Just means the age of the console is over. Consoles used to have three purposes: They were easy to use, provided good value for performance and allowed you to use physical media. Now that gaming PCs aren’t tied to Windows anymore people can make UIs for them that are actually good, we passed the point of diminishing returns for graphical fidelity long ago so performance doesn’t matter so much (unless you’re playing a horribly un-optimized game, which unfortunately a lot of AAA games are, but most of those games are also just regurgitated formulas from a decade+ ago) and now that physical media is dying we can finally stop buying locked-down, proprietary, single-purposes boxes for our games.
Sony consoles were usually also good multimedia machines. PS3 was one of the best Blu-ray players you could get and even at 599 US Dollars you’d still save like $500. The PSP came years before the iPhone as a handheld multimedia machine (with its own app store to boot). Now that every TV and phone is a spy box you subscribe to, they lost another function
yeah, i remember when my first dvd player (i don’t remember how much it cost, it just felt expensive. this was like 25 years ago.) died, i was dreading having to get a bd player. the first one i found that could also go on netflix was like, $75 or something. I was so stunned i didn’t shop around at all. that machine almost still works!
Just means the age of the console is over. Consoles used to have three purposes: They were easy to use, provided good value for performance and allowed you to use physical media. Now that gaming PCs aren’t tied to Windows anymore people can make UIs for them that are actually good, we passed the point of diminishing returns for graphical fidelity long ago so performance doesn’t matter so much (unless you’re playing a horribly un-optimized game, which unfortunately a lot of AAA games are, but most of those games are also just regurgitated formulas from a decade+ ago) and now that physical media is dying we can finally stop buying locked-down, proprietary, single-purposes boxes for our games.
About time, really.
Sony consoles were usually also good multimedia machines. PS3 was one of the best Blu-ray players you could get and even at 599 US Dollars you’d still save like $500. The PSP came years before the iPhone as a handheld multimedia machine (with its own app store to boot). Now that every TV and phone is a spy box you subscribe to, they lost another function
yeah, i remember when my first dvd player (i don’t remember how much it cost, it just felt expensive. this was like 25 years ago.) died, i was dreading having to get a bd player. the first one i found that could also go on netflix was like, $75 or something. I was so stunned i didn’t shop around at all. that machine almost still works!