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Forums - Gaming - Does higher resolution and framerate matter with PC gaming if there will be emulators for consoles?

I thought about this for a while, does higher performance really matter if there will be emulators for console games? Say i invest all my money into consoles enjoying my ps4 and wiiu for what it is and buy only physical games.

In 10 years from now i can pop the discs into my pc and play my console games in higher resolution and framerate. Doesnt make it pc gaming irrelevant when it comes to more power? Yes obviously you would play on the pc but all your investment would be on consoles (games and controllers etc.) instead on PC platforms like steam.

And to be honest i am not even sure if you will be able to play your pc games in 10 years. I had many experience with buying physical pc games which wont even run on XP, its so annoying. It was one of the main reasons why i switched to consoles, i have full BC by simple owning the boxes instead having an ever changing animal called the PC. PCs are better at running old console games than old pc games imo. I think console gamers shouldnt be salty if there will come out emulators for last or current gen consoles, they should embrace more option for their purchases to play in higher resolution and framerate.

Tell me what you think.




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I don't understand the question. Are you asking if gaming on PC is irrelevant if you are using emulators? Why? What?



First off, you act like ten years is no time. That's ten sodding years. Second, emulators are notorious for the resources they consume. My gaming laptop eats the Wii's specs for breakfast but Metroid Prime still performs like ass. Heck, my phone is light years beyond the SNES but I still get frame drops and hiccups playing Kirby Super Star. Third, PC gaming's compatibility issues have really started to disappear. I can still play Rome Total War and Morrowind on my laptop and they're getting pretty old.  Fourth, there are PC exclusive games.  Heck, there are whole genres where PC is the dominant and preferred platform.



"I think console gamers shouldnt be salty if there will come out emulators for last or current gen consoles,"
Well I don't get salty over a greedy person.



technically, if you have that souped up PC today, then u won't need to have a console today unless playing console exclusives. And you can spend your money on the PC games today and play them at the higher resolution and frame rate than what they would run at on current consoles.

Its not like PCs can only run emulators.



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Uh, emulators are almost never the sole reason on why people game on PC, you know...



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

Intrinsic said:
technically, if you have that souped up PC today, then u won't need to have a console today unless playing console exclusives. And you can spend your money on the PC games today and play them at the higher resolution and frame rate than what they would run at on current consoles.

Its not like PCs can only run emulators.

 


Will these PC games run in 10 years or being avaible on servers? i much rather have my games on the disc



You've thought about this for a while? Why don't you figure out what you're trying to say a little better then, because I can't for the life of me figure out what you're trying to ask.



Teeqoz said:

I don't understand the question. Are you asking if gaming on PC is irrelevant if you are using emulators? Why? What?

 


Stop twisting my words around i said pc gaming could be irrelevant when it comes to power. And i said collecting and investing money into pc vs console games, thats the topic