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At some point, the amount of games and consoles that you own that are conveniently relevant to your specific argument becomes a bit incredulous.
Sony hate thread
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What's your secret? Frame rate over graphics? What about bloated file sizes from AAA titles?
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I used to play on PC but sourcing parts for what I used became nearly impossible for a year. Learned that I don't even really give a shit anyways, playing on PC had become an inconvenience. I hate tracking down solutions, keeping track of drivers, doing all this fiddly bullshit just to play a game. My eyes aren't good enough to see FPS differences and most of the time graphical fidelity goes unnoticed too unless it looks like actual mud.
But this is a Sony hate thread. Sony has shit it's pants over and over again for the past six years and whenever someone tells them its stinky their tard handlers (aka the fanboiz) pop out of nowhere to say they're fresh as a daisy. Them combining PSplus with PSnow is going to be good for all of three months until everyone has beaten their hot ticket games and then they'll fall right back down to being the laughingstocks they are. They've said they have no interest in making titles they own available on the service day one like Xbox does so they've already lost. Microsoft is raking in the big bucks while Sony falters with it's out of touch Japanese businessmen whose consumer interests are stuck in the early nineties.
But this is a Sony hate thread. Sony has shit it's pants over and over again for the past six years and whenever someone tells them its stinky their tard handlers (aka the fanboiz) pop out of nowhere to say they're fresh as a daisy. Them combining PSplus with PSnow is going to be good for all of three months until everyone has beaten their hot ticket games and then they'll fall right back down to being the laughingstocks they are. They've said they have no interest in making titles they own available on the service day one like Xbox does so they've already lost. Microsoft is raking in the big bucks while Sony falters with it's out of touch Japanese businessmen whose consumer interests are stuck in the early nineties.
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For many, PC is superior to consoles due to compatibility, customization, accessibility and longevity. They're not wrong; there are advantages and disadvantages to both. In context to this thread, a mid-range PC is a better value than a PS5 because of what I listed.
Oh, and I almost forgot, emulation. RPCS3 is making more progress with preserving PS3 titles than Sony.
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The only time I've felt like I am missing out is mods on Civ 6. Even then I have a better time playing on the Switch than the PC.
I certainly don't miss having faggy cheaters on every goddamn multiplayer game on the platform.
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I did look into those originally, especially for the (then possibility) of remote working. But due to the type of workload needed it was deemed not as reliable.
If the network went down or something fucked up they would lose access and couldn't do anything offline. With thin clients it needs server access and who fucking knew at that point how shit would go down.
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That just raises even more questions. What the hell kind of work are you doing where a bunch of desktops with midrange GPUs are necessary, BUT networking isn't considered mission critical?
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I'm guessing more PS emulation. I was going to say Photoshop, but that's a CPU thing.
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Networking is indeed critical, but the fact was the people running the companies that provide things like networked services can be unreliable. Take for example something like Adobe your license gets unfairly fucked you have to call them and have them sort it out. All well and good until they tell you that your data and customer files are at the office and nobody was at the office because of corona. So you need to wait a few days for them to get back to you and to actually get someone to physically go to the office. Now I'm just using Adobe for an example but this is true for every type of program of it's ilk.
Like if my ISP shits itself(which happened a few times over corona and required replacing my wires in full) all the networking kind of gets fucked because there's no network. Then they send you an Abbo in a beat up van with a logo of the company poorly attached to the side because they can't find enough people to drive their trucks because half their fleet quit. So that leaves you wondering if this guy is legit or is he scamming you.
So it's like it was all the shit that people said Y2K was going to be but 20 years late. I mean it's gotten better compared to how it was, but shit is still fucked to how it used to be.
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Emulation in general is heavily CPU-reliant, since it's about taking every command from the emulated system's processor and translating them into something your CPU can process, and not so much complex math to draw the game worlds as GPUs do. PS3's especially demanding, but then again, even the Steam Deck's been reported to run PS3 games at playable speeds, so Marissa Moira's
is way way way way into the realm of overkill.
The use cases for midrange GPUs are, AFAIK, pretty much just gaming. Most non-gaming purposes can be handled with integrated GPUs. Low-end cards are good for machines with CPUs that have no integrated GPU. High end cards are good for heavy 3D rendering and crypto mining. Midrange? Those are great for students on budgets who don't need the high-end stuff quite yet. Or, for games, since they'll run anything you can throw at them at least as well as a Series X, and you don't have to spend an extra $700 so that every blade of grass can render individually.
Like, if you're building out a desktop that's gonna act as a tool to help you make money, you may as well build out something strong and efficient. Multiple desktops with top-end CPUs and midrange GPUs are bizarre, and I really can't think of a situation where that's the best possible setup for anything.
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I've worked in places that were like broom closets. They still had full on PCs and usually a server haphazardly shoved in a corner connected to a battery backup that would then go off at 2am letting you know that something just shit itself.
For a lot of the more robust programs you still have to kind of fiddle with them to get them working on thin clients. It's still not something that's been made a standard quite just yet. And the programs themselves are usually temperamental to start.
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I'm pretty sure the first time I ever used a thin client was at a library back during the GameCube administration
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Yes and tablet computers predate the 2000's.
Just because something has been around doesn't mean it's been fully adopted. You'll run into licensee shit that can cause your program to not work because it reads the thin client as a separate machine by default so you need to fix the network license. Some files are also locked to read or display only and you can't modify the data on them and may require a separate program. I mean it would be great if the programs still ran like they used to and you just needed one singular instance of the program that you fully owned a copy of but the always online nanny rears it's head.
The most elaborate I ever got with them was transferring .stl files in this one instance that needed them and they printed well.
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Hey at least we will know if there is a Bloodbourne 2 if they release Bloodbourne on PC.....
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I believe PCs (Steam) have more JRPG choices than Sony. If Sony can achieve parity with their games between PS and PC, they could attract more of a player base. All that talent is squandered on Sony corporate.
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IDK if that would work even IF they could do it. The huge issue is Steam overall. The Steam sales happen so often between Seasonal, Quarterly, and Studio sales PC gamers usually have a huge backlog. Think what they are doing now is the only option, release their ongoing IP's on PC and hope that lures people to buy a PS console. The payoff may come later in the PS5 cycle or even the PS6. But that could get derailed if these Crypto crashes keep happening.
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If you mean getting PC gamers to buy their consoles yea most likely. It's not like their losing money with this strategy unless the port costs are high and sales are low, which if they were I think they would have stopped after Horizon. It's kind of a "why not try" strategy since it doesn't really hurt to try.