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endimion on 13 March 2016
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Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
Jazz2K said:

That's very true though. Most people I know that game on their PCs are not gaming on the living room they mostly have a room or they just work on their work desk. People on these forum act like every PC gamers will put a computer in their living room even if they have families and so on. It's rare that PCs in families are for long gaming sessions. It's mostly a tool for the whole family or for work of one member or more. 

Anecedotal evidence is useless when we're talking about capabilty which his statement (Spencer) doesn't seem to get. Doesn't matter how many friends you have or PC gamers you know.

Fact is it is in most cases trivially easy to connect a PC to a TV and use it for gaming now a days. PC's have been supporting controllers for fuck ever, wireless keyboard and mouse even those that are designed to be used for TV. 

The amount of PC gamers who game in the living room is irrelevant.

 

Just because Phil Spencer said some BS about uniquness doesn't mean he's even remotely right, probably why he prefaced it with "I think", since factually its wrong.

Nobody, who simply cares about the games, on PC is going to give a shit or not whether the game they bought came from the X1. This whole transfered X1 games garbage is absurd because the second its on PC its a god damn multiplat and its not an X1 game anymore on the PC. 

 

Just cause MS owns Windows doesn't mean they can stumble around and decided a decade too late to try and blur* the lines for more profit. No, no. Unfortunately for them PC became a free platform when they were off fucking with MP3 players and Mobile OSes, well tbh a lot earlier than that, and nobody gives a ratass that the Prince Spencer and the Xbox team have come "home" when you've already got Steam and Gog and Origin and Uplay and w.e the fuck else.

No I just have steam aggregated statistics over millions of players to support my claim... Gaming in the living room is FACTUALLY NOT the norm... thread

built my first gaming PC it was still the early 90s and not even 15 yo, had my computer hook up to a TV back in the 2000s... Been using my PC as a TV tuner since the XBox 360, have had a NAS for media content streaming since before Netflix or Pandora whatever was the first music or movie streaming service was a thing.... So I'm pretty sure I know my shit when it comes to nerdism.... But since I ain't a student in a dorm, not only PC gaming lost interest for me (and yeah that's personal) but even without that I wouldn't do it...