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[Laptop1991]

I agree from a PC gaming port and point of view, PC should always be open source and not a walled Eco system like Consoles, which is why i will never buy or rent games on the Windows Store (GFWL 2), i use mods and want control of my own files, gaming or otherwise, MS is trying to tie the 2 together and i prefer them to be separate like it used to be.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Agreed, OP. Consoles should stay providing only crap resolutions, IQ, performance, input lag, loading times, bugs (no patches), no online, no mods.

Zero options to improve the consumer experiences.

/s

 

[Preseznik]

Funny thing is consoles are already basically walled-garden PCs.
Especially compared to how they used to be.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Funny thing is consoles are already basically walled-garden PCs.
Especially compared to how they used to be.

Sadly, no. You can't do almost nothing more with them than play games the way devs forced/limited you to.

 

[Wolves hunt in packs]

Nah son, we're not in 1999 anymore, why would you want to have less options? you are not forced to use most of them, you can still plug and play mostly, if not for the price i would get the PS5 Pro day one.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Sadly, no. You can't do almost nothing more with them than play games the way devs forced/limited you to.

I still continue to think that Microsoft would have had a better strategy if they had turned Xbox with an OS that lets you use it like a PC. You basically buy a PC box for a defined number of years with guarantee games run well on it for that period. A simple button press to switch between a PC to console like experience. You could use it at a desk, and hell, sell a wireless adapter to stream to TV via wifi 7 with near lossless quality. Don't want that? Plug it on TV and just use it like a console. I think there's a market for that. The problem with steambox back in the days is that Valve went with money hungry fleecing motherfucking OEMs. Do you trust iBuyPower, Alienware, Falcon Northwest, CyberPowerPC, to make a product that is not fleecing consumers? Valve fucked that up, on top of having no OS to show for it back then.

Nowadays I think the idea is totally viable.

 

[rodrigolfp]

I still continue to think that Microsoft would have had a better strategy if they had turned Xbox with an OS that lets you use it like a PC. You basically buy a PC box for a defined number of years with guarantee games run well on it for that period. A simple button press to switch between a PC to console like experience. You could use it at a desk, and hell, sell a wireless adapter to stream to TV via wifi 7 with near lossless quality. Don't want that? Plug it on TV and just use it like a console. I think there's a market for that. The problem with steambox back in the days is that Valve went with money hungry fleecing motherfucking OEMs. Do you trust iBuyPower, Alienware, Falcon Northwest, CyberPowerPC, to make a product that is not fleecing consumers? Valve fucked that up, on top of having no OS to show for it back then.

Nowadays I think the idea is totally viable.

The problem with this is, I think, it would make it too ease to break the "security/closed" aspect of the "console OS" part. One of the reasons Sony removed Linux option on PS3.