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Insider Confirms Sony Ditching PC Ports: "You'll Be Seeing Fewer Single Player Games Arrive on PC."
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Meh, I have a ps5 already anyways and prefer to play on my couch, so no loss for me.
To me, consoles are a giant waste. Like, you got another fully capable computer that is artificially limited to gaming. This is an e-waste nightmare, all paid from our wallets.
Could be lovely to have a sort of thin client for couch gaming.
But to me, a gaming pc is a giant waste, because you spend $2-3000 to play games at a higher res or with extra rtx features, but the actual quality of the game hardly changes from the console version. A simple cheap pc could do most of your pc needs without the gaming function and be significantly cheaper.
In fact a cheap pc and a console net the same results as a high end gaming pc, but at a cheaper price, imo. So to each his own I guess.
You don't need a high-end PC to get the console experience. Something in the range of $700-800 will run your games no worse than a console, except you'll also get a fully functional computer that can use its full power for any other tasks.
Also, you won't be limited to a certain game library, store, or even the OS. You'll also be able to run any newer games indefinitely as long as your hardware can handle them. And if it can't, you can upgrade the GPU/CPU/RAM specifically instead of replacing the whole unit, saving money, granting customization features, and helping the environment.
So, to each...their own...I guess?
It'll definitely be more expensive than a console, since they sell the consoles at a loss expecting to make it back on the games. (But not that much more.)
... Especially in this fucking economy when it seems they're deliberately trying to destroy the concept of having a functional computer that you own and can run arbitrary stuff on.
Which, is why it's more important than ever to have a PC.
It, uh, was at least definitely possible to do a <$1000 computer back in 2020-25. Ours is under $1000 (I think we started at $400 for a no-GPU build in 2020ish, then got a used RX 580 ($150) once the GPU craze died down and a slightly better CPU ($100), and have an RX 6600 now). Though now with the exploding RAM prices...
-- Frost