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On the other side of the coin they WILL stop making PS4 games, just like all consoles when they reach EOL. Yet you can play new games on a steam machine in deca

by tingol 11y ago

On the other side of the coin they WILL stop making PS4 games, just like all consoles when they reach EOL. Yet you can play new games on a steam machine in decades to come. You can play 2017 games on lower graphics quality (the same quality you get in 2015 games now) just like the consoles. Even if the games they get on the PS4 in 2017 are new, they are bound to remain the same quality in graphics.

ekianjo 11y ago
> Yet you can play new games on a steam machine in decades to come. Where? Good luck playing something on a 2014 Steam Machine in 2024. If there is still one game 10 years later working on such a configuration that will be a miracle. PC gaming moves very fast, that's the point of PC gaming usually : you upgrade often.
- jackmaney 11y ago
  > that's the point of PC gaming usually : you upgrade often. No. That hasn't been the case for years, now. I built a machine in 2010, and gave it its first upgrade a couple of months ago. And to tell the truth, I could've gone on a couple years more before I really needed to upgrade. The biggest bottleneck was the GPU (an nVidia GTX 460). However, I splurged on a few upgrades (GTX 960, up to 16GB of RAM (from 8), and an SSD). It's once again a beast, even with the same CPU from 2010 (AMD Phenom II X6 1090T). And that extra money that I've put into this system? I've made most of it back in the way of cheaper games.
dagw 11y ago
you can play new games on a steam machine in decades to come. Decades? Decade, maybe. But then again they where still releasing PS2 games a decade after the PS2 came out and they'll almost certainly be releasing PS3 and Xbox360 games a decade after those consoles came out too. No doubt that there will be lots of games coming out in both 2017 and 2020 that will run just fine on a 2015 steam machine, but unless it is ever single game they release for SteamOS, then we're right back to the classic PC gaming problem and you've lost the only real competitive advantage that consoles have.

by tingol 11y ago

ekianjo 11y ago

> Yet you can play new games on a steam machine in decades to come. Where? Good luck playing something on a 2014 Steam Machine in 2024. If there is still one game 10 years later working on such a configuration that will be a miracle. PC gaming moves very fast, that's the point of PC gaming usually : you upgrade often.

jackmaney 11y ago
> that's the point of PC gaming usually : you upgrade often. No. That hasn't been the case for years, now. I built a machine in 2010, and gave it its first upgrade a couple of months ago. And to tell the truth, I could've gone on a couple years more before I really needed to upgrade. The biggest bottleneck was the GPU (an nVidia GTX 460). However, I splurged on a few upgrades (GTX 960, up to 16GB of RAM (from 8), and an SSD). It's once again a beast, even with the same CPU from 2010 (AMD Phenom II X6 1090T). And that extra money that I've put into this system? I've made most of it back in the way of cheaper games.

dagw 11y ago

you can play new games on a steam machine in decades to come. Decades? Decade, maybe. But then again they where still releasing PS2 games a decade after the PS2 came out and they'll almost certainly be releasing PS3 and Xbox360 games a decade after those consoles came out too. No doubt that there will be lots of games coming out in both 2017 and 2020 that will run just fine on a 2015 steam machine, but unless it is ever single game they release for SteamOS, then we're right back to the classic PC gaming problem and you've lost the only real competitive advantage that consoles have.