In defense of traditional console gaming - The PC master race utopia is not all it's cracked up to be

[Mr_B]

There's a reason why some random anons current year super high end PC ( equiped with a brand new rtx 5090, paired with a Ryzen 9 9950X3D etc) will be worth next to nothing in 10 years, meanwhile an ancient 2600 or NES will still be valuable in 50 years.

PC and mobile Bros don't want to hear this but closed ecosystems/ closed platforms have an intrinsic value to them that generic devices built on Open Platforms like the PC and Android will never have .

Same logic applies to first party exclusives vs generic play anywhere games. Exclusives have to be good enough to justify buying a brand new console for, meanwhile a third party game that releases everywhere can be a completely forgettable piece of trash but if it sells enough to be profitable than it's a win for the devs.

This Kumbaya mentality that all video games should be available everywhere on principle (championed by the likes of Phil Spencer and PC master race trolls) has been a disaster for gaming as a hobby, ironically gamers are actually the most affected by this despite being the ones that support this Kumbaya mentality the most . More games than ever before are available on all devices, and never before has there been such a drought in high quality games that people actually want to play.

For anyone that disagrees with my opinion on this issue ask yourself this :

What are the games that you are actually playing on your high end rigs ? Are you playing the old school classics from the golden age of gaming (Atari 2600 up to the PS3/360 era ) through emulation, or are you playing the latest generic Steam Indie trash game number 9 million + that just came out 10 minutes ago and will be forgotten even quicker than that? I think we all know the answer to that question.

 

[PovertySprocket]

Your argument falls appart in the first paragraph, new console aren't going to be worth shit either. The servers they're tethered to will be shut down before it even hits vintage status.

Addendum: You start off shitting on the current PC ecosystem. Then switch to babbling about "traditional" gaming as if computers were never part of this so called "traditional" era of gaming. To then switch back to shitting on computer users.

 

[RacistComputer79]

closed ecosystems/ closed platforms have an intrinsic value to them that generic devices built on Open Platforms like the PC and Android will never have .

Artificial scarcity. A computer can do anything.

 

[BONECRUSHER]

You are the gaming equivalent of a nigger.

 

[Mr_B]

Your argument falls appart in the first paragraph, new console aren't going to be worth shit either. The servers they're tethered to will be shut down before it even hits vintage status.

" Traditional console gaming " is in the title for a reason. Modern Playstation and Xbox are just PCs pretending to be consoles, that why a PS5 or a Series X will have no value in 10 years, meanwhile the Switch 1 and the Switch 2 will still be valuable in 50 to 100 years.

 

[Absolutego]

There's a reason why some random anons current year super high end PC ( equiped with a brand new rtx 5090, paired with a Ryzen 9 9950X3D etc) will be worth next to nothing in 10 years, meanwhile an ancient 2600 or NES will still be valuable in 50 years.

Yeah and a working Apple Macintosh will run you about $1000, vintage hardware that was huge in its heyday will attract collectors.
Meanwhile, if I want to play the actual games instead of staring at my wall of plastic boxes like a hoarder, I can boot up emulation software and play almost all of them due to the open nature of my pc's platform and the fact that it attracts a community that is pretty autistic about archiving old media.

 

[Mister Fister]

Hi Joey, next time don’t re use an avatar.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

There's a reason why some random anons current year super high end PC ( equiped with a brand new rtx 5090, paired with a Ryzen 9 9950X3D etc) will be worth next to nothing in 10 years, meanwhile an ancient 2600 or NES will still be valuable in 50 years.

PC and mobile Bros don't want to hear this but closed ecosystems/ closed platforms have an intrinsic value to them that generic devices built on Open Platforms like the PC and Android will never have .

Same logic applies to first party exclusives vs generic play anywhere games. Exclusives have to be good enough to justify buying a brand new console for, meanwhile a third party game that releases everywhere can be a completely forgettable piece of trash but if it sells enough to be profitable than it's a win for the devs.

This Kumbaya mentality that all video games should be available everywhere on principle (championed by the likes of Phil Spencer and PC master race trolls) has been a disaster for gaming as a hobby, ironically gamers are actually the most affected by this despite being the ones that support this Kumbaya mentality the most . More games than ever before are available on all devices, and never before has there been such a drought in high quality games that people actually want to play.

For anyone that disagrees with my opinion on this issue ask yourself this :

What are the games that you are actually playing on your high end rigs ? Are you playing the old school classics from the golden age of gaming ( Atari 2600 up to the PS3/360 era ) through emulation, or are you playing generic Steam Indie trash game number 9 million that just came out 10 minutes ago and will be forgotten even quicker than that? I think we all know the answer to that question.

You're making the same assumptions that console war retards make—that PC bros are playing indieslop on the highest of high-end rigs while the Console Chads are playing the exclusives that define the generation.

