that shit is so tiring to me, I don't know if I have adhd or something but whenever someone overedits their video I find myself replaying the same scene trying to catch all the little snippets they put in and then also listen to what they said, my brain gets fried after a couple of minutes
Piracy was huge on consoles , and i do mean huge , in my country ( 3rd world ) while growing up 98% of games sold in shops are pirated copies of the ps2 , ps3 and xbox 360 games . You had to jailbreak your console but since it's easy to do and a couple legit games were the cost of a minimum wage , most people went the piracy route . It's easy to think of piracy as a pc issue since this last 2 gens piracy on consoles is harder and less accessible, but in previous gens it was pretty common
@@erelpc I can't speak for third world countries but I do own a jailbroken PS4 Pro. It's easy to do as well as long as you don't update system firmware. Though I never met anyone in real life that would jailbreak their own consoles. When I was a kid, I would ask my classmates if they knew how to jb a PSP and they would look at me confused. I think overall console piracy has become much more niche and it probably has to do with the fact of mobile gaming, f2p games and the outrageous prices of a modern console alone.
@@pis4brains4843 i don’t use mods often, that is why I didn’t include it. And if I do it is usually just to force games that don’t support ultrawide into a 21:9 aspect ratio.
Also, let's not forget about how damaging Games for Windows Live was to PC gaming during the 7th generation. It's still frustrating to deal with to this day, so I can't imagine using the service when it came out. What was Microsoft thinking when they made GFWL?!?!
It was the right idea but executed poorly. Prior to that PC gaming was the wild west. Like controller support, online gaming, games came in a multitude of different box sizes. So GfWL brought some cohesion and attempted to solve the piracy problem. During that time we got standardized box sizes, xinput (360 controller), XB live profiles on Windows, etc.
Yea, with all the greedy over-monetization tactics they try to do now is ridiculous & them thinking $70 for a new game now isn't enough to give them. But I don't know about the best time to be a PC gamer, like is it even possible to get a gaming PC that matches or even beats the PS5 & Xbox Series X for 500$ using new parts for the CPU/GPU?
For me, the scarcity of PS5 really kicked me from PS4 to PC. The relative ease of connecting a PC to a huge TV also helped. The blurring of the lines between PC monitor and TV was a factor.
As a die hard pc gamer who lived through the dark times one of the major factors that fucked us was that it was _Mircosoft_ that built the xbox and entered the console space. They had no reason to support gaming on pc any more and acted like it. They also went from being one of the foremost publishers of pc games to a complete halt. Even to this day they don't sell some of their back catalogue of pc games.
It's just an honest strategy. Players who pay $3000 for a top end rig will never consider a console. And pc has enough casual gamers as well who won't pay for a dedicated console. May as well appeal to that market. It's overlooked (as usual), but a lot of that casual market consoles would appeal to was lost to the mobile market. Mobile kept growing while consoles stagnated. Losing that market meant that consoles had to basically be "big games". Because am arcade game would just be eaten by a "free" app on a phone everyone has.
Xbox, and even Playstation really screwed up, if they didn't happen, I wouldn't have fully jumped to PC, now I don't even consider console games unless it's Nintendo exclusives.
@@raze2012_ I don't know if consoles were ever that level of casual. I think mobile gamers come from the people who used to play Farmville, and more importantly for this conversation, young kids. That's where I think consoles are going to see the biggest losses. Younger kids don't seem to be as interested in them. Kids in the 7-11 age bracket. All they're into is mobile games, and stuff that can be played on tablets like Roblox and Fortnite. People were saying it years ago, and it might be true. This current generation of consoles is either the last, or second to last, generation. There's simply no reason to have a device in the home that "just" plays games. Yeah, I know they do other stuff now, but you don't really NEED them to do any of that other stuff.
@@seanwilliams7655 sure they were. The Wii is the most obvious example, but the biggest decline in consoles games were from the music and party genres. Those kinds of games attracted people who wanted a cheaper karaoke bar, or some quick setup for socialization. These games would sell millions as well. Handhelds werre also great for this crowd too. The DS is a top selling console and it was a cheap entry point to play games that'd never sell on console, like Brain Age or even games teaching you languages. The best selling Nintendo consoles were those that can tap into more than that core console fanbase.
@@seanwilliams7655 pc gaming will never die because in essence computers are mechanical brains,they will always be used for different tasks, heck science fiction already predict that at some point we will play videogames using our own brain, things like neuralink already created the interface between brain - machine, and i bet that we will be playing games.
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You forgot the most important change from the earlier console gens....consoles simply became DRMed PCs. There is no porting from some strange instruction set like Power PC or Cell to X86 because both of the major consoles are just AMD PCs with DRM on top, both are using X86 instruction sets and GPUs no different than what you would get from Micro Center. As for Nintendo it will be interesting to see how they fare if the rumors are true that the next gen Steam Deck with have a dock with active cooling so that the APU can clock higher when in dock mode, as then portable gamers will have access to the huge Steam library and the better graphics while still having portability.
The problem I have with the current Steam Deck model is that it's still the 3rd option. You want a Switch for all of the amazing Nintendo exclusives and portability and you still need a proper PC to have access to everything on PC with all of the benefits. Unless a future Steam Deck can become an all purpose PC I don't see that changing.
Nintendo...I think as long as they are still making good games, people will choose to buy Switch. But don't mistake me, I really, really wanna see all their games come to steam!
I never had any interest in Switch. Is it true that it's very underpowered and could barely run 3 year old games at launch? I think I saw some laughably bad gameplay of the Switch version of The Witcher 3 a few years ago.
You know what did it for me? Backwards compatibility. Sony refusing to allow me to keep playing my “old” games felt like spitting in my face. PC still lets me play Master of Orion 2 and baldurs gate 1, both of which have amazing mods available to breathe new life into them. Console games all have a lifespan, but pc games are forever. Shit I’m playing the original Xcom and it’s still amazing. I played the “new” xcom 2 and it just filled me with disgust and I went back to the original from the 90’s
Fun Fact: The PC pirating issue was always nonsense. Similar to the 'shop lifting' thing. If you don't know, big corporations don't try to claim their shoplifting numbers on insurance because they actually have no idea how much is being shoplifted. If something goes missing, it's just listed in the same account of stuff that gets dropped on the floor or falls in-between a shelf, is left somewhere where it's not supposed to be. In 2015, when Denovo was first pushed out, it took almost 6 months for pirates to crack Fifa 2015. This is practically unheard of... but EA did not make any noise about selling tons more copies than usual. The fact that it wasn't cracked had no appreciable impact on sales at all.
I thought of another reason why companies make pc ports. You see how ps3, ps4, switch, xbox 360 emulation is on the rise, and many gamers who want to play console exclusives from these consoles will find a way to pirate them (roms, iso files, fake storefronts). But, if these games were originally released on pc, a large portion of gamers will buy the games from steam especially that old games become cheaper and have more discounts, and from my observation, many gamers pirate games out of necessity because the official way of playing the game is not accessible enough. So, porting your games to PC guarantees that you keep your game on digital storefronts forever and the sales figures will only rise overtime
@AxiomofDiscord Yeah, it's not forever in many cases, but it's up to the companies And thanks to pc game pirating, many unlisted games survive and are preserved
How I can forget that the ports were based on ps2/xbox versions of a game rather than the ps3/x360... those were dark times... glad that's a thing of the past
It was worse than that. The ports based of the PS2 games would often miss graphical effects and include compressed audio. Some of them would only work under specific hardware like True Crime NY.
This is really a sequel to the Dark Age of PC Gaming (2002-2013). TH-camr Filbert McFibs made an 1-hour long video documenting this period. Highly-recommended viewing to supplement this video. 👍
Well the last couple years of that PC tech basically stood still. I mean it was nice not having to worry about spending money on upgrades but it really got pretty sad there for a bit. And even a little before that time it was pretty slow compared to what we where once use to seeing like in the mid to late 90s.
dark age of PC gaming?? warcraft 3, starcraft 2, dawn of war 1 and 2 series, total war series, counter strike, MMORPGs. with PC its always a golden age.
@@pipebomber04 Broken ports, disc DRM rendering games unplayable, WinNT kernel creating backward compatibility issues, consolization of many franchises, lack of a truly good digital distribution platform (Steam back then was a Valve-only launcher and lacked many of the modern self-curation and discovery features), near-total boycott by Japanese publishers, emulation scene in very a nascent and flawed state. If you have lived through the Dark Age, you cannot deny that it's absolutely real.
That "dark age" had a ton of great games, and was when Valve put out Half Life 2, Counterstrike, both Left for Dead titles, Portal. PCs got more affordable. The shitty DRM was really the only significant issue.
Over the past decade, PC gaming has proven to be the most reliable, especially when it comes to performance. And honestly, one of the main reasons for that is 60fps. The PS4 promised 60fps gaming with its upgraded hardware, but it never really delivered. Then the PS5 came along, claiming 60fps at 4K, but here we are, and only a handful of games actually support that. Most releases still come with the "sorry guys, 60fps patch coming in a year" line. Meanwhile, PCs have been hitting 60fps and beyond for years, thanks to more powerful hardware. Plus, PCs have the edge when it comes to number of use cases. It’s more common to own a PC now, especially with gaming laptops being so versatile. Owning one is actually cost-effective since you can use it for both work and gaming. And if your PC’s overpowered for work, that's just a bonus.
i remember there was controversy because there was a mistranslation that "Bloodborne Frame Rate Targeting 30fps is “the Best” for Action Games" Even though it was a mistranslation, people were pissed, even I was at the time. Bloodborne is a fantastic game, but PC vs consoles, even the new ps5 pro, can't even compete what PC is offering.
My friend still doesn't want to jump to PC because he still thinks you have to install and run a game like on DOS. He's my only friend that is stuck on Xbox with his limited games and not too great sales because he thinks every PC game has to be troubleshooted
@@finkamain1621 I think your friend needs more infomation about PC gaming now. It's a lot easier to build one and first time I've built one back in 2021 was pretty seemless. Obviously I was nervous for my first time, but looking up what parts I need and installing the os (windows) and I'm good to go. Only took me half a day to finish building and installing the os. Didn't have any troubleshooting at all.
Last console I owned was the PS3, my dad bought it for me like 15 years ago. Still have it with several games but the controller isn't working anymore. Got many years of fun out of it, but I don't plan on ever buying another console considering I've built a monstrously expensive PC nowadays.
That's also the newest console I have. Got a used one back in 2016 when the PS4 had already been out for some time. Only got it because I didn't have a device that could play Blu-Rays yet and used games were sold a lot cheaper than PS2 games at the time. Haven't really used it that much, because I always saw it as what it really was: an underpowered, walled off Wannabe-PC that had all the negative points of a PC but was missing the positives.
You should get the PS3 emulator... it's doing great now. Especially if you have a good PC. What are you specs? Mine are 16 Core 5950x with 128 GB of RAM and Radeon 6900 XT. I also use Switch emulators now even though I have 3 switches. Though now I am not going to give Nintendo another dime for their suit against Palword and their attack on Game videos and of course their attacks on the Emulators. Nintendo is just gotten too evil now.
@@CD-vb9fi I still don't have enough nostalgia to want to play PS3 exclusives again. Maybe in the future. I have a 7950X3D/7900 XTX/32GB RAM so I should be alright if I do want to try emulation someday. Also, why do you have so much RAM?
@@fluttzkrieg4392 I run VM's and I like to remove swap. So work, play, and development. Large RAM just makes all of that a much faster and smoother experience.
Steam single handedly saved PC. At that time the throw away devices were being pushed hard over PCs like the laptops and tablets. This is also when indies exploded for the same reason. Before that everyone focused on the latest and greatest. Now were all cool with playing basically what is sub par compared to a AAA title.
