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[Lumpyoatmeal]

At this point there is literally no reason not to be on your PC exclusively with Steam installed. Even with both today’s console, neither company is even technically playing to their strengths in terms of hardware and software design which has allowed the PC to be a far better experience. With out Nintendo, console gaming is essentially done (obviously there’s emulation sabotaging Nintendo’s latest console but for argument sake..). What’s the reason behind Sony and Microsoft throwing in the towel?

 

[Trogdor1123]

 

[TintoConCasera]

Not so much throwing in the towel but rather, trying and failing.

This gen sure sucks when it comes to first party output imo. Thankfully there are many third parties which keep releasing cool game after cool game.

 

[RoboFu]

Money

 

[Hrk69]

At this point there is literally no reason not to be on your PC exclusively with Steam installed.

I'm sure everyone here has literally $2000 to spend freely on a modern custom-build PC.

 

[begotten]

MS killed their own console division whilst trying to act like Nintendo and Sony are in the same lane as them when they're not.

When GTA6 releases, Switch 2 comes out and a proper PS Handheld releases, we'll see how healthy the Console Industry actually is and that it's just been Xbox being deadweight the last two generations.

End of story.

 

[JohnnyFootball]

At this point there is literally no reason not to be on your PC exclusively with Steam installed. Even with both today’s console, neither company is even technically playing to their strengths in terms of hardware and software design which has allowed the PC to be a far better experience. With out Nintendo, console gaming is essentially done (obviously there’s emulation sabotaging Nintendo’s latest console but for argument sake..). What’s the reason behind Sony and Microsoft throwing in the towel?

Sony has sold nearly (maybe more than) 50M consoles this gen and is on par if not slightly ahead of the PS4 in terms of adoption....without a price drop.

Can we please stop with the fucking stupid notion that somehow Sony has ANY part in killing console gaming? Console gaming has a LONG way to go before it PC becomes the main thing. There is not one shred of data that suggests that console gaming is dying.

Xbox on the otherhard has done everything in their power to kill their own brand.

 

[Johnny Concrete]

At this point there is literally no reason not to be on your PC exclusively with Steam installed. Even with both today’s console, neither company is even technically playing to their strengths in terms of hardware and software design which has allowed the PC to be a far better experience. With out Nintendo, console gaming is essentially done (obviously there’s emulation sabotaging Nintendo’s latest console but for argument sake..). What’s the reason behind Sony and Microsoft throwing in the towel?

Are you one of them that think the majority of households own a high end gaming pc?

 

[AJUMP23]

Is console gaming dead? I wasn't informed.

 

[jroc74]

What?

Why does Sony always get dragged into this? Last time I checked the PS5 is about double Series console sales.

Let me ask....why do you think more ppl are buying PS5's than Xbox consoles? Whatever the reason, more ppl want a PS5.

Hell, at this point might as well consider the Dual Sense as a major selling point when looking at console sales. MS was so focused on Backwards Compatibility it trickled over to their hardware decisions.

 

[Gaiff]

At this point there is literally no reason not to be on your PC exclusively with Steam installed.

What about those who love their consoles? What about those whose office setup doesn't play nice with the living room and can't hook up their PCs to the TV in the living room? What about those who value the simplicity of consoles? What about those who are on a smaller budget and only have $600 for a gaming machine? What about...

Yeah, you get the point. Do we need this thread every week? This shit is lame.

 

[Punished Miku]

Consoles are limiting growth opportunities. They're looking at much broader options that would likely be additive, not subtracting options.

 

[Hrk69]

Is console gaming dead? I wasn't informed.

Didn't you hear? There is *literally* no reason to own a console

It's beyond dead

 

[jm89]

 

[Topher]

At this point there is literally no reason not to be on your PC exclusively with Steam installed. Even with both today’s console, neither company is even technically playing to their strengths in terms of hardware and software design which has allowed the PC to be a far better experience. With out Nintendo, console gaming is essentially done (obviously there’s emulation sabotaging Nintendo’s latest console but for argument sake..). What’s the reason behind Sony and Microsoft throwing in the towel?

False premise my man. Consoles are doing fine. It's just Xbox console that continues to struggle. And there is plenty of reasons to game on console rather than on PC. This has been hashed and rehashed so many time.....is there really any point to going over it yet again?

 

[Tarin02543]

consoles are over - handhelds are in. PC for the rest

 

[Gaiff]

Is console gaming dead? I wasn't informed.

 

[OverHeat]

Because console are for peasants everybody know that.

 

[West Texas CEO]

It was inevitable. Just like MP3 players or pay phones, the age of the console is now over.

 

[Quasicat]

I’ve been debating on either getting a PS5 to go along with my Series X and Switch or buy a PC. I bought my last PC for gaming in 2010, but moved on to consoles for the convenience. I don’t really care for the politics in the gaming industry, I just want to play some good single player games.
I guess I’m going to sit and wait awhile longer to see what happens. Perhaps there will be some good deals on PS5 hardware in the fall.

