Ongoing purchasing of the system suggests otherwise, but history will remember the PS5 as being a failed generation if the current trend persists. With no quantum leap of game design philosophy, a shortage of meaningful first party exclusives that aren't remakes or cross-generation titles, the advent of digital only console games, and very little in terms of collectibility, and you'll have a generation of mindless consumers playing 25 year old ideas, aggressively monetized, copy and paste objectives, physically unavailable, thinking it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I held off getting a PS5 due to the price tag, the braindead release date (during a pandemic when most people were broke as shit), and the fact that it doesn't do anything at all better than the PS4 aside from improve what's under the hood. Sony is moving all of their 1st party titles to PC anyway, so there's little need to drop $700 on an (ugly) box that doesn't even fit in my home theater setup.