@@SheepAmongG.O.A.T Steam didn't save PC, because PC gaming never need salvation to begin with, pc gaming was inevitable, games are made on pc, you can't tweak them, modify them an and even copy them on PC. What happened was that pc gaming was costly and most folks couldn't afford buy a decent pc for gaming! The difference is that PCs are multi tasking, you don't use them ONLY for entertainment, you can also use for work, so it didn't take long for that same boy who grew up playing a videogame had to work on pcs and start to playing with them. Pc gaming never was in danger to begin with it was usually just less louder about it.
@@efxnews4776 sure but steam created a centralized system that allowed you to fix so many probelm like steam inputs solving games with no controller support or allowing cloud saves that helps you free up space for other games not worring about lost saves a community hub that can have guides for mods and fixes all that was scatterd before steam
@@Neonagi I'm not, Steam is simply a natural response of the market for the PC gaming, it would happen if not with Valve, but some other company like GOG. Have in mind that i'm not passing judgment on Valve, i'm simply stated that Steam didn't save the pc gaming, it simply capitalized on it.
Modding always existed outside of Bethesda. Half Life 2, GTA Trilogy, VtMB, The Sims 2 all had plenty of mods. Modding just exploded in popularity after the launch of Skyrim to a whole new level but it was something that was always there with a solid base.
@@Manic_Panic I’m aware there’s lots of fun games to mod. All I’m saying is modders made elder scrolls 6 better than Bethesda ever could, to the point where mods for older games are more sought after than new console exclusive triple A games.
The massive sizes of games and their patches now mean you might not be able to just boot up a game and play it when you have 30mins of free time. A 500gb game downloading and installing a 100gb patch is stealling all that time, might aswell look at your phone instead. I think that is a reason why consoles are getting less popular, i remember back in mw2 days patches were only released when there were game breaking issues, not multiple times a week.
Even patching is sometimes tedious. I just updated Space Marine 2 and while the game folder only increased in size by 1GB (65 to 66), Steam downloaded 30GB. I think I experienced something similar with one of the new Hitman games.
It doesn't download 30gb... It is the size of files in need of compilation with new files. Unless someone F up and you had to download already done files, which were copy pasted.
Consoles began taking on the worst parts of PC gaming (patches, massive downloads to get things working, etc) which also closed the gap. And at the end of the day, the PC doesn't lock the consumer into a single storefront. For all the hoopala around Steam vs Epic, PC users aren't forced to use one or the other or even either. Also, annoyed that when I see "MW2" I still think "MechWarrior 2" because I've been on PC for that fucking long. :D
100%. This was my last console gen. I wired my house for PC gameplay, I got myself a custom Arcade Cabinet for the arcade stuff. Consoles are pointless, no meaningful exclusives, broken pads, low quality ports. Consoles are gathering dust now and I have zero intent or want to change that.
I remember how back in the late 2000's/early 2010's, most of the games I was playing were strategy games, MMO's or browser games because those were the only ones still made with PC gaming in mind. Everything else was console first with PC ports clearly made as an afterthought. The only major companies that were still about PC gaming at the time were Valve and Blizzard. I guess that's why only very few of my all time favorite games come from that era. It was pretty dark for us PC gamers in those years.
As someone who only had an Atari 2600 but then moved to PC with the MSX where I could enjoy the original Metal Gear, then Amiga with its innovative graphics and music, and some great arcade ports, and then to PC with games like Doom, it's great that now I basically can play all those classics, an innovative indie games like Factorio and Dwarf Fortress, as well as most former console exclusives. Those journalists that called us PC gamers pirates and said that PC gaming was dead are simply idiots. I think the moment Persona 4 finally got to PC, I was really sure most games would end up being released on PC. Come on, Bloodborne, what's taking so long?
@@davidaitken8503A buncha disconnected suit said that after looking at localize data points and misinterpreted it as lost revenue when it's sometimes just a service distribution problem. The flaw in their logic crumbles in the face of Steam, given how shit it was at times, still managed to baloon to the size it is today. Piracy have been cracked long ago with the free to play model and, with addition of gacha mechanic(thanks Japan), more profitable as ever.
@@davidaitken8503 That more on the game than the model cause gacha games operate under the same parameters as "normal" game. Stellar blade, Blackmyth Wukong, Spacemarine 2, all single player one time purchase, all death games that no one buy and play, yes? Not to mention all the lesser know indies projects that cater to small niche anounced and coming out every day. Dead game are dead because they're shit that no one want to even bother pirate in the sea of competitors all vying for your times and money. It's 2024 bro, people's playing stuff like Genshin on their over priced plastic box of choice. Either make good products and rake it in or wither in mediocrity.
No yearly payments for online either. Can upgrade the hardware as needed too AND benefit immediately from it. Lots of people will buy the PS5 Pro and play games with capped framerates and locked graphics.
@@jorge69696 Ps5 pro cpu is so bad that it will still not play games at 60fps especially since GPU upgrade is just a super minor upgrade instead massive one like with PS4 -> ps4 pro -> ps5 (always doubled the perf with each upgrade). PS5 Pro is a scam made for the naive fanboys.
Mods are the best. You can add something you want the game didn't have and remove things you don't want. Just don't expect Nexus mods to have the mod you want that they are offended by.
@@Geperd1ah man nexus sucks i still remember that scandal where their ban a account for changing marvel spider man pride flags to American flags but their happy to have the reverse still on that site you got any good mods site recommendations
Interesting. Can you name some? I heard that they give copyright strikes all the time on TH-cam and they don't care if it's Fair Use or not. Of course TH-cam doesn't care about Fair Use either, so you are completely powerless.
Apparently they made a lot of patents for Zelda Tears of Kingdom and the way you can "craft" stuff For Palworld they basically attacked them on the "throwing mechanic" which is ridiculous, that's why Palword updated the game so you can no longer throw your pal at distance
Another factor for the rise of PC gaming is the downfall of game exclusives. Before if you wanted to play Halo you needed an XBox. If you wanted to play Final Fantasy games you needed a PlayStation. Specifically Japanese game publishers only released their games with Sony or Nintendo. All this has changed. Halo is on the PC. Final Fantasy games is on the PC. Many of the Japanese games are on the PC now.
Yes, not only did Sony start heavy censorship after their move to California, but they also stopped supporting Japanese developers altogether - no more Japanese exclusives apart from a couple exceptions. Hence, I can get my entire JRPG-fix on PC now - something I thought would never be possible 10 years ago. Now, I only need Xenoblade on PC. 🙂
@@rockapartie Doesn't Nintendo have some parts into tje Xeno franchise ? Most likely not happening. You still need it to play Nintendo games, Vanillaware games and the Pokemon / Xeno franchises basically lol
Something has to change with Sony. While their PC games were hits at first, their later releases aren't doing as well (Ratchet, Sackboy, Uncharted), with the sequels selling 1:9 (Horizon, GoW). The overpriced remasters, remakes and remastered remakes, the PSN requirements, the lack of variety and the ignorance to their back catalogue are hurting them.
@4:19 This is still true today. Most young people have never sat at a desktop PC in their lives though. They grew up with phones to browse the internet and consoles for gaming, they've never had to fix or optimize a game before they can play it or troubleshoot why their game isn't running the same as everyone else's. And it's still the same problems as 25 years ago.
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Fr i remember building my pc and fixing all the installation issues then fixing bios and all settings in nvidia
Good thing they didn't PC game back in the 80s on dos 😅. The 90s wasn't much better since many games needed driver updates to work good or to use a controller with. Today's PC gaming is basically plug and play.
I am relatively new to PC gaming. I built my first PC in 2021 during the pandemic. I was a PlayStation gamer since my childhood in Nigeria but the last console i own is the PS3. I also started with the Famicom as my first ever game console in 99😂 PC gaming appealed to me cause of the affordability and availability of games, less scummy practices compared to consoles, and also my desire to build a computer. I still like Nintendo and wanna buy a Switch at some point, like my brother.
I remember hearing and signing up for Steam back in 2010......Such a mess Steam was back then. Now, it is the most popular "platform" in PC gaming as of 2024.
I blame it more so on the developers of any anticheat. The majority of the cheaters though are on free to play games because no $70 purchase of a game is needed and a lot of them are either Chinese players or US streamers
@@DXFromYT It doesn't imply either way. But there's no disclaimer that you're only addressing/targeting the NA market. So for international viewers this is at least a little bit odd.
About Nintendo, I agree with the Spiteful one, but I doubt they are stupid. I remember in terms of gaming, its majority profit comes from selling Switch...that's why they are striking emulators.
Nintendo are making more money from their IPs and on the switch with just their IPs being exclusive to their own consoles and handhelds. They don’t necessarily need pc gaming for their IPs to sell. If Nintendo doesn’t want to port their games and IPs over to pc or places other than their own than they don’t have to.
10:23 you forgot to mention that the prices in general are lower, sometimes games are twice as cheap even for the global version, not to mention regional ones.
@@evilbabai7083 A console is significantly cheaper to buy than a good gaming pc. The console will remain cheaper unless you're planning to get a lot of games.
@@BananaBlooD9517 that's the half-truth many gamers fall for. Good gaming PC is significantly better than any console to begin with as it's offers more for its price and is cheaper in the long run. Equivalent to PS5 Pro will cost around 200$ more, but with that you get not only mentioned free online and functionality outside gaming, the gaming aspect itself is much better because: - you get full control of your gameplay experience, can customize their performance and troubleshoot them if devs didn't cared much (unlike on consoles, where games once released as a technical mess will require you to wait for the official patches at best) and use mods; - you get a vastly superior game library, consisting of all multiplatform, console ports and PC exclusives; - your personal game library is not split into generations, and if you have a new PC, all your old games are there; - there are legal ways to get a DRM-free games, not all of games provide those, but many (and you 100% own those, unlike even modern "physical media", which has degraded into a physical license since PS3); - using emulation you can run games from all kind of consoles and arcade machines at the same device; - you can have "DRM-free" games as well, which is not legal, but morally acceptable if those are delisted, digitally changed or regionally locked by the publisher; - you can have all kinds of peripherals for your PC; That's just from the top of my head. Consoles today is a compromise solution with lower entry threshold, but in everything else they became a worst and restrictive versions of PC. The only console worth buying today is Nintendo Switch. And the cheapest all-around gaming device today is SteamDeck, which is a custom PC. But the thing is that even if you buy a PC for the very same price as a console, the only downside would be that it will have less performance and some games won't run with the same graphics, but they'll run anyways and you'll be able to hit 60FPS every time, sacrificing some fidelity (which is in all honesty with current graphics levels isn't all that bad). You'll need a top tier gaming rig for 1k$ only if you're after the graphics and performance in the newest games that no modern console can achieve. And if you simply want to play games in general, PC is still way to go - one of my PCs is an old GTX850M laptop from 2014 (which was mid even back then) that I use when travel, yet every day more and more games that it could run are released. Yes, it's incapable of running most modern AAA at all (duh), but it is still capable to run PS4 level games - I've been playing GTAV on high settings with 60FPS no issue.
