Consoles are completely redundant, you can get a better performing PC for the same price or lower if you wait for sales (especially when you consider the $60-120/year premium you have to pay to play console games online, Microsoft & Sony sell consoles at a loss because they know they'll suck way more money out of you from subscriptions & other "fees" you experience from console)

Consoles are just shit value, you can't use them for anything other than what, gaming and TV? And their specs are worth less than just buying similar parts separately and putting them together. So why would I spend up to $500 plus $80 every year on a shitty console just to play a new game because of artificial exclusives that will come to PC anyways? Assuming you use your PS5 or Xbox Series X or whatever for 6-7 years, that's $1000 down the drain. And then after that you'll still have to spend a few hundred on a laptop or PC or whatever to, you know, do your job or uni or whatever, because your console that costs over $500 can't do any of that.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The one thing consoles have had for a long time over PC is physical disks. Fuck what I wouldnt do to have non-steam required disks. Btw I know itd be slow I dont care.

[–] force@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm sure you could burn a game onto a CD/DVD, although I'm not sure there's any benefit to doing that compared to just storing it on an HDD...

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Sure, but itd still be nice to have the option ya know.

[–] aulin@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know console games had subscription costs in ways the PC equivalents don't. I'm a PC gamer myself, and wouldn't buy a console precisely because it's a unitasker. But the one task it does do well is couch gaming with a controller, and that's not how I'd use a PC. Fair, if that's someone's thing, but I would just think a console was better for that usecase.

[–] force@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There's not really anything that makes using your PC in the same way inconvenient, you can connect it to your TV and wirelessly connect controllers, even more conveniently. Although switching between games or using different apps while doing so means you'd have to have a m&kb beside you I think, so if you're playing with friends it might be less convenient (personally I only use controller on games that are unplayable on M&KB though, mainly emulated games)