For reference:
Also, this was Sony during the PS4 era:
If you’re going to get expensive hardware and be digital only, might as well go PC while you can. The money you save not having to pay PS Plus to play with friends would add up quick. Not to mention open source, privacy respecting options, no need to be online, modding, more welcoming communities, emulation, etc. If you want a console experience, you can use something like Bazzite or SteamOS.
I enjoy gaming on my tv with a controller, i am not a heavy gamer nor an early adopter but if ps6 does not get a disk version i’m quite likely to not get a ps6 at all. They’ve been pushing me away from console gaming further and further with each new generation.
You could always get a steam machine or any variation of that like a dedicated pc hooked up to your tv.
I should have added; the pc community is making it increasingly interesting to spend the money on a better pc. Since over decade (maybe 2 yikes) i have had a laptop and a console. But at the same time, i dont have a phone + camera + mp3 player anymore. Not being able to borrow a game or buy/sell games second hand might really be the final straw. Besides, if you look at how easy they removed those movies they sold, they don’t really give me much trust in their digital only platform.
Heck, even using a Steam Deck as a dedicated console would get you really far until you start playing AAA stuff. Even farther if you have a tolerance for dropping detail on things like anti-aliasing and dynamic shadows!
This is what I’ll be doing after this gen.
I’m pretty sure you can find a USB version of any controller you prefer. I have a gamecube controller on a USB cable. Check ebay if you can’t find it anywhere else.
As for the tv, I’m pretty sure you can connect your computer over at least one of either HDMI, DisplayPort, or VGA, depending on how old/budget your hardware is.
I can’t think of any reason to go with the user-locked hardware where you’ll still need to download games anyway instead of owning physical media.
Me too. I know not everybody can do this, but I ran displayport over fiber cables from both my PC and my partner’s into the crawlspace and back up to our TV in the main room.
Another option that we used to use that worked fairly well was Moonlight to stream from PCs to our TVs
And as for controllers, there’s a lot of options out there. 8bitdo makes a bunch that work well and I’ve heard of Flydigi and Scuf as well. I have a Gullikit KingKong 2 Pro myself that I use for PC gaming. Played through Elden Ring and the Witcher 3 with it. Hall effect joysticks are pretty cool and avoid stick drift over time and being able to connect it to most devices (switch, xbox, pc) is nice.
If you want to splurge, the Xbox Elite and Dual Sense Edge both work via bluetooth. You can get wireless adapters for all of the above except the Dual Sense. Standard xbox controllers work as well.
Basically, there’s a lot of cool ways to game on your TV with PC lol