@@BananaBlooD9517 that's the half-truth many gamers fall for. Good gaming PC is significantly better than any console to begin with as it's offers more for its price and is cheaper in the long run. Modern home consoles are ok for those who only wants to play only the hyped new mainstream games and/or COD/FIFA/Fortnite/etc, that way it might be cheaper indeed. But equivalent to PS5 Pro will cost only around 200 bucks more (a gap that would be covered twice by PSN subscription alone, not to mention 10-50% games extra cost), but with that you get not only mentioned free online and powerful multimedia workstation, the gaming aspect itself is much better because: - you get full control of your gameplay experience, can customize their performance and troubleshoot them if devs didn't cared much (unlike on consoles, where games once released as a technical mess will require you to wait for the official patches at best) and use mods; - you get a vastly superior game library, consisting of all multiplatform, console ports and PC exclusives; - your personal game library is not split into generations, and if you have a new PC, all your old games are there; - there are legal ways to get a DRM-free games, not all of games provide those, but many (and you 100% own those, unlike even modern "physical media", which has degraded into a physical license since PS3); - using emulation you can run games from all kind of consoles and arcade machines at the same device; - you can have "DRM-free" games as well, which is not legal, but morally acceptable if those are delisted, digitally changed or regionally locked by the publisher; - you can have all kinds of peripherals for your PC; That's just from the top of my head. Consoles today is a compromise solution with lower entry threshold, but in everything else they became a worst and restrictive versions of PC. The only console worth buying today is Nintendo Switch. And the cheapest all-around gaming device today is SteamDeck, which is a custom PC. But the thing is that even if you buy a PC for the very same price as a console, the only downside would be that it will have less performance and some high-end games won't run with the same graphics, but they'll run anyways and you'll be able to hit 60FPS every time, sacrificing some fidelity (which is in all honesty with current graphics levels isn't all that bad). You'll need a top-tier gaming rig for 1k+ bucks only if you're after the graphics and performance in the newest games that no modern console can achieve. And if you simply want to play games in general, PC is still way to go - one of my PCs is an old GTX850M laptop from 2014 (which was mid even back then) that I use when travel, yet every day more and more games that it could run are released. Yes, it's incapable of running most modern AAA at all (duh), but it is still capable to run PS4 level games - I've been playing GTAV on high settings with 60FPS no issue, Days Gone was also fine.
@@BananaBlooD9517 TH-cam won't allow me to give a detailed response for some reason, so I'll better keep it short and reply on demand instead of trying to cover everything. So, how many is "a lot of games" anyway? You can play a single online game on the console and by the middle of its life cycle already cover the cost gap with an equivalent PC. You know that you don't have to buy 1k+ rig to play the same games with the same performance, right? Not to mention that PC provides much more value for the price in general.
@@evilbabai7083 An RTX 4070 super is at 600$, a 4060 is 300. A midrange CPU is 200-300$. You're already more expansive than a PS5 and you have a GPU made for 1080p, at best 2k which isn't better than a regular PS5. Im using MSRP prices
@buckroger6456 I have a steam deck and steam deck oled. One has windows installed and I use it as a desktop at home while the other is the one I use for gaming on the go.
Amazingly put together. I've lived this as a PC gamer from 1994 to 2024. Times were tough 2001-2016. Also I think Twitch changed the culture around PC gaming. Before people use to think it's basement dwelling nerds on PC, but twitch made it cool.
tough? 2006 is literally the best year in gaming + standardization have happened + cheap powerfull gpus + physx + sli\crossfire +4k 2006 had the best games ever made
I honestly think a lot of the reason that PC survived and thrived is Valve. They invested in the platform when everyone else said it was a bad idea. They developed tools for quick patching, online multplayer, cloud saves, cheating, etc. There is a reason that Steam completely dominates the market. When nobody else care they invested and without Steam the PC market would never have attracted those games. Even now they continue to invest in games with things like the Steamdeck. I can get a console device and play a HUGE chunk of my back catalog and that will only expand over time. I don't even have to buy additional games. They figured out a way to sell hardware and increase the value of older games at the same time.
@@AxiomofDiscord Nintendo can last 2 century to be honest. The Majority of their profit comes outside of gaming. In foreseeable feature, they are still gonna sell tons of Switches. But luckily, we got steam, we got emulators...and we got mods!
Built a PC when the 3080 came out, best choice I did for my gaming hobby! Tied to NO subscription and poor graphics, now I can choose my graphic presets, mod, and emulate!
@@pwnomega4562 You can install emulators. Google and check them out. Some are easier to use than others. For games, you can either look how you can use your own backup, or get them other ways (can't tell you where. Again, google).
My gaming laptop would like to do a victory dance on the corpses of gaming consoles... but first it needs another reboot after locking up previously a few minute back.
I remember buying a Game on Steam, being happy to play an hour or two just to spend the next 2h reading threads and forums to learn how to make it work smoothly (Deus Ex: Human rev or Mass Effect 2 with a multi-core PC). It was a pain in the arse. Consoles were so much user-friendly. 🎉
nintendo didn't win shit, every title from nintendo from nes to switch can be play on pc and steam deck if you know how to set it up. its only there to rip off dumb ass who wants to give free money to nintendo buying the same fucking game they bought for the 6 or 7 times. pc is where its at nowadays if you want to game
@@DXFromYTThe switch came out during the 8th generation. You also have to remember Nintendo has been making handheld since the 4th console generation and they won every generation so far.
Sorry just look at sales numbers, Nintendo aren’t even in the same league as Sony, Microsoft and PC. They sold a lot of Wiis and maybe Switches but as market share they’re in fourth place by a huge margin.
For me 2000s was perfect for PC gaming. Console was good, but PC was still superior. Total war, Age of empires, Red alert, LOTR battle for middle earth, Warcraft, Playing Call of duty with mouse and keyboard PC master race
Not sacrificing framerate for graphical fidelity was so great when I switched to PC. Not to mention access to countless old games. I always wanted a PC, but my father would say that you should play on consoles. The first PC I ever got was in 2008, and it was trash even then. 14 years later, I finally achieved my dream of building a good rig. Seeing how Playstation management is making one stupid decision after another this generation, as a former Playstation player, this was a wise choice
I'm old enough to remember reading magazine reviews of games I couldn't play as a kid (long story). Now I can finally play almost all of them thanks to emulators and it makes me really happy. I can even play arcade games on MAME and some of them never had console/PC releases.
Interesting take… for the consoles, you see computers are at the heart of ALL consoles. They were there at the beginning programming away and they will be there at the end. PC is Alpha and Omega!
Been a subscriber since 2016 (though not a very active one), with the first video I ever saw being Anime I F*cking Hate: Akame ga Kill honestly amazed to see how far the channel has come in those years
@@DXFromYT and I could feel it from the video! Going back to AIFH: AgK as an example, even though I love it to bits for how entertaining it was, I got the feeling a part of you didn't want to make it in the first place (because it involved talking about something you ultimately didn't like) But hey, that was just 2016 era TH-cam in a nutshell where negativity tended to thrive Now though, 8 years later (Jesus I feel old just saying that...) I can truly tell that you're talking about stuff that you're genuinely passionate about. And to that I say, good on you!
Mods are much easier on a PC. Also, i can replace or upgrade specific parts of the PC whenever i like. You can also use a joystick on a PC so the gaming experience is the same. And now, we see a $700 PS5. Easy to build a PC for that amount that will have better specs.
I really wanna thank you for some of the inspiration, ever since I found your horrible steam library video I have been watching your videos. If you remember me we had some interaction on twitter about digital homicide, you have inspired me very much to review extremely horrible games. Also thanks for all of the content for over the years. Thank you so much!
Pc has a massive advantage: Emulators. A solid gaming pc can be a PS1-4 or Xbox etc. Also playing with a keyboard and mouse feels easier to me. But with a joystick, there are tons of games that become almost impossible to play.
I know most of the console gamers are on Sony or Nintendo but Xbox does all that- emulates pretty much everything well and does it cheaper- check out any of Modern Vintage Gamer videos. Of course with a small bit of effort you can set up a raspberry Pi to emulate most systems for cheap and all off cheap storage like microsd- Steam Deck is a fantastic emulation gaming hardware and its ultra easy to set up .
It's funny, because not that long ago one of Xbox bigwigs said that future of their gaming is on phones, TVs and PCs. Wouldn't be surprised it they went full cloud and skipped hardware altogether in few generations.
5 years ago I caved and bought a PS4 for its exclusives, thinking, nay, KNOWING they will NEVER leave the Playstation (Prison) Cell. I bought like 8~ games, and got a few more as a gift. With the recent remake of Until Dawn that came out on PC, I now have only *2* games that remain exclusive, with the rest on PC already. Horizon, God of War, Spiderman, Last of Us... Even Persona 5, which came from the house of Atlus, who are known to be Anti PC and release all their games on PS only. ALL of that has changed these last few years, with everything coming to PC with almost full guarantee. If I had known that this was the future I had in store, I would NOT have caved 5 years ago. The PS4 I bought brought me joy and I'm happy I did it, but I would've prefer it more to just wait for everything on PC and call it a day. The still-exclusive 2 games , btw, are Sakura Wars, and Infamous 2nd Son.
@@kobold7466 I hate that about Sony. I can't think of any mascots from PS1 that they still make games for. Ratchet and clank and god of war the only franchises to stay relevant after PS2. The last of us and uncharted are starting to get a little old. I can't think of anything after PS4 that's had a major impact.
I just love that your library is always with you when you change everything about your PC. Maybe I'm just stingy but I don't want to pay for games I've owned numerous times again so I can play it on the new system.
problem is building a pc is no longer an affordable hobby. the price of pc hardware has skyrocketed ever since the crypto craze. this make it hard for newcomer to penetrate into the system, unless they already have a system to upgrade. yes there are budget builds out there, but if you want your game to look like in the trailer, a 300$ build won't provide that. it's a big investment and quite frankly for me, no longer cost effective like it used to. the pc won for now but with the absurd hardware pricing, who knows. no king rule forever.
Considering they want you to pay $700 for the PS5 pro, and more if you want a disc drive, getting a decent gaming PC isn't that much more expensive. It's maybe another $100 or so. Sure, it's not gonna be a high end rig, but it should play pretty much everything. The only issue is that, if you want to stay relatively current, you're going to have to update that PC every 18 months or so while a console is good for at least five years. But IMO, it's worth it for the freedom.
@@seanwilliams7655 ps5 pro is more or less comparable to 4060 Ti or 4070. these build cost around $900 - $1100(not including controller too), way more than ps5 pro. yes it perform better but the price is just too much. not to mention those builds eat electricity like mad when compared to ps5 pro. either way both system are expensive when all people want is just to play video game without all the frills. this is the reason why people flock to the switch instead.
@@seanwilliams7655 Upgrading every 18 months?! Only if you buy real low-end hardware. Upgraded my PC last year - CPU was 10 years old (i5) and the GTX 1070 was 7 (!) years old ...
@@rockapartie well, a $800 PC isn't what I'd call high end. And it doesn't need to be major upgrades. Just maybe more ram at some point, and maybe a better GPU. I know you don't really NEED to upgrade anything if you spend enough money.
@@seanwilliams7655 Yes, if you're building from scratch, you'd need to invest at least $1200 for a decent system - which sounds like a lot compared to a console, but actually isn't if you consider Steam, GOG and Humble Bundle sales; also, you don't have to pay for PS Plus (400 bucks for 5 years!).
Exclusives have always been stupid but somehow understandable 20 years ago with limited ressources and stuff. But 10 years ago already there was nothing to justify them at all.
I'm playing on a PC since 1994. In my opinion the worst time was the period after the release of the original XBox and the introduction of Games for Windows Life. Microsoft tried real hard to push gamers to change from PC to the XBox. But since the PC is not a closed system, and digital distribution gained momentum, it did not work.
It's a strange thing to say, because mid-range PCs have always cost more than a console. Heck, my first _office_ PC cost more than five Playstation 1s ...
a dumpster pc runs better than a console. anyone who says otherwise just lies because they are comparing apples to oranges, like intentionally running ssaax16 on a pc while a console runs in 360i upscaled
Sound observation. I started out with gaming way back in 85 and was and still am a Nintendo kid. Still, I soon realized around the time I had an N64 and in the early days of having a Game Cube that consoles felt less of a pull I had PC's around from 10/11 years old but never really found them too hot when it came to gaming I think 1995 changed that with a lot of the Maxis games that came out I steadily moved over to PC lived through multiple operating systems life spans as In Windows 95/98SE/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Skipped 8/Windows 10 Pro and 11 Pro respectively my hardware was constantly going up to keep up between 2020/24 my PC has had two upgrades. I am at a point now where I am able to play older games in a way I could only dream of as my younger self, who used to spend days dreaming about owning the best high-end systems back in the day and the new stuff. I see consoles now more as a stepping stone. There is a point, which you rightly pointed out, and Sony clocked onto, that people realize the PC has the upper hand. It has for a while, and it's well known. I also think Bayonetta, as in the original, coming to PC was the signal that indicated something had changed massively. I can play consoles still know the button layouts on each but due to my love of PC gaming I am hard-pressed to say if a console version of a game is good not to say any of them are bad but well when I have what I am currently writing this comment on for comparison it's really not fair to try to pit the two side by side. Loved the video, well-thought-out and researched.
