Is It Worth Buying a PlayStation in 2024?

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A new year, and another look at the state of PlayStation. And it’s an interesting one. PlayStation stand on the edge of massive changes, and whether you should buy depends entirely on your use case.

The PS5 is a perfectly decent console. It does everything you want it to do. The graphics are fantastic, the games are always enjoyable. If you’re looking for a way into next-gen, if you’ve owned PlayStation devices in the past and want to see what you’ve missed, or if you want to catch-up on must-play games from last generation, it would be hard to argue against you picking one up. You’ll have a great time.

But the content is becoming slower, and safer. You’ll wait longer between releases. Developers will take less risks. This isn’t necessarily a Sony problem, it’s an industry problem. But, by default, Sony will be the platform holder most impacted.

In the past, PlayStation has mostly focussed on big single player experiences. These have become harder, longer and more expensive to make. And while you shouldn’t expect PlayStation to pivot from these kinds of games – not much anyway – their focus is going in a different direction. There are currently no first party single player games with a hard release date for 2024. And no, I’m not counting third party timed exclusives.

That’s not as scary as it might seem. Sony’s marketing cycle is now extremely short. Maybe we get to summer and see a deluge of content. This isn’t a post warning you off the future of PlayStation. There’s plenty to look forward to. But when a company’s bread and butter was $200m single player games, and those are becoming riskier even when they’re made as safely as possible, something has to give.

And so someone buying a PlayStation 5 in 2024 does so with