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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by xmprt on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:09PM (#24424629)
The console market has been slowly dying for the last decade. If anything, opening the console market could help rejuvenate it by turning consoles into general purpose entertainment devices.

And the claim that consoles are just closed down PCs is absurd. Consoles can play AAA games at a fraction of the cost of your average PC. The hardware that goes into building a console is significantly different than a PC.

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by rolph on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:56PM (#24425224)
>> The console market has been slowly dying for the last decade. If anything, opening the console market could help rejuvenate it by turning consoles into general purpose entertainment devices <<

there was a time when consoles didnt require internet tethering, were media capable, and could be used for common PC tasks.

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by mr_toad on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @11:56PM (#24428750)
> were media capable

Still are. I watch nearly all my TV through my PS4.

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by imtringued on Thursday September 10, 2020 @05:11AM (#24430343)
Console hardware isn't significantly different. It's just a highly customized APU from AMD with GDDR5 memory as main memory to make the iGPU fast. A PC might cost more but it also performs better than the console.
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