Console also forced you to upgrade to a new generation of hardware. I just bought a PC and I plan to not upgrade for at least a decade. With FSR & the ability to lower settings. PC is an elite value proposition.
It still bums me out to this day that the PC, the platform most capable (performance-wise and supporting the most types of controllers), never gets co-op-able first party games with a split-screen mode. How I wish that Halo on PC had actual split-screen support.
That, among other reasons is why the PC versions of many games are still inferior no matter how many fps you can run them at. How is it that Nintendo manages to put 4-player split-screen in Mario Kart 8 on the Switch, but most PC games still lack such a feature? Absolutely pathetic.
I guess they just assume people will buy a laptop and sit around a table or something. Or as I use to do take my computer to another person's house. Granted now with how much power a computer needs and how little any room is required to supply... a small apartment might not be able to power 4 desktop computers at once without someone in the kitchen.
@@b4rs629 Lots of people play co-op/split screen. I don't know if sports games still let you play co-op but I used to play NHL with my friends/brother all the time. Co-op/zombie COD with friends, Mario Party/Kart etc.
@@davidaitken8503 you do know co op split screen is almost dead on console as well most co op games that allow for split screen are from indie devs that put there games first on the pc
Emulation is a massive reason to PC game which was not mentioned in this video. PC is not only the one stop shop to play PC exclusives and MS/Sony console exclusives (as long as that game isn't named Bloodborne in regards to Sony) but you can also play Nintendo exclusives at higher resolutions, frame rates, and even mods with Switch emulation. Sure Yuzu and Ryujinx my have been shut down, but emulation is like a hydra, it's a matter of time before others take the mantle of Switch emulation. Also speaking of Bloodborne PS4 emulation has been making big steps too for the games that have yet to be ported to PC from Sony. And that's only referring to newer console emulation. There are tens of thousands of games that has been released on all the consoles over the generations that can all be experience with near perfect emulation. And emulators allow stuff like fan translations. For example Ace Attorney Investigations 2 my have been officially brought to the world outside of Japan for the first time. But with a DS emulator it was possible to experience that game fully in English years before it happened officially.
My eyes truly opened when I switched from console to PC. It's also funny seeing console exclusives slowly coming to PC anyways, and even if they don't, most of the time we can emulate them anyways (Bloodborne being the one I'm most excited for).
How did you make the shift though? With consoles I know what I am getting, but when I look at getting a PC ... wooo boy I don't even know WHERE to start or if "this" PC is better than "that" PC. I have looked at several cheap homebuild PCs that are all $100 apart from each other ... and I have no idea what sets them apart. Again, when I buy a PS5 I know what I am getting and what games it can play. With PC, that ease of access disappears.
@@PikaLink91 it happened naturally since I grew up playing Halo and COD with the boys. Then once Halo kinda died after Bungie, we all sorta moved to a gaming laptops, and then I ended up building my own PC a few years later at a Microcenter near me. Microcenter is like a local computer store that helps you build PCs. The staff are helpful, but there's countless videos to help build a really powerful PC for cheap. I build my own high-end for less than $2,000 and it's been running for 5 years solid, no issues with any games. It's 100% a worthy investment because you don't have to buy a new console constantly, only upgrade parts here and there (if you want, you don't have to like me since mine is still great), and it's a PC, so you have literally everything at your disposal. PC gaming is also way better in general because a controller also limits you, but the best part is you can use a controller to play games anyways LOL, so it's not any different.
@@PikaLink91Just find a TH-camr like jayztwocents they'll have pc builds for different ranges. start with a goal, 1080p 60fps high settings and focus on information surrounding that target. don't worry about buying the latest gen either, it's a PC, you can buy a 10 year old card and run modern games at 1080p, 980ti for example. I can only recommend PC gaming if you're genuinely interested in the tech since it's about having total control. As you said consoles are just simple devices, you don't have much to tweak and you're forced into whatever settings the devs choose.
@@PikaLink91 There's so many tutorials online to make a PC and even some PC part sites even have a building walkthrough of compatible parts they sell and you can choose how powerful you want your PC to be. Even if your PC can run a new game on max settings 5 years from now, you can always a just the game's graphics settings or even just use preset graphic settings in a game. It's not that hard once you look into it
Sony is losing a lot of my goodwill. I bought a PS5 controller in 2021. It was good for up to three years before it started showing stick drift. I even thrashed the analog stick a bit during that period. Then early 2024, I bought a brand new controller. It lasted 8 months before both sticks started showing stick drift. I know Sony is deliberately manufacturing poor quality products that break down early to force players to buy their expensive controllers more often. I have had enough of Sony's anti-consumer practices. I won't be buying any more PlayStation consoles after the PS5 ages out.
Damn your so lucky no stick drift within 3 years? all my 4 dualsense got stick drift on 3-6 months of use. Never got stick drift on my ps4 controller until now.
I noticed at school when the Wii came out. That most start to agree that you actually only needed a pc and a Nintendo to get access to the vast majority of games. It was also the great era of Playthrough videos on TH-cam so that everyone could get on the fun.
Correction. X Box and Playstation shot themselves in the foot. Nintendo is doing just fine by doing their own thing. The Switch is absolutely dominating the console market by actually being a game console with its' own unique features and games.
Not quite. I can play a Switch game on the go. Even if you consider the Steam Deck, which lets be honest, is really a supplemental device to a proper PC, you're restricted by even single player games still insisting you be online just to play them.
@@davidaitken8503 oh silly bun you can play every single game release from nes to switch from nintendo on the pc or steam deck if you know where to look and set them up. thats why nintendo are trying to kill emulator left and right
I was an Xbox guy. But when the specs for the Xbox One dropped, I decided it was time to move to PC - Microsoft's priorities were plainly stated to **not** be about gaming on their gaming console. Turns out that's when the decline started. I really could not have picked a better time.
You are so wrong, mate. Not just games - many genres exist only on PC, like RTS. Many others have by far superior experience on PC, like shooters. And poorer half of the world went straight to PC gaming because they didn’t have money for consoles, but could get access to PCs because they had other uses beside gaming. And of course PC is a democratized platform which results in more innovation. Consoles losing relevance is just a natural result
The biggest current issue with PC is awful ports full of shader compilation stutter and traversal stutter, but I’d take that over console releases running at low resolutions any day
Shader compilation stutter can be easily fixed by spending a few minutes pre compiling the shaders at start up before you play and games that don't do this have incompetent developers
I mean there are people out there that still want to play those old games but they have to do that through emulation anyway in order to actually play them if they couldn't afford a console or even bother getting one because PCS are much more versatile when it comes to emulation types for whatever console there is
It’s honestly shocking how Baroque of all games had the biggest rep glow up of all time. Went from an obscure Sega Saturn/PS1 DRPG that only got localized on PS2/Wii, to a fan translation that gets mentioned in numerous lists and has a video essay edging closer to 1M views.
I'm getting into PC gaming myself TBH. I'm a little burned out on modern gaming consoles. The PS5 (disc version, of course) will be my last console I'll buy for a good long time. The only thing that kept me from fully jumping in though is the severe lack of options for physical media. It absolutely sucks ass that there's no way to 100% own games that you can have in a collection. There's a certain kind of magic to be able to look at a collection on your bookshelves and play them. That, and also no couch co-op multiplayer kinda sucks.
To fully own a PC title you need either to buy them on GOG (which sells games without DRM) or pirate them. and then you put it on a ROM disc or just on another HDD... Even if the "physical" aspect is only the HDD and bot a disc like consoles
@@jeanpeuplu521 This exactly this. Also a lot gets locked to a system even if you have the disc when it comes to things like DLC. GOG or piracy also answers this problem as well.
A lot of game data isn't even on the disks anymore. Some games don't ship with certain parts of the game and some are broken on launch but run fine because of a day 1 patch they release weeks before the release date. DLCs obviously aren't on the disk, but lets say if your hard drive flops 10 years from now and you install a new one on your PS5... Half of your games will be missing lots of content or broken
@@finkamain1621 I've heard you can put games on USB sticks and plug them in PCs, like you would a cartridge to a console. Would that be a possible option to look into?
@@harveyplissken4604 You can with any pirated old games really, but with consoles to USB to PC you usually have to jailbreak them to be able to copy them onto a USB. Xbox 360's XBLA games can actually be copied no problem and played on an emulator and the demos are actually the full game, so you have to go into the emulator's settings and tick an option to "unlock" the full game. Full retail disk games can be installed no problem as well but they don't play very well on emulator yet as the Xbox 360 scene just isn't there yet. If you have the DLC's too you can transfer them as well. You can also just copy all your Xbox 360 games, profile, updates, and DLC to a USB/SSD for backups if your drive dies in the future
idk how getting games that were exclusive to 7th gen consoles 15 years later on PC is winning. PCs were trash in the 90s and PS2 era where consoles were superior for playing games. late 6th and into 7th gen PC hardware started to really take off and leave consoles in the past especially if you had the money to get some of the best hardware. It's still somewhat true a new console release makes it difficult for a equivalent spec PC to be built for the same money, but usually in a year especially with used parts its easily doable. PCs also can do much more than game, but I find that a weak argument if we're just talking about playing games, for many people a console is still going to be the better choice. I'm fortunate to have the latest consoles and a high end PC, I don't really care where I play, so long as the games are good.
I like how since 2016 you evolved from a raging schizo into an honest and informative videogame reviewer, well done, been following you since i was 13
I miss my raging Schizo.😢
His use of the word "HORRENDOUS" was exceptional.
Every now and again I revisit those videos they're so fucking funny
Yelling HORRENDOUS used to pop the mic 😂
@@lucagorosito3715Me too
@@DXFromYTyeah i found you through your angry anime reviews i still have a soft spot for them but your modern vids are still great too
I love how you don't do a cut every 2 seconds and do retention based editing. Just chill and enjoyable voiceover over the footage
That kind of editing is a good indicator a channel isn't for me. I avoid that like the plague!
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This, talking too quickly or flashing text on the screen too quickly to read.
And no obnoxious 30-40 second outro.
that shit is so tiring to me, I don't know if I have adhd or something but whenever someone overedits their video I find myself replaying the same scene trying to catch all the little snippets they put in and then also listen to what they said, my brain gets fried after a couple of minutes
Piracy was huge on consoles , and i do mean huge , in my country ( 3rd world ) while growing up 98% of games sold in shops are pirated copies of the ps2 , ps3 and xbox 360 games . You had to jailbreak your console but since it's easy to do and a couple legit games were the cost of a minimum wage , most people went the piracy route .
It's easy to think of piracy as a pc issue since this last 2 gens piracy on consoles is harder and less accessible, but in previous gens it was pretty common
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His narrative crumbles the more you remember and think.
What's piracy like on the PS4 and Xbox One where you are, now that those consoles have been jailbroken for a while?
@@erelpc I can't speak for third world countries but I do own a jailbroken PS4 Pro. It's easy to do as well as long as you don't update system firmware.
Though I never met anyone in real life that would jailbreak their own consoles. When I was a kid, I would ask my classmates if they knew how to jb a PSP and they would look at me confused.
I think overall console piracy has become much more niche and it probably has to do with the fact of mobile gaming, f2p games and the outrageous prices of a modern console alone.