 

[BennyBlanco]

The world would be a better place if bangers like this remained exclusive to consoles

 

[HeWhoWalks]

Um, what is with these silly, hyperbolic topics lately? Xbox is the only casualty to console game due, in largest part, to its parent company.

Otherwise, Nintendo and PlayStation will continue to exist, do well, and PC can complement them both.

 

[Mossybrew]

 

[ConkerTheSquirrel.]

The world would be a better place if bangers like this remained exclusive to consoles

 

[Nydius]

Sony? The latest global sales numbers we got showed the PS5 selling around ~7% higher than the PS4 in a time-adjusted comparison. That may not be the growth they expect or want but it’s hardly “killing the console business”.

The only dying console is Xbox.

 

[Lumpyoatmeal]

Sony has sold nearly (maybe more than 50M consoles this gen and is on par if not slightly ahead of the PS4 in terms of adoption....without a price drop.

Can we please stop with the fucking stupid notion that somehow Sony has ANY part in killing console gaming? Console gaming has a LONG way to go before it PC becomes the main thing. There is not one shred of data that suggests this.

Xbox on the otherhard has done everything in their power to kill their own brand.

JohnnyFootball, here’s the catalog on Steam, I also seen they added the PS VR 2 app.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[Putonahappyface]

 

[Magic Carpet]

I love my PC but I'm still regrowing the arm it cost me. I'll have it fully paid off end of the year.

 

[TintoConCasera]

What about those who love their consoles? What about those whose office setup doesn't play nice with the living room and can't hook up their PCs to the TV in the living room? What about those who value the simplicity of consoles? What about those who are on a smaller budget and only have $600 for a gaming machine? What about...

Yeah, you get the point. Do we need this thread every week? This shit is lame.

I agree that those are more than enough reasons for many, but the thing is, there used to be one more reason for owning a console: quality exclusives.

Where are them now? Just my opinion ofc but I think most of them range from total stinkers to pretentious movie-wannabes.

 

[VolticArchangel]

 

[Bring Back Scalebound]

I don't know in a objective way, but in a subjective way, they are very much alive and well, for me.

The reason I'm a console player, is because I don't have the know-how, patience or care, to set up a PC, to worry about which graphics card to use, drivers, operating systems, and bla bla.

I just want to sit down, turn it on, and play.

I don't care how many games get on Steam. I don't care if PC has better everything (It's objectively better), all that stuff is pretty cool.

I'm just again, not bright or patient enough to ever want or care to touch a PC in my life.

 

[Woopah]

Lots of PC games are now on consoles, does that mean PC gaming is being killed?

 

[Danjin44]

literally no reason not to be on your PC exclusively with Steam installed.

First, most people including me more comfortable playing on Consoles.

Second, there are still games either won't ever come out on PC like Vanillaware games or takes years to get PC release, FFVII Rebirth still hasn't come out on PC.

 

[NickFire]

Is there more projection among specific console enthusiasts or in politics?

 

[SHA]

Cause software is getting more expensive and losing a studio is worse than warshiping a piece of plastic, they literally don't exist but games do.

 

[lughnasadh123]

 

[BlackTron]

At this point there is literally no reason not to be on your PC exclusively with Steam installed.

"Literally" I don't think that word means what you think it means lol.

 

[cash_longfellow]

Friday, is that you? Why are you a day early?

 

[Azelover]

The dick measuring contest ran its course. Sony and Microsoft are finally looking at console gaming for what it always was which is a business.

How far can you go into the red only to fuel your ego...we are coming to the end of that.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

please someone insert matt Piscatella's tweet

 

[violence]

It’s hard to justify the huge budgets for a game that’s going to be exclusive. Game prices haven’t gone up that much. In fact I think I bought shadows of the empire on N64 for what a game costs today.

 

[Holammer]

Um, what is with these silly, hyperbolic topics lately? Xbox is the only casualty to console game due, in largest part, to its parent company.

Otherwise, Nintendo and PlayStation will continue to exist, do well, and PC can complement them both.

If Gaf thread had image thumbnails, they would devolve into clickbait with red arrows and soy face guy pointing at thing the first day.

"You won't believe", developers don't want you to know this"... and Picard facepalms of course.

 

[bender]

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world
These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives
All this I cannot bear to witness any longer
Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home?

 

[Wooxsvan]

couldn't disagree more. consoles offer an easy plug n play experience where many customers simply prefer for that reason or another. low cost etc

 

[thismeinteil]

Sony TooTM

 

[Robb]

 

[RaZoR No1]

Money
Dev costs raisen humangous amount to the sky but the gamers want to pay less and less for the games.
We only got a small price raise for the games.
Therefore they try to get as many people to play the games.

And greed

But mostly costs and greed

 

[DryvBy]

There's plenty of reasons to not game on a PC. Price alone is one. The PC is expensive AF.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Jesus Christ, it's another one of these threads.

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