Can Both Playstation and Xbox Survive If Nintendo Makes A Console Comeback?

[kristianity77]

Mummelmann said:

kristianity77 said:

Gourmet said:
I doubt both of them can survive the 9th gen even if nintendo drops out today. It won't take long for people to realize how much better the PC is.

 

Buy a game

Check to see if you have the minimum or recommended requirements for said game.  If not, spend money

Install It 

Try to Run It

Go around updating Drivers because said new game doesn't run

Run the game

Runs terribly

Mess about with set up, graphics options, resolution

Finally play game ( or dont play it, but tell everyone within earshot how amazing it runs regardless)

 

Or

 

Buy game, play game.

There is a reason consoles are more in favour regardless of whether they fall behind the PC in terms of specs or not.  Plug into TV, buy game, play away, on a closed ecosystem with friends.  Thats all you need to do.

I've been gaming on PC for 20 years or more and I've never had such issues. I have waited 3 hours on painstakingly slow updates and patches on my PS3 games though, and I've played plenty of console games that ran poorly, had choppy framerates, glitching textures and massive pop-in issues. I haven't upgraded any of my hardware either for about 4 years now.

Purchasing, installing and playing games on Steam is no more difficult than purchasing, installing and using apps on a smart device; it just has a smaller audience. This whole fallacy that you have to be a tech wizard to game on PC's and that console games are simply pop the disc in and play, is getting old. Have you ever purchased a digital copy of a game on a console? Why are there digital stores at all, they are so difficult and should be of no interest to console gamers. Mainstream games sell less on PC as a rule, and there are several reasons for this, the PC being a clunky tool that people is too difficult to use is not one of them.

PS: Who would buy a game first and then check to see if they meet the hardware requirements later? If someone is that stupid; their PC is not the problem.

OK granted I had the Buy A Game and then check the requirements the wrong way round but the point I was trying to make was that its something you need to check for, as opposed to console where you buy a game for a console and you know its going to work.

And the "put the disc in and play" regarding consoles is still very much relevant, no matter how old it is.  The fact is, its true.  

I'm not saying console gaming is better.  Its obvious that with the right investment and putting a little more time into things, gaming IS better on PC.  I'm merely stating that for the majority, they don't even want to bother with that.  They want a switch on and play device, and a PC just isn't that.