Re:Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in sear...
by effingwewt on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @08:04AM
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He also forgot you can simply keep upgrading you PC, and your PC can play all your old games without having to repurchase them.
Also, if you added another $800 to your PC every 7 years it would still outperform a console.
Also a gaming PC is still a usable computer, a console is not. Therefore a home PC can pay for itself by letting you code on it or whatever it is you may do.
This is what worries me with younger generations.
Just the other day when google shut down google music a top comment was pretty much 'sorry boomers no one keeps mp3s anymore we all stream get lost dinosaurs'[1] as if that streaming service would always be there...in a thread about a huge music SAAS shutting down!
Re:Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in sear...
by jamespo on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @08:15AM
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A lot of people want to play games on the couch with a controller, not hunched over a desk which is the typical pc experience.
Re:Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in sear...
by effingwewt on Thursday November 19, 2020 @08:59AM
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Which can also be done on PC even wireless controller such as gasp PS4 and Xbone controllers.
Re:Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in sear...
by mhh__ on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @08:36AM
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That and you are going to end up buying a PC of some kind anyway because you can't work on a console
Re:Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in sear...
by pandaman on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:51PM
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A 7 years old PC GPU equivalent to 2060 today is the Kepler GPU like Geforce 660, if you think you can match PS4 visual fidelity on that then you have not seen either one or another or both.
Why do people assume you need a million $ PC to play current games smoothly? Is it the tech youtubers/influencers like Linus to blame for this madness where everything needs to be run at 4k 300Hz ULTRA settings to count as PC gaming?
PC gaming hardware for a good experience is more affordable than people think.
A 850-900 Euro PC (for us over the channel) with an RTX 2060 will definitely play all AAA titles very smoothly. Sure, not in native 4K, but consoles games(even next gen) are also not native 4K/ultra settings but rendered in lower fidelity then upscaled to whatever your TV output is.
>never mind releases in 7 years.
That PC will most definitely play games 7 years from now but on lower settings which will still match the visual fidelity of the 7 year old console as the game developers will have to lower game details to make the game playable on the then outdated console hardware.