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(Opinion piece) Hello, PC gaming here: Are the consoles OK? With sales dropping and confidence declining, how close are we to the end of consoles as we know them? (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Steamdeck has shown that the age of the general purpose computer is very popular.

I think most people don't care how their games run, just that they run.

Consoles were a way to have games "work" out of the box, even if you didn't have a high powered computer. Now everyone has a high powered computer (phone).

Nintendo will never die, but I think open platforms like stramdeck with their HUGE libraries will be more popular until even cell phones take over that space.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I think most people don’t care how their games run, just that they run.

Honestly, this is why I game almost exclusively on console. I can download a game, press play, and it just works.

I have a Steam Deck too but I find myself not using it a lot. I loved it when I got it, but anymore it seems like there are just too many quirks(?) to make it an enjoyable experience. I swear even some verified games I have to do this tweak or that tweak to make it run right.

I'm married with kids and a house and 4 cars to maintain and when I get time to game I just want to play. I don't want to think about if there is something special I need to do or some driver I need to update or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Yeah as a PC gamer of several decades I feel like this is easily the biggest weakness of the platform.

The Steam Deck did a pretty good job of trying to make things easy but it sounds like it still has a ways to go. Hopefully things get better and we can all get a "best of both worlds" experience at least when it comes to handhelds.