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The reasons for doing this are great and benefit users but I fear this is the death of the console era. The idea of having different consoles with different har
by notyourwork 8y ago
The reasons for doing this are great and benefit users but I fear this is the death of the console era. The idea of having different consoles with different hardware and playing people with the same setup is what made consoles unique from PC gaming. In PC gaming you have a standard operating system and you could use a joystick, keyboard, mouse, whatever you want with your setup.
If all consoles inter-operate we have come full circle and are simply gaming against other PC gamers.
- earenndil 8y agoI thought it was because consoles had games that pc did not, and once you had the console, it was convenient to play on it other games as well, even if they were also available on pc?
- djhworld 8y agoIt makes sense though. Microsoft already sense this (and have done for a few years now), most of their 1st party titles for XboxOne can also be played on Windows. Going forward it sounds like they want to further employ this strategy to essentially make the Microsoft ecosystem the place to play games whether that be via a console (with its plug and play ease) or on Windows, or streamed to a mobile phone or tablet. Nintendo are the outlier here though, but it will be interesting to see where Sony is positioning themselves in 5 or so years