Consoles haven’t seemed worth the price since like… the PS2 era, maybe PS3.
I might have a little more tolerance for jank than some people, though. Some people are like “I had to go into the settings and change something” like it’s a dozen years hard labor.
As someone who switched from console to PC, the experience is night and day =w=
Every time I think about replaying a game I have on console I end up thinking “ehhh, but I don’t want to deal with not having all the features I want, and booting up the console/noise” etc. If I want to replay something waiting for a steam sale and buying it again unironically feels more worth it, than playing the copy I own and dealing with all the limitations
With GOG you’d even own your copy.
This is not specifically true.
You still license a copy; almost no software is sold for ownership. Since day 1 software has been licensed. Even FOSS.
Now, buying it from GOG and getting a complete, offline, DRM-free installer gives you a lot of flexibility with that license. It’s certainly harder to take from you. But you’ve never owned software.
This is the exact way physical copies of games work as well. Still can’t be taken away from you.
Well yeah, actually buying the copyright to the software would be quite expensive. Everything is a license to use the software. I don’t own the Linux kernel, but to use it I need a copy of it, but I don’t own the copyright to it. But I’m licensed to copy the Linux kernel.
You only really own things you’ve either made yourself, or have purchased the actual copyright… which is probably not for sale and if it is it’s going to be in the millions at least. Everything else is licensed.
I just like steam for convenience tbh. I know buying from something like gog would be better in terms of ownership of media, but steam offers a lot of stuff I use on a daily basis at this point and it’s hard to give that up =w=
The neat thing about pc is that you aren’t locked to one or the other
Yis. We love the ability to make choices here :3
Plus steam DRM is easy to remove if you want a drm-less copy. I keep backups of old versions of my games playable this way
I can’t be bothered turning my gaming pc these days, ps5 and switch2 have games I am more interested in playing and can just play on the couch
There is something I can’t explain about the experience on console which is better than dealing with PC even if they are also hooked up to the TV
For me we have already reached the point where graphics improvements no longer matter, I just prefer the polished experience and quality standards of exclusives
You should try SteamOS. That’s what it’s for.
What games are on PS5 and not PC?
Can’t get the games I am interested in playing these days on PC
Most PS5 first party games are not available on PC at launch, none will be going forward
They’re all available right now. That’s why I asked you which ones.
No they are not, Ghost of Yotei and Saros aren’t
Also the ports are hit or miss, why wouldn’t I just play them on the platform the developers targeted?
Because the platform the developers targeted is bullshit. Stop supporting it and maybe they’ll make better choices.
You telling me that PC ports are always as polished and performant as console releases?
I don’t want a PC to play games, get over it and stop trying to rope everyone in to your crusade
You telling me that PC ports are always as polished and performant as console releases?
There shouldn’t be any ports in the first place.
get over it and stop trying to rope everyone in to your crusade
I will never stop trying to get people to make better decisions for themselves, and for everyone else. So don’t ask.
This.
I will say it’s not enough to sway me to get a PS5, but I have to admit that God of War, Wolverine, the upcoming Naughty Dog game, Ghost of Yotei, etc. are still something I’ll feel bad not having a chance to play.
I’m still devastated that the Demon’s Souls remake won’t be coming to PC, and that’s on top of the salt in the wound we’ve had for over a decade now with Bloodborne (though thankfully fan ports of that one are actually getting to a very stable and playable state).
I guess that makes sense if you already have one. I don’t see why anyone would buy a console for the first time now though. My 13 inch laptop is just as portable as a modern handheld console and if I had a TV it would be easier to just connect my laptop than deal with an extra device.
Plus there are thousands of PC exclusive games spanning over 40 years plus basically every console exclusive before the current generation via emulators vs what maybe a hundred exclusive to current consoles?
I don’t get how that makes sense, the price of everything is going up
It’s not like ps5 is going up while PCs are staying the same price
But almost everyone already has a laptop, so they don’t need to buy anything new. And if you really need more performance, you could spend the console budget on an external GPU for your laptop.
I guess if your only current computer is ARM or you have a low end chromebook it could make sense?
I’m a PC enthusiast, but I think you’re greatly overestimating how much computing power the average, non-computer focused (read: most) people have access to. The “computer” in a ton of households is a smartphone, tablet, or the budget laptop they got their kid for school. Unless they bought the laptop with gaming or demanding productivity in mind, they’re not playing anything except older titles or small, non-demanding games.
The idea that “almost everyone already has a laptop” that they can just play games on just isn’t a reality.
But almost everyone already has a laptop,
You’d be surprised how untrue this is. Additionally a large proportion of people that do have laptops that aren’t really capable of anything more than web browser and office stuff (or macos which can’t run the majority of games).
I have to admit as a pc gamer who also plays console that i like the plug and play experience of consoles as well. Usually when i boot up a game it’s to take a break from tinkering with linux, only to then get stuck tinkering with game settings lol. With the direction ps6 is going though, it’s not worth it anymore to me and i’d rather have to tinker with my games instead of losing all my freedom.
My last console was a PS4 but even that wasn’t exactly plug and play was it? I thought every time you’d bring a game disc home it would usually have to do a major update before it would be willing to launch the game
