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Anyway.
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I still use my Xbox One to play some Battlefield games. But I'm never buying a new console ever again. Fuck Microsfot. Fuck Sony. And you know what Nintendo fuck you too. Price gouging, greedy fucks the lot of them. PC+emulators is now the way to go, fuck all these greedy companies.
Even though I stopped buying new games on Xbox for sometime now, numerous reasons to boycott Microsoft I'm sure you have yours too. There is still probably another Xbox console or two in my life due to the over 300 game digital library I have accumulated over three generations due to Xbox Live Gold and Microsoft Rewards.
Fuck the US for inflicting this on the rest of the world.
At least the ones that voted the orange guy.
PC Linux Sales
I didnt know Linux manufactured solid controllers. Can you link me one? /s
Like for real: Xbox Controllers are actually good.
8bitdo controllers are fucking amazing.
Wish I could agree, but the consistently broken bumpers really irritate me.
I have gone through probably 20ish Xbox controllers, the 360 controllers were the most durable (except the stick rubber bit) whereas the core and series controllers and even my elite 2 controllers have all had the bumpers break or otherwise stop functioning.
I replaces the bumpers several times manually, then with the elite 2 they changed the design but now it breaks at the actual button instead of the flimsy plastic piece like on the core/series controllers.
Luckily putting some ISO on the button and throughly cleaning it along with sticking a small piece of paper near the actuator seems to have fixed it for several months.
I would love a solid controller with Xbox style layout (particularly the thumbsticks) replaceable sticks and 4 back paddles. I think the Playstation TouchPad would also be a welcome addition for PC navigation or steam input mapping.
Playstation controllers have more features though, and arguably better Linux support.
Said features are mostly gimmicks, and quite frankly the symmetrical stick placement is uncomfortable and outdated by nearly 20 years. Even my $40 8bitdo controller I use for my Switch feels more premium than a $80 PS5 controller. In every other case be it PC, android, or Xbox I am going with the Xbox controller.
Idk, gyro aiming is pretty sweet.
I'm also not a fan of the symmetrical sticks, but it doesn't bother me a ton, and having gyro aiming as an option is a big value add. I definitely don't pay full price though, I'll only pick it up on sale.
Thank you so fucking much Nintendo for upping the standard and the everyone else falling in line because consoomers didn't scoff at all and sold out pre-orders
I think it was actually publishers like EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard, and Activision that started the price increase. For big titles they started raising them to $70 a year or two ago, then to 80. I think I remember Diablo 4 launching for $80, or so.
I only know this because I refuse to buy from these publishers.
Like Nvidia video cards did during the pandemic...
Game Pass pricing currently unchanged.
That is because the job of Game Pass isn't to make money, it is to funnel customers into subscription services and destroy the idea that people buy games from artists.
Game Pass either succeeds and destroys the gaming industry like spotify did to music or Microsoft will abandon Game Pass.
People never bought music from artists.
They bought it from record labels.
Whenever you see an artist complain they had a million streams and made twenty dollars, it's not Spotify that's keeping it all.
"Artists" lol.
The ratio is 100:1 (1 being an actual artist or a studio still enacting on this believe)
It's happening across the board at every industry.
Rather than try to appeal to a larger audience, they've found it's more profitable to take greater advantage of an ever-shrinking pool of saps.
Mark my words, they legitimately don't want the business of people with standards or self-respect. They want to cultivate communities where the only participants are Stockholm Syndrome victims and their abusers.
Correction: It is to make money, but the goal is to get people to subscribe now then jack up the prices once people start relying on it.
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if anyone was looking for a good time to switch to PC, it's now. some stuff will be harder but you'll have steam sales and control over your own device (more than a console anyway, if your running windows you'll still have to put up with Microsoft).
I have Win11 at work and its frustrating as hell. Definitely switching over to linux when I decide to buy a new pc
Plus steam deck is pretty solid.
if your running windows you'll still have to put up with Microsoft
Luckily, there is another choice. Linux runs pretty smooth and has gotten much simpler to use over the years.
All hail Proton!
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It's strange really. You can buy 4 extremely good indie games for the price of one game. And that's at a 20 each.
And with steam sales and sharing...valve is fun.
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Weren’t consoles supposed to be the cheaper, more convenient option?
I mean, barring Nintendo, they still are and will continue to be as long as you don't need to have games on day one. I very rarely spend more than $20 on Xbox games. Most AAA games go on sale within the first few months. $70 Ubisoft titles will literally be $15 a month after release, not that Ubisoft makes much worth buying these days but it was just an example. The digital storefronts (again, not Nintendo) have sales constantly, you just need a little impulse control.
They were until an orange bitch started a trade war. Now everything is going to be too expensive, consoles and PCs alike.
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ARGGGGHH ya filthy vermin 😂 Fuck your subscriptions. 10tb checking in.
Steam can't release a "console" soon enough.
You can connect the deck to your tv if you want a "console" experience.
It ain't powerful enough for modern titles sadly. I'm trying to say that there's a space where Valve made steam machine with niceties of SteamOS and power of say PS5 can really thrive.
I did that at my friends place: Worked very good. Screen was turned off and connected my xbox controller.
Minor nitpick: If it's connected via a powered dock they should circumvent the battery.
Thousands of them already exist. They're called PCs.
There's some nuance.
- One of the bigger issues about PC gaming these days is the shader compilation stutter. Valve is able to precompile and upload these for SteamDeck, so a fixed hardware "console" from them will solve this problem too.
- SteamDeck is pretty weak but games are still sort of optimised for it. Same would be true for such a console, making devs focus on a target platform directly.
- Assembling PC yourself can have its own issues. You may not get all the ROPs, or a new Windows update may break your games, or you may occasionally update drivers to make a game more playable without black screens, or wouldn't turn on with a controller when set up as a "console". I'm not saying it isn't doable, but there is an audience for consoles who would love whatever SteamDeck has done for handheld but in console form, and may not want to bother with setting everything up. Valve can disrupt that
Millions you mean.
Hundreds of millions.
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Well, that settles it. $80 games is going to be the new standard and Sony will quickly trail along. Oh well, nothing much has changed for patient gamers.
Oh well, nothing much has changed for patient gamers.
Aye. I wait until games are finished before torrenting them.
Feels good being off the consumer bandwagon. Games are coming out faster than I can beat the ones that came out years ago. I have enough digital entertainment for the rest of my life without ever having to spend a dime.
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