10 Reasons to Buy a PlayStation 5 in 2024

so I recently picked up the new PlayStation 5 Slim and I've been really enjoying my time testing out this console so I've decided to make a video dedicated to 10 reasons why I think you should consider picking up a PlayStation 5 in 2024 let's go on with it so my first reason for picking up a PlayStation 5 in 2024 is a pretty obvious one it's exclusive games as someone that's only been using the Xbox this console generation it's quite refreshing to have access to a range of different PlayStation exclusives so I've been playing games such

as God of War Ragnarok ratchet and Spider-Man Demon Souls these are all games that I didn't have access to when I was playing on my Xbox so it's been nice to go back and play those exclusives I've only mentioned a few but there are a lot of PlayStation exclusives that are worth playing so that is my first reason why you should pick up a PlayStation 5 moving on to reason number two and that is the controller as someone that's predominantly been using Xbox I was actually surprised at how much I liked the Dual sense controller

from PlayStation I think the Dual sense controller actually provides a lot of advantages over the X box controller the first reason being that it comes with an inbuilt rechargeable battery which to a lot of people is an advantage this dual sense controller just seems to have a lot more advanced features and some gimmicky features compared with the Xbox counterpart for example the middle section of the controller a says a touchpad which can be useful when you have to use the onscreen keyboard and the Dual sense controller also comes with an inbuilt microphone so you don't

need a headset to talk with your friends but I probably would advise picking up a headset for the best gaming experience the Dual sense controller does come with some slightly more gimmicky features such as an inbuilt speaker which I ended up muting straight away I guess it's nice that it gives you the option to have sound coming out of your controller if that's something that you're into and finally I want to talk about the haptic Motors in the Dual sense controller and that was the first thing I noticed when I picked up the Dual sens

controller was that the haptics on this controller are significantly better than the haptics on an Xbox controller the motors in this controller are able to produce a wider range of vibrations compared to the Xbox counterpart and I do quite like the Adaptive triggers I think they're quite satisfying to use so that's a thumbs up from me so before we move on to the third reason if you are enjoying this video so far be sure to hit that subscribe button we have just hit 3,000 subscribers on the road to 4,000 subscribers which is absolutely amazing so

if you are enjoying this video it would be very much appreciated to one hit that like button and two consider subscribing I try to make weekly Tech videos so if that's something you're interested in consider checking out my channel let's get on with the video so my third reason why you should consider picking up a PlayStation 5 is actually PlayStation Plus so PlayStation Plus was actually a nice surprise to me it's something that I didn't really know too much about but essentially PlayStation Plus is a subscription that's very similar to Game Pass ultimate on the

Xbox side of things you pay a monthly or yearly fee and you get access to PlayStation online as well as a catalog of games and the service only cost me about £85 for the first year which equals around about £7 a month which I thought was a pretty good deal I believe that is actually less money than I'm paying for Game Pass ultimate which is surprising and the thing that actually surprised me was how many games were actually available to me on the game catalog so my assumption had been that game pass ultimate had always

been the better subscription game service but actually Sony must be stepping the game up because there actually a lot of good games on the game catalog on PlayStation plus there are actually a large number of PlayStation exclusives that you can download from the game catalog so I think that a couple couple of years ago Game Pass definitely was the better service but now in 2024 PlayStation Plus has definitely stepped up their game and I still would definitely say that game pass does have more games but Playstation Plus game catalog does have quite a lot of

games and it is something worth considering if you're going to pick up a PS5 especially the digital only version because uh obviously you've got to download all your games so my fourth reason as to why you should consider picking up a PlayStation 5 in 2024 is the fact that Sony have come out and released a PlayStation 5 Slim model which I have here so the PlayStation 5 Slim model actually fixes a number of issues that I had with the original PlayStation 5 the first one being the storage so the storage on the PlayStation 5 has

been increased from 825 GB on the original PlayStation 5 to 1 tbte on the PlayStation 5 Slim So with the size of games in 2024 I think 1 tab is a more acceptable storage size so another thing that they've improved on with the PlayStation 5 Slim model is the fact that if you buy the digital only Edition is that you're not locked out of using a disc drive so I bought the digital only version but the disc drive is now modular so I could in the future decide that I want a disc drive go out

and buy a disc drive and just clip it onto the side of this console which is something you couldn't do before and finally this is probably a pretty obvious one but the PlayStation 5 Slim is quite a bit smaller and more compact than the original PlayStation 5 it's not quite as small as an Xbox series s but it is a lot smaller than the original play PlayStation 5 it's definitely less intrusive when it stood next to your TV so my fifth reason as to why you should consider picking up a PlayStation 5 in 2024 is

