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Consoles are dying. Thanks to them becoming locked pre-built PCs. So why just get a PC at that point.
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
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I disagree. I think they're dying because big publishers have become so risk averse. It takes forever for a game to be finished and when it's done it's usually forgettable slop, with a few exceptions. PC gaming allows for different tiers of games to be developed more easily so there's more variety.
Lol.
We'll file this under the same prediction bracket as those who thought PC gaming was dying in the early 2000s.
The cycle I see is aligned with the console generations.
For the first half of the gen the console proposition is reasonably modern and some people with older PCs will pick up a console instead of a new PC build.
For the second half of the gen the console proposition is dated and PCs can achieve the same power for a modest price, or exceed that power for a few dollars more. Some people will switch to PC either as an upgrade or when their current console fails.
Then the cycle continues every 6 or 7 years.
In my experience very few people replace a PC, even an old one, with a console. At most people might buy a console in addition to their PC and that just becomes less and less viable as each console generation is more expensive and closer to the price of a new PC anyway.
Gaben is definitely getting himself a new mega yacht this year, fuck yeah.
My kids (8 and 5) prefer to play on my PC instead of their Xbox. They claim being closer to the screen allows them to see what's going on in the game much better.
I play Xbox on my pc screen, works quite well.
I was semi recently explaining to someone that monitors are basically small TV's, with more variety in sizes, form factors, and refresh rates.
Yeah, it’s great that today it’s all interchangeable. There’s just so many ways to play games and so many different setups. It was much more limited when computer hardware and tv setups where so different back in the day.
Virtually all of Steams growth in the last year or so has been from China. Even though it's not got a license to operate there. So if/when their government stop turning a blind eye to it they will suffer a massive drop in users.