It's somewhat amusing that console bros still thought they were in the running. What console exclusive games have there even been in the last few years that actually did insanely well? is it just Zelda?
Tbf the competition has been pathetic. What new game anywhere in the last few years has been worth getting excited over? I've been seeing video after video of people coping that "actually cyberpunk was ALWAYS good!" or "no really, this indie glorified tech demo everyone will forget in a month TOTALLY changes everything!" Everything has just been rehashes, remakes, and indie fads.
I already have the Vita version.I'm going to gift you a copy of Disgaea 3 to destroy it."Tera Fire"
Don’t get me wrong, Microsoft and Sony didn’t help matters by shitting things up, but the death of consoles is basically inevitable with the increase in power of personal computers. Consoles made sense back in the day when they could offer a better price-to-performance ratio than PC’s, but that’s simply not the case anymore.
PC Master Race Bros, we have finally won....
We get to enjoy the wonders of Denuvo and kernel level anti-cheat.
I suppose that's a fair point. It's genuinely over for the Nu-Gamer. Using the no demake (read: rehash where they make everything worse), "remake" and indie tech demo (read: perpetual early access game) criteria I'd say there are no games worth getting excited over. Certainly none that I've cared about anyways.
Almost everything from a console perspective is an unnecessary sacrifice. You have to pay to play your games online with a subscription service. You miss out on Xbox titles which, unless I'm mistaken, are almost all on PC and new releases come to PC anyways. You miss out on the entire ecosystem of PC games and the indie games, mods, et cetera. Then you also miss out on emulation and shit. In the past consoles were definitely worth it if you had a certain game you wanted to play (also Windows Live fucking sucked and still sucks) but now it just doesn't make sense. The death of couch co-op also was a travesty. I remember trying to play 4 player multiplayer games becoming harder and harder as less and less games supported it. Then even two player games became difficult to play with someone. Now I don't even know if they still make them outside of a very slim picking. Are the new Call of Duty games even capable of split screen play?
I wish this was how it worked, not sure how it'd look in legalese to be able to transfer a "video game license" between two different marketplaces. You can't even do that for Uplay games. You buy it on Steam and then upon launch you have to launch the Uplay client and sign in. I presume that's how H2 works now, you have to sign in to PSN just because fuck you.
I'd sooner say we all lost with the costs we're accruing here.
literally not a big one, considering modern APUs and integrated graphics like the radeon 780m can run cyberpunk at 1080p 70fps and the low settings are indistinguishable from ultra
Yeah, really see no reason to buy a console unless there is a kid involved and you don't want to shell out $1000+ for gaming computer. Even $800+ can do most of the gaming nowadays. Back when personal computer was utter shit, consoles were excellent. Plus there is just too many way to game including phone which is basically $1000+ anyway.
I put together a pretty stout gaming computer with used parts in February for $500. As ludicrous as it sounds, PC components have become like the automobile market - a year old GPU will continue to be perfectly good for many years (look at how long the GTX 1080 has remained relevant) and you avoid the massive price premium and depreciation that comes with buying new.
I said games, not Switch games. If we look at this list for 2023 and 2024 we see that almost every single game on here has a PC release available. Helldivers case-in-point literally being carried in its sales by PC gamers. It's OVER console bros.
This is one of the major problems console warfags keep ignoring. That, and how even if people wanted to buy a new system, they most likely can't afford it because of how tight money is now.
No, it's also Smash Bros, Animal Crossing, Pokemon, and Mario. For as scummy as a company as Nintendo is, they do at least have an audience, and a few exclusive franchises that they can always comfortably rely on to make them a lot of money.
