I’m late to the party, but the good thing is that there’s plenty of food to devour. That’s how I feel having been gifted a console (PS4) so late into it’s life-cycle. We already know that the PS5 (PSV?) has been announced for December 2020. So why now?
There are a ton of advantages with jumping into a console so late in it’s life-cycle. Here are just a few of them:
- Discounts on console/bundled deals.
- Games are cheaper (used games easily acquired)
- GOTY editions (bundled DLC game packages at low prices)
- Bugs/updates have been worked out for major game releases
Those are just a few of the reasons to jump into a gaming console at the end of it’s life. You just save a ton of money and have a lot of media to consume.
There are certainly trade-offs, as the number of games that are being released for the older generation start to taper off as release of the latest approaches. But for me, this isn’t really a deal-breaker. I did this with the Xbox 360 and here I am at the tail end of Sony’s Playstation 4.
Glass Cannon 