"Like, 'we're gonna have 20% more ray tracing'. Okay?"
  • commander@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    I play PC because my copy of StarCraft from like 2000 still works and I can use any computer/gaming peripheral in history that still physically works to this day on a PC. A PC is more compatible with PS4 peripherals/gamepads than a PS5. Plus not paying for the privilege to play multiplayer games that a developer is hosting in AWS

    The experience being so similar between a PC and a console is more an indictment on locked down PCs as consoles than against PC. E-waste

    • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      My PC is so backwards compatible it can run games meant for OS’s my OS’s main competitor, and their ancestors as well.

      Better yet it can literally run those OS’s over things like KVM/Qemu and DOSBox.

      I guess Nintendo made that Wii container for Wii U like once lol.

    • setsubyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      To be fair, connecting some of the hardware I used in the 80ies is not straight-forward. But not impossible.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      You can also upgrade it part by part, and not have to let the entire thing get replaced every cycle.

  • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    Start with a normal (as in one ofmy choice) web browser being installable on them, next step is opening to other marketplaces (lol).

      • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        There is no built-in (usable) browser on ps5 nor switch, and nintendo will burn to the ground before allowing people installing their own software on ‘their’ hardware.

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    21·
    9 days ago

    We’d get a pretty good game format OS—if the players could agree to come together—and then licence that out. Just like we do with Blu-ray, just like we do with the compact disk—and let people compete on content.

    I know this is the most Lemmy comment it’s possible to make, but oh, if only there were an OS that already exists that you could run games on and that didn’t even need licencing out!

  • Bosht@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    I’ll be honest I find the ray tracing shit s gimmick that eats up too much resource. I’d much rather just have some awesome games to play, with good looks or not. PC gaming for me has always been about variety anyway. The console looking better never meant anything.