killer7 said:
And these graphic cards still get produced? Oh, another goalpost shift. Why should they still get produced, if they can be replaced with more efficient models? The hardware doesn't have to be the same to get the same results. You don't seem to understand abstraction layers like DirectX, OpenGL or Vulcan. Nintendos Game Boy got produced till 2003 14 years. I can asure you: No 14 years old graphics card is gonna play GTAVI!! No 14 year old console is gonna play GTA VI either. No 6 year old console is gonna play GTA VI either. No original Gameboy was playing every Gameboy Color game, only a few crossgen GBC games. Every Nintendo handheld lasted around 10 years. Longer than your GTX1080. But none of them was able to play all the Nintendo handheld games of a full decade. The console cycles were shorter than 10 years: - a 1989 Gameboy wasn't able to play every 1999 GBC game
- a 1998 Gameboy Color wasn't able to play any GBA (2001) game
- a 2001 GBA wasn't able to play any DS (2005) game
- a 2005 DS wasn't able to play any 3DS (2011) game
- a 2011 GBA wasn't able to play any Switch (2017) game
See what consoled did for gamlng. Nintendo had the first vibrating controller with the rumble Pak! The Sega Saturn had an analoge Stick long before the PC! Yes, nobody is denying gaming improvements/innovations coming from consoles. But where is the relevance to the discussion about which systems are in competition NOW? The PC is a copycat that takes many things from consoles. No, it is a give and take between all platforms. Many gaming improvements/innovations also came from home computers and PCs (or from arcade machines) and were copied by the console manufacturers. You sound like a PC fanboy to me. That's funny because I like both consoles and PCs and I appreciate the advantages of both sides. You on the other hand... But not only that. Light guns where on consoles way before the Siniden Light Gun! Or when we look at home cinema technology: Ambilight is a Philips exclusive technology that lets your TV reflect the colors in the picture. Ambilux is even more advanced! You can pump up your PC how much you like and you won't get that there! If you want high end sound you need a professional Amplifier wich has a sound quality no PC can give you!! So now you give the credit of the accomplishments of third party and TV manufacturers and audio device manufacturers to the console platforms? That's hilarious! You are on a roll! By the way... did you know that the first light guns were invented and produced in the 1930s? Loooong before home consoles, home computers and even the 1970's arcades. For gaming PCs sell worse than consoles. Combinde all Playstations (close to 600 million sold), Xboxes (nearly 200 million sold), Nintendo (systems 870 million sold!!!), i am even excluding Sega, Atari... here! These are all consoles used for gaming first and foremore!! These are close to 2 BILLION consoles and handhelds! There are not 2 billion gaming PCs out there, not even in wicked takatuka Wonderland!! And a big share of these 2 billion consoles and handhelds are broken by now or not in use anymore for outher reasons. Same as a big share of home computers and PCs used for gaming over the last 50 years. We also don't know the cumulative number of home computers and PCs used for gaming in the same time frame. Could be more, could be less than the cumulative number of consoles + handhelds. But again: where is the relevance to the discussion about which systems are in competition NOW? Without TV and home cinema technology PCs would not even exist!!! Without TV technology and computer technology, home consoles and handhelds would not exist either. Your point? Why? Look at the 1930 years in Germany: They had radios, TVs but no computers!! See what i mean? You act like the PC is some godlike invention wich it isn't! Then look at the 1930 years in Germany: They had radios, TVs but no home consoles or handhelds!! See what i mean? You act like the gaming console is some godlike invention wich it isn't! |