I actually believe it, but we’ll see.
Lol now that I have a PC I have to wonder if it’s even worth getting one now, even with exclusives
Honestly when you look at the specs of the PS5 you are actually getting a pretty solid general home gaming system for the official asking price. I looked at building an equivalent PC and the cost basically doubled. However this is nothing new, consoles are generally great value for money for their first few years until PC hardware gets cheaper, it’s generally towards the end of a console’s lifespan that PCs start blowing them out of the water in terms of value for money.
Granted the PS5 has basically no exclusives to speak of after almost three years on the market so if you already have a PC capable of playing all the latest multiplats then there’s no point in getting a PS5 but if you’re looking to upgrade your primary home gaming system right now then PS5 is a good deal.
Yep I’ve said for years the only real reason to get a console is for the exclusives but since Sony is releasing their games on Steam anyway why bother really?
As a PC gamer I do feel like consoles occupy a useful space for some gamers. I have my PC set up very much like a console but it takes more effort to make it like that. I had to plan the parts I wanted to purchase, make sure my PC had built-in wifi just like consoles do, put the whole system together, install the OS and then set up my OS to boot directly into Steam Big Picture with no login or anything else just so I can immediately interface with my system using my controller and not touching my keyboard or mouse. All of this comes as standard for consoles right out of the box, you just plug it in and you get all of that ease of use straightaway.
Granted PC has its benefits for me since I’m someone who really cares about being able to play older games so I need things like unrestricted emulation and backwards compatibility with older games, these are things I can’t really get on consoles without forking out to purchase games I already own or to play it over a cloud streaming service. However, most gamers aren’t like me in that sense and probably don’t care if their latest PlayStation or Xbox can play the full library of SNES games.
Graphics used to be a big factor in favour of PC gaming but in recent years consoles have really caught up to PCs in offering higher resolutions, smoother frame rates and even ray tracing. To even match latest console performance right now you need dual graphics cards and a liquid cooling system whereas back in the days you could match a console’s performance using a single GPU and stock CPU cooler. Before it was just like putting Lego together but now it’s a lot more complicated and potentially messy.
Consoles also have the benefit of game preservation in that console game discs contain the 1.0 versions of games that can be run off a console without any internet connection whereas you have to engage in piracy to achieve the same thing on PC.
Whilst PCs are definitely still the option of the power gamer, consoles do offer features that a lot of gamers want but would be turned off if they had to deal with the extra steps needed for a PC.
For me, the Steam Deck and it’s Steam Deck Dock makes my new PS5 a bit, err, obsolete at this point.
Nevermind the fact that emulation has caught up to the Switch, and honestly any game that’s come out on any next gen console has probably had a multiplatform release anyway so… 🤷🏿♂️
Pretty sure they’re also getting closer and closer to doing emulation for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S games as well.
Next year, it may not matter much.
I can only wonder with the gaming industry eating itself due to capitalism and a lack of a real reason to buy consoles what will happen to the state of things in the upcoming years. It’s like the golden era has long since passed and everything is starting to stagnate
I feel that the games are at least at top quality, despite the business practices.
Not to mention that if the PS5 is anything like the 3 or 4, the PS5 games coming out now won’t work properly till they’re ‘upscaled’ to the PS6.
And chalk up another reason why PC gaming is just better; I know that consoles are usually cheaper overall but their shelf life is extremely short I’m comparison to PCs, all I have to do is upgrade parts instead of buying a whole ass new PC
I wanted a PS5 when it came out but considering I play on my PC with a PS5 controller anyway there’s not much of a difference lol
Do you need a high spec PC to okay games? Or is that just for the latest titles?
People here keep talking about these games where you can build/plan/manage a socialist country. Sounds a bit like Civilization VI or Masters of Orion. One might be called Victoria? But I don’t think I have a device that will play such games and wouldn’t know where to start with a PC (and wouldn’t want to spend loads on one).
I built a gaming PC once. That was around the time that Elder Scrolls Morrowind and Final Fantasy XI were recent-ish.
You don’t necessarily need a high end PC to play games if you’re just a casual player, I think most people who get high end PCs either just have the money to do so or they’re a competitive player
Civ 5 and 6 both have options for communism, tho Civ 5 calls it “Order” lol
You could always buy a prebuilt PC and replace the parts as needed, that’s basically what I did. It also helps to know what you’re going to be using the PC for. Since I play games and also make music I needed a good processor and graphics card, but also needing to balance how much it costs. So tl;dr it’s about what you need and can afford
That’s handy to know. I might keep an eye out next time there’s some kind of sale. I’m not in a rush to buy a machine, but I do enjoy older games. I never got round to playing Starcraft II, so that would be top of my list along with Hearts of Iron and Victoria (if I have the names right) as they seem to be highly rated.
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