I switched from mostly Playstation to mostly Steam slowly over the last decade cause I like their services. It just works. I explicitly at this point won’t get a computer game that isn’t on Steam. I own one of the little physical Steam Links and cant believe it’s still supported by Vavle. Steam Deck was the final nail. I once didn’t like a game and got a refund on it. I have made older games playable and comfortable with the controller custom configurations. My older games and game saves still work on my new PC’s cause it’s all mostly backwards compatible. I love the Guide, Discussions, and Community Content parts of Steam. It adds so much life, answers questions, builds camaraderie, for some games.
With Playstation, the 2011 hack was bad enough. Being a day 1 Vita adopter, I feel forgotten and taken advantage of. I’ve had to deal with Sony repairs before and didn’t get my console back for months. Before Sony introduced 2FA far too late, my account got hacked. Sony rep’s treated me like a criminal and only gave me my account back because I so happened to still have the unfunctional console (and serial number) I originally created my PSN account on like 6-8 years earlier. PS4 initially lacked basic features PS3 had. PS5 has done the same. The games hardly drop in price relative to PC games. Backwards compatibility is questionable every generation. I signed up for PS Now to stream PS3 games and a month later they changed it and stopped adding more PS3 games. The PS Portal and proprietary wireless only further shows how stupid Sony is.
I was REALLY into PS4 (also have a switch and PC) but the PS5 just doesn’t have that je ne sais quoi for me. Nothing, other than graphics, that PS5 is doing couldn’t have been done on PS4.
I switched from mostly Playstation to mostly Steam slowly over the last decade cause I like their services. It just works. I explicitly at this point won’t get a computer game that isn’t on Steam. I own one of the little physical Steam Links and cant believe it’s still supported by Vavle. Steam Deck was the final nail. I once didn’t like a game and got a refund on it. I have made older games playable and comfortable with the controller custom configurations. My older games and game saves still work on my new PC’s cause it’s all mostly backwards compatible. I love the Guide, Discussions, and Community Content parts of Steam. It adds so much life, answers questions, builds camaraderie, for some games.
With Playstation, the 2011 hack was bad enough. Being a day 1 Vita adopter, I feel forgotten and taken advantage of. I’ve had to deal with Sony repairs before and didn’t get my console back for months. Before Sony introduced 2FA far too late, my account got hacked. Sony rep’s treated me like a criminal and only gave me my account back because I so happened to still have the unfunctional console (and serial number) I originally created my PSN account on like 6-8 years earlier. PS4 initially lacked basic features PS3 had. PS5 has done the same. The games hardly drop in price relative to PC games. Backwards compatibility is questionable every generation. I signed up for PS Now to stream PS3 games and a month later they changed it and stopped adding more PS3 games. The PS Portal and proprietary wireless only further shows how stupid Sony is.
I’ll never buy another Playstation again.
I was REALLY into PS4 (also have a switch and PC) but the PS5 just doesn’t have that je ne sais quoi for me. Nothing, other than graphics, that PS5 is doing couldn’t have been done on PS4.