After years of using being PlayStation only (owning the OG PSOne through to PS5 and both handhelds) I took the plunge last year into PC gaming with the Steam Deck and honestly I did not know how much I was missing out on. Never did I realise how cheap gaming can be on PC through all the ridiculous sales. You also aren’t sacrificing much in terms of performance since you can still play almost all AAA games and on a handheld too! My main attraction to the steam deck was this since I haven’t the time to sit down for long stretches any more and the fact you can easily sleep and wake up the deck and play for 10/20 minutes at a time is perfect. Around the same time I got the deck though I decided to also go for the mid tier PS Plus option since it was on offer for Black Friday. After barely using my PlayStation for the past year I was thinking of downgrading back to the basic tier. Now this time around PlayStation are only offering Black Friday discounts to the same tier or above. I could’ve maybe justified paying £45 for the year but £60 just to play online is not worth it in my opinion and looking at the game prices on the store is ridiculous for new titles now. Once my PS Plus expires I don’t think I’ll be renewing, at least not for the foreseeable future. Honestly I feel Valve treats their customer base way better than Sony. Anybody else have a similar story?
I have many years left on my PS5 for PS Extra via a cheap Turkish account. Sony had blocked buying from Turkish account but luckily I staked up many years taking me to the end of this generation and maybe few years of next gen too. I really like the PS5 ecosystem, the instant loading, dualsene haptics. But I just don’t like the fact they charge for online pay and they bumped the price up drastically for online play. Games also cost a lot more I can’t remember the last time I bought a game fill price. Also don’t like games don’t get patched for powerful hardware as often. So I have decided once my sub expires I will sell my PS5 and never buy a console again. The PC ecosystem is great, will go full gaming rig and handheld PC going forward.