… Okay, I give up. How exactly is this a bad thing? It allows people who initially don’t care about physical games to buy a disc drive later if they change their minds, and the drive itself looks to be seamlessly attached. How is this any different from building your own PC and adding a disc drive after the fact?
I thought the appeal of consoles was niggercattle not having to deal with PC shit tho
And they have been starting the early-2010s (probably as early as late-90s)
So they're too stupid to know how to insert a disc drive into a slot?
That's what they've told me for the better part of 13 years now
Nah, not unless they go bankrupt.
Look, we all hate Sony and all, and the PS5 is utter shit (which is saying a lot), but please calm down. I would not go as far as to call it a failure until Sony's own video game industry goes bankrupt.
Sony lost astronomical amounts of money on the PS3 (though, to be fair, since the PS3 launched when almost zero households had hd tvs, sony thought that every PS3 sold would also sell a $3000-$4000 sony tv, instead they helped sell a lot of $1000 samsung tv, so most huge losses came from the tv division), and barely anyone regards it as a failure.
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PS3 at least had a handful of flagship exclusives releasing every now and then to keep it afloat. Resistance and Motorstorm held things down from launch until Uncharted in 2007. MGS4 sold consoles in 2008. Then God of War III, then The Last of Us. PS3 gained a lot of admiration because Sony was doing a whole lot right while Microsoft's chickens were coming home to roost. Dead consoles by the millions and an increasingly worse interface, culminating in an advertisement-laden Kinect-focused UX made the 360 forever difficult to even return to.
Come to think of it, the Xbox and PC fans I've known in my life have generally been more successful than the PlayStation guys.
I’m tempted to rate this as Dumb, but a small part of me fears that you’re not exaggerating.
>he doesn’t have his PC plugged into both monitor and TV so he can swap between them with a hotkey on his handheld keyboard
I honest to god feel the same. This is what it's been since the early-2010s and has gotten worse from here
You've never heard a die hard console fanboy say "It's too much of a hassle/difficult to assemble a PC!" before?
I've had to help baby boomer family members use a computer for the first time, as well as zoomer family members who had been raised with technology practically from birth, but have never used a proper pc before, but now needed one for schoolwork, and let me tell you, the literal boomers took to it faster and were less frustrating to teach.
Steam has addressed most of my complaints about PC to the point where I rarely even play on consoles anymore. Consoles have physical copies, the ability to suspend your game, and dedicated apps for streaming services that let you use a controller. That's about it, at this point. The days of fiddling around with drivers, or some games just not working well with your brand of video card are long since over.
