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Everything going more PC got the fanboys crying?
Or that there has been NO good exclusives since the new consoles released?
Why would you buy a console anyway?
Previously easy to play in living room, low barrier to entry.
Nowadays, a lot of the benefits have been lost due to censorship bullshit. Only one left is probably Nintendo thanks to the iron grip on their IPs that are still good.
Since Steam and Big Picture Mode compatibility became more optimised, most consoles even lost out on this little advantage. I learned this first hand when I bought a PS4 years ago, and soon after bought a high-end gaming rig. It took the PS4 like close to a minute to cold boot and my gaming rig as quick as 19 seconds to cold boot. Also you couldn't access any games when an update had to take place, and sometimes those updates were huge and slow.
Some years ago I remember I had to wait close to an hour for the PS4 to do some massive update and I couldn't do anything while it was going through that lengthy OS process. I had my gaming rig on in seconds, my Xbox controller plugged into the front of the PC like a console, and was playing Super Indie Karts on the large-screen TV while waiting for the PS4 system and game(s) to finish updating. It was at that point that I realised that the new consoles were more cumbersome to use than my gaming PC.
The Switch has near instantaneous boot times (it's faster than it takes HDMI to sync with my receiver and projector) and most games, particularly first-party titles, have trivial load times. The OS hypervisor is also instantaneously responsive.
It was one of the things that surprised me the most about the Wii U -- the boot time was awful and the home screen was painfully slow.
Also, who cold boots their PC? Sleep, or at least hibernate.
I've had games that HARD CRASH my PC after five minutes, play perfectly without issue on the console version.
Convenience matters.
The old argument was:
You get better hardware than what you pay for during the first one or two years.
It’s simpler. No installing. No patches. Minimal technical issues.
Both of these points have gone away.
If you could even buy them in the first place. A lot of Sonys woes are due to the scalpers making buying a PS5 a chore. Now though? You can buy them but they never made any games. Could also be due to the low amount of people buying said new games. Oh wonder, people probably gave up trying to get one, kind of a vicious circle.
After my PS3 died because of the heat-overload issue, I never really wanted another console, even though they make the best home-theater idea as a media player (CD/DVD/Blue-Ray) simply because you can also multipurpose it as a game-system.
Other than that, I see no real reason to buy a console in the first place as you can do everything with a PC box ... and most likely easier with a PC box ...
Not many people care about it these days, but to actually own your games. Since le PC master race sold their consumer rights for a copy of HL2 20 years ago, physical console games are almost the only option.
GOG's library of recent AA/AAA games is growing but still very lacking.
I can't stand console players whining about a lack of console exclusives. Console exclusives is the least healthy way to maintain a console market.
Additionally, one of the biggest reasons why I think consoles are getting screwed so hard is the lack of splitscreen support from any new games for years now.
It's mixed on that front.
If the company fronted the cash, resources for development and distribution of that game, then they can make it a first party exclusive its their right.
But if it's buying out a studio to THEN make it exclusive, that's just scummy. Especially if it's a timed exclusive.
It's the later, for me. Most of the games I wanted were still available on old gen anyway, so there wasn't a compelling need to upgrade. Now that both Microsoft and Sony are pushing digital only, I don't see the appeal of sticking with consoles.