Why would you even have a console for anything else.
What if I told you that entire generations of gamers grew up spending thousands of hours in their bedroom or family den on Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog LONG before the internet or ANY of the always-online digital gulags were ever built?
What if some of those gamers grew up and had kids of their own, and now just want their little ones to share in the same kind of wholesome fun and happiness without having to always connect to the Information-Super Highway toilet pipe full of pajeets, groomers and pedos?
Get any media computer and put Steam or Bazzite on it.
What's next on your complaint list, your VCR doesn't have HDMI output? "But my kids can't have the exact same childhood I did without a VCR in the living room"
You still get a newspaper delivered to your house I'd guess. "Back in my day we'd get newspaper print on our hands and we liked it."
Because it's adding a needless cog to the system that doesn't improve functionality whatsoever. Why would I need constant internet connection when I play mostly single player?
Some of my best memories from college were when we had four or five of us crammed into one guy's bedroom in the dorms with all the bed frames cleared off and set up a Diablo 2 LAN game. We all ran skelemancers except for my one friend who ran an Enchantress build so we actually had the necessary damage output. We rolled through all three difficulties without much trouble, but the best part was definitely shouting at each other for a town portal every two minutes because we were too lazy to walk anywhere that didn't involve picking up all of the loot in our wake.
Kids today will never know that joy because they never had a culture of couch based multiplayer that leads to the idea of all cramming into one room for what would otherwise be an online game with everyone sequestered away in their homes, isolated and alone. It's a genuine societal level problem, this breakdown in basic human socialization. But sure, we should just all get on XBox Live or Discord and pretend it's a real equivalent to actually sitting down and playing with your friends all in the same room.
LAN parties were making a comeback a few years ago. The prices of PC's may have slowed it down. But, I think more people are waking up to SaaS being bullshit.
I don't get the hate. Only reason to get a console is to play online games without rampant cheating.
So it has to be online anyway.
Why would you even have a console for anything else.
What if I told you that entire generations of gamers grew up spending thousands of hours in their bedroom or family den on Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog LONG before the internet or ANY of the always-online digital gulags were ever built?
What if some of those gamers grew up and had kids of their own, and now just want their little ones to share in the same kind of wholesome fun and happiness without having to always connect to the Information-Super
Highwaytoilet pipe full of pajeets, groomers and pedos?Get any media computer and put Steam or Bazzite on it.
What's next on your complaint list, your VCR doesn't have HDMI output? "But my kids can't have the exact same childhood I did without a VCR in the living room"
You still get a newspaper delivered to your house I'd guess. "Back in my day we'd get newspaper print on our hands and we liked it."
Because it's adding a needless cog to the system that doesn't improve functionality whatsoever. Why would I need constant internet connection when I play mostly single player?
You paid less than the hardware cost for the console, that's how it benefits you. Duh.
LAN parties don't mean anything to you?
Some of my best memories from college were when we had four or five of us crammed into one guy's bedroom in the dorms with all the bed frames cleared off and set up a Diablo 2 LAN game. We all ran skelemancers except for my one friend who ran an Enchantress build so we actually had the necessary damage output. We rolled through all three difficulties without much trouble, but the best part was definitely shouting at each other for a town portal every two minutes because we were too lazy to walk anywhere that didn't involve picking up all of the loot in our wake.
Kids today will never know that joy because they never had a culture of couch based multiplayer that leads to the idea of all cramming into one room for what would otherwise be an online game with everyone sequestered away in their homes, isolated and alone. It's a genuine societal level problem, this breakdown in basic human socialization. But sure, we should just all get on XBox Live or Discord and pretend it's a real equivalent to actually sitting down and playing with your friends all in the same room.
LAN parties were making a comeback a few years ago. The prices of PC's may have slowed it down. But, I think more people are waking up to SaaS being bullshit.