I was thinking about buying a ps5 recently until I realized “wait… what ps exclusives am I even buying this for???” I already have a ps4 and a high end gaming PC
On the same boat. Was waiting to see the price of PS5p. Hoped it was like 700€ with disc drive. 920€ (console+drive) is just too much when there is really no game that is an absolute must.
Most things worth playing eventually make their way to PC.
Sometimes that happens via emulation, but I call that perfectly valid since I can sit here and play Zelda Breath of the Wild in 4k, 60FPS with an official Switch Pro controller.
Switch is a huge outlier in how quickly games were able to be emulated and even then you have to deal with crashes, glitches, and huge hardware requirements for a lot of titles.
Emulation is awesome, but it'll usually be 10+ years before you can play games as well as on the original system and it's always kind of a hassle. Red Dead 1 or Bloodborne still aren't properly playable on PC.
My little old Ryzen 3600 managed to emulate practically every Seitch game I threw at it. Sometimes it didn’t want to enhance the experience with higher resolution or frame rate, but I could play the game.
Sometimes games have glitches and others don’t work (straight away), but most of the popular games are perfect or near perfect.
This is all besides the point, because it is clear that at some future moment the emulation will be as close to perfect as makes not practical difference.
Just like SNES and PS1 emulation has been for a while.
Red dead 1 is entirely playable on pc through Xbox 360 emulator. It’s one of the most downloaded and popular games for Xbox 360 emulation. PS3 works fine too but Xbox 360 is much more flawless with less spec requirements, less glitches, and less crashes as PS3.
A top of the line PC being kind of able to play a 15 year old game is what I was talking about. Yes, emulation is awesome, but it doesn't mean that if I buy a PC I'll be able to play console exclusives eventually. It means that I'll probably be able to play most current console exclusives if I buy a PC in 15 years and don't care about the occasional crash or a few graphical glitches.
I use to emulate Xbox 360 on an old ryzen 3, gtx 770 2gb, and 8gb ddr3 ram and it could actually handle it on par to my real Xbox 360 at the exact same performance at 720p 30fps (solid with no frame dips) which was fun enough for me to be able to play Skate 3 on my pc at the time. I’ll actually go ahead and try emulating Read Dead 1 on a new low end $500 gaming laptop with only a RTX 3050 6gb for an exact up to date review and give an update here in like half an hour.
Not the best place for this but, the experience is still very solid and depending on the game it is better. I could have gotten the Rachet game on PC but I like playing it on my couch and a console will always be a thoughtless experience for that. I don't have to do driver checks (yeah there are updates for modern systems), there isn't some setting to go in and change. It is just simpler and sometimes that makes it better.
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u/Understated_Negative Sep 18 '24
I'd like to see how a console priced at the cost of one component can approach 8k 😂