>>715301538
It's straight up because the lack of exclusives. It's a very general video game machine and that's fine, but I haven't really been excited for a Sony platform since the PS3, and I haven't been interested in a Sony platform since the Vita, and they abandoned it to die while third-party weeb publishers and indies kept it on life support. The PS4 and PS5 really lack a likable identity, and that's maybe because they were designed to be for an American audience, they saw Xbox and decided they needed to be less PlayStation 3 and more Xbox 360. It feels normie as fuck, and the "modern PlayStation" games like Dad of War, Horizon, TLoU, etc. feel up their own ass compared to the classics of the PS1 and PS2.
At this point Xbox is a metaphysical platform/service of digital games more than it is a physical console with physical games. It still supports physical, but the discs feel more like afterthoughts. I never even saw an Xbox Series game case until recently. But you're choosing the intermediary of how to play that service platform.
>PC, laptop
>Dedicated service console (Xbox Series X/S)
>Hybrid console (ROG Xbox Ally X)
>Other consoles
It is what it is and it feels like its own thing at least. But PlayStation is once again starting to copy Xbox with putting its games on other platforms, particularly PC. And why go for a PS5 if PC is available? PS5 games just end up as timed exclusives. The best thing it has going for it is the Astro games which are true exclusives that utilize the capabilities of the hardware and have a PlayStation identity, and yet everyone can't help but compare these games that have such a distinctly PlayStation look to Nintendo, because it's closer to how Nintendo operates.
