(Jun 20th, 2018, 10:49 PM)Mr EliteL Wrote:

Very good points being made here. Agree on exclusive titles bringing the flavour to consoles, but to see the idea of all games being one place could be a good thing. Key word being 'could' though. Like it's been said, everyone gets to choose where they want to play and where not. If PS4 made the move, not sure what would become of their IPs and studios. Could go any way.

Quite frankly I'd be done with gaming if this was done. Grown up on consoles, and prefer to play on them. Will be a while until I get anything else other than my PS4, even the Switch is still unlikely despite how I felt during E3. I have limited interest in PC gaming myself, and don't see myself buying a better PC for gaming. Would only play what I currently own anyway, maybe an odd few others. Just realised I seem to be taking this as if it was PS4 only on PC, but I would still use my PS4 and 3DS as my current main sources for gaming than anything else.

(Jul 8th, 2018, 11:04 PM)Grungie Wrote:

I always felt that the different platforms exist for the sole purpose of having a game that isn't available elsewhere. If everything is available on PC, then why should I bother buying a console you know?

I also will miss seeing PC Master Race tears, because they won't be able to flaunt how they get 300FPS and play in 15K and not actually talk about the actual game.

(Jul 9th, 2018, 09:33 PM)percussive maintenance Wrote:

To play devil's advocate:
- Can be easier to set up (unless you get  a prebuilt, and even then debatable) 

(Jul 9th, 2018, 09:33 PM)percussive maintenance Wrote:

Now us PCMR people don't need to talk about how great a game is because we have such a massive library of great games that spans since the 80s (maybe longer depending on different things).

(Jul 9th, 2018, 11:48 PM)Grungie Wrote:

(Jul 9th, 2018, 09:33 PM)percussive maintenance Wrote:

To play devil's advocate:
- Can be easier to set up (unless you get  a prebuilt, and even then debatable) 

I'd listen to this, if there was only one gaming platform, not three. Though with the Switch out, you can at least argue portability, but if the PS4 and Xbone have the exact same library with each other, and the same as a PC, would there be a real point between buying one or the other outside of controllers? If that was the case, you can theoretically buy a PS4 and use an Xbox shaped controller on it.

(Jul 9th, 2018, 09:33 PM)percussive maintenance Wrote:

Now us PCMR people don't need to talk about how great a game is because we have such a massive library of great games that spans since the 80s (maybe longer depending on different things).

Right because a hard drive full of games you'll never play is really impressive. Also it's great dropping $4k on a computer and bragging about having multiple 4k monitors to play a DOS game.

(Jul 10th, 2018, 01:03 AM)Grungie Wrote:

For the record, I’m really just talking shit, I PC game as well (though people will scoff that my secondary computer is a 27” iMac that I use for all my audio production because I’m married to Logic Pro, and my gear is more compatible). I just like taking the piss out of the obnoxious side of the community. Like the $4k computer comment. After a certain point, you just have certain components for the sake of saying you have it. I do agree that unless you say, run a server environment with multiple VM’s constantly, you don’t need 128GB of ram or a $1200 processor.

On a real serious complaint about PC gaming, outside of the dick measuring contest, is that I think the industry needs to stop making gaming hardware look like spaceship parts with the neon red and green colors and pointed edges. I think the gaming towers, mice, and keyboards look fugly. Also as someone who works in the tech industry, I hate going to a friend’s house and I can spot his PC from a mile away with all the lights on it.

(Jul 10th, 2018, 02:30 AM)Grungie Wrote:

Music production and graphic design was never Mac only, it was just that the big names in the industries latched onto it more, so the better/famous software was exclusive for the longest time. Also the operating systems were significantly different then. Excluding my love of Logic Pro, in my experience, audio software/hardware runs better on a Mac than a Windows computer with the same specs through a combination of better optimization of resources than Windows, and the history it has in the industry.

(Jul 10th, 2018, 03:18 AM)Grungie Wrote:

I think the main reason why the creative industries started getting into Windows was twofold, A: more people own Windows, and B: the hardware and software side between Windows and Mac became significantly more similar. So porting your software to Windows became significantly easier than 20 years ago. Younger people forget that Mac also used to be really big in the gaming scene until the 21st century.

(Jul 10th, 2018, 04:13 AM)Grungie Wrote:

They were still into gaming in the mid to late 90’s. That’s why they had official licensed Playstaion emulators and stuff like that. They basically dropped gaming after the iPod kicked off.