One of my close friends decided that she’s no longer enjoying games so she offered to sell it to me for really cheap (100$). I love gaming but since I switched to Mac a few years ago my choices have been very limited. I’ve been mostly playing indie games that are available on Mac. So I’ve been thinking about her offer.
The price sounds amazing but I’m not sure if it’s still worth it considering the PS5 has been out for a good few years now. What do you guys think? Should I take it off her hands or should I save for a PS5 or an Xbox instead?
My main monitor is 1080p 75Hz by the way (Acer KG221Q). So buying a new generation console would mean that I might have to upgrade my monitor as well.
Edit to add: A new PS5 would cost 7 times as much in my country. That’s also another thing to consider.
I’d say it’d be worth it; imo PS5 is rather “useless” unless you care so much about FPS now, might be a good idea to buy it in 2-3 years where it’ll actually have more than half an exclusive (+the price will drop further by then)
Yeah. I think picking up the PS4 isn’t a bad idea at all. You would get the benefit of being able to sell that PS4, while you keep saving, if you still want the PS5. I’m confident you would get your money back out of the PS4
Who says you need to upgrade monitor for PS5? It supports 1080p 60 Hz perfectly fine, in fact most games run around 1080p when in Performance mode, and those that render higher res will give you free supersampling on that monitor.
PS4 and Xbox One were outdated and underpowered already on release, I wouldn’t bother with them when you can play the same games on PS5 usually with better performance and/or graphics
I’m still rocking my PS4 Pro and haven’t felt the need to upgrade to the PS5 yet. Plenty of good games on there and a lot of the new ones still release to PS4 too. There’s cool exclusives on PS5 but not $500 cool exclusives imo. Well, closer to $600 after purchasing the game. So I’ll continue to wait to upgrade. I’d say go for it because you can have a lot of fun on the PS4 still.
I am happily gaming with my refurbished PS4 I got for about 130 usd 2 years ago. I find the graphics still pretty decent and the gaming experience is top notch.
Go for it. If money’s a major concern, there are many PS4 demos you can’t play on PS5 and there are still only so many PS5 games that aren’t on PS4
Any console that lets you experience games that you will enjoy is worth it. Who cares about being caught up, the PS4 has a ton of fantastic games, and $100 is a great deal.
Plus it has a large library of great games that can be found cheap/used. Easily worth $100
Most of what you’d be playing on PS5 are PS4 games anyway
Isn’t that the sad truth. Not many system sellers on the PS5 as you would hope.
An Xbox Series S might be a happy middle ground. It’s current gen, like the Series X, but with a lower resolution target 1080p or 1440p generally, compared the the PS5 and Xbox Series X 4K. It’s significantly cheaper too.
PS4 and Xbox One won’t be getting any more first party games, and increasingly less and less first party ones.
Although if your friend is chucking in her games too, could be worth it if you haven’t played them.
So this is what I would do. https://ps4linux.com/batocera-ps4-v1-tutorial/
Up until before FFXVI launched? Probably. Now they’re for sure moving away from PS4 though. You can still get recent games on it but going forward I wouldn’t expect much.
