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the hardware is good but it is so hard to give them money on it i dread buying new games as it is a game of chance what way might work this time
by franze 2mo ago
the hardware is good
but it is so hard to give them money on it
i dread buying new games as it is a game of chance what way might work this time
- mawadev 2mo agoI don't know and let me spice this up with another story: I have a ps4 and I undusted it a couple of weeks ago, then after a couple of os and game updates that took 2h to finish, they asked me to subscribe to playstation plus to play online and to basically use my internet. What exactly is the point of a console at this point?
- badpun 2mo agoIn 2026 a console is a streamlined PC that can't be used for anything else but games - but the gaming experience is easier and less frustrating.
- flohofwoe 2mo ago> but the gaming experience is easier and less frustrating ??? It's not the early 1990s anymore where you had to fiddle with autoexec.bat and assigning IRQs to get your DOS games to run. The only "downside" of PC gaming is that the hardware isn't subsidized like game consoles are, so you're upfront investment is a couple hundred bucks more. But then you don't need a subscription for multiplayer gaming, and PC games are cheaper (80 Euros for a game? come on...)
- badpun 2mo agoThere's plenty of people for whom handling a PC is difficult. E.g. various popups (windows update, antivirus, microsoft nagging about microsoft account, printer nagging, "disk almost full" nagging, OneDrive file sync nagging etc.) alone are too much for my Mom, whereas she's handling her iPad (for example) just fine. Also, there are issues specific to gaming on PC - every time there's a technical issue with a game (which in itself is never a thing on consoles), the forum recommend installing different version of the video driver. It may or may not work, but it leaves you with an evening of technical troubleshooting instead of gaming. Not to mention that games on Steam do break, esp. older ones which are no longer actively maintained [1]. I haven't heard of such fails on consoles, probably because they're a much more stable platform. [1] E.g. Steam's Civ 5 has been breaking for a couple years now, going into low-res video settings and refusing to bring them back up. Why? Who knows! The only thing that seems to work is using "repair files" option in Steam every time that happens.
- inigyou 2mo agoNone of this sounds easier or less frustrating than Steam.
- inigyou 2mo agoThe point of the console is to make you only buy games that are compatible with the console. For example if you have a PS5, you'll give a cut of your games to Sony instead of giving a cut to Microsoft.
- tmtvl 2mo ago> What exactly is the point of a console at this point? Anti-cheat. Knowing that if you get into a match with other people they won't be running software on their system that gives them an unfair advantage.
- jazzpush2 2mo agoMicrosoft harder is good? Relative to what? Xbox, the topic of discussion, is literally famous for a 'red ring' hardware failure.
- TuringTourist 2mo agoI am not sure it's fair to equate the xbox 360 with the current generation which is the Xbox Series X/S, which was preceded by the Xbox One X/S, so the 360 is two base iterations old at this point. Not that I am defending M$FT here. I'm just clarifying so we don't drift into calling everything a "Nintendo" like my parents did.