Austistically breaking down your entire post is unnecessary but I've never heard of a good consumer-end defensive of exclusives. As a marketer, it's a GREAT idea, but on the consumer end it just boils down to CONSOOM...or at least it does now. There might've been an argument thirty years ago like with Donkey Kong Country where there was a significant difference between platforms, that is, if you ported it to other systems it would have to look, play, and sound significantly different. That isn't the case now.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

Forget your password, faggot?

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Only reason why this faggot made this thread because he got booty blasted in the SEGA thread when nobody was sucking their dick about VF6 and the fact that he got told to fuck off and buy a PC when he started defending consoles there

The correct thing to do is to disregard whatever opinion he has and move on.

 

[MrTroll]

What are the games that you are actually playing on your high end rigs ? Are you playing the old school classics from the golden age of gaming (Atari 2600 up to the PS3/360 era ) through emulation, or are you playing the latest generic Steam Indie trash game number 9 million + that just came out 10 minutes ago and will be forgotten even quicker than that? I think we all know the answer to that question.

No you retard, I'm playing Fuck Your Mom's Poopchute Simulator 2025, it requires a minimum of an RTX 5080 and uses technology developed by the Jet Propulsion Lab to accurately model the contours of your mom's butthole. Good luck playing that on your console.

 

[Eddie Riggs]

Only reason why this faggot made this thread because he got booty blasted in the SEGA thread when nobody was sucking their dick about VF6 and the fact that he got told to fuck off and buy a PC when he started defending consoles there
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The correct thing to do is to disregard whatever opinion he has and move on.

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Also PC Master Race forever

 

[A-Stump]

I use a PS5 because there's literally nothing exclusively on PC that I want to play. In the past I've gotten so assblasted getting shit to work on PC that it soured the experience for me. Oh the resolution is fucked up. Oh no I didn't coddle the graphics card, give it milkies, burp it, and lay it down for a nap so it's throwing a tantrum. Fuck the game I want to play is too old and I have to trick it into thinking it's running under an older operating system.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

PC and mobile Bros don't want to hear this but closed ecosystems/ closed platforms have an intrinsic value to them that generic devices built on Open Platforms like the PC and Android will never have .

I don't agree about them having "intrinsic value", otherwise there'd be no dogshit consoles.

This Kumbaya mentality that all video games should be available everywhere on principle (championed by the likes of Phil Spencer and PC master race trolls) has been a disaster for gaming as a hobby, ironically gamers are actually the most affected by this despite being the ones that support this Kumbaya mentality the most .

In theory it's good to be rid of exclusives, pros outweigh the cons. Before Wokeism infected the industry I thought it'd be ideal, now I think otherwise. Nintendo needs their exclusives and we need Nintendo.

I've never heard of a good consumer-end defensive of exclusives.

One may argue it can breed competition, resulting in better games. You mentioned DKC, which is a perfect example of that.

 

[Mr_B]

I use a PS5 because there's literally nothing exclusively on PC that I want to play. In the past I've gotten so assblasted getting shit to work on PC that it soured the experience for me. Oh the resolution is fucked up. Oh no I didn't coddle the graphics card, give it milkies, burp it, and lay it down for a nap so it's throwing a tantrum. Fuck the game I want to play is too old and I have to trick it into thinking it's running under an older operating system.

At this point there are only two reasons to own a PC imo , use one for work related reasons ( most obvious ) and emulate old games .

My Steam collection is collecting dust (figuratively speaking ) while I'm constantly using emulators to play PS2 and GameCube games (among other game libraries ). That's the best thing about the PC gaming, it gives you easy access to old console libraries for free.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

At this point there are only two reasons to own a PC imo , use one for work related reasons ( most obvious ) and emulate old games .

My Steam collection is collecting dust (figuratively speaking ) while I'm constantly using emulators to play PS2 and GameCube games (among other game libraries ). That's the best thing about the PC gaming, it gives you easy access to old console libraries for free.

No, there's good games still being made, there's just no reason to own a PS or XB anymore. Switch & PC nets you 99.98% of games, and 99.99% of good ones.

 

[Idiotron]

The issue is that traditional gaming stopped existing about halfway through the 360/PS3 era.
One of the main appeals of consoles back in the day is that you could take them anywhere and as long as you had a TV, you could just plug the console in and play the games almost immediately.

Now, consoles are just weak computers where you have to download tens of gigabytes or crap onto your hard drive + download patches and updates regularly + always be online for the majority of modern games.

As soon as that became a thing, I abandoned consoles.

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

the Switch 1 and the Switch 2 will still be valuable in 50 to 100 years.

I dont think so first of all you will have problem with the battery, screen and the intern flash memory nothing of this is made to last 50+ years. But the worst is the memory cards the games comes on, those have limited read time. Also dont forget nintendo like to shutdown everything they have online for their old consoles.

 

[Michael Wade]

Im going to be the token Console nerd to stick up for this guy and say I like the ps5 more then PC. I still get almost all the major games and I dont have to worry about updating my drivers and shit.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]