People in 2007 were not playing games primarily via Steam. That was still when you'd buy physical games on disc for PC. For reference, Xbox Live reported 4 million total users in 2007. World of Warcraft, a PC-only game that you had to pay a subscription for, already had more than 10 million subscribers in the same year.
It's not that "PC gaming didn't exist" it's that way back then PC and consoles used to have a massive discrepancy between games unlike today where PC and consoles share like 98% of the same games.
By that reasoning, you could make the same argument about any market that experiences any significant growth. That doesn't mean those markets "didn't exist" in the past.
A.K.A. "The Good Times" before we wound up living in this digital hellscape.
FFIX never got ported to PC back in the day, only VII and VIII did. Final Fantasy was still a very console centric series back in the 90s and 00s, unlike today where the JRPG audience has moved to PC, a complete reversal.
The ironic part was that for me and a lot of other people, a physical PC release was our gateway into Steam -
To this day, the Orange Box makes up the majority of my Steam "library". Everybody said I was stuck in the past when I warned them about vendor lock-in and giving a corporation total control forever over your ability to access games. I got a TON of shit for that, both online and offline.
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I'm talking about the Pro specifically. Its totally fair to compare a regular PS5 to the Switch as a consumer.
Console makers do not alway have common sense. The 3d part of the 3DS went out of the window and money was wasted on it that brought up the price.
The Playstation Portal is the WiiU tablet to the rest of the console. Hardly a testing ground. As for what they might release next, the PS5Pro made no sense either but here we are.
3D was absolutely a selling point in the first few years of the 3DS’s life, just like how motion control was a selling point for the first few years of the Wii’s life.
They decided that it had run its course and stopped being worth it, not that it was never worth it in the first place; there’s a big difference.
Yes, that was what I said. It was better to market it as a handheld that was as powerful as a PS2 rather than keep marketing it as glassless 3d.
"Backwards compatibility" on new consoles is like upgrading your pc and calling it backwards compatible. Consoles are just PCs now.
Yes and that was a time where PC was becoming more and more of a niche. "PC gaming is dying" narrative absolutely was a thing. Outside of Crysis there were no real exclusives anymore outside of niche genres. After that, Crytek also started chasing after the Halo money. You will find lots of interviews of the Crytek CEO how he became obsessed with Halo and the console market. This was before COD 4.
So we are halfway through the PS5's lifecycle....and it still has absolutely no games
