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Do you think there is any reason to get exited for new consoles anymore? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Full disclosure, I'm a PC gamer. So I'm a little biased. However I personally see more value in old consoles from 2nd to 6th generation. In the old consoles all had their own advantages. NES games were customizable, TG16 was more powerful, SNES had Mode7, Genesis was faster, PC had more input and provided a more free market to developers, PS1 was easy to develop for and so on. They had special hardware. They had different controllers and appealed to different kinds of gamers and were more convenient. It doesn't seem like that anymore, you leave the system off for a while you boot it back up and there are gigabytes of updates, they just use off the shelf AMD cards, they all for the most part offer the same games and are getting more and more expensive. Switch is saved by it's portability and the stellar first party line up, but same cannot be said for Series X and PS5. Playstation in particular is borderline worthless, as it's exclusive line up can be stereotyped as "movies that make you press buttons to make sure you pay attention" it seems more logical to just watch a playthrough of them. Combine that with the fact AAA games suck across the board, it makes more sense to just build a midrange PC and play indie games in them or to buy the FPGA systems made by Analogue for example. What do you guys think?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Sure, it's not about having the best hardware, it's about support and having a good user experience. Good hardware is fine, but a lot of people lean towards affordability, and even new hardware isn't as revolutionary as it once was. If I were to buy a console now I'd probably get a Switch just because it's the most supported platform, and Zelda of course.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

A friend of mine recently bought a Switch and he is endlessly complaining about the high sales price of the games. With previous generation consoles you had at least a big & cheap second hand market of games, but now the value proposition is really not there anymore unless you plan to buy only very few games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Well Xbox and PS4 support isn't that better than PC. Userbase is also the same.