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> I'm honestly surprised nobody else tried a "boot to game library" PC Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Atari, Sega... They intentionally choose to brand their pers
by Zambyte 11mo ago
> I'm honestly surprised nobody else tried a "boot to game library" PC
Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Atari, Sega...
They intentionally choose to brand their personal computers poorly to coerce their customers into giving up control of their computers. That doesn't make their computers any less personal, unless they are using it to serve other people.
- jerojero 11mo agoValve had to make an entire operating system to make this the case for steam games. A lot of these capabilities would rely on windows, sleeping and resuming the system thats entirely the purview of the OS. And Microsoft just doesn't care.
- nsxwolf 11mo agoMicrosoft’s core competency is a general purpose operating system that can be used for anything and work with infinite combinations of hardware. The fact that you can almost, sort of use a Windows PC as a gaming console, even with all the headaches that come with it, is something of a miracle.
- Zambyte 11mo agoMicrosoft had to make an entire operating system to make this the case for running Xbox games. Sony had to make an entire operating system to make this work for PlayStation games. I don't really know why that's significant.
- scns 11mo ago> Valve had to make an entire operating system A Linux distribution. Which is often done by one person. Zero snark intended.
- ekianjo 11mo agoValve did not write Linux from scratch or something...
- nsxwolf 11mo agoThe goal with consoles is not to force people to give up control of their computers, it’s to create the best possible gaming appliance, which consoles succeed at.
- Zambyte 11mo agoWhat is the difference between an appliance and a computer?
- nsxwolf 11mo agoThe easiest way to see the difference is to take a desktop PC, plug it into your living room TV set, and try to play games on it.
- Zambyte 11mo agoCan you tell me what the difference is?
- imbnwa 11mo agoUh * two major platforms on PC and one of em doesn’t sport a Big Picture mode * the other store does nasty tricks like never terminate a game process completely when you launch their titles through the other platform (very obvious w/ Alan Wake 2) * other store’s titles doesn’t have this problem if I use Playnite as the TV frontend, but Playnite is a giant security vulnerability waiting to happen cause you need 3rd party plugins to emulate Steam Big Picture * entire swatches of games that act funny with Steam Input or have incomplete configurations and I don’t feel like figuring that out just to play Backrooms * Windows window management when using Steam Big Picture w/ controller is bad, b/c lots of desktop things will steal focus (hello Rockstar Games and EA) * oh yeah, mandatory LAUNCHERS * Try to play Mass Effect Legendary Edition on a TV with a controller; no really, try * don’t even get me started on OOTB auto HDR config for almost any random TV with PS5 vs dicking around with the NVIDIA control panel * the Steam store navigation w/ controller is baaaaad in 2025, many times you won’t be able to move or select certain things. This is an incomplete list. It actually doesn’t matter whether you have a point-by-point refutation, no non-technical person wants to deal with any of this. They want machine to take care of everything. That’s what an appliance is (Edit: formatting)