Feeling pretty strong buyer's remorse at this point, especially with the announcement that FH5 will be available on last-gen through cloud services.
This whole gamescom show has been a waste of time so far.
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I learned from my mistake this time. I was an early adopter of the Xbox One and I barely used it for the first two years. I played online a lot more then, friends didn't have it, and the early games weren't that great.
Last October, I decided to buy a barely used Xbox One X from a guy locally, with a couple like new controllers too. $150. Sold my original Xbox One for $75. Main thing I wanted was some of the 4K upscaling of Original Xbox games and such anyway. I haven't even slightly regretted making that move.
NHL 2015 on XB1 was pretty enough that I bought a new console on impulse after playing it on a store demo.
The actual game was so stripped of features though compared to last gen that my friends and I soon abandoned it completely and went back to NHL on 360.
I can't remember exactly what was so egregious about it, but IIRC, it was something along the lines of not being able to draft your own players in Franchise mode and/or the AI teams being unable to offer you trades spontaneously. I seem to recall that players also never got injured if you played live games vs simming them.
I guess that is more EA's fault, but it was a good lesson.
NHL 15 was the beginning of the end for me with those games. 11-15 on my Xbox 360 I bought every year when new. They actually added things every year too. Most of the games felt different year over year. Sometimes for good, not always. But they tried a lot.
Once they moved to NHL 15 on the Xbox One, it never was the same. I played NHL 16 a decent amount and was done after that. Now it's just Madden microtranny fest with hockey.
I was a very late adopter of the Xbox One, I got it a few weeks after Steam lifted their porn ban and the shovelware floodgates opened.
I was going to get a One X, but I thought being future-proof was worth the extra.
Maybe I'll feel better when FH5 actually releases.
I don't think you will necessarily lose out either way. I was going to buy a Series X, but at the time $500 plus having to find one I just decided to go the cheap route. I just haven't been a PC guy since the early 2000s, the console experience is much more for me.
It's way better than the way Soyny has turned. It wasn't but a few years ago I was going to get a PS5 at some point. It's a good thing they went woke, because they've gone super scummy anti-consumer on top of it. The most recent I noticed was they delist Ghost of Tsushima, so they can jack the price back up to $60 for a "director's cut". I'm thrilled to not be getting sucked into their PS5 game. I still play my PS4 because it's not like I'm paying to use it. I already bought almost everything I want on it, that GoT game being one of the ones I was going to wait to give them $10 for.
LOL if you have a PS4 then you'll definitely be a PC guy today, since you have faster loading times on PC, better controller versatility, and better graphics.
PC gaming today is nothing like it was back in the 80s, 90s, or even the mid-aughts.
Everything is streamlined now and is more console-like than consoles. I usually don't even turn on my PS4 because it has so many forced updates where the features become unusable unless you update. On PC you can turn off the updates, boot up Steam, and play whatever you want. You can even delay updates for games in case you would rather play than wait for the updates to download.
I got a gaming rig back in 2016/2017 (can't remember which year) and it gets to desktop from a cold boot in 17 seconds. I can get into a game faster than the PS4 can load up an app from a warm boot.
Also, being able to have Steam allow you to assign desktop navigation with a controller makes it even easier yet. I have a Switch Pro controller that I absolutely adore, so I use it for a bunch of games on PC.
I know a lot of people are adverse to gaming on PC because it's "cumbersome" and they have "upgrade" every few years, but my gaming rig gets a heck of a lot more mileage out of than the consoles these days (with the exception of the Switch, which actually functions like a classic console instead of a low-end PC).
With the XB1 and PS4 constantly having to update, and the fact that I have to install disc games before playing them (which resulted in me having to play games on my PC while waiting for games to install on my PS4), I just decided to focus more on my PC catalog than the console catalog. There was nothing consoles did better, plus you have to pay to play online with consoles, whereas online multiplayer on PC is free.
It very well could become my next thing to go back to PC, we will have to see where things go with what games come out and such. As I mentioned I am still on the old stuff with no plans to move forward.
Biggest issues for me is I'm 100% a couch/TV player. I sit at my desk for work all day. Sitting at a desk for gaming is a total no-go. I don't care how many hardcore gamers do it and how serious business it is to use the mouse and keyboard for leet skillz. Every day I get closer to old codger and farther from teenager and that stuff holds absolutely zero importance to me.
The last time I looked at going back to PC I was going to build something into an HTPC case and put on my TV. Why I didn't then is because I do tend to play a lot of older games, and up until just a few years ago controller support on PC was just plain atrocious. Sure, I can piddle with those things like xpadder or whatever it's called now forever and still be unhappy with them. At the time, MS was pushing out a lot of the backwards compatible stuff so my Xbox covered way more of what I wanted to play. Next time around, I'll look at the same thought process again and see how the PC lays out. That will probably be a few years whenever I get tired of what I have. I wouldn't be shocked if I just go to whatever the Switch's successor is and go back and catch up on whatever comes from that library instead.
I actually don't like my PS4. If I could go back to 2017 with what I know now I'd probably never have bought it. Since I have it I do play it occasionally, but it's mostly for Japanese stuff that I can't play on Xbox. A lot of those games (e.g. Yakuza series) are all going multi-platform now anyway. Sony's games lost my interest from boredom about a year before I really started to notice their wokedom.