Steam or PS4?

[FeartheGreat]

There's a game I want to get. It's coming out next month actually. But only on PS4. A PC release has not been announced yet but most likely it will see a PC release sometime later. As much as I would like to purchase the game as quickly as possible, I'm hesitant to actually buy anything on my PS4 anymore considering the console itself is very old. I feel like the PS4 may be on it's last legs at this point.

I don't know if it's worth buying anything on the PS4 at this point. Like maybe soon they'll discontinue the PS4 service and I'll lose access to all my digital PS4 games. That happened to me when the PS3 store went offline. There won't be a physical copy of the game coming out for it either. Only for current gen consoles. Any thoughts? I'm leaning more on the wait and see side as of right now.

[metamec]

That happened to me when the PS3 store went offline.

Your purchased PS3 games are still available via the Download List.

Select (PS Store) > [Start] > (Options) > [Download List]

Your PS4 games aren't going anywhere either.

[Kargor]

Nothing anyone can tell you.

You want to scratch that FOMO itch, you have no choice but to get the PS4 release.

[BOBTOMAS]

Steam or PS4?

From my personal experience starting with the Nintendo SNES.

As of today, 2024, I would say that consoles are a waste of time.

On PC, there are countless ways to play older console titles: even working better than the original hardware.

For modern games you could say PC better, but there are unfair publishers like "Square-Enix" that don't fix bugs in their PC games. For these titles I found it adequate to play them with Linux and the necessary precautions (Thanks to steam)

So I'd say choose STEAM + GOG.com and abandon the speculative console market.

[ZanyScum]

I don't play console games often but they have one advantage:
In 5 years you can put the game into the console and it will work like it works now.

You might have changed your computer twice and your mobile trice but the console hardware and the console games' hardware requirements will - probably - not change.

But in 5 years... will you WANT to play the game again?

[Kargor]

Publicado originalmente por ZanyScum:

But in 5 years... will you WANT to play the game again?

One of the last games I've played, with a thumb-up at the end, was released in 2018.
Of course, that's not an "again". I don't play games twice, so that 2023 playthrough was my first.

Also, but that's an exception, I've thumb-upped a game in 2022 that was released in 2014 -- but it's actually even older than that: it was initially created in 2004, although the 2014 version includes some features from the 2011 PSP release. I had my fair share of complaints about it, but gave it a thumb-up anyway -- I've played games that had aged considerably worse, making me very reluctant to touch old games.