Some "console fans" just accepted that PC is the superior gaming platform.

[DonFerrari]

Pemalite said:

Bandorr said:

You could be accurate. There is no tone of facial expressions after all. Constantly talking about it being on the PC and it being "better" certaintly sounds like being proud/bragging about it.

Specially combined with the earlier comment of "I still have a ton of fun emulating some old games from the SNES/PSX era on my PC"

I actually own SNES, PS1, N64 games on their original formats, so from a legal perspective I'm not breaking any laws, nor are they demanding, allowing me to emulate them via my Android TV box so I can have a higher degree of fidelity and still retain a similar experience to the original.

With that said. I'm indifferent to it all. I don't really care if Emulation happens or not. Just that it's going to happen regardless of what any of us think.

DonFerrari said:

Legally, from what I know... emulating is piracy because it's reverse engineering the system to be duplicated and violating IP on the HW itself and them if you didn't buy the SW itself you are pirating again, but I may be wrong.

 

But I find funny when some guys expend 2000 USD or more on a rig and then pirate a game because they think it's too expensive (at least dirty cheap steam promotion isn't piracy, but I also find it an issue to only buy the games for peanuts and let the developers starve)

The legality of emulation will vary from territory to territory. But emulation itself is actually legal in most western countries.
It's when you start dumping BIOS's, downloading ROM's etc' that you enter into a grey area.

Swordmasterman said:

You mean via Emulation ? This isn't guaranteed since sometimes the emulator run the game worse than the original version.

That is actually a very good point.

With that said, issues like that usually get sorted out in time and as hardware continues to progress.

I'm aware that it's accepted in some places and not others, but morally I have no issue with someone having the HW and SW but prefering the emulation, although I preffer the fell of playing on intended HW.

Arkaign said:

Dgc1808 said:

Yes, at the end of the day, if each of the big 3 had all their games on PC then their consoles become pointless to the vast majority of gamers. At the end of the day, it really comes down to exclusives. Now if all games were available on all platforms, I'm not so sure. Price-point/value and convenience would win and that could give the edge to the PS4 if you ask me.

I think the point is that PC = X1+ as all X1 games going forward are a subset of PC games but not all PC games are a subset of X1 games. If what you care about are games, then yea, a PC is better. There are still multimedia and convenience reasons to get an X1 (especially the X1s) but a lot of gamers just don't care about that stuff, and that's why people are reacting the way they are.

While I actually agree with you personally (I would totally skip consoles entirely if I could get all the games on PC), I think most console gamers are closed into their mindsets for whatever reason, and they are most comfortable with the console world.

Even if hypothetically : a $99 PC blew the complete doors off of either PS4/Neo and XB1/Scorpio, along with every game available and free online still, most console gamers just don't want a 'PC'. It's just what it is.

Some people are also just oblivious. I showed someone BF4 running at 4K/60 with everything ultra, and they couldn't tell the difference between their PS3, lol. And no, they weren't kidding, they just have vision problems I guess.

I myself don't care if more console people decide to go PC, if they're happy with whatever they choose, wonderful. I'm just happy that PC is a better place to game than ever imho. I still like a Nintendo and/or Sony product to go along with my PC (now techincally partially an Xbox, lol) setup.

You could say they have problem or they just don't care. A lot of people buy very bad tv set only looking at size and price and don't care about the shit quality of the image, even more because they only watch very bad programs on it kkk