Is a console worth to buy in 2026?

(My opinion)!

I would say no.

It depends on whether you're buying a console, be it the PS5 or the Xbox, for your friends or for yourself. If you're buying it to connect with your friends and play together, I completely agree and would advise you to buy a console. However, if your friends have PCs or you want to be independent of them, then I would definitely recommend buying/building or let someone build you a PC. Why, you ask? First of all, a PC these days costs about the same as a PS5 in terms of power, just like the PS5 itself. Despite the similar price, a PC is better in every respect because it doesn't automatically upscale games, so the graphic on PC is much sharper and cleaner. You can also manually upscale games to get a better performance like with AMD FSR (what the PS5 uses) or NVIDIA DLSS; you can do it manually and therefore get even better performance than on a PS5. All PS5 exclusive games are also available for PC, and if not yet, they will be on PC within a year at the latest. If you're so impressed by the haptic feedback of the PS5 controller, let me tell you something. You can buy the original PS5 controller separately for €60-70 and get the same experience with the "exclusive" PS5 games, even with higher FPS and better graphics than on the PS5 itself. If you're impressed by the PS5's minimal loading times, I can also tell you that the PS5 simply uses a good SSD, which makes this possible. You can easily buy an SSD for your PC and have the same experience. And if I could bring up the topic of friends again, most online games have crossplay, so you can play with your friends even if you're on a PC.

My conclusion: If you want better value for your money – more freedom, more performance, better graphics – I would wholeheartedly recommend a PC over a console, as PCs can now replace consoles, and Xbox/Microsoft agrees, releasing their next "console" as a hybrid PC.

If you want to buy a console (PS5/Xbox) than do it, its your free will, but i would recommend you to take your money and invest into a PC.

If you want Nintendo, than buy a Switch 2 because Nintendo games are not on a PC😪