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vivster said:
Ruler said:

it has some of the best features PC has to offer

Name them. There are only 2 best features PC has to offer that directly pertain to gaming.

1. The ability to freely choose your hardware and in that regard the ability to choose the perfromance and visual quality a game can run at.

1b. The ability to change visual aspects of a game to change the look and performance on the same hardware.

2. The ability to freely choose your prefered peripheral.

The PS4 isn't even close to any of those despite 1b. and 2. being very easy to implement. Which means PS4 is actively omitting PC features to make the experience worse.

Adding to these... 

  • The ability to corrupt, move and modify gaming directories. 
  • Usage of special hardware reliant adjustments with certain GPUs... 
  • Content creation and crafting. 
  • Free online multiplayer 
  • Enhanced gameplay experience by using specific setups. 
  • Enhanced choice.
  • A DRM free marketplace. 


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I think so. I think it applies to both PS4 and XBO. Both offer the ultimate platform for the end user. To me the OS's are better than PC, the online is better than PC, the stores are better than on PC. The optimized, streamlined, and scalable design of the hardware, the OS, and the Apps, make both devices the ultimate vision of what consoles and PCs should be.

I have been exclusive to PS4 since about summer of 2014. I have not had a PC or Laptop for 2 and a half years now. This year I plan to get Switch and Scorpio, but I don't ever see myself owning another PC.



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vivster said:
Ruler said:

it has some of the best features PC has to offer

Name them. There are only 2 best features PC has to offer that directly pertain to gaming.

1. The ability to freely choose your hardware and in that regard the ability to choose the perfromance and visual quality a game can run at.

1b. The ability to change visual aspects of a game to change the look and performance on the same hardware.

2. The ability to freely choose your prefered peripheral.

The PS4 isn't even close to any of those despite 1b. and 2. being very easy to implement. Which means PS4 is rather actively omitting PC features to make the experience worse.

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I recently bought a PS4. I´m no complaining or anything but there are a few things that could have been better on it.
Still it´s a great console and probably the best of this generation.

That said, I still do think that PC is still the best platform for gaming. It´s a lot more expensive in terms of hardware, of course, but games in general are cheaper (at least in my country) and it is more flexible - we have more options of input (controllers/keyboards/mouse) and everything just seems more easy to deal with.



Ka-pi96 said:
But... the best part of PC gaming is the PC exclusive games... PS4 doesn't have them

Not for long. PSN store has already begun letting garbage PC games into their store. Soon PS4 will have the same garbage library that PC has :)



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vivster said:
Ka-pi96 said:
But... the best part of PC gaming is the PC exclusive games... PS4 doesn't have them

Not for long. PSN store has already begun letting garbage PC games into their store. Soon PS4 will have the same garbage library that PC has :)

Under normal circumstances, I'd stay away from this mess, but I better offer you my support for mentioning the reason I despise Sony and Valve... 



Ka-pi96 said:
AsGryffynn said:

Under normal circumstances, I'd stay away from this mess, but I better offer you my support for mentioning the reason I despise Sony and Valve... 

Why would that make you despise them? They're not forcing you to buy or play terrible games or anything like that

Ask indie developers how they like to be pushed to the bottom of the store page by garbage games or how hard it has become to actually find the good games among the trash.

Letting bad games onto a store front is harmful to the whole industry. Valve is actively supporting it while Sony seems to have become more lax and might be headed in the same direction.



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Ka-pi96 said:
vivster said:

Ask indie developers how they like to be pushed to the bottom of the store page by garbage games or how hard it has become to actually find the good games among the trash.

Letting bad games onto a store front is harmful to the whole industry. Valve is actively supporting it while Sony seems to have become more lax and might be headed in the same direction.

Those garbage games are often by indie developers too though...

eh, I've no problem with it. I'll never complain about more choice. I may not like coffee but I don't hate stores that sell it, I just buy things I do like instead. Why should games be any different?

Those people cannot rightfully be called developers. The same way people who make Mario maker levels cannot be called that.

The coffee metaphor is bad. The correct metaphor would be that you have coffee in every part of the store in between all kinds of products. The store is then 10 times as big so the items you actually want to buy are at the very back end of the store to where you have to walk 5 minutes. If you want to compare 2 products you always have to walk a few meters between the products because it's all just coffee in between. Also all the coffee is by the same brand.

This has nothing to with choice. Showing you one product and then offer you 100 times nothing, you still have only one actual product to choose.

This is about actual garbage. "Games" that aren't finished, games with the bare minimum of cotent to be even called games, games that run at 10fps, games that crash, games in early access that will never be finished, games with false advertising. This isn't about games you might not like, it's about actual garbage that is not fit for consumption.

We as gamers should make clear that there needs to be a certain entry level of quality and that garbage is not tolerated.



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