Chris Trottier on Nostr: npub1vnjkz…8w8vc I am the target audience for consoles. I’m looking at 10 in ...
npub1vnjkz5dwlczf8ml8stde806ukkuwthjcwdgpkcc24jk2w4yj52aqj8w8vc (npub1vnj…w8vc) I am the target audience for consoles. I’m looking at 10 in front of me: an NES, a SEGA Genesis, a SEGA Nomad, a SEGA Saturn, Retron 5, PSOne, PS2, PSP, original Xbox, Xbox 360. I own more – these are just the ones in front of me.
You know why I own so many consoles? Because backwards compatibility is not a thing. And when it is, it’s usually not exhaustive.
Console gaming is great only for a small window of its existence. Be an early adopter, there’s too few games available for it. Be a late adopter, games stop being made entirely for it.
At a certain point, I realized something: PCs are now good enough to give you the console experience.
On your point about NUCs: all of them are gaming PCs. Anything that calls itself “gaming-oriented” is marketing claptrap. I can go onto Amazon now, buy a Beelink Mini PC for less than $200 and play Half-Life immediately.
Or I can go even lower, buy a pre-built Raspberry Pi, and also play Half-Life on it.
Any by the way, my tower isn’t evergreen. At this point, it’s two-years-old. Regardless, this isn’t strictly about being able to play AAA titles. It’s the fact my PC can play both AAA games as well as games from the 80s and 90s – which new consoles can’t.
A PlayStation 5 cannot play Croc 2 on it whereas almost any modern PC can.
You know why I own so many consoles? Because backwards compatibility is not a thing. And when it is, it’s usually not exhaustive.
Console gaming is great only for a small window of its existence. Be an early adopter, there’s too few games available for it. Be a late adopter, games stop being made entirely for it.
At a certain point, I realized something: PCs are now good enough to give you the console experience.
On your point about NUCs: all of them are gaming PCs. Anything that calls itself “gaming-oriented” is marketing claptrap. I can go onto Amazon now, buy a Beelink Mini PC for less than $200 and play Half-Life immediately.
Or I can go even lower, buy a pre-built Raspberry Pi, and also play Half-Life on it.
Any by the way, my tower isn’t evergreen. At this point, it’s two-years-old. Regardless, this isn’t strictly about being able to play AAA titles. It’s the fact my PC can play both AAA games as well as games from the 80s and 90s – which new consoles can’t.
A PlayStation 5 cannot play Croc 2 on it whereas almost any modern PC can.