Im with you except for the "supported lifetime," I have a PC that can play the original Doom alongside Cyberpunk 2077 with raytracing, and literally everything in between.

My PS3 can play at most a decade worth of games. It is obsolete.

[–] Goronmon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My PS3 can play at most a decade worth of games. It is obsolete.

Sure, but so is the PC that someone bought around the time the original Doom was released.

[–] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Right. Fair enough. But, as another user said, I can upgrade that PC. I've technically had the "same PC" since like 2015. At this point, there are no pieces of the original left, but I never went out and spend $1000 on a new rig up front.

Also, that still doesn't make consoles look amy better. Because, when the PS3 became obsolete, and I went and got a PS4, what happened to my PS3 library? It's still locked to my PS3. Even if we did have to go buy new computers every 7 years, they's still all run the original Doom as well as newer games, and everything in between. All this, while also being able to file my taxes.

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

Not necessarily. You can incremently upgrade your pc over time. Typically for cheaper than a brand new console. Generally as long as you have a nice enough mobo, you could just replace the GPU and suddenly "be able to play next gen games"

I still believe mobile PC's (like the ROG or Deck) will be the new consoles of the future. Why the hell would I trap myself to a room every time I want to play a game? Now I can walk to any random forest, lake, area, and go play Cyberpunk 2077 for 4 hours with nothing but nature.