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I'm not gonna disagree with your reasons for liking or disliking a gaming console. Gaming consoles are for fun, your preferences don't have to make logical sens

I'm not gonna disagree with your reasons for liking or disliking a gaming console. Gaming consoles are for fun, your preferences don't have to make logical sense. But... but ever since the XBox One it's just been a bloated, slow PC with a bad interface front for Windows. Huh? The original XBox and 360 were also slow (relative to higher-end PCs of their day) systems running Windows variants.

ToucanLoucan 3y ago
Yes but they didn't feel slow. The One does and so do it's iterations. They all run slow, download slow, and just feel sluggish to use. Even the Switch which is INCREDIBLY limited on the hardware front feels snappy and responsive. Every console has always had worse hardware compared to a PC, that's a given, but almost all of them don't feel that way because the developers know the platform and can squeeze every last cycle out of the hardware. The One has NEVER felt nice to use. Ever.
- JohnBooty 3y ago
  That makes more sense, I guess. I've never used an XBOne so I don't have an opinion as to how responsive it feels.
  - ToucanLoucan 3y ago
    It is truly awful. Menus take an atrocious amount of time to load, everything is buried several screens deep into massive UI elements that usually amount to huge boxes of solid color, the home screen itself seems to lag quite badly which is just embarrassing for a device that can also run Halo 5 at 2K/60hz without issue, is choking to death on a bunch of fucking boxes.
    - JohnBooty 3y ago
      Yikes! And also, I really appreciate the clarification.
      - ToucanLoucan 3y ago
        Yeah for sure man. I know a lotta PC guys give consoles shit (rightfully so :D) but I enjoy them too, my PS5 is the slickest thing I've ever used, and the switch is a remarkable little piece of kit, with some stumblings here and there, but yeah, between the severe dip in quality in the XBox One and subsequent iterations, and Microsoft's move to really amp up the experience for PC gaming on the XBox network, I just feel an XBox is a bad proposition these days. It's just a shitty PC that's locked down and you can't fix it.

ToucanLoucan 3y ago

Yes but they didn't feel slow. The One does and so do it's iterations. They all run slow, download slow, and just feel sluggish to use. Even the Switch which is INCREDIBLY limited on the hardware front feels snappy and responsive. Every console has always had worse hardware compared to a PC, that's a given, but almost all of them don't feel that way because the developers know the platform and can squeeze every last cycle out of the hardware. The One has NEVER felt nice to use. Ever.

JohnBooty 3y ago
That makes more sense, I guess. I've never used an XBOne so I don't have an opinion as to how responsive it feels.
- ToucanLoucan 3y ago
  It is truly awful. Menus take an atrocious amount of time to load, everything is buried several screens deep into massive UI elements that usually amount to huge boxes of solid color, the home screen itself seems to lag quite badly which is just embarrassing for a device that can also run Halo 5 at 2K/60hz without issue, is choking to death on a bunch of fucking boxes.
  - JohnBooty 3y ago
    Yikes! And also, I really appreciate the clarification.
    - ToucanLoucan 3y ago
      Yeah for sure man. I know a lotta PC guys give consoles shit (rightfully so :D) but I enjoy them too, my PS5 is the slickest thing I've ever used, and the switch is a remarkable little piece of kit, with some stumblings here and there, but yeah, between the severe dip in quality in the XBox One and subsequent iterations, and Microsoft's move to really amp up the experience for PC gaming on the XBox network, I just feel an XBox is a bad proposition these days. It's just a shitty PC that's locked down and you can't fix it.