Locked 60fps > 240fps unlocked in my opinion. Not all PC ports are equal and the same applies to PC titles ported to Series S. The benefit of having both is you play the best possible version.
Ninja Gaiden II, Mafia II, Jade Empire, etc.
Not all console releases are equal, so that's moot. Besides, I'll always play at the higher framerates because it provides better latency as well.
It varies on a case to case basis and I do not have to play the inferior version by having both systems.
Which is fine, for you, but the point has been that if people want to experience Xbox games without an Xbox, a capable PC gets the job done.
With the caveat that some older ones are inaccessible and even Sony has modern PC ports. Only Nintendo refuses to do them, but ironically has the most amazing emulators on PC made for their systems.
You have caveats no matter what. You have almost none, though, if your setup is a PC, PS5, and Switch. You get the exclusives of the Nintendo and PlayStation with the bonuses of a PC (mods, custom file edits, etc).
You currently don't need a Switch if you have a PC and in 5 years you wont need a PS5 either. You will probably still need an Xbox to play some titles as the emulation scene for the hardware brand is barren.
Right now, that combo has the bases covered. We can worry about five years from now when we get there.
Except it doesn't. PC, Series S, and PS5 has all the bases covered. Unless you are strictly referring to new releases in which case PS5 and PC would be the most sensible choice.
Nah, what I said has the bases covered.
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Depth of discount matters tho.PS5 have been discounted for like the last 12 months in Australia, constant deals below RRP for consoles and bundles.
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Equivalent exchange actually.
How exactly?
You buy one copy and download one copy.
Trying their best to get a win in monthly sales.
Yep, you're delusional if you think the PC doesn't offer both fidelity and performance. But great job justifying your Series S purchase.
Your very own examples contradict that hypothesis.
Two old games contradict the entire PC experience? The same PC experience where you can exceed 60 FPS while having both performance and fidelity with the right hardware in a multitude of games? If you think the sub par experience the Series S gives you is the better platform. The victory goes to you.
That is not your hypothesis. Your hypothesis is PC always offers better performance and fidelity in any games available on both PC and Series consoles. That is false. It varies on a case to case basis and the Series S has the edge in some of them.
Your post made me rethink something. I was planning to tell you that it is more of a value problem for Xbox, that their console is good, but don't interest people as much as it should, and that Microsoft should work a way to make more hype, and more games to make it worth it to have a next gen Xbox. But your last part is a really good point. Both consoles are not cheap. And trying to sell a console for 500$/€, 550 even in some markets, is hard. As you have said, people find this too costly. Will next gen make for both Sony and Xbox mandatory to have a S/X strategy? Can Sony make the PS5 or the PS5 Pro their S version when the PS6 will be around? With both looking at PC more and more, and Nintendo getting closer to tech parity than ever since the Gamecube, it will be interesting to see what will happen. I think that for me Xbox is in a weird position with their S/X strategy. They seems to be unable to correctly guess what the demand will be for both consoles and how much should they eat losses for them. The Series S seems to be the one that they pushed the most at launch and after, but now they are making the X the prefered one with even more loss per console sold. I think that no one would have believed that you can find at retail a 350$ Series S and a 350$ Series X together at the end of 2023 when both consoles launched in 2020.
When/where was it $138. That is a acceptable price for a Series S.
Let's not pretend like everybody that uses emulation is actually buying games. The vast majority of people are just stealing them.
For clarification, this was a pricing error that lasted 30min.
I don't think the Series S Walmart deal was even at all stores (unlike the Series X for $349), I remember when it was posted & none of my local Walmarts were showing it for anything lower than like $239 IIRC
True for Sony and Nintendo, but both have made some moves on mobile that will have to pay off at some point. Microsoft will have all of 2024 to show us what they want for the Xbox brand. I think that they will push for a strong E3 presentation, with games like Hellblade 2 and COD front and center. And the sooner they talk of next gen, the sooner we will know that they consider the Series S/X dead if there is a early next gen. So they will be the first to show something, with will limit theirs options.
Yeah, I remember you posting about that. I was checking Google for "Series S deals" once an hour for a couple days leading up to that since I anticipated other retailers might do something like the Costco deal. It wasn't there at 12:30, then I noticed it at 1:35pm and ordered it by 1:38pm. I posted on GAF at 1:42pm and it was gone when I looked 5min later. Looking at Twitter Wario posted it at 1:22pm.
Last throw of the dice to get that 100 million subs before trying something that doesn't rely on xbox or windows.But I thought they didn't care about selling consoles?