@@erelpci dont think xbox one can be modded
Ultrawide, emulation, graphical settings, and sales are what keep me in pc
You forgot the biggest feature still... Backward Compatibility.
@@Agent_Banana11 you right, add that to number 5
For me it's performance. I can run almost all games at 60 fps. I can run many at 165. Consoles still getting 30fps games is insane to me.
Dont forget mods.
@@pis4brains4843 i don’t use mods often, that is why I didn’t include it. And if I do it is usually just to force games that don’t support ultrawide into a 21:9 aspect ratio.
Also, let's not forget about how damaging Games for Windows Live was to PC gaming during the 7th generation. It's still frustrating to deal with to this day, so I can't imagine using the service when it came out. What was Microsoft thinking when they made GFWL?!?!
GFWL was such a plague 💀💀💀
Oh god oh no, yeah that used to be a thing!
It was the right idea but executed poorly. Prior to that PC gaming was the wild west. Like controller support, online gaming, games came in a multitude of different box sizes. So GfWL brought some cohesion and attempted to solve the piracy problem. During that time we got standardized box sizes, xinput (360 controller), XB live profiles on Windows, etc.
GFWL is gone now.
GFWL and Starforce were absolute cancer.
it's the best time to be a PC gamer but definitely not the best time to be a gamer
Yea, with all the greedy over-monetization tactics they try to do now is ridiculous & them thinking $70 for a new game now isn't enough to give them. But I don't know about the best time to be a PC gamer, like is it even possible to get a gaming PC that matches or even beats the PS5 & Xbox Series X for 500$ using new parts for the CPU/GPU?
@@wlb277 new, mostly likely no, but used yes.
@@wlb277 I think an approximate performance equivalent would need a Ryzen 5 5600, 16GB RAM, Radeon RX 7600. Probably over $500.
@@wlb277the base consoles no, but the pro can be matched 😭
5600, 16gb, 7700xt (with everything else) can be brought for a similar price in Europe 😭
I believe the og MW1~BO2 era was the peak of video game history.
For me, the scarcity of PS5 really kicked me from PS4 to PC. The relative ease of connecting a PC to a huge TV also helped. The blurring of the lines between PC monitor and TV was a factor.
Have an extended hdmi running to a tv I have mounted across my room on my ceiling, it’s so nice for just being fat and using a controller fr
only thing that irks me about using PC as a console is that you can't wake it up with a controller
@@yeagmatic Eh, no one wakes up a PC with a controller anyways.
We PC players don't be lazy, we turn on the PC ourselves.
@@yeagmatic i keep a wireless keyboard with touch mouse on the couch, hella cool device
How lazy are you, @@yeagmatic?
"Two dogs fight for a bone and the third runs away with it"
Fourth dog inside looking out the window, eating his steak.
@@One-ct3xe who's the fourth dog naught dog perhaps
@@One-ct3xe tbf I wouldn't describe Nintendo sales and profits as "steak".
As a die hard pc gamer who lived through the dark times one of the major factors that fucked us was that it was _Mircosoft_ that built the xbox and entered the console space. They had no reason to support gaming on pc any more and acted like it. They also went from being one of the foremost publishers of pc games to a complete halt. Even to this day they don't sell some of their back catalogue of pc games.
In their desperation to make more money a keep player retention consoles just ended up pushing their core audience to a different platform, ironic.
It's just an honest strategy. Players who pay $3000 for a top end rig will never consider a console. And pc has enough casual gamers as well who won't pay for a dedicated console. May as well appeal to that market.
It's overlooked (as usual), but a lot of that casual market consoles would appeal to was lost to the mobile market. Mobile kept growing while consoles stagnated. Losing that market meant that consoles had to basically be "big games". Because am arcade game would just be eaten by a "free" app on a phone everyone has.
Xbox, and even Playstation really screwed up, if they didn't happen, I wouldn't have fully jumped to PC, now I don't even consider console games unless it's Nintendo exclusives.
@@raze2012_ I don't know if consoles were ever that level of casual. I think mobile gamers come from the people who used to play Farmville, and more importantly for this conversation, young kids. That's where I think consoles are going to see the biggest losses. Younger kids don't seem to be as interested in them. Kids in the 7-11 age bracket. All they're into is mobile games, and stuff that can be played on tablets like Roblox and Fortnite. People were saying it years ago, and it might be true. This current generation of consoles is either the last, or second to last, generation. There's simply no reason to have a device in the home that "just" plays games. Yeah, I know they do other stuff now, but you don't really NEED them to do any of that other stuff.
@@seanwilliams7655 sure they were. The Wii is the most obvious example, but the biggest decline in consoles games were from the music and party genres. Those kinds of games attracted people who wanted a cheaper karaoke bar, or some quick setup for socialization. These games would sell millions as well.
Handhelds werre also great for this crowd too. The DS is a top selling console and it was a cheap entry point to play games that'd never sell on console, like Brain Age or even games teaching you languages. The best selling Nintendo consoles were those that can tap into more than that core console fanbase.
@@seanwilliams7655 pc gaming will never die because in essence computers are mechanical brains,they will always be used for different tasks, heck science fiction already predict that at some point we will play videogames using our own brain, things like neuralink already created the interface between brain - machine, and i bet that we will be playing games.
The art for my intro, this video's thumbnail and title card was done by artist Azuma Yasuo. They have a Patreon as well, and you can find their links in the description!
Thank you for not only not using AI generated images (I refuse to call them art) but to also credit the artist.
What game is the clip from 0:38
@@christiansparks6429 Sin Episodes Emergence.
You forgot the most important change from the earlier console gens....consoles simply became DRMed PCs. There is no porting from some strange instruction set like Power PC or Cell to X86 because both of the major consoles are just AMD PCs with DRM on top, both are using X86 instruction sets and GPUs no different than what you would get from Micro Center.
As for Nintendo it will be interesting to see how they fare if the rumors are true that the next gen Steam Deck with have a dock with active cooling so that the APU can clock higher when in dock mode, as then portable gamers will have access to the huge Steam library and the better graphics while still having portability.
The problem I have with the current Steam Deck model is that it's still the 3rd option. You want a Switch for all of the amazing Nintendo exclusives and portability and you still need a proper PC to have access to everything on PC with all of the benefits. Unless a future Steam Deck can become an all purpose PC I don't see that changing.
@@davidaitken8503the SteamDeck is an all purpose PC though. I use it as one
@@davidaitken8503 Its one of the go to options for a PC gamer with a large library of games already collected.
Nintendo...I think as long as they are still making good games, people will choose to buy Switch. But don't mistake me, I really, really wanna see all their games come to steam!
I never had any interest in Switch. Is it true that it's very underpowered and could barely run 3 year old games at launch?
I think I saw some laughably bad gameplay of the Switch version of The Witcher 3 a few years ago.
You know what did it for me? Backwards compatibility. Sony refusing to allow me to keep playing my “old” games felt like spitting in my face. PC still lets me play Master of Orion 2 and baldurs gate 1, both of which have amazing mods available to breathe new life into them. Console games all have a lifespan, but pc games are forever. Shit I’m playing the original Xcom and it’s still amazing. I played the “new” xcom 2 and it just filled me with disgust and I went back to the original from the 90’s
ok boomer
Fun Fact: The PC pirating issue was always nonsense. Similar to the 'shop lifting' thing. If you don't know, big corporations don't try to claim their shoplifting numbers on insurance because they actually have no idea how much is being shoplifted. If something goes missing, it's just listed in the same account of stuff that gets dropped on the floor or falls in-between a shelf, is left somewhere where it's not supposed to be.
In 2015, when Denovo was first pushed out, it took almost 6 months for pirates to crack Fifa 2015. This is practically unheard of... but EA did not make any noise about selling tons more copies than usual. The fact that it wasn't cracked had no appreciable impact on sales at all.
I thought of another reason why companies make pc ports. You see how ps3, ps4, switch, xbox 360 emulation is on the rise, and many gamers who want to play console exclusives from these consoles will find a way to pirate them (roms, iso files, fake storefronts). But, if these games were originally released on pc, a large portion of gamers will buy the games from steam especially that old games become cheaper and have more discounts, and from my observation, many gamers pirate games out of necessity because the official way of playing the game is not accessible enough. So, porting your games to PC guarantees that you keep your game on digital storefronts forever and the sales figures will only rise overtime
I like your comment but there are no guarantees and nothing with survive forever. Hell some games on digital storefronts don't last half a decade.
@AxiomofDiscord Yeah, it's not forever in many cases, but it's up to the companies
And thanks to pc game pirating, many unlisted games survive and are preserved
How I can forget that the ports were based on ps2/xbox versions of a game rather than the ps3/x360... those were dark times... glad that's a thing of the past
It was worse than that. The ports based of the PS2 games would often miss graphical effects and include compressed audio.
Some of them would only work under specific hardware like True Crime NY.
This is really a sequel to the Dark Age of PC Gaming (2002-2013). TH-camr Filbert McFibs made an 1-hour long video documenting this period. Highly-recommended viewing to supplement this video. 👍
Well the last couple years of that PC tech basically stood still. I mean it was nice not having to worry about spending money on upgrades but it really got pretty sad there for a bit. And even a little before that time it was pretty slow compared to what we where once use to seeing like in the mid to late 90s.
dark age of PC gaming?? warcraft 3, starcraft 2, dawn of war 1 and 2 series, total war series, counter strike, MMORPGs. with PC its always a golden age.
@@pipebomber04 Broken ports, disc DRM rendering games unplayable, WinNT kernel creating backward compatibility issues, consolization of many franchises, lack of a truly good digital distribution platform (Steam back then was a Valve-only launcher and lacked many of the modern self-curation and discovery features), near-total boycott by Japanese publishers, emulation scene in very a nascent and flawed state. If you have lived through the Dark Age, you cannot deny that it's absolutely real.
That "dark age" had a ton of great games, and was when Valve put out Half Life 2, Counterstrike, both Left for Dead titles, Portal. PCs got more affordable. The shitty DRM was really the only significant issue.
@@pipebomber04 Don't forget F.E.A.R, Crysis, The Sims, GTA San Andreas, Half Life 2, Portal, Left 4 Dead etc.
I didn't even feel like the video was 18 minutes, that's a sign of good content, imma sub keep up the quality
Thank you!
Over the past decade, PC gaming has proven to be the most reliable, especially when it comes to performance. And honestly, one of the main reasons for that is 60fps.
The PS4 promised 60fps gaming with its upgraded hardware, but it never really delivered. Then the PS5 came along, claiming 60fps at 4K, but here we are, and only a handful of games actually support that. Most releases still come with the "sorry guys, 60fps patch coming in a year" line.
Meanwhile, PCs have been hitting 60fps and beyond for years, thanks to more powerful hardware. Plus, PCs have the edge when it comes to number of use cases. It’s more common to own a PC now, especially with gaming laptops being so versatile. Owning one is actually cost-effective since you can use it for both work and gaming. And if your PC’s overpowered for work, that's just a bonus.
i remember there was controversy because there was a mistranslation that "Bloodborne Frame Rate Targeting 30fps is “the Best” for Action Games" Even though it was a mistranslation, people were pissed, even I was at the time. Bloodborne is a fantastic game, but PC vs consoles, even the new ps5 pro, can't even compete what PC is offering.
It simply depends on the PC and how much money you put into it.
Only 5 games on PS5 domt run 60 fps
My friend still doesn't want to jump to PC because he still thinks you have to install and run a game like on DOS. He's my only friend that is stuck on Xbox with his limited games and not too great sales because he thinks every PC game has to be troubleshooted
@@finkamain1621 I think your friend needs more infomation about PC gaming now. It's a lot easier to build one and first time I've built one back in 2021 was pretty seemless.
Obviously I was nervous for my first time, but looking up what parts I need and installing the os (windows) and I'm good to go. Only took me half a day to finish building and installing the os. Didn't have any troubleshooting at all.
