The fact is is that all 3 console manufacturers charge monthly subscriptions for you to play games you bought with anyone outside of your room. (Nintendo Switch Online, Playstation Plus, Xbox Live).
Guess how much I have to pay Steam every month to play games in my $3000 library with my friends across the country? (A: nothing!)
Don’t forget, even if you bought the games, it’s entirely up to their discretion whether or not to take away those games if they feel like it.
I have games in my Steam library the publisher removed from the store some time ago so they could sell remakes.
Everyone else sucks and Gabe Newell knows it.
They’ve been porting so many games to PC you’d be stupid not to. Why get a PlayStation or an Xbox when you can get a PC and play both consoles games. It’s honestly the best time for PC gaming and I’m all for it.
Considering most mainstream consoles are essentially shitty PCs, I’m surprised it took so long. An actual PC is a far more useful and flexible device.
I’m scared. As soon as it becomes profitable, companies in the gaming space will be rushing to enshitiffy PC gaming the way they’re doing with consoles. Big, public game companies not paying attention to the PC space is a GOOD thing.
It has always been profitable and we’ve already seen the enshittification with the plethora of completely useless launchers and company specific accounts. We’ve more or less grown accustomed to the enshittification that has happened in the last decade.
So I’m not really scared because the real gems of PC gaming aren’t from big public companies, they’re from small indie teams. All that enshittification just pushes me more and more towards indie games. I occasionally tip my toes into the mainstream games whenever I see something I want to play, but mostly I play games made by small studios who want to make games for others to play rather than make games to make money.
Despite being declared death or dying several times over the past couple decades.
The last two generations of consoles were just PCs but worse. Now nearly all games are coming to PC anyway, what’s even the point? Just to pay them $70/year for the privilege of playing multiplayer?
I’m assuming they’re requiring a PSN account for PC ports so they can eventually put a subscription on having a PSN account.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they want to push their own launcher to bypass Steam’s 30% cut
Now to be fair, the Switch was a fancy cellphone, but worse
The Tegra in it was fairly old at that point IIRC.
2015 Tablet specs with 2012 CPU cores at the helm. Yay.
What is the value proposition of a modern game console over a PC?
It’s about a third of the price.
You can make PC’s with comparable price and performance of a console. Especially when you facotr in the cost of subscriptions to use online services. Content creators just rarely cover that because it doesn’t get them views
