The different approaches to Next Generation gaming

[Chazore]

SvennoJ said:

Convenience as to space and multi purpose.

I use a laptop daily anyway and rather use one with a quality keyboard and screen, which happens to be on gaming laptops. So spending a little extra on a laptop that I use daily so I can play games on it as well, very convenient.

I was tweaking settings as well when I had my own build PC and pre-built towers. Admittedly tweaking them beyond high settings and to get mods to run but always touching the settings. I would not start any new game without first browsing through all the settings and sometimes ini files. Heck setting up Elite dangerous takes over half an hour which had nothing to do with graphics settings, pages and pages of control bindings. (Which all reset after the game got patched ugh)

I did move a PC back and forth from my desk to my projector to play ETS2 at 92", very cool, bit less cool with keyboard balanced on the couch and using a mouse on my knee for the menus but driving went fine with a controller. But as a bonus, localized radio stations while driving a truck through those countries through internet radio. But it's just easier to move a console around which doesn't need to finish installing updates when you turn it off to unplug.


You want more cons for the closed box team?

No mods, can't make stuff like this https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=192246458&searchtext=paris
Can't alt-tab and browse the forums or write a blog while playing like this https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/exploration-quest-for-the-loneliest-planet.132053/
Can't have my own music mixed in with the games, Celeste while listening to my own trance music, big plus!

Which is what you can do with a desktop?.

You can get quality KB/Screens with desktops regardless at the end of the day. You can even get screens with crane arms to better suit flexibility in a given area.

It honestly doesn't sound very convient for you, when you mention it's shortcomings here and there, outside of the very basic minimal tasks any PC is ever used for (Messaging, writing, media etc).

I tweak games myself, but that's purely of my own choice, rather than a "I need to do this", if I need to because something isn't working right that's not my problem, that's entirely on the devs, or at the very least, MS or Nvidia, but we've seen that in the past as well when it came to closed boxes bricking, overheating, fans dying (like my OG PS3 fan completely dying outside of it's warranty).

I don't think I've ever had to turn off my tower during mid updates, even then it's just an OS update and I simply click "install update and turn off PC" option you get with Windows 10 updates, so I don't really ened to do much when it comes to updating.

Yeah, those are a given, but at the same time those should have honestly been pointed out from the start.