Weighing the pros and cons of each ecosystems offerings and would like to commit to just one ecosystem this next generation due to raising hardware prices and time commitments but can not decide between PC/Steam and Playstation.
Im 30+ so grew up with Playstation and had every generation until the PS4 Pro came out I instead built my own PC and gamed on that for about 10ish years until the PS5 Pro came out I then switched back to Playstation due to the ease of use and physical game collecting. But with all the terrible decisions Playstation is making Im reconsidering going back to PC for the openness of the ecosytem which I believe will be very important in the coming future for ownership.
Although, I do work in Tech and at the end of a work day refuse to sit at another desk and to do the bare minimum if at all when troubleshooting or optimizing settings at my age.
My Wife has gotten into gaming as well so I'd like to maintain two gaming systems, one for me one for her. This is were the cost comes in as maintaining two decent PCs is alot more than two Playstations as her PC is going to need an upgrade or replaced with a Steam Machine. So I would also need to troubleshoot/optimize two gaming sytems.
Lastly I do like to Trophy/Achievement hunt, I love that Steam Achievements only have one list since there is one verison of the game. Where Playstation has started introducing multiple Trophy lists for the same game due to multiple verisons. Ex. Witcher 3 now has 4x Trophy lists that do not sync. And Steams cloud saves are just miles better than Playstation's.
Current setup both PCs hooked up to TVs/couch gaming and rough estimate costs factor in Monitors, TVs, PS Subcription, Prevails, over the lifetime Ive had the devices not including games:
PC - i7-12700k, 3080ti - with Steam Deck Oled ($7000 5years)
PS5 Pro - with Portal ($2500 2years)
2nd PC - i7-6700k, 2x 1080s in SLI (Wife's) ($4000 10years)
PS5 - with Portal (Wife's) ($1500 4years)
TLDR: What platform do you find yourself gravitating towards spending more time Gaming on in the future with all the current raising hardware costs and anti consumer decisions consoles may go through with next generation?