The different approaches to Next Generation gaming

[Chazore]

SvennoJ said:

I've gamed on desktops, laptops and consoles all my life. You seriously want to compare closed boxes bricking to managing drivers, patches that can make games unplayable until you upgrade, hw specific issues that you will simply have to wait until maybe a future update fixes it, etc. When a console game has issues, everyone has the same issues and it will get fixed asap.

When I was moving my tower, (windows 7 at the time), nearly every time when I hit shut down, finishing installing updates came up then again while turning it on, turning a simple move into a 5 to 10 minute affair. It wasn't mid updates, just windows storing up crap until a reboot comes along. (Yes I turned auto reboot off since I've lost plenty work because of that in the past)

Anyway, after 3 decades I settled on a gaming laptop plus console for the most convenient, least maintenance, most game time way to enjoy gaming. Gaming laptop for the stuff that isn't available on console or when mouse + KB is simply more convenient, console as my primary games machine. (Although I'm expecting Flight Simulator to keep me busy for a long time)

Best of both worlds with minimal hassle, but still some.

That hasn't stopped gamers comparing with ye old driver/OS updates before (still see it on twitter in fact).

Windows sometimes does that even with 10, when turning it back on can finish an installation update, but thankfully with 10, those aren't the same all the time (usually the bigger updates require this).

It's fair doos on what you want out of life, but personally I've just stopped seeing gaming lappy's as anything but gaming. Maybe when they pack a bit more power for portability, better ventilation and more GPU power I might consider them again.