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1. Aryan Jelqer (cracksmokerhd@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 04:53:24 JST Aryan Jelqer
   Imagine being a console fag
   • gentoobro (gentoobro@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 04:53:23 JST gentoobro

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     • Hoss Delgado

     The problem is that people expect to get the performance of a $1500 PC out of a $300 console. There's no way to swing that, even building the hardware cost into the games.

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   • Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 04:53:24 JST Hoss Delgado

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     Moore's law has been dead for like a decade. Console merchants don't have an excuse for this shit anymore.
   • † top dog :pedomustdie: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 12:30:38 JST † top dog :pedomustdie:

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     • gentoobro
     @CrackSmokerHD @Hoss @gentoobro The real issue is console games are trying to be pc gaming machines when they haveno such capabilitys. When things were made for consoles like mgs(1-5) shit was good.
   • Aryan Jelqer (cracksmokerhd@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 12:30:39 JST Aryan Jelqer

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     • Hoss Delgado
     • gentoobro
     But I don't feel that's the entire point, necessarily. These last two generations of consoles have utterly failed to capture the appeal of console gaming. I play on PC and have for nearly a decade now but I was a relatively late adopter and still remember my console roots. I see it as either something perfectly servicable for casual gamers and a stepping stone for hardcore gamers like me who eventually make their way to PC.
     Its appeal lies in people who don't have very discriminatory taste - i.e. they don't mind lower framerates, resolutions and graphical fidelity as long as they can play their latest release - and prefer the simplicity of not having to install launchers and mod games to be optimised on modern systems or run properly.
     While that first part might sound contradictory to what I said in my previous post, I'm mostly talking about people wanting value for money in new systems; you want bang for your buck and to see all the bells and whistles shown off. That, to me, is why the PS5 Pro and consoles like it feel like such a scam. Sony are trying to milk their braindead consoomer audience into forking out another 700 for something that doesn't even pretend to run better.
   • Aryan Jelqer (cracksmokerhd@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 12:30:40 JST Aryan Jelqer

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     • Hoss Delgado
     • gentoobro
     I don't expect games consoles to be supercomputers, but I do think for a $700 console in 2024 4K@60 is what you should be striving for. I think there's a certain challenge but reward that comes from developers pushing hardware to its limits with consoles, in a way that makes them feel justified in buying a machine that costs them weeks worth of wages. Its quite admirable to watch games at the tail end of console life cycles maximise a piece of hardware's potential and optimise it to run well on something outdated.
   • gentoobro (gentoobro@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 12:42:51 JST gentoobro

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     • Hoss Delgado
     • † top dog :pedomustdie:

     PC gaming took off from a die-area standpoint, but it sets the general quality expectations for normies. They see some game running on a $2000 computer and expect to get something similar out of a console because that used to be the case 20 years ago. Consoles will either become very expensive or they will continue to significantly lag in performance. What's worse, people tend to have much higher resolution TVs than computer monitors. They expect those beautiful graphics in 4k. They don't want to pay for enough mm^2 of silicon dies to make it happen, and they don't understand why the situation changed.

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