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PC is the most 'dominant' it's been this decade as two-thirds of devs say they're targeting the platform (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  1. you usually don't own your games, you just own a license; they can't take away a console disk, but they can revoke a digital license

I agree with the rest, and here's a few more:

  • games are typically cheaper because of #4
  • lots of form factors - can use controller, kb+m, handheld PC, etc
  • repairs are easy - if my PS5 breaks, I need PS5-specific parts; if my PC breaks, I can get anything off the shelf
  • streaming is easy peasy (related to your #3) - I don't stream, but on PC, you just install something and click "go," on console, you need hardware capture cards and whatnot
  • storage is a non-issue - can have multiple TB of space and store every game I own if I want to, whereas I'm stuck with whatever capacity the console comes with

All in all, it's a way better experience for me, though it is a bit more complicated. It's hard to beat "plug and play" like with a console.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If you buy DRM free games. you effectively "own" them not in a legal sense, but in a practical sense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Sure, and that's only mostly true if you back them up.

That said, I can't sell a DRM free game, so I don't really own it like I do with physical media.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Nothing's stopping you from copying the game onto a flashdrive and selling it to a friend

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

they can’t take away a console disk,

Technically not but you still only own a license and those walled garden platforms of consoles can easily be used to block you from using that disk for anything meaningful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can always play the version shipped with the disk with the game unplugged from the internet.

On PC, you'd have to pirate if a game is taken down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

On PC, you could pirate, but you could also buy DRM free games from GOG.com and keep a copy locally backed up.

It's also worth noting that optical media will delaminate over time, rendering them unusable.