Around 10 years ago, I bought a PlayStation 4, just after the "slim" model was released. It was heavily discounted, came with a couple of years' warranty and three of the most popular games of the PS4's life cycle up to that point. It's seen me through thick and thin and runs like a dream, with no sign of slowing down, but I'm starting to cast my eye over games like Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which means it's finally time to upgrade to a PlayStation 5.
We're halfway through that console's life cycle, and buying a PS5 now affords me the same upgrade as launch-day games had years ago, for substantially less money. There are serious gamers out there who traded in their PS5 and bought a new console when the PS5s Pro and Slim were released last year, representing the pinnacle of console graphics, framerate, processing power and other mysterious specs that dedicated gamers care about.
