henchman21
Mr. Meeseeks
- Feb 24, 2012
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I'd say the steam ecosystem is about the biggest upside to PC gaming. Cheap and always portable (sometimes even to SteamDeck!). That's less of an issue today though. Sony has the vast majority of PS4 games able to be played on PS5. Xbox has all of the Xbox One games available for Series... a large chunk of 360 games are available too. I keep all my old consoles so it isn't real important to me, but that idea of being able to play the games you purchased is a good one... and I think both Sony and Microsoft are down that road. Nintendo will Nintendo and make you pay for a 480p, 720p 900p and finally a 1080p version of a game.I get it completely, the PCMR is not for everyone. My wife asked me to build her a new PC, which I did, and she hardly ever touches it. She prefers to play games on the PS5 because she is on a PC at work all day. Which also makes a ton of sense.
One last upside though...with a PC, you'll never have to repurchase a game to play it on the next or future generation(s) of consoles. With games getting more expensive, that'll be a bit more of a pain. Although, I'm not sure how many people aside from my wife actually do that.
One thing that rather sucks on PC is how they are actually more likely to get shafted on some games. GTA 6 won't be a PC game for probably 2 years after launch. RDR2 was a year after. Even College Football 25 isn't going to be on PC initially.