Everyone's gangsta until Nintendo announces a PC port of Animal Crossing New Horizons later this year.
Last console I owned was the PS3, my dad bought it for me like 15 years ago. Still have it with several games but the controller isn't working anymore.
Got many years of fun out of it, but I don't plan on ever buying another console considering I've built a monstrously expensive PC nowadays.
That's also the newest console I have. Got a used one back in 2016 when the PS4 had already been out for some time. Only got it because I didn't have a device that could play Blu-Rays yet and used games were sold a lot cheaper than PS2 games at the time. Haven't really used it that much, because I always saw it as what it really was: an underpowered, walled off Wannabe-PC that had all the negative points of a PC but was missing the positives.
You should get the PS3 emulator... it's doing great now. Especially if you have a good PC. What are you specs? Mine are 16 Core 5950x with 128 GB of RAM and Radeon 6900 XT. I also use Switch emulators now even though I have 3 switches. Though now I am not going to give Nintendo another dime for their suit against Palword and their attack on Game videos and of course their attacks on the Emulators. Nintendo is just gotten too evil now.
@@CD-vb9fi I still don't have enough nostalgia to want to play PS3 exclusives again. Maybe in the future.
I have a 7950X3D/7900 XTX/32GB RAM so I should be alright if I do want to try emulation someday.
Also, why do you have so much RAM?
@@fluttzkrieg4392 I run VM's and I like to remove swap. So work, play, and development. Large RAM just makes all of that a much faster and smoother experience.
Last console I bought was PS2. Still have it.
Steam single handedly saved PC. At that time the throw away devices were being pushed hard over PCs like the laptops and tablets. This is also when indies exploded for the same reason. Before that everyone focused on the latest and greatest. Now were all cool with playing basically what is sub par compared to a AAA title.
@@SheepAmongG.O.A.T Steam didn't save PC, because PC gaming never need salvation to begin with, pc gaming was inevitable, games are made on pc, you can't tweak them, modify them an and even copy them on PC.
What happened was that pc gaming was costly and most folks couldn't afford buy a decent pc for gaming!
The difference is that PCs are multi tasking, you don't use them ONLY for entertainment, you can also use for work, so it didn't take long for that same boy who grew up playing a videogame had to work on pcs and start to playing with them.
Pc gaming never was in danger to begin with it was usually just less louder about it.
@@efxnews4776 sure but steam created a centralized system that allowed you to fix so many probelm like steam inputs solving games with no controller support or allowing cloud saves that helps you free up space for other games not worring about lost saves a community hub that can have guides for mods and fixes all that was scatterd before steam
@@efxnews4776 Steam is nearly synonymous with PC gaming at this point. You're underselling it hard.
@@Neonagi I'm not, Steam is simply a natural response of the market for the PC gaming, it would happen if not with Valve, but some other company like GOG.
Have in mind that i'm not passing judgment on Valve, i'm simply stated that Steam didn't save the pc gaming, it simply capitalized on it.
@@Neonagi Steam is a large part of why I'm a PC gamer now.
The craziest part is how modders have evolved past Bethesda and how modding is a bigger exclusive than console exclusives
Modding always existed outside of Bethesda. Half Life 2, GTA Trilogy, VtMB, The Sims 2 all had plenty of mods. Modding just exploded in popularity after the launch of Skyrim to a whole new level but it was something that was always there with a solid base.
@@Manic_Panic I’m aware there’s lots of fun games to mod. All I’m saying is modders made elder scrolls 6 better than Bethesda ever could, to the point where mods for older games are more sought after than new console exclusive triple A games.
The massive sizes of games and their patches now mean you might not be able to just boot up a game and play it when you have 30mins of free time. A 500gb game downloading and installing a 100gb patch is stealling all that time, might aswell look at your phone instead. I think that is a reason why consoles are getting less popular, i remember back in mw2 days patches were only released when there were game breaking issues, not multiple times a week.
Even patching is sometimes tedious. I just updated Space Marine 2 and while the game folder only increased in size by 1GB (65 to 66), Steam downloaded 30GB. I think I experienced something similar with one of the new Hitman games.
It doesn't download 30gb... It is the size of files in need of compilation with new files.
Unless someone F up and you had to download already done files, which were copy pasted.
@@smpk9667 The size of games & their patch as well as how many patch you have to download for each game is ridiculous on every platform, pc included.
@@zbigniew2628 Then why did it take well over 2 hours to patch (on NVME) and why was my PC constantly downloading something?
Consoles began taking on the worst parts of PC gaming (patches, massive downloads to get things working, etc) which also closed the gap. And at the end of the day, the PC doesn't lock the consumer into a single storefront. For all the hoopala around Steam vs Epic, PC users aren't forced to use one or the other or even either.
Also, annoyed that when I see "MW2" I still think "MechWarrior 2" because I've been on PC for that fucking long. :D
Great vid with a balanced viewpoint now that we have hindsight because phew if u remember the way ppl were acting back in 2013-16, insane 😂
100%. This was my last console gen. I wired my house for PC gameplay, I got myself a custom Arcade Cabinet for the arcade stuff. Consoles are pointless, no meaningful exclusives, broken pads, low quality ports. Consoles are gathering dust now and I have zero intent or want to change that.
Last year I sold my ps5 and series X and bought a PC and boy did I do the right choice Mods ultra graphics more fps steam always has sales
I remember how back in the late 2000's/early 2010's, most of the games I was playing were strategy games, MMO's or browser games because those were the only ones still made with PC gaming in mind. Everything else was console first with PC ports clearly made as an afterthought. The only major companies that were still about PC gaming at the time were Valve and Blizzard. I guess that's why only very few of my all time favorite games come from that era. It was pretty dark for us PC gamers in those years.
no you just refused to play other games, which were pushed out in thousands every day
1s buka akella
sacrifice is literally 2000
ex machina is literally 2005
mor is literally 2005
05:36 Piracy isn't stealing.
As someone who only had an Atari 2600 but then moved to PC with the MSX where I could enjoy the original Metal Gear, then Amiga with its innovative graphics and music, and some great arcade ports, and then to PC with games like Doom, it's great that now I basically can play all those classics, an innovative indie games like Factorio and Dwarf Fortress, as well as most former console exclusives.
Those journalists that called us PC gamers pirates and said that PC gaming was dead are simply idiots.
I think the moment Persona 4 finally got to PC, I was really sure most games would end up being released on PC. Come on, Bloodborne, what's taking so long?
Went from Atari to C64 and never really looked back to consoles.
Except Tekken I have to admit. Tekken was dope 😆
At the time, that was basically true. Piracy hurt the PC market for many years. Didn't you watch the video?
@@davidaitken8503A buncha disconnected suit said that after looking at localize data points and misinterpreted it as lost revenue when it's sometimes just a service distribution problem. The flaw in their logic crumbles in the face of Steam, given how shit it was at times, still managed to baloon to the size it is today. Piracy have been cracked long ago with the free to play model and, with addition of gacha mechanic(thanks Japan), more profitable as ever.
@@trunglequoc542 The free to play model is a cancer that is killing games. You just proved the opposite of the point you thought you were making.🙄🤣
@@davidaitken8503 That more on the game than the model cause gacha games operate under the same parameters as "normal" game. Stellar blade, Blackmyth Wukong, Spacemarine 2, all single player one time purchase, all death games that no one buy and play, yes? Not to mention all the lesser know indies projects that cater to small niche anounced and coming out every day. Dead game are dead because they're shit that no one want to even bother pirate in the sea of competitors all vying for your times and money. It's 2024 bro, people's playing stuff like Genshin on their over priced plastic box of choice. Either make good products and rake it in or wither in mediocrity.
Mods.
Mods for life.
men i remember my mind was blown when a friend installed some mods for my gta san andreas and how to mod the ps2 man i miss those times
No yearly payments for online either. Can upgrade the hardware as needed too AND benefit immediately from it. Lots of people will buy the PS5 Pro and play games with capped framerates and locked graphics.
@@jorge69696 Ps5 pro cpu is so bad that it will still not play games at 60fps especially since GPU upgrade is just a super minor upgrade instead massive one like with PS4 -> ps4 pro -> ps5 (always doubled the perf with each upgrade). PS5 Pro is a scam made for the naive fanboys.
Mods are the best. You can add something you want the game didn't have and remove things you don't want. Just don't expect Nexus mods to have the mod you want that they are offended by.
@@Geperd1ah man nexus sucks i still remember that scandal where their ban a account for changing marvel spider man pride flags to American flags but their happy to have the reverse still on that site you got any good mods site recommendations
Also, Nintendo has a patent on every single mechanic in their games and buries competition in lawsuits.
Based on what? Please cite the Palworld thing.
Interesting. Can you name some?
I heard that they give copyright strikes all the time on TH-cam and they don't care if it's Fair Use or not. Of course TH-cam doesn't care about Fair Use either, so you are completely powerless.
@@Ohio.Gozaimasu Japanese IP law is rather... different.
Apparently they made a lot of patents for Zelda Tears of Kingdom and the way you can "craft" stuff
For Palworld they basically attacked them on the "throwing mechanic" which is ridiculous, that's why Palword updated the game so you can no longer throw your pal at distance
Another factor for the rise of PC gaming is the downfall of game exclusives. Before if you wanted to play Halo you needed an XBox. If you wanted to play Final Fantasy games you needed a PlayStation. Specifically Japanese game publishers only released their games with Sony or Nintendo. All this has changed. Halo is on the PC. Final Fantasy games is on the PC. Many of the Japanese games are on the PC now.
Nintendo games are also on pc through emulation😉😉
Yes, not only did Sony start heavy censorship after their move to California, but they also stopped supporting Japanese developers altogether - no more Japanese exclusives apart from a couple exceptions. Hence, I can get my entire JRPG-fix on PC now - something I thought would never be possible 10 years ago. Now, I only need Xenoblade on PC. 🙂
@@rockapartie Doesn't Nintendo have some parts into tje Xeno franchise ? Most likely not happening.
You still need it to play Nintendo games, Vanillaware games and the Pokemon / Xeno franchises basically lol
Something has to change with Sony. While their PC games were hits at first, their later releases aren't doing as well (Ratchet, Sackboy, Uncharted), with the sequels selling 1:9 (Horizon, GoW). The overpriced remasters, remakes and remastered remakes, the PSN requirements, the lack of variety and the ignorance to their back catalogue are hurting them.
Yeah I really love all the optimized games that come out on pc.
@4:19 This is still true today. Most young people have never sat at a desktop PC in their lives though. They grew up with phones to browse the internet and consoles for gaming, they've never had to fix or optimize a game before they can play it or troubleshoot why their game isn't running the same as everyone else's. And it's still the same problems as 25 years ago.
Fr i remember building my pc and fixing all the installation issues then fixing bios and all settings in nvidia
Good thing they didn't PC game back in the 80s on dos 😅. The 90s wasn't much better since many games needed driver updates to work good or to use a controller with. Today's PC gaming is basically plug and play.
I am relatively new to PC gaming. I built my first PC in 2021 during the pandemic. I was a PlayStation gamer since my childhood in Nigeria but the last console i own is the PS3. I also started with the Famicom as my first ever game console in 99😂 PC gaming appealed to me cause of the affordability and availability of games, less scummy practices compared to consoles, and also my desire to build a computer. I still like Nintendo and wanna buy a Switch at some point, like my brother.
I remember hearing and signing up for Steam back in 2010......Such a mess Steam was back then. Now, it is the most popular "platform" in PC gaming as of 2024.
For me, the biggest issue with PC gaming is the online cheating. It’s insane how rampant it is.
who cares about online gaming, gaming is about games not online. online is just a perk.
@@awesomereviews1561 That the price of freedom look at elder scroll radiant ai where there npc keep doing illegal things cause their have freedom
I blame it more so on the developers of any anticheat. The majority of the cheaters though are on free to play games because no $70 purchase of a game is needed and a lot of them are either Chinese players or US streamers
It's Freemium issues if you all realize
@@awesomereviews1561 that a price i can live with cause paying for online is a scam
I really wish TH-camrs would get this right. The Video Game crash only happened in North America.
