warm

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[–] warm@kbin.earth 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, maybe they should have some sort of 'young child' accounts for children under 13, that are required to be in a family with more restrictions on store access and such.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They are trump voters who don't want to admit it.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 9 points 2 months ago

It's a start, there's obviously a long way to go for road safety in the US, but every little step helps.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I'm never using either of them, if the game doesnt run well without, I'll just refund.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why spend time optimizing when you cant just slap some dogshit upscaling technology in and call it a day? Cant blame a lot of developers though, with the shitty time restraints imposed by management.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 0 points 2 months ago

Yeah thats all voter id is, just to dissuade people.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 2 points 2 months ago

You can adjust settings on PC, so you can trade off some useless post processing and other settings to push the frame rates way higher than console games, which are generally 60fps (or 120fps in some cases, if you run "performance mode").

[–] warm@kbin.earth 3 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Can't you vote by mail too?

[–] warm@kbin.earth 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's just not true. You can make an entire PC for the price of the PS5 Pro. You can get a GPU that is a bit more powerful than a PS5 Pro GPU for ~$300. People normally spend more on PCs though because of the longevity it provides and you can use it for a lot more than just games. Just looking at Steam data, there's a yearly increase of MAUs (their concurrent count just peaked 3 days ago at 37.6M) where Playstation has plateaued.

Time will tell, but I think consoles will fade away, either through lack of appeal or turning into stream boxes as you say. Thanks for the conversation!

[–] warm@kbin.earth 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

We will see when Playstation 6 releases, its unlikely to sell as much as PS5 did, let alone PS4. Microsoft already realised the decline and are jumping into games as a service for the Xbox brand, ideally they would want you to just stream their games, as shitty as that is. With Xbox gone, there's no competition and with Sony being Sony, they are going to abuse that to squeeze any extra money they can from people still willing.

PC became a lot more affordable and accessible in the last decade and it doesn't lock you into a closed ecosystem, you can upgrade when you want, you don't have to pay subscriptions to play online games.

Kids are more exposed to PC gaming than ever before, with all the popular 'content creators' primarily playing on PC, so they are naturally swayed to it more than consoles.

I hear so many stories of people switching to PC, friends asking me for advice for what to buy for themselves or their children.

Circana's May 2024 U.S. video game market highlights, the analytics company reported that video game hardware spending is down 40% compared to 2023. Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony have all shown "double-digit percentage declines," with the Nintendo Switch seeing the "most significant drop."

The writing is on the wall, it would take a big change to swing back the other way. There's a reason they are dying for GTA 6 to release.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago

No game should be running down at 60fps these days, especially with any sort of upscaling. Native performance should be the only measured metric, no need for shortcuts when hardware is as good as it is.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Consoles are a dying breed, especially Xbox and Playstation. Almost every exclusive ends up on PC anyway now, even then I personally don't think there's any game worth spending this much on hardware to play. There's literally no point in buying an Xbox or Playstation unless you really really don't want to bother with a PC setup.

I bet the market will end up as just PC and mobile. I mean the PC market share has already overtaken consoles.

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