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Starting with your questions: > Do you enjoy gaming on an iPad? Generally no, unless I'm playing a game for which a touch screen provides a good interface. B

by wolrah 5y ago

Starting with your questions: > Do you enjoy gaming on an iPad? Generally no, unless I'm playing a game for which a touch screen provides a good interface. Board/card games are great. "God view" games can be done well. Most first or third person games of any variety suck. > Are you a Switch person? Not really. The Switch is too large and fragile to be pocketed so it's only really portable in the sense that it's not tied to a TV, which means mine just lives in its dock 95% of the time. As a docked console it wasn't even competitive against last-gen hardware, and as a result it exists solely because enough Nintendo first-party games came out that I wanted to play. I was a huge DS person in its era, because I could have it in my pocket anywhere. Pull it out, open it up for even half a level of New Super Mario, then slap it shut and it's immediately suspended for later. Switch has the same function but without the pocketability it's just not as useful. > Or do you have a dedicated gaming PC at home? Always have, always will. The PC is the longest lasting gaming platform on its own, rarely has it ever lost the performance crown, and thanks to both inherent compatibility and emulation it can play the majority of games ever made for any platform. I have consoles for convenience and exclusives, but a good PC is a long term investment that pays off if you really like gaming.

ChuckNorris89 5y ago
>a good PC is a long term investment that pays off if you really like gaming Yeah, that used to be true, but then 2020 happened and GPUs became unobtanium. Not to mention they've been seeing a steady price increase in MSRP since a few years before covid. I fondly remeber the days when ~$400 was enough to buy you a wicked high end GPU, like a GTX 1070, that would play all games at high settings and would last you a few years. Those days are gone now and even when the supply chain gets fixed, it looks like the hiked prices will be the new norm and are here to stay for a while, as the nvidia-amd duopoly realized there is enough demand even at these price points. Or at least until the next crypto bust (which, IMHO, can't come soon enough). The "major advantage" of consoles running super locked down walled gardened SW is that miners can't use them ... yet. So at least in the EU you can still buy the lastest gen consoles for MSRP if you're willing to look around hard enough. GPUs for MSRP? Hell is more likely to freeze over before that happens.
- wolrah 5y ago
  While you're not wrong, the GPU situation makes maintaining a gaming PC harder, starting from scratch is actually easier than not these days because you can get better deals on prebuilts with modern GPUs.

by wolrah 5y ago

ChuckNorris89 5y ago

>a good PC is a long term investment that pays off if you really like gaming Yeah, that used to be true, but then 2020 happened and GPUs became unobtanium. Not to mention they've been seeing a steady price increase in MSRP since a few years before covid. I fondly remeber the days when ~$400 was enough to buy you a wicked high end GPU, like a GTX 1070, that would play all games at high settings and would last you a few years. Those days are gone now and even when the supply chain gets fixed, it looks like the hiked prices will be the new norm and are here to stay for a while, as the nvidia-amd duopoly realized there is enough demand even at these price points. Or at least until the next crypto bust (which, IMHO, can't come soon enough). The "major advantage" of consoles running super locked down walled gardened SW is that miners can't use them ... yet. So at least in the EU you can still buy the lastest gen consoles for MSRP if you're willing to look around hard enough. GPUs for MSRP? Hell is more likely to freeze over before that happens.

wolrah 5y ago
While you're not wrong, the GPU situation makes maintaining a gaming PC harder, starting from scratch is actually easier than not these days because you can get better deals on prebuilts with modern GPUs.