PS5 is five years old. It feels wrong, but no matter how many times I crunch the numbers the fact remains: the PlayStation 5 is celebrating its 5th anniversary. It seems like only yesterday I was cracking open the box to ogle its HDMI cables on camera, and experiencing the haptic feedback of the DualSense through Astro's Playroom for the first time.
All this time later, the PS5 is easily my most used console, but – as a straightforward replacement for the PS4 – it's not felt like an earth-shattering generational shift. Even so, with the likes of Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, and Ghost of Yotei this year – PS5 and PlayStation as a games publisher, has never felt in a better place. Anyone like me who's been playing since the '90s knows that console generations in general feel like less substantial upgrades than they used to, but it's something I've only started to reckon with now as long-running franchises finally drop PS4 support and, somehow, conversation around PS6 is already happening.
