VGPolyglot said:
The main issue that I have with PCs is compatibility. If I want to play a PS1, I just pop it in the PS1 and turn it on. However, I have had many problems trying to run older games on my PC (as I mainly wanted to play DOS and early Windows games). |
The issue with the PS1 is that they had significant hardware defects in the early console revisions. (Case in point: Disc Drive wear, which required the console to be tilted just to keep reading the disc.)
And now that console is a few decades old, their failure rates are getting higher as optical disc lasers and capacitors don't last forever... Sometimes having newer more modern hardware is not a bad thing.
I could have the entire PS1 games library on my PC and switching between all of them is just a few clicks away... How can you get anymore convenient than that? Plus the games look better to boot.
As for compatability on PC. What you needed was DosBox and/or Virtualised Windows 98. Or you could just buy the games from GoG.com which have been reworked to work on modern systems and it's just a case of a download and install.
But even with the newer consoles... There are significant amounts of large patches, allot of games launch with a bugs or server issues, PC has gotten more convenient and consoles have gone in the opposite direction.
But this is side-stepping the entire conversation.. I don't see how ANY of this is relevant to multiplayer gaming?
| Lawlight said: Honestly, I don't see the average console gamer being so hardcore that they would go out with their system just to play games with strangers. When I'm go out with friends, we're usually doing something else. Is that something that you're into? |
The point I was making is that... People make the claim that you can't play with "friends" on PC. That it is a "Loner" platform.
Do those people look like "loners"?
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