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A thread on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board saw a PS5 owner pour out regret, saying “I should have switched to PC last year.” The poster explains that they seriously considered buying a PC last year, but held off and stuck with PS5 after Microsoft announced it would bring its exclusive titles to other platforms too. Since then, however, PC part prices have skyrocketed to nearly triple what they were, putting the build they wanted out of reach. Forza Horizon 6, which they’d been looking forward to, isn’t coming to PS5, and word that an anticipated Kojima title is heading to Xbox instead has left them lamenting, “I want to punch my past self.” The thread drew sympathy, along with advice to “just buy a cheap used PC now,” as well as debate over whether major titles’ PS5 releases are actually confirmed.
What people said
But then MS threw in the towel and made everything multiplat, so I figured PS5 would be fine going forward and passed on it.
I want to punch my past self.
Who knew PC prices would spike this much…
There's no way I could afford it.
Seriously the worst.
Got a problem with that?
I was seriously planning to play Forza Horizon 6 myself while watching Hololive streams of it.
But it's not coming out at all, Kojima's game got stolen by Xbox, and now multiplat's getting scrapped too.
What the hell is going on, seriously.
Diablo V already has a confirmed PS version,
and aside from Gears, everything else is still staying multiplat, isn't it?
Just remembering it pisses me off.
I wanted to play Forza, but its moment has already passed.
On top of that, my physical game collection basically just got declared future garbage, and I genuinely don't get why they'd dump Kojima while cranking out mediocre first-party titles — it's just turning me off completely.
Just buy one now.
You could afford a low-spec used one, right?
That's honestly rough.
If you want to play FH6, getting an Xbox Series S might not be a bad option.
There's already talk of next-gen consoles, so why would I buy a low-spec machine that costs more than a PS5 at this point?
I could have actually bought a PC with a 5070 last year, damn iiiiiiit.
Seriously shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit.
Isn't a console that can't play the games you want to play the lowest spec of all?
I mean that PS5 sitting right there in your hands.
Ugh, shut up.
I was supposed to be able to play everything on PS5.
Now they're suddenly saying they're ending multiplat, and even the new Kojima game got taken away.
I'm a big MGS fan so I was genuinely looking forward to it.
If I'd known this would happen I'd have seriously bought a PC last year.
Both Sony and MS are jerking us around.
It genuinely pisses me off.
Physint was originally planned as a PS6 title,
so it was never slated for PS5 to begin with.
I'll go ahead and predict that staying involved with Sony and PlayStation is only going to make your gaming life more miserable from here.
Even if it costs you a bit more, I'd recommend moving over to PC or Xbox while you still can.
Lol, deciding the release plans all on your own.
During the post-event stream, a Blizzard exec said Diablo would be coming to both PS5 and PS6, so PlayStation fans could rest easy — so it's confirmed to release.
The actual authority to decide that lies with the parent company — Asha Sharma and Matthew Paul — not Blizzard's executives; Blizzard's execs don't have the power to decide where a game releases.
Who knows what'll happen three years from now.
We already learned from Gears that Asha will cancel things even at the last minute.
I'm genuinely regretting this.
Half the reason Sony's pulling this dumb stuff is because of people like you.
Losing Forza and Kojima's game only to get handed Marvel stuff and "woke" pandering instead makes me anything but happy.
Hmmmm…
The more I hear, the more it sounds like choosing PS5 in the first place was the mistake?
Was there even a PS5-exclusive game you actually wanted to play?
Then Asha must be the one who decided it.
Guess that's how it is.
If you go the DIY route with used DDR4 memory,
you can still build one for a not-too-crazy price —
though you won't be able to upgrade the CPU.
I'll just make do with a 14th-gen CPU for now.
I've always bought the PS versions of my games, Switch doesn't get AAA blockbusters, and Xbox was never even an option to begin with — so once the exclusives disappeared, of course PS was the only real choice.
In the end MS basically waved the white flag and made even the studios they bought multiplat, so I figured PS5 was fine and passed on a PC last year.
Now all of a sudden they're going exclusive again and handing Kojima's game to MS — it makes no sense.
And seriously, what's even supposed to happen to all the physical games I've collected up to now?
If I'd known it would turn out like this I'd have genuinely bought a PC last year.
Why does this have to happen right after prices shot up to an insane degree?
You can just sell the physical copies, can't you? Good for you.
Turns out PS5 was the one that was never even an option after all.
That's the punchline.
Well, good effort — congrats on graduating from gaming.
And if on top of that they're holding off on Wilds too, that'd make them the true winner.
Though I doubt many people built a new rig just to then skip the game entirely.
Seriously, why didn't I buy one last year…
I went back and forth right up to the point of actually committing to buy it, too.
How many physical copies do you even have?
Pretty pathetic.
That's just as true for Steam, Nintendo, Microsoft, or Epic.
GOG would be the exception, maybe.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
This kind of “regret over missing the window to switch” tends to happen when two factors collide: soaring GPU and memory prices, and shifting exclusivity strategies from major platform holders. The poster’s reason for passing on a PC last year was that “the Microsoft camp abandoned exclusivity and went multiplatform” — but this time, as with the Kojima title, the opposite is happening, with exclusivity making a comeback, showing that platform strategy can flip more than once within a single year. The thread split between sympathy for the external factor of price spikes and harsher opinions along the lines of “isn’t this just self-inflicted from putting off the decision?” There’s also a point readers might easily misread: in response to a post claiming a “development executive confirmed” a certain title’s PS5 release, another poster pointed out that the actual authority to decide release platforms rests with the parent company — meaning a comment at an event or on social media isn’t the same as an official announcement.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “I’m a PS5 user, but honestly I seriously regret not just switching to PC sooner.”
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