...no disc drive
Is there even a reason to get a PS5 in the first place?
I mostly bought mine to play a couple games I could otherwise play on PC if not for the fact that I still loathe PC gaming.Yeah. As long as PC games keep getting released as Epic exclusives and using shitty spyware anti-cheat and DRM protection I'll own a Playstation.
Might be the end of Playstationlmao no it won't
I'm a PC gamer and I had no idea people actually cared for disk drives this much. Though I am not arguing, just surprisedHonestly I wouldn't trust consoles to maintain backwards compatibility (not a historical strong point for them), and once the store for an old system shuts down you'd lose access to all your games you don't already have downloaded. Though at this point it's not really that relevant of a argument, as most games rely on online updates to be usable anymore. Which is why I lost interest in consoles in the first place.
Microscopic "improved graphics." Unless you're sitting like a foot from your TV/monitor you ain't seeing shit.
Honestly I wouldn't trust consoles to maintain backwards compatibility (not a historical strong point for them), and once the store for an old system shuts down you'd lose access to all your games you don't already have downloaded. Though at this point it's not really that relevant of a argument, as most games rely on online updates to be usable anymore. Which is why I lost interest in consoles in the first place.
I guess there are more considerations to take in with consoles though. I thought i'd be clutching my physical media but when I got used to steam it's better because a lot of my older PC games are scratched to hell and back and barely work. Though of course the risk is something happening Steam making my collection inaccessible.Yeah, I stopped being so gung-ho about physical media when it came to my Switch...I still have a lot of physical games for it, but at a certain point I gave up. It's too annoying. I was able to get the majority of my digital games by just waiting for sales that are cheaper than the physical games will be. I used to stick to physical for 1st party, but now I'm getting tired of it. I'll still likely play my Switch for a long time, since I have so much to play. Backwards compatibility and price will determine how soon I buy a "Switch 2".
I just remember before I went all in on steam, seeing physical PC releases with a download code card in the box and nothing else. That kinda soured the whole deal for me, but I haven't bought a console since the xbox 360(which I proudly never once took online), so I never thought about the different challenges with consoles.
I'm a PC gamer and I had no idea people actually cared for disk drives this much. Though I am not arguing, just surprised
Hard to buy second hand games for your PC even if they come on a disk.
Hard to buy second hand games for your PC even if they come on a disk.any game that came on a disc is either downloadable for free or $2
It just means everything can be 120fps, which you can see.Everything I've heard about it is improved resolution but no FPS increase
Xbox will shit the bed again next genXbox is already shitting the bed, Phil Spencer is a terrible businessman who is destroying the company. Game Pass is straight up losing them money.
Everything I've heard about it is improved resolution but no FPS increaseFPS is a moving target. For years it's been "this is the console that will finally match PCs with consistent 60 FPS" and then a year later you've got stutter. Same with loading times. It's not a valuable benchmark for them to throw out because it's gonna go back to sucking ass in 12 months anyway.
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer in an interview Windows Central revealed Xbox spends over $1 billion a year on third-party content for Xbox Game Pass and the service itself is profitable.
"We have a service that is financially viable, meaning it makes money, in Game Pass," said Spencer. "We've put a lot of money into the market, over a billion dollars a year supporting third-party games coming into Game Pass.
It just means everything can be 120fps, which you can see.
FPS is a moving target. For years it's been "this is the console that will finally match PCs with consistent 60 FPS" and then a year later you've got stutter. Same with loading times. It's not a valuable benchmark for them to throw out because it's gonna go back to sucking ass in 12 months anyway.
?This is from a year ago.
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/93340/xbox-game-pass-made-230-million-revenue-in-one-month-most-users-pay-for-full-subscriptions/index.html
seems like they only ever show that it's profitable
Watching the announcement video gave me bad vibes of like, 15-20 years ago. Sony came off arrogant, and also dated in what they talked about and how they talked about it.
Yeah. As long as PC games keep getting released as Epic exclusives and using shitty spyware anti-cheat and DRM protection I'll own a Playstation.You don't play those games since they end up being artless slop designed by committee anyway. Any project with any creative control is going to not do that.
This is from a year ago.the only thing that's changed since then is gamepass got more subscribers, so
Realistically, PC games that are old enough to come on discs in the first place are either so old that they're intrinsically hard to find, have already been ported through GOG or a similar service, or are abandonware and you can just find downloads of them for free. In many cases, being that old also means you run into compatibility issues, though pretty much anything for Windows XP or later tends to work well enough. All of that means there just isn't much demand for them, which doesn't give people much incentive to create a supply.
The other problem is that some older games have their game speed clocked to the CPU speed, which makes them almost impossible (or outright impossible) to play on newer computers (this was a huge problem with the original Gabriel Knight, for instance).