| kitler53 said: i read all your facts and come to the opposite conclusion. consoles now have the best bits of PCs in their ability to get game updates and the ps4 does it so elegantly through background updates. it also has game suspending for instant switching to other apps. why should i fuck around with a PC and the constant updates and drivers. getting it to display correctly on a tv is always hard and i am pretty damn tec savy. keyboard and mouse is a terrible (especially in the ergo part) input. and most importantly,.. developers piss on pc everyday. consoles get tons of AAA exclusives that will never come to pc. if they do come to pc they come with parity with consoles meaning your $20,000 rig is only as functional as my $400 ps4 other than resolution and framerate. i used to game on pc and i really can't think of one reason i'd ever go back. ...well piracy but i'm not an asshole. |
Exactly. And this is something a lot don't seem to understand. Consoles becoming more like PCs doesn't spell doom for consoles.... in truth its the other way round.
Graphics, which is the primary measure of any generational leap, isn't an infinite entity. There will always be something that can run a game better but in reality, we will reach a point where that "better" is irrelevant. I believe that come the PS5/XB2, we will have consoles that will be able to run games at 4k@60fps without breaking a sweat. And at that point those consoles will also come with Sata express SSDs and probably way more than 8GB of GDDR5 or its next gen equivalent as standard. At that point, the only difference between a high end PC rig and a console will be that the PC can run the same game at the console settings in 8k@120fps or something like that. But that won't take anything at all from the game running on consoles at 4k@60fps. There will be no more geometry or texture differences. No more aliasing or draw distance issues. everything will just run.
At that point, the simplicity of being able to just buy a $400 box that will always just run everything the way they should be run will as usual be more appealing than building or tinkering with a PC. Hell, at that point it would be possible to install a full PC OS on a console and run it as an application.
