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potato_hamster on 19 March 2019
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spemanig said:
potato_hamster said:

I can play my vita, or my switch, or my laptop. Stop making a false dichotomy. A home console that's not meant to be portable isn't the only other option.

I think the dichotomy I was actually making here was unclear.

It's ridiculous to use such a simple example to point out the obvious limitations of one thing that excels in other avenues elsewhere. I could easily follow by saying "yeah, but can your laptop play games in 4K on an 60" screen?" and the point would stand. That's the point being made, not that "Everything is worse than Stadia, and PS4 proves it."

The "but it doesn't do everything, all the time" argument that you were trying to make is silly. It does more things better more of the time than any other platform out now, at least conceptually. Pointing out the small bubbles of outlier where one happens to succeed over the other is silly in this case. Yes, a game boy micro can fit into smaller pockets. Hooray, but a switch can go most places a micro can go, and it's more powerful, etc, etc.

But that wasn't my argument at all. In the best case scenario it is as good as a console. In the worst case scenario it is unusable.

In both of those scenarios my PS4 or laptop, or Switch or whatever will still be able to play whatever games I like regardless of how spotty my internet connection is. I don't have to rely on an internet connection that for the majority of the world isn't as reliable, consistent or affordable as you're making it out to be. I don't care about concept, I care about real world applications. I've seen plenty of absolutely outstanding tech demos that totally fell on their fucking face in the real world. If you need some recent examples, see Titanfall's release and claims that the game wouldn't be possible "without the power of the cloud" or better yet, check out Microsoft's claims about UWA. That shit never panned out, but the tech demos sure looked impressive!

But, hey if you want to count on google and the internet totally for your gaming experiences, that's cool man. Just don't try and dunk on anyone that points out the downsides of that. There's plenty of very valid concerns when you look beyond the presentation and get into the meat of real world applications and issues that an average user will have to contend with that they will not have to contend with on a traditional piece of gaming hardware.