@Gameguy
I wasn't talking about PS4 as a current gen console, I was more or less replying to your comment about the Switch and I sort of jumped into the discussion of Switch vs PS4. PS5 itself doesn't have much going for it at this point that really says you need to get a PS5 other than just playing better versions of PS4 games. I feel like that's the reason to own the system at this time though. Whether it's to play better versions of games that also play on PS4 while also playing many PS4 games in their best possible form.
For example, I never got into Monster Hunter and I've always wanted to. I've tried to do so many times from Monster Hunter 2 on PS2, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, even Monster Ultimate 3 and 4 on the Wii U and 3DS. I really like the gameplay on the games, it's just there are so many fetch quests you have to go through and so many the same enemies you have to go through over and over again that I was never able to get into them.
Then I played Monster Hunter World Iceborne.... for 300 hours. Monster Hunter World removes some mechanics that make it so hard to get into Monster Hunter. The paint ball is removed and eventually you can just see where all the monsters are at and it just removes a lot of the hassle. I'm nowhere near the thousands of hours that a lot of Monster Hunter players put into them, so I'm definitely no pro, but I did atleast finish Iceborne defeating many master rank monsters so I'm atleast decent at it. Now, why am I describing this? Because Monster Hunter World runs at 60fps on the PS5 while it runs sub 30fps on PS4 and XBO.
If you play the Fire Fades version of Dark Souls 3 which includes all patches including the uncapped framerate, the game runs 60fps on PS5. Sekiro(if running unpatched) runs at 60fps on PS5, so in all of these cases the disc includes 60fps. Until Dawn, BroForce, etc, etc, etc. Games like Just Cause 3 that run with framerate issues on the PS4 run at 30fps on the PS5, this is true for many other games. Lichdom Battlemage, I can finally actually play the game, a game that runs around 15fps runs at 50-60fps unpatched on the PS5. Battle Chaser's Nightwar, a true hidden gem in the RPG genre some pretty nasty framerate issues. EDF games, have you ever played an EDF game that wasn't sub 30fps all the way down to the single digits? 60fps on PS5.
The experience on all of these PS4 games are just that much better, for nothing more than the power boost from the PS5. Because of how much I love the PS4 as a console, I value that above all else for the PS5. It may get to the point where there's more than just better versions of PS4 games, but aside from Demon's Souls, which is really just a better version of a game I already own on the PS3, PS5 doesn't really have anything that's really its own other than Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Baldur's Gate 3. One game isn't even out yet and one game doesn't yet have a physical release. I still do like the system for it being nothing more than a performance boost though and that's the reason I use it over the PS4. Final Fantasy 16 is another exclusive I'm interested in but as of now you may as well run the whole thing in fidelity mode at 30fps otherwise you'll get framerate issues that make it much worse when outside of combat which runs at 720p on performance mode, a bit disappointed in that.
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