Where does this video imply otherwise and how does that even matter in this context?
@@DXFromYT It doesn't imply either way. But there's no disclaimer that you're only addressing/targeting the NA market.
So for international viewers this is at least a little bit odd.
@@L1m3r i'm not international, i'm only from one nation
PC is superior to all other platforms.
And Sintendo is too stupid and spiteful to go to computers.
Luckily Switch and Wii U are easy to emulate!
About Nintendo, I agree with the Spiteful one, but I doubt they are stupid. I remember in terms of gaming, its majority profit comes from selling Switch...that's why they are striking emulators.
Imagine calling them "too stupid" when they're making so much money by having their own hardware and exclusives
Nintendo are making more money from their IPs and on the switch with just their IPs being exclusive to their own consoles and handhelds. They don’t necessarily need pc gaming for their IPs to sell. If Nintendo doesn’t want to port their games and IPs over to pc or places other than their own than they don’t have to.
10:23 you forgot to mention that the prices in general are lower, sometimes games are twice as cheap even for the global version, not to mention regional ones.
@@evilbabai7083 A console is significantly cheaper to buy than a good gaming pc. The console will remain cheaper unless you're planning to get a lot of games.
@@BananaBlooD9517 that's the half-truth many gamers fall for. Good gaming PC is significantly better than any console to begin with as it's offers more for its price and is cheaper in the long run. Equivalent to PS5 Pro will cost around 200$ more, but with that you get not only mentioned free online and functionality outside gaming, the gaming aspect itself is much better because:
- you get full control of your gameplay experience, can customize their performance and troubleshoot them if devs didn't cared much (unlike on consoles, where games once released as a technical mess will require you to wait for the official patches at best) and use mods;
- you get a vastly superior game library, consisting of all multiplatform, console ports and PC exclusives;
- your personal game library is not split into generations, and if you have a new PC, all your old games are there;
- there are legal ways to get a DRM-free games, not all of games provide those, but many (and you 100% own those, unlike even modern "physical media", which has degraded into a physical license since PS3);
- using emulation you can run games from all kind of consoles and arcade machines at the same device;
- you can have "DRM-free" games as well, which is not legal, but morally acceptable if those are delisted, digitally changed or regionally locked by the publisher;
- you can have all kinds of peripherals for your PC;
That's just from the top of my head. Consoles today is a compromise solution with lower entry threshold, but in everything else they became a worst and restrictive versions of PC. The only console worth buying today is Nintendo Switch. And the cheapest all-around gaming device today is SteamDeck, which is a custom PC.
But the thing is that even if you buy a PC for the very same price as a console, the only downside would be that it will have less performance and some games won't run with the same graphics, but they'll run anyways and you'll be able to hit 60FPS every time, sacrificing some fidelity (which is in all honesty with current graphics levels isn't all that bad).
You'll need a top tier gaming rig for 1k$ only if you're after the graphics and performance in the newest games that no modern console can achieve. And if you simply want to play games in general, PC is still way to go - one of my PCs is an old GTX850M laptop from 2014 (which was mid even back then) that I use when travel, yet every day more and more games that it could run are released. Yes, it's incapable of running most modern AAA at all (duh), but it is still capable to run PS4 level games - I've been playing GTAV on high settings with 60FPS no issue.
@@BananaBlooD9517 that's the half-truth many gamers fall for. Good gaming PC is significantly better than any console to begin with as it's offers more for its price and is cheaper in the long run. Modern home consoles are ok for those who only wants to play only the hyped new mainstream games and/or COD/FIFA/Fortnite/etc, that way it might be cheaper indeed. But equivalent to PS5 Pro will cost only around 200 bucks more (a gap that would be covered twice by PSN subscription alone, not to mention 10-50% games extra cost), but with that you get not only mentioned free online and powerful multimedia workstation, the gaming aspect itself is much better because:
- you get full control of your gameplay experience, can customize their performance and troubleshoot them if devs didn't cared much (unlike on consoles, where games once released as a technical mess will require you to wait for the official patches at best) and use mods;
- you get a vastly superior game library, consisting of all multiplatform, console ports and PC exclusives;
- your personal game library is not split into generations, and if you have a new PC, all your old games are there;
- there are legal ways to get a DRM-free games, not all of games provide those, but many (and you 100% own those, unlike even modern "physical media", which has degraded into a physical license since PS3);
- using emulation you can run games from all kind of consoles and arcade machines at the same device;
- you can have "DRM-free" games as well, which is not legal, but morally acceptable if those are delisted, digitally changed or regionally locked by the publisher;
- you can have all kinds of peripherals for your PC;
That's just from the top of my head. Consoles today is a compromise solution with lower entry threshold, but in everything else they became a worst and restrictive versions of PC. The only console worth buying today is Nintendo Switch. And the cheapest all-around gaming device today is SteamDeck, which is a custom PC.
But the thing is that even if you buy a PC for the very same price as a console, the only downside would be that it will have less performance and some high-end games won't run with the same graphics, but they'll run anyways and you'll be able to hit 60FPS every time, sacrificing some fidelity (which is in all honesty with current graphics levels isn't all that bad).
You'll need a top-tier gaming rig for 1k+ bucks only if you're after the graphics and performance in the newest games that no modern console can achieve. And if you simply want to play games in general, PC is still way to go - one of my PCs is an old GTX850M laptop from 2014 (which was mid even back then) that I use when travel, yet every day more and more games that it could run are released. Yes, it's incapable of running most modern AAA at all (duh), but it is still capable to run PS4 level games - I've been playing GTAV on high settings with 60FPS no issue, Days Gone was also fine.
@@BananaBlooD9517 TH-cam won't allow me to give a detailed response for some reason, so I'll better keep it short and reply on demand instead of trying to cover everything.
So, how many is "a lot of games" anyway? You can play a single online game on the console and by the middle of its life cycle already cover the cost gap with an equivalent PC. You know that you don't have to buy 1k+ rig to play the same games with the same performance, right? Not to mention that PC provides much more value for the price in general.
@@evilbabai7083 An RTX 4070 super is at 600$, a 4060 is 300. A midrange CPU is 200-300$. You're already more expansive than a PS5 and you have a GPU made for 1080p, at best 2k which isn't better than a regular PS5.
Im using MSRP prices
PC Handhelds namely the Steam Deck has changed everything.
Agree. I bought a Legion Go and that's all I use now.
@buckroger6456 I have a steam deck and steam deck oled. One has windows installed and I use it as a desktop at home while the other is the one I use for gaming on the go.
@buckroger6456 as soon as the lehion go gets a bigger battery and steam os is available for it, it'll dominate too.
PC is not a console. It is its own thing
Amazingly put together. I've lived this as a PC gamer from 1994 to 2024. Times were tough 2001-2016. Also I think Twitch changed the culture around PC gaming. Before people use to think it's basement dwelling nerds on PC, but twitch made it cool.
tough? 2006 is literally the best year in gaming
+ standardization have happened
+ cheap powerfull gpus
+ physx
+ sli\crossfire
+4k
2006 had the best games ever made
I honestly think a lot of the reason that PC survived and thrived is Valve. They invested in the platform when everyone else said it was a bad idea. They developed tools for quick patching, online multplayer, cloud saves, cheating, etc. There is a reason that Steam completely dominates the market. When nobody else care they invested and without Steam the PC market would never have attracted those games.
Even now they continue to invest in games with things like the Steamdeck. I can get a console device and play a HUGE chunk of my back catalog and that will only expand over time. I don't even have to buy additional games. They figured out a way to sell hardware and increase the value of older games at the same time.
The only competition that Nintendo has is with fans.
It is their battle to lose. I feel about the same I do with Hasbro. I don't want anything to do with a company that actively hates its fanbase.
@@AxiomofDiscord Nintendo can last 2 century to be honest. The Majority of their profit comes outside of gaming. In foreseeable feature, they are still gonna sell tons of Switches.
But luckily, we got steam, we got emulators...and we got mods!
literally never made a good game
You won a sub today champ. Keep up the balanced and nuanced approach to subjects and good work bud.
Built a PC when the 3080 came out, best choice I did for my gaming hobby! Tied to NO subscription and poor graphics, now I can choose my graphic presets, mod, and emulate!
Those 3080's are still beasts, I still have mine and haven't needed to change for my needs. I also emulate and it's wonderful.
How do ya'll emulate?!?
@@pwnomega4562 You can install emulators. Google and check them out. Some are easier to use than others. For games, you can either look how you can use your own backup, or get them other ways (can't tell you where. Again, google).
My gaming laptop would like to do a victory dance on the corpses of gaming consoles... but first it needs another reboot after locking up previously a few minute back.
Obligatory PC master race quote.
I remember buying a Game on Steam, being happy to play an hour or two just to spend the next 2h reading threads and forums to learn how to make it work smoothly (Deus Ex: Human rev or Mass Effect 2 with a multi-core PC).
It was a pain in the arse. Consoles were so much user-friendly. 🎉
PC gaming hasn’t won. Nintendo won and has been winning since 85 by doing their own thing and showing that you don’t need cutting edge hardware.
nintendo didn't win shit, every title from nintendo from nes to switch can be play on pc and steam deck if you know how to set it up. its only there to rip off dumb ass who wants to give free money to nintendo buying the same fucking game they bought for the 6 or 7 times. pc is where its at nowadays if you want to game
It is literally impossible to argue they won in 6th or 8th gen.
@@DXFromYTThe switch came out during the 8th generation. You also have to remember Nintendo has been making handheld since the 4th console generation and they won every generation so far.
@@DXFromYT Or the 5th. But yeah WiiU and Switch are likely the same gen so I could argue that.
Sorry just look at sales numbers, Nintendo aren’t even in the same league as Sony, Microsoft and PC. They sold a lot of Wiis and maybe Switches but as market share they’re in fourth place by a huge margin.
For me 2000s was perfect for PC gaming. Console was good, but PC was still superior.
Total war, Age of empires, Red alert, LOTR battle for middle earth, Warcraft, Playing Call of duty with mouse and keyboard
PC master race
Plus windows XP was a return to forum.
Don't forget crysis 1 was exclusive on pc no console was able to run it
Crysis is not even a good game, it's sooo mid. I built my PC in 2010 to run Crysis and never even finished the game.
@@killscreen7519 Personally I think it is above mild, but the stealth mechanic are sooo rough.
Great video. +1 sub.
Thank you!
Not sacrificing framerate for graphical fidelity was so great when I switched to PC. Not to mention access to countless old games. I always wanted a PC, but my father would say that you should play on consoles. The first PC I ever got was in 2008, and it was trash even then. 14 years later, I finally achieved my dream of building a good rig. Seeing how Playstation management is making one stupid decision after another this generation, as a former Playstation player, this was a wise choice
I'm old enough to remember reading magazine reviews of games I couldn't play as a kid (long story). Now I can finally play almost all of them thanks to emulators and it makes me really happy. I can even play arcade games on MAME and some of them never had console/PC releases.
Interesting take… for the consoles, you see computers are at the heart of ALL consoles. They were there at the beginning programming away and they will be there at the end.
PC is Alpha and Omega!
Been a subscriber since 2016 (though not a very active one), with the first video I ever saw being Anime I F*cking Hate: Akame ga Kill
honestly amazed to see how far the channel has come in those years
@@aryananand4926 Thanks so much! Been a long journey, haha. Glad to be making this sort of content these days.
@@DXFromYT and I could feel it from the video! Going back to AIFH: AgK as an example, even though I love it to bits for how entertaining it was, I got the feeling a part of you didn't want to make it in the first place (because it involved talking about something you ultimately didn't like) But hey, that was just 2016 era TH-cam in a nutshell where negativity tended to thrive
Now though, 8 years later (Jesus I feel old just saying that...) I can truly tell that you're talking about stuff that you're genuinely passionate about. And to that I say, good on you!
