Full disclosure, I’m a PC gamer. So I’m a little biased. However I personally see more value in old consoles from 2nd to 6th generation. In the old consoles all had their own advantages. NES games were customizable, TG16 was more powerful, SNES had Mode7, Genesis was faster, PC had more input and provided a more free market to developers, PS1 was easy to develop for and so on. They had special hardware. They had different controllers and appealed to different kinds of gamers and were more convenient. It doesn’t seem like that anymore, you leave the system off for a while you boot it back up and there are gigabytes of updates, they just use off the shelf AMD cards, they all for the most part offer the same games and are getting more and more expensive. Switch is saved by it’s portability and the stellar first party line up, but same cannot be said for Series X and PS5. Playstation in particular is borderline worthless, as it’s exclusive line up can be stereotyped as “movies that make you press buttons to make sure you pay attention” it seems more logical to just watch a playthrough of them. Combine that with the fact AAA games suck across the board, it makes more sense to just build a midrange PC and play indie games in them or to buy the FPGA systems made by Analogue for example. What do you guys think?
Games add artificial value. There is no reason for PS4 games to be exclusive to that system, if you are forcing me to buy a product than I don’t think you are selling a good product. You might argue they don’t force you to buy it but if you really want to play a PS4 exclusive game your only other option is not playing the game.
Games are the value. A PS4 without games is worthless. I don’t understand your issue. You can’t demand Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft to give up their exclusive IP just so you don’t have to buy a console.
And reading again through your post there are other things I don’t get.
This is not the case. Microsoft and Sony use heavily specialized AMD chips that are not have no commercially available equivalent.
Also not true, console and game prices have been relatively constant adjusted for inflation.
This may be your opinion, but a lot of the AAA games that “suck” so hard sell huge amounts.
Just chill and have fun gaming, whatever you game on.