• Carighan Maconar
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      That’s a good thing - as the consumer.

      The less exclusives, the better. We don’t need lock-ins, we need open platforms and open systems. If I want a plug&play gaming experience I can buy a console, if I want maximum performance and quality in a more maintenance and setup intensive package I can build my own PC.

      • @[email protected]
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        For real - it’s so nice nowadays being able to play nearly any hot new game I want to on my desktop. Never been a huge fan of consoles - keyboard+mouse was always far more natural for me, but then again I was big into C&C and SC when I was a kid. The only console I’ve really loved since the N64 is the switch, and that’s largely because I can bring it on a long flight and fuck around in ZELDA: BOTW or TOTK for hours on end, which is awesome (I tend to avoid putting games on my personal dev laptop, and it also only has an iGPU).

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      Here are the trends with previous consoles:

      PS1 : 455 -> PS2 : 512 -> PS3 : 180 -> PS4 : 58 -> PS5 : 15

      Xbox : 106 -> Xbox 360 : 214 -> Xbox One : 12

      Nintendo 64 : 129 -> Nintendo Wii : 328 -> Nintendo Wii U : 38 -> Nintendo Switch : 174

    • @mrfriki
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      Jesus, only 4 games in that otherwise short short list ring a bell for me.

    • @srwax
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      Its a good time to be a PC player. I mean, it was before. But it is now, too.

    • @Uruanna
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      To be fair, PS4 had things like Horizon and Spider-Man, and that was more than enough for a lot of people to call it the best with just one game. Looks like PS5 is getting Wolverine, so that’s likely to make opinions move, at least.