You joke but those things will outlast a nuclear bomb. Worked at a pizza place that still used them and they got the job done. Corporate demanded an upgrade to touch screens and that shit needed rebooted every 5 orders.
What's supppsed to be the advantage of a console over a computer + a compatible controler again?
There is a ridiculously large catalogue of good games that can now run on a sub-$1000 dollars laptop with integrated graphics. Either free of the DRM cancer, or patched free of it.
Also, I haven't done PC gaming in years but it used to be that even if your machine matched or exceeded the specs for a certain game you often had to fuck around with settings to get it to work anyway. I was a PC gamer from the days of DOS through the early 2000s, and games that mysteriously wouldn't work were a problem the whole time.
The PS5 has no exclusives, though. All the games are remakes, HD ports, etc. They all get ported to PC after a while, anyways. There is absolutely no reason to buy one.
It had them. It failed so badly they ended up porting them to recuperate some of the losses on the games. Much like Nintendo did with most of the WiiU games.
Which further enforces the point of not having a single reason to own one.
Is this a real question? Consoles are way cheaper than computers, and games actually work on them. PC gamers are constantly bitching about bad ports because games are made for consoles and ported to PC.
You have truth here. There is more to it than just consoles. Sony wants to own your living room. You have Sony speakers, TVs, Propriety Discs like Blu-ray CD and DVD, Hard Drives, Music, Movies, chipsets, earphones, smart room tech like lightbulbs smartphones and cameras, editing equipment for all of that by Sony made and owned tech, and more. During the PS2 era everything in your living room could be made by Sony. Microsoft got in entirely to stop this dominance. Remember the format wars between HDDVD and Blue Ray? That was a huge deal, because the formats meant money could be made by selling the discs to your competitors.
It's really big business, and videogames are just the entry market to sneak it all in.
Consoles being locked down serves the purpose of multiplayer games without (rampant) cheating.
I like to play some TF2 occasionally, but it's not even worth trying anymore. Most matched games are full of robots and when you get one that's not they get in on the next round and out vote actual players so they can't even be kicked out.
Steam isn't even trying to stop cheating, but especially since they've embraced linux there's not much they can even do about it. You need trusted hardware and software to do it.
Sony is desperate for anything to get profit, now. They actually went and offered am exclusivity deal for an indie game that had already been out for years - what's worse is the faggot dev took it, too. Dropped all the stuff they claimed to work on and developed a new short campaign exclusively for the PS5 port.
sigh. Every day, modern tech makes me more and more of a luddite. Can we go back to computers with 486s and green and black screens please?
You joke but those things will outlast a nuclear bomb. Worked at a pizza place that still used them and they got the job done. Corporate demanded an upgrade to touch screens and that shit needed rebooted every 5 orders.
What's supppsed to be the advantage of a console over a computer + a compatible controler again?
There is a ridiculously large catalogue of good games that can now run on a sub-$1000 dollars laptop with integrated graphics. Either free of the DRM cancer, or patched free of it.
Stop deliberately making your products defective.
I have a Switch for Nintendo exclusives and portability. Everything else goes on PC.
Console exclusives.
Also, I haven't done PC gaming in years but it used to be that even if your machine matched or exceeded the specs for a certain game you often had to fuck around with settings to get it to work anyway. I was a PC gamer from the days of DOS through the early 2000s, and games that mysteriously wouldn't work were a problem the whole time.
that is one of the awesome things about PC gaming though. frustration and knowledge barriers that keep console gamers out
The PS5 has no exclusives, though. All the games are remakes, HD ports, etc. They all get ported to PC after a while, anyways. There is absolutely no reason to buy one.
It had them. It failed so badly they ended up porting them to recuperate some of the losses on the games. Much like Nintendo did with most of the WiiU games.
Which further enforces the point of not having a single reason to own one.
The question was about consoles in general:
I don't own a PS5 or know anything about their games. As another poster pointed out, Nintendo has plenty of exclusives.
That guy's not exaggerating about it not having any games. Nintendo's the only console that has real exclusives now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_5-only_games
Considering every exclusive is a carrier for The Message, I personally find it very hard to get excited about any console exclusive.
Is this a real question? Consoles are way cheaper than computers, and games actually work on them. PC gamers are constantly bitching about bad ports because games are made for consoles and ported to PC.
And yet again, the next Gen consoles prove to be worthless.
You have truth here. There is more to it than just consoles. Sony wants to own your living room. You have Sony speakers, TVs, Propriety Discs like Blu-ray CD and DVD, Hard Drives, Music, Movies, chipsets, earphones, smart room tech like lightbulbs smartphones and cameras, editing equipment for all of that by Sony made and owned tech, and more. During the PS2 era everything in your living room could be made by Sony. Microsoft got in entirely to stop this dominance. Remember the format wars between HDDVD and Blue Ray? That was a huge deal, because the formats meant money could be made by selling the discs to your competitors.
It's really big business, and videogames are just the entry market to sneak it all in.
Consoles being locked down serves the purpose of multiplayer games without (rampant) cheating.
I like to play some TF2 occasionally, but it's not even worth trying anymore. Most matched games are full of robots and when you get one that's not they get in on the next round and out vote actual players so they can't even be kicked out.
Steam isn't even trying to stop cheating, but especially since they've embraced linux there's not much they can even do about it. You need trusted hardware and software to do it.
Sony is desperate for anything to get profit, now. They actually went and offered am exclusivity deal for an indie game that had already been out for years - what's worse is the faggot dev took it, too. Dropped all the stuff they claimed to work on and developed a new short campaign exclusively for the PS5 port.