'll stay on PC.
 
Need something beefy for the living room TV so yeah Ill bite and actually leaning XBOX! The PS6 will most likely not get any pure NextGen exclusives that wont be on the Pro for years so why bother? Ill stick with the Pro, seriously what will have PS6 have over Pro in the first few years? Path traced Intergalactic at 30 fps vs Pros raytraced 60? GTA at 60 fps vs Pros 45vrr?

So Pro for now for Sony first party. As far as 3rd party games those say played on PC as my 4070ti smokes the Pro but Xbox Magnus should match my PC and look glorious on living room Oled.
 
Why make a decision so in advance? We know very little about next gen.

My advice is to stop fighting and worrying about it and start saving for next gen.. you know very well that when the hour arrive you all will be FOMOing about it..
 
If there is a portable & dockable version I am in at launch because it's a great way to have games for the kids. Otherwise, I ain't spending 1k for Sony's weak slate of exclusives. GTA7 won't drop until PS8 and they all come to PC eventually which is my main.
 
I already struggled with getting new console during PS4 era. IT was Monster Hunter World that finally moved me, i played then BB and few other exclusives and then sold console.

With PS5 there is literally no reason to buy it if you have PC. All Sony games are just different version of dad simulator and aside from those console doesn't have any exclusives.

PS1/PS2 even PS3 had to be bought. PS4 maybe and PS5 is solid no. Unless Sony comes up with wide variety of exclusives it makes no sense to buy console.
 
I'm already playing beyond next gen now so I'm good for a few years. I'll ride the pro out and let Sony make me really want a ps6.

It will need to be three must have play through games that are actually released before I pick it up and I'll ride out the ps5 pro for as long as possible.
 
If launch is next year then yeah, barely used my PS5 I feel like it needs more games and with prices only going up, next gen HW is gonna be expensive af, so no point for me yet
 
With how bad this gen has been? Easily skip next gen. Especially if the costs are through the roof. I'll be fine with the switch 2 as I no longer care about the best graphics and performance.

If the western studios gets their shit together and the costs aren't insane, I'll get a ps6.
 
sainraja said:
Gaming is a luxury item, and most of us have enough disposable income (or we're stupid) to spend money on it. Given that is the case, why would you sit it out or "need" to justify your purchase? I mean, you do enjoy gaming as a hobby, right? And, I assume, would like to see it continue. The launch period is exactly the time where that matters lol... and given cloud is something these companies really want to push, sitting out next gen is probably not going to be our best move; if these companies even release a traditional console, so, please don't sit the next gen out, especially if we are actually going to get hardware that can play games natively.

In other words, don't be foolish.
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If there's anything we've learned, game companies don't see gamers as customers; they see gamers as addicts. If they want to push cloud, they'll do so regardless of what you want or how any particular hardware sells. So let them push cloud, let them die. Someone else will be there to pick up the pieces.
 
My backlog on Steam and Epic is huge, plus I love picking up some of the PS3/360/Wii games I missed out on.

Just hard a blast going through Modern Warfare 1-3, Ghosts and BO 1-2, Vanquish and Prototype 1-2.

I'm in no rush to delve into any new releases or consoles, especially with prices the way they are at the moment.
 
Nintendo Switch 2 is my final console purchase. I hope this gen it has a good run.

By the time, that gen ends (2035) I'll be close to 50! My kids and nieces and nephews will be older. It is a good time to quit gaming.


God bless all you who still buy all the consoles. PS6/Xbox, that generation will be outrageous in price.
 
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If must have exclusives were few and far between on PS5 it won't get better on the PS6 either....may even become even fewer, and a ton more remakes...bad enough as it is we have to wait a quarter of a century for a new Mass Effect/James Bond game..on top of that games/genres will probably continue to die out....(ie no game akin to Pro Evo, Top Spin tennis..) let alone a return for Perfect Dark and Deus Ex....with all that in mind it's best to wait it out..
 
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If there's compelling exclusive software in the launch window, I'll probably get a PS6 day 1. If not I'm content with my PS5 Pro and the gaming PC I bought last year just before shit hit the fan with the memory prices.
 
With this latest price increase, which is the third or so now for playstation this generation (at least in Australia/Europe), I've gone from PS6 day one to unsure now.

It's confirmed gaming tech is increasing in price over time now and I don't expect that to change, so if you're definitely going to get a PS6, it might as well be at launch.

