PS5, X Box Series X or X Box Series S

I am giving this generation a miss for the moment. No compelling Sony exclusives really.

The answer for me is a gaming PC. The problem I have is that games systems are very incremental in terms of graphics and gameplay, especially if you have a gaming PC. What I've seen can be equalled or surpassed by a PC. We are still on the same basic controller, so the games will be more of the same.

The main element for me is the freedom of PC. We are getting into an era where your content is completely controlled and you owning the disc means nothing. Ok, it;s like that for the PC but the PC also has piracy and modding to unfuck games. Prices tend to be a lot cheaper as well.

Modding is a major attraction tbh. Look at Skyrim and the Skyblivion project. Bethesda will probably steal the idea and charge £70 for soon. For my sim racing games like Assetto Corsa I've got tens of gigabytes of new cars and tracks, all for nothing. Hell I even use a mod to allow me to use the PSVR on the PC for driving sims. Most sims allow you to import your own liveries designed in photoshop or whatever. Want to drive a Nazi inspired F1 car? You can. Even if you get banned you can still pirate all the content as well.

I'm going to wait until the 3xxx nvidia stuff starts to flow. Apparently the 3070 is faster than 2080ti and only £500.

The corona tax is real when it come to PC stuff at the moment. Prices went stupid. Luckily I bought it all used because this shit started.

Think you'd even have a job on finding a console. They are hen's teeth at the moment.

My lad is eyeing up a PS5. His x-box days are over.

What about the Oculus Quest?

The quest is a decent piece of hardware I suppose but........you have to have a Facebook account and not a burner one. I only ever had a burner account and got removed recently. I have no intention of having a real facebook account so that's a no from me. Basically you spend £300 on an Oculus, call Greta Thunberg a cunt and get banned and then that's £300 down the drain. Not sure but the hardware may also be locked to your account on registration so you can't sell it.

I was looking at getting my youth a PS5, but they're just not worth the hassle to get hold of, unless you plan on profiteering and reselling.
He has a gaming PC, but also a PS4, all of the first releases, eg Miles Morales etc with be on PS4 too, so he can wait until next year when everything has calmed down. Although I think he will spend most of his time on PC anyway, he is always on discord to his friends and they play more PC orientated games.

There will be no shortage of PS5s next year, Mr The Cutter. Sony always do this with a new console release, it's almost like that shocking Arnie movie 'Jingle All The Way.'
If I was a bit more cynical I would think that they deliberately do it to create a buzz around their product.

It's difficult to say, mate- in relation to the correlation between the PS5 launch and gaming peaking that is.
I think the number of units available may be linked to Covid, but also the PS5 seems to have received a fair bit of prime time mainstream media advertising, eg TV etc. I don't know how much online advertising has been done though. Maybe they didn't push it as much because they knew they couldn't hit the requisite numbers. Certainly Sony have a tonne of previous for this kind of launch shortfall.
I don't know what kind of numbers the latest call of duty has shifted. Cold War has been the first one that we've not purchased on launch. But that's partially due to last years re-hash of Modern Warfare being so good. I tell my boy that I served during the cold war, but I don't tell him that it mostly involved patch-painting land rovers and getting in the raw in squadron bar.
I suppose the real big acid test for where gaming is at will be when the next GTA comes out.