Congratulations to PCs for winning the console wars :3
The win is in vain if you can’t buy PC hardware either.
There are still many thousands of games playable on older hardware.
Yes you can it’s just now comparable in cost to a flagship console
FAFO
“Computers that are just for games, that you can’t do anything else on… And we say what games, and also for lots of them you have to keep paying us to play them… And you can’t have any physical ownership of them anymore”.
As a PC gamer concerned about game preservation: good. Consoles are just walled hardware fiefdoms.
And the PC master race wins the blood war
Maybe most people who would want to buy said systems can’t afford 1600 dollars for one when they can’t even afford groceries and gas? Huh, just maybe.
(Used pricing from GameStop)
This is called demand destruction.
I can get a fairly good gaming PC for a thousand dollars why would I pay $900 for a games console that’s basically worse in every way?
I hardly ever use my Sony Netflix box anymore.
Mostly because I stopped buying from them digitally because they won’t refund a game if you’ve downloaded a single solitary bit of data, and now they won’t sell physical copies so…
I looked at buying a ps5 for the first time since it came out a couple weeks ago because I really wanted to play LOTR War in the North again.
Its twice as expensive as it was when it came out.
I just went home and grabbed my old ps2.
Its absolutely insane that this console is so expensive right now.
It is also the last PS I would get because I want physical discs.
The ps5 that comes with a disc drive is useless, as the “physical” copies of games are just empty cases with redemption codes inside.
Wait seriously? No discs at all? For any games?
Nah, that guy is a bit off. I’ve bought several brand new, 2026 titles this year and they all have discs in the box.
The majority as far as I know.
I strongly oppose this view: with my disc drive PS5 I am able to play games I bought second hand and games I borrowed from my local library
Yeah, those games are by far the minority.
I have literally bought the last few brand new, 2026 PS5 games on disc. I’m getting Control Resonant this week on disc.
If you mean GTAVI, then yeah that’s bonkers. But you can get most games with a physical disc currently.
Sounds like it’s gotten better? I remember it being a shit show before I sold my ps5.
- Get a gaming pc like everybody else
- ???
- Profit
Wait, can they still be peasants if they’re becoming marginal?
Play box, x-station 400, who cares
I literally own two ps4s and two copies of a game my SO and I wanted to play together, but neither of us have an active PS+. We would both have to resub just to play it together in the same room. It ended up being cheaper just to buy two copies again on Steam to play it together on PC/laptop. There’s no reason to own a console anymore. Their convenience is completely gone.
Similar-ish story here. I set up a Minecraft server for the household and set up Minecraft on the Switch so my kid can play it. Turns out you have to have a fucking Nintendo subscription to play online in Minecraft on the goddamn Switch on my own server that’s on my own local network in my own house.
Let’s not even mention that you can’t even add a custom server on the switch, you can only play preselected servers or Minecraft realms that you have to pay for. I had to do essentially DNS fuckery to make that work.
Fuck these companies.
I bought Minecraft for switch to play with my son. What a shit experience it was.
First off, it took like an hour of trial and error to even get the two of us playing in split screen. Then I realized that to render split screen the game had reduced the draw distance to like 1/4th of what it was on PC years ago. We dealt with it until we actually had a good area built up and the frame rate dropped to like 10fps. Then my wife accidentally let Minecraft update and it bricked split screen until I completely turned off the switches WiFi.
Recently purchased Java for PC, spent another hour getting couch co-op going on that and it’s a completely different experience.
To be fair, most of your complaint is about the hardware of a low-power device not being able to handle rendering double the game and then compensating accordingly.
Which is an expected outcome.
The game is advertised and sold as having split screen co-op. Having to mess with console settings to get it to work and the resulting experience being shit isn’t excusable. Of course I didn’t expect a full PC equivalent but I expected it to have a minimum of polish and optimization.
If they couldn’t make the game do split screen decently, they shouldn’t put that as a feature. If the game can’t be run decently in single player, they shouldn’t have sold it at all.
That’s infuriating. What game? If you don’t mind me asking.
Monster Hunter; we both already have World on PS4. Rise and its DLC was/is on sale for $10 so we just got that instead.
Two full games and their DLC for the cost of one month of PS+.
I wonder how gta will affect those numbers, and how those numbers will affect the pc release.
I doubt it will have a huge impact. It’s not as if we’re at the beginning of the console generation most people will already have a PlayStation.
