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

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Mummelmann said:

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.

 

Despite having a gaming PC too, it's not that simple. Some games have issues that need some tweaking before being playable, even with the patches. Dowright terrible ports are also a reasonable common issue. And we have more technical knowledge than the average joe. Even in our case, it's not that easy to determine which GPUs are equivalents, if GPU A beats GPU B, etc. And even the requirements aren't always reliable. I found Shadow of Mordor requirements to be exagerated, since the game is much less demanding than they said it is. Mortal Kombat X however seems to not be playable with the minimum requirements they informed (the port is also bad).

Choosing parts to build a PC isn't simple too. While I agree with your case with PS3 patches, PS4 does a way better job in doing things automatically. Installs take 2 minutes max, it downloads all the patches in the background automatically, it's basically pop the game in and it runs, while the console downloads any patch and does the job without any worries. Yes, I have bought digital copies on the consoles. All games worked fine, no issues. The store works.

What happens in your case is that you have the tech knowledge to deal with any issues. So it seems easy. A lot of people don't even know what a GPU is and they aren't able to even install a damn printer. These people are the reason why iPads sell a lot: they rather pay much more for less power if it doesn't piss them off.