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Consoles are pricing themselves out of relevance when you can buy a Steam Deck and have access to a vast library of (frequently heavily-discounted!) content for
by faefox 2y ago
Consoles are pricing themselves out of relevance when you can buy a Steam Deck and have access to a vast library of (frequently heavily-discounted!) content for $399.
- alephnerd 2y agoNot all content owned by Sony or Microsoft ends up on Steam. This is where consoles remain relevant.
- talldayo 2y agoPretty much the sole game worth buying a Sony console for (Bloodborne) is playable from end-to-end with PC emulation, even on Steam Deck: https://youtu.be/ItnC4GnHfa0 https://youtu.be/ItnC4GnHfa0 Especially for Sony, there simply aren't any worthwhile exclusive titles they're putting out. The good/big releases get published on PC now, and the obscure/fandom related stuff like Persona and Senran Kagura bled out of Sony platforms almost immediately. That leaves a small handful of games that can mostly be emulated on PC platforms. Unless your name is "Nintendo", you do not have the publishing power to make a console attractive to wealthy PC owners. Sony literally does not have titles with the same draw, anymore.
- vmladenov 2y agoLots of games still come out broken on PC to the point where it’s a worse experience, like UE4 games having shader compilation stutter.
- talldayo 2y agoThat's true, but also fixable. On Steam Deck it doesn't even occur, because you precompile all shaders during the DXVK translation process. It's really a DirectX problem, for the most part.
- a96 2y agoSony pretty much lived on two titles IIRC: Final Fantasy and Gran Turismo.