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Re:No Man’s Sky One Year Later by cwyers on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @12:35PM (#15176782)
The consoles are much easier to develop for -- debugging GPU problems across hundreds of GPUs by three manufacturers is so much harder than doing so on a single (or two, if you count the two major consoles) GPU type. They also make a larger share of the revenue than PC games do. They don't drain attention, they put attention where the most revenue for the least work is.

And from a user point of view, PC gaming just got exhausting for me. Driver updates, keeping up with GPU upgrades... or I can plunk down some money on a box that Mostly Just Works. Yes, there's parts of console gaming that annoy me. I dislike having to have a PS4 and an Xbox One, which are like 80-90% of the same damn hardware, to play all the games I want. This goes doubly because the PS4 has marginally better hardware (minus the controller, which is improved from previous generations but not as comfortable as the Xbox controller) and the Xbox has outrageously better software, so I'm missing out on something no matter which console I'm using and I can't crossplay with friends on a different console. But those annoyances are small potatoes given how much time I've sunk into getting PC games to run optimally.

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Re:No Man’s Sky One Year Later by ratherbefuddled on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @03:49PM (#15178536)
I have a PC that's nearly 5 years old, that wasn't top of the line (budget about £800 without screens) when I bought it and took me half a day to put together. It runs every game I've tried on it at least at medium and usually on high. I've spent zero time optimising it, not put a single h/w upgrade in and driver updates get run about every 6 months for a few minutes. PC gaming is way beyond "mostly just works" and has been for some time from my point of view.
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Re:No Man’s Sky One Year Later by Fifer82 on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @12:44PM (#15176860)
Was that around windows 95?
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Re:No Man’s Sky One Year Later by newforice on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @02:07PM (#15177661)
Consoles are lock-in death to me.
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