the price so here I have the new PlayStation 5 slim digital only Edition I paid just over £300 for this console which I think is actually quite a good price what I mean by that is if you decided to go with an Xbox series X you'd probably be paying about100 more around about £400 for that console and I am aware that the Xbox series X does have a disc drive and if you were to compare the PlayStation 5 with a disc drive the prices would be more evenly matched but in my opinion the PlayStation 5

slim digital only Edition is great value for money and if you decide to buy the slim version of the PlayStation 5 digital only Edition you then have the option to upgrade that console and add a disc drive at a later date so that is a really good option and I am also aware that the Xbox series s is less expensive than the PlayStation 5 digital only Edition but even though I I think this is a great console you are getting a more powerful current gen game experience with the PlayStation 5 because with this series s

you are getting less powerful Hardware than the series X whereas the PlayStation 5 digital only Edition has the exact same Hardware as the disc version so with this PlayStation you'll be able to play a lot more games at higher resolutions and higher frame rates than this series s so that is a reason to go with this console over this console so my sixth reason as to why you should pick up a PlayStation 5 is the panel cust customization so on the PlayStation 5 you're able to take off these white panels and replace them with various

different colored panels or different themed panels to change the whole look and design of your PlayStation 5 which I think is a really cool feature so unfortunately at the time of filming this video I don't have any color panels to show you myself but I will be popping some images on screen of some example themes or panels that you can buy if you buy a PlayStation 5 so yeah if you like customizing your console that's probably another reason to pick up a PlayStation 5 over maybe an xbx so my seventh reason as to why you

should pick up a PlayStation 5 is storage expansion so with the PlayStation 5 Sony has given you access to the m.2 slot so you've got the ability to remove the default 1 tbte SSD and upgrade it with up to I believe 4 terabytes the reason why that's an advantage to the PlayStation 5 is that if you want to upgrade the storage on an Xbox then they've created a proprietary expansion card so I still think that this storage expansion card slot is still a pretty decent way of doing things but I do prefer the PlayStation 5's

method of actually changing an internal SSD in my opinion it's a cleaner way of doing things cuz you don't have to have an expansion card always poking at the back of your console there'll also be a lot more choice in terms of buying ssds for the PlayStation 5 because m.2 ssds are the same ssds that PCS use so there'll be a lot more choice on the market when it comes to picking up an SSD for your PlayStation 5 so my eighth reason as to why you should pick up a PlayStation 5 is PlayStation VR so

with the release of the PlayStation 5 Sony came out with a second generation VR headset so if you're someone that's interested in playing or experiencing VR games then picking up a PlayStation 5 and the VR headset might be one of the best ways to get into VR Gaming so even though Sony's VR headset is more than £500 in terms of VR headsets it's still one of the better value headsets because you can end up spending around about £1,000 for a PC VR headset and you also need to buy the gaming PC which be way more

expensive than buying a PlayStation 5 and the Sony VR headset so in terms of price the PlayStation VR paired with a PlayStation 5 is probably quite a good and affordable entry point into the VR Gaming world so if you are interested in VR Gaming then that is another reason to pick up a PlayStation 5 because on the Xbox side of things Microsoft doesn't currently offer a VR headset so my ninth reason as to why you should pick up a PlayStation 5 is backwards compatibility so if there's any old PlayStation 4 games PlayStation 3 games or

even any PlayStation 2 games you'll most likely be able to play them on the PlayStation 5 for example bloodborne which is originally a PlayStation 4 game I've been able to play on my PlayStation 5 and if you're a PlayStation Plus premium member you're able to stream PlayStation 3 games which is nice to see and another game that I've been enjoying on this PS5 is siphon filter Logan Shadows which I believe was originally a PlayStation Portable game which I can now play in 4k on this PlayStation 5 so that is another reason to pick up a

PlayStation 5 if there's any older PlayStation 4 PlayStation 3 or any PlayStation 2 games that you want to play so my 10th and final reason as to why you should pick up a PlayStation 5 is a subjective one and it's that in my opinion the user interface on the PlayStation 5 is a lot nicer than the user interface on the Xbox and so I know this is a very subjective reason but just having a look at the main menu on the PlayStation 5 I think the whole design and usability of the PlayStation 5 main menu

is a lot nicer than the Xbox I do just prefer that on the PlayStation all the games are lined up along the top and when you hover over a game that you're about to play it fills the whole screen and in my opinion I think it looks a lot better than the Xbox UI design the Xbox just looks a bit like 2014 Windows 8 so anyway hopefully you've enjoyed this video on 10 reasons why you should consider picking up a PlayStation 5 in 2024 if you have enjoyed be sure to hit that subscribe button we're

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