Mods are much easier on a PC. Also, i can replace or upgrade specific parts of the PC whenever i like. You can also use a joystick on a PC so the gaming experience is the same. And now, we see a $700 PS5. Easy to build a PC for that amount that will have better specs.
I really wanna thank you for some of the inspiration, ever since I found your horrible steam library video I have been watching your videos. If you remember me we had some interaction on twitter about digital homicide, you have inspired me very much to review extremely horrible games. Also thanks for all of the content for over the years. Thank you so much!
Emulators have improved so much now l play everything on PC even Nintendo and PlayStation exclusives.
Pc has a massive advantage: Emulators. A solid gaming pc can be a PS1-4 or Xbox etc. Also playing with a keyboard and mouse feels easier to me. But with a joystick, there are tons of games that become almost impossible to play.
I know most of the console gamers are on Sony or Nintendo but Xbox does all that- emulates pretty much everything well and does it cheaper- check out any of Modern Vintage Gamer videos. Of course with a small bit of effort you can set up a raspberry Pi to emulate most systems for cheap and all off cheap storage like microsd- Steam Deck is a fantastic emulation gaming hardware and its ultra easy to set up .
It's funny, because not that long ago one of Xbox bigwigs said that future of their gaming is on phones, TVs and PCs. Wouldn't be surprised it they went full cloud and skipped hardware altogether in few generations.
5 years ago I caved and bought a PS4 for its exclusives, thinking, nay, KNOWING they will NEVER leave the Playstation (Prison) Cell.
I bought like 8~ games, and got a few more as a gift.
With the recent remake of Until Dawn that came out on PC, I now have only *2* games that remain exclusive, with the rest on PC already.
Horizon, God of War, Spiderman, Last of Us... Even Persona 5, which came from the house of Atlus, who are known to be Anti PC and release all their games on PS only.
ALL of that has changed these last few years, with everything coming to PC with almost full guarantee.
If I had known that this was the future I had in store, I would NOT have caved 5 years ago.
The PS4 I bought brought me joy and I'm happy I did it, but I would've prefer it more to just wait for everything on PC and call it a day.
The still-exclusive 2 games , btw, are Sakura Wars, and Infamous 2nd Son.
It’s insane that even all the kingdom hearts games came to PC it’s awesome
i fucking hate how sony abandoned all their exclusive franchises, infamous most of all.
@@kobold7466 I hate that about Sony. I can't think of any mascots from PS1 that they still make games for. Ratchet and clank and god of war the only franchises to stay relevant after PS2. The last of us and uncharted are starting to get a little old. I can't think of anything after PS4 that's had a major impact.
@@kobold7466 You can still play them? Exclusives are anti-consumer anyways and only serve as hype for a new console.
Gran Turismo 7, Bloodborne, Gravity Rush 2, Drive Club and Wipeout Collection are still locked on PS4.
I just love that your library is always with you when you change everything about your PC. Maybe I'm just stingy but I don't want to pay for games I've owned numerous times again so I can play it on the new system.
problem is building a pc is no longer an affordable hobby. the price of pc hardware has skyrocketed ever since the crypto craze. this make it hard for newcomer to penetrate into the system, unless they already have a system to upgrade. yes there are budget builds out there, but if you want your game to look like in the trailer, a 300$ build won't provide that. it's a big investment and quite frankly for me, no longer cost effective like it used to.
the pc won for now but with the absurd hardware pricing, who knows. no king rule forever.
Considering they want you to pay $700 for the PS5 pro, and more if you want a disc drive, getting a decent gaming PC isn't that much more expensive. It's maybe another $100 or so. Sure, it's not gonna be a high end rig, but it should play pretty much everything. The only issue is that, if you want to stay relatively current, you're going to have to update that PC every 18 months or so while a console is good for at least five years. But IMO, it's worth it for the freedom.
@@seanwilliams7655 ps5 pro is more or less comparable to 4060 Ti or 4070. these build cost around $900 - $1100(not including controller too), way more than ps5 pro. yes it perform better but the price is just too much. not to mention those builds eat electricity like mad when compared to ps5 pro.
either way both system are expensive when all people want is just to play video game without all the frills. this is the reason why people flock to the switch instead.
@@seanwilliams7655 Upgrading every 18 months?! Only if you buy real low-end hardware. Upgraded my PC last year - CPU was 10 years old (i5) and the GTX 1070 was 7 (!) years old ...
@@rockapartie well, a $800 PC isn't what I'd call high end. And it doesn't need to be major upgrades. Just maybe more ram at some point, and maybe a better GPU. I know you don't really NEED to upgrade anything if you spend enough money.
@@seanwilliams7655 Yes, if you're building from scratch, you'd need to invest at least $1200 for a decent system - which sounds like a lot compared to a console, but actually isn't if you consider Steam, GOG and Humble Bundle sales; also, you don't have to pay for PS Plus (400 bucks for 5 years!).
Exclusives have always been stupid but somehow understandable 20 years ago with limited ressources and stuff. But 10 years ago already there was nothing to justify them at all.
PC Master Race: Wait, there was a console war we won?
we were fighting a console war?
This and this video is cope. I hear PC players beg for certain ports all the time, and get excited when it does happen. Like GoW.
@@bannedmann4469 Suuure, we sooo want to play mr "I became the soft equivalent of Walter White" and his adventures with kid Pinkman.
@@FurArmoredBear What's a console? Is that something you eat?
@@bannedmann4469 You say that like anyone actually cared for DoB(Dad of Boy)!
I'm playing on a PC since 1994. In my opinion the worst time was the period after the release of the original XBox and the introduction of Games for Windows Life. Microsoft tried real hard to push gamers to change from PC to the XBox. But since the PC is not a closed system, and digital distribution gained momentum, it did not work.
"Today even a mid range PC costs more than a console"... SONY: Hold my beer
It's a strange thing to say, because mid-range PCs have always cost more than a console. Heck, my first _office_ PC cost more than five Playstation 1s ...
a dumpster pc runs better than a console.
anyone who says otherwise just lies because they are comparing apples to oranges, like intentionally running ssaax16 on a pc while a console runs in 360i upscaled
PC is and will always be master race
Form mods to emulators to backwards compatibility PC is unmatched
Sound observation. I started out with gaming way back in 85 and was and still am a Nintendo kid. Still, I soon realized around the time I had an N64 and in the early days of having a Game Cube that consoles felt less of a pull I had PC's around from 10/11 years old but never really found them too hot when it came to gaming I think 1995 changed that with a lot of the Maxis games that came out I steadily moved over to PC lived through multiple operating systems life spans as In Windows 95/98SE/2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Skipped 8/Windows 10 Pro and 11 Pro respectively my hardware was constantly going up to keep up between 2020/24 my PC has had two upgrades. I am at a point now where I am able to play older games in a way I could only dream of as my younger self, who used to spend days dreaming about owning the best high-end systems back in the day and the new stuff.
I see consoles now more as a stepping stone. There is a point, which you rightly pointed out, and Sony clocked onto, that people realize the PC has the upper hand. It has for a while, and it's well known. I also think Bayonetta, as in the original, coming to PC was the signal that indicated something had changed massively. I can play consoles still know the button layouts on each but due to my love of PC gaming I am hard-pressed to say if a console version of a game is good not to say any of them are bad but well when I have what I am currently writing this comment on for comparison it's really not fair to try to pit the two side by side.
Loved the video, well-thought-out and researched.
Man I miss window's 7 it so F-awesome. I didn't start pc gaming until 08-09 right around the time Wrath of the Lich King came out.
Console also forced you to upgrade to a new generation of hardware. I just bought a PC and I plan to not upgrade for at least a decade. With FSR & the ability to lower settings. PC is an elite value proposition.
It still bums me out to this day that the PC, the platform most capable (performance-wise and supporting the most types of controllers), never gets co-op-able first party games with a split-screen mode. How I wish that Halo on PC had actual split-screen support.
That, among other reasons is why the PC versions of many games are still inferior no matter how many fps you can run them at. How is it that Nintendo manages to put 4-player split-screen in Mario Kart 8 on the Switch, but most PC games still lack such a feature? Absolutely pathetic.
It is odd, but to be honest how many people have friends that come over to play games anymore on pc?
It would be a nice touch though.
I guess they just assume people will buy a laptop and sit around a table or something. Or as I use to do take my computer to another person's house. Granted now with how much power a computer needs and how little any room is required to supply... a small apartment might not be able to power 4 desktop computers at once without someone in the kitchen.
@@b4rs629 Lots of people play co-op/split screen. I don't know if sports games still let you play co-op but I used to play NHL with my friends/brother all the time. Co-op/zombie COD with friends, Mario Party/Kart etc.
@@davidaitken8503 you do know co op split screen is almost dead on console as well most co op games that allow for split screen are from indie devs that put there games first on the pc
Emulation is a massive reason to PC game which was not mentioned in this video. PC is not only the one stop shop to play PC exclusives and MS/Sony console exclusives (as long as that game isn't named Bloodborne in regards to Sony) but you can also play Nintendo exclusives at higher resolutions, frame rates, and even mods with Switch emulation. Sure Yuzu and Ryujinx my have been shut down, but emulation is like a hydra, it's a matter of time before others take the mantle of Switch emulation. Also speaking of Bloodborne PS4 emulation has been making big steps too for the games that have yet to be ported to PC from Sony.
And that's only referring to newer console emulation. There are tens of thousands of games that has been released on all the consoles over the generations that can all be experience with near perfect emulation. And emulators allow stuff like fan translations. For example Ace Attorney Investigations 2 my have been officially brought to the world outside of Japan for the first time. But with a DS emulator it was possible to experience that game fully in English years before it happened officially.
My eyes truly opened when I switched from console to PC. It's also funny seeing console exclusives slowly coming to PC anyways, and even if they don't, most of the time we can emulate them anyways (Bloodborne being the one I'm most excited for).
How did you make the shift though? With consoles I know what I am getting, but when I look at getting a PC ... wooo boy I don't even know WHERE to start or if "this" PC is better than "that" PC. I have looked at several cheap homebuild PCs that are all $100 apart from each other ... and I have no idea what sets them apart. Again, when I buy a PS5 I know what I am getting and what games it can play. With PC, that ease of access disappears.
...and Bloodborne runs like crap on PS4. The framerate would dip to 22 fps fairly often.
@@PikaLink91 it happened naturally since I grew up playing Halo and COD with the boys. Then once Halo kinda died after Bungie, we all sorta moved to a gaming laptops, and then I ended up building my own PC a few years later at a Microcenter near me. Microcenter is like a local computer store that helps you build PCs. The staff are helpful, but there's countless videos to help build a really powerful PC for cheap. I build my own high-end for less than $2,000 and it's been running for 5 years solid, no issues with any games. It's 100% a worthy investment because you don't have to buy a new console constantly, only upgrade parts here and there (if you want, you don't have to like me since mine is still great), and it's a PC, so you have literally everything at your disposal. PC gaming is also way better in general because a controller also limits you, but the best part is you can use a controller to play games anyways LOL, so it's not any different.
@@PikaLink91Just find a TH-camr like jayztwocents they'll have pc builds for different ranges.
start with a goal, 1080p 60fps high settings and focus on information surrounding that target.
don't worry about buying the latest gen either, it's a PC, you can buy a 10 year old card and run modern games at 1080p,
980ti for example.
I can only recommend PC gaming if you're genuinely interested in the tech since it's about having total control.
As you said consoles are just simple devices, you don't have much to tweak and you're forced into whatever settings the devs choose.
@@PikaLink91 There's so many tutorials online to make a PC and even some PC part sites even have a building walkthrough of compatible parts they sell and you can choose how powerful you