But I think it'll be a very different generation. An expensive PS6 will have a much slower adoption rate than the COVID era and comparatively cheap PS5. And publishers will put games where the players are buying them - so still on PS5 for most, maybe even all, of the PS6 lifecycle.

I'm sure the PS6 will technologically be a much bigger leap than the PS5 Pro, but in terms of software, it will probably feel the same. The best place to play PS games, but you can keep playing them all on PS5.
 
I honestly think that the next generation will kill video games as a mainstream entertainment option. Or at least halt it. Things are getting more expensive by the day, and people have less and less reasons to buy new games. Older games are cheaper, run better, do not lecture you and were made by actual developers. People will not have the luxury to pay a thousand bucks for a PS6 which will have games that barely look different than the games of a PS5, and pay a hundred bucks for a half-assed game with ugly people in it.

Indie games will make people flock to cheap and weak PCs in order to play games that look like they were made on a PS One.

Gaming will be ... a micro-metaphor of the real world, where the middle class will be eradicated and there are only going to be piss poor gamers who play 16-bit like games on their weak-ass PCs, or the elite gamers who have money to burn, the 1% who will game on 7090 RTX cards with all the bells and whistles, willing to pay 300 bucks for an AAA game.

This won't be sustainable. Meanwhile, the social media TikTok mentality will cause kids' attention span to be shorter and shorter, to the point of not having the patience to sit through a mere tutorial, let alone play a game. If 'something new' arrives, some new kind of entertainment which will replace gaming as the current mainstream entertainment method (I suspect something A.I. related), gaming, combined with the economic problems that are currently hitting it, may become unrecognizable.

Or it may become retro, with only a handful of developers making games in the future, and companies like Capcom will be making A.I. experiences. Like wearing a VR wireless helmet and using A.I. to create zombies in your house and you having to shoot them down or escape them.
 
JohnnyFootball said:
I am perfectly content with never buying another AAA game. I have such a large backlog on Steam and PS. I'll manage.
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On one hand this is true and my library 😅 on both is substantial.

On the other hand I do kind of want to play next Owlcat game, Exodus (ME devs), next Larian game, next Warhorse game, some upcoming strategy games, perhaps next Cyberpunk, etc…

But I couldn't care less for the most part about anything being produced by Sony. Yeah Astrobot 2 and GT8 will be good, but not the end of the world.
 
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I voted no because I can see the next gen having what this gen should have: games made for them. With that said, we need to see the games first

There's still not a lot of reasons to buy actual gen. The first year for Dreamcast still is better than those five year of the actual gen...
 
playbignbox said:
I'm grateful I abandoned Xbox and PlayStation this generation and built a PC.

For me, consoles are only Nintendo now; at least they're more reasonably priced, have the exclusives I like, and offer portability in a hybrid model, unlike PlayStation and Xbox currently.
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This is exactly me. Ditched Xbox and PlayStation this generation and upgraded my 1060 to a 3070ti. Have had absolutely zero regrets. Don't think I'll ever go back to consoles.

Did get a Switch 2 and have been enjoying it. But Kind of wish I got a Legion Go or another Steamdeck like handheld.
 
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Hell, if it's like the PS5 launch, I won't be able to even find one, much less buy it. I did get it when I could though.

I was able to get a Switch 2 on launch without a reservation so I did that when I wasn't even planning on a launch day purchase.

I never got a XSX. I still have my XBOne S hooked up and Microsoft never gave me a purpose to buy one. I almost did get the Series S to replace my aging One S when it was on sale for $250 at Warehouse stores and I was in a lull of Xbox disc game ownership, but I checked a few around me and even a couple while on a road trip and never found that price so it didn't happen. Now they're jacked up and I've gotten some disc games again. Fortunately my One S is still working just fine.

I suspect next gen will go similar. If it has games I want to play and can find it then I'll grab it.
 
Unless theres a genuine, next generation game... im sitting it out.

Already sat out switch 2 and im not missing anything. Sure donkey kong looks cool but I can absolutely live without it
 
I would argue even if u are below avg wealth(at least according to western standard, say below 50k usd yearly salary, like myself) u still wanna get ps6 at launch coz it will simply be cheaper on holidays 2027 vs 2 years later when sony inevitably increases its price like they do nowadays on a regular basis, and u will have those 2 years of playtime on brand new sexy powerful console already on top of paying less :)
 
Hell no. I feel like the PS5 still hasn't really reached its prime yet. So many games this gen were cross-gun and we're just now starting to get PS5-only games.

Where are all the Sony games we usually see?
 
deriks said:
I voted no because I can see the next gen having what this gen should have: games made for them. With that said, we need to see the games first
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That's more so why I'm not optimistic. Each generation since the PS1 has had fewer games than the last. It started to get noticeable in the PS4 era, and it's incredibly noticeable now. Very few games, very little variety. If there are even fewer games on PS6, that seems pretty bleak to me.
 
I will get the next Xbox when it does 4 generation BC right, unless they add that functionality to Xbox Mode on a regular PC.

I will get the next PS when they have enough exclusives I'm interested in, unless they run on PS5 Pro.
 
FoxMcChief said:
I think at this point in my life, I'm good with only owning a Nintendo platform and a device that plays roms for everything up to the Dreamcast.
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ThatOneGrunt said:
This is exactly me. Ditched Xbox and PlayStation this generation and upgraded my 1060 to a 3070ti. Have had absolutely zero regrets. Don't think I'll ever go back to consoles.

Did get a Switch 2 and have been enjoying it. But Kind of wish I got a Legion Go or another Steamdeck like handheld.
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My 3070 PC is down so I just brought back the 1060, lol. And having had the 3070 a few years, I mostly used it to play games I can get away with playing on the 1060 and those that can't, Switch 2 or backup old consoles exist. The used cheapo Series S that mostly got used as a extra Halo client for 2P, became well...the main client. I need to burn through a bit of redundancy before I'm willing to pay these prices, I'm not seeing the marginal benefit 🤷‍♂️
 
I'm done with consoles for life.

If I'm spending any money, I'm spending it on my pc. Spending all that money on a beefy pc is worth more than any other gaming platform - especially after getting burned with the base PS5.

Got all excited for the PS5 and finally got my hands on one after the covid era days were over, only to find that most games struggle to run well on it.

Greatest decision I made was spending whatever amount of money i did on my pc.
 
As always, games sells me on the console not the other way around. So there'll need to exist at least a few exclusive must play, personal bangers, for me to consider shelling out.
 
I'd like to say that I will weigh what PS6 offers before buying. I'd like to say I won't buy it if it can't play physical PS1/2/3 games, especially if they plan to charge $1000+ for it without a disk drive. But I'd be kidding myself. Of course I'm going to buy it. Maybe not day1, but I will end up with one eventually. For me, the biggest factor determining how soon I get a PS6 is PS3 games. There are games stuck on the PS3 that don't exist in digital form that desperately NEED to be brought to newer platforms. If PS6 can't play them, then I won't be in too much of a hurry to get it, but if it does, then I'll likely get it within the first month or two.
I still have a PS3 and it still seems to work fine, still reads disks and everything, but the controllers are thrashed, and most 3rd party replacements suck. It would be great to have a more future-proofed way to play them. I recently bought what I thought was an official PS3 controller replacement, but for whatever reason, it only charges when plugged into the PS3 itself and none of the other methods I've always used works to charge it. So apparently, it's some kind of knockoff that only LOOKS official. I'm very tired of the flaky controller issue on my PS3, so I really hope PS6 can help with that.
I currently have the PS5 Pro, and that new PSSR is awesome. I can only imagine how much better it will be on PS6, but I need (we all need) PS6 to finally combine the entire Playstation history into one system, and it needs to support our physical disks, because their digital offerings don't currently include the games I want most. If it doesn't do that, then PS6's value drops by quite a lot in my eyes.

TLDR; How quickly I buy a PS6 will be determined by how much, and what form of, backwards compatibility it offers.
 
Someone should write down all the people that voted "Yes"
Then when PS6 launches, lets see how many of them couldnt resist the FOMO and bought it anyway.
It will be this all over again:

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Yes. Sony doesn't produce First Party Titles that appeal to me anymore, and they all take 5+ years to come out anyway. 99% of the games I want to play can be played on PC. I might actually be done with both Sony/Microsoft after this Gen. At the moment it's looking like PC and Nintendo are my future. I just can't fathom paying $1000 for a PS6, when realistically I might play five games on it at most during its run.

I really don't think they should be releasing a PS6 anytime soon, with the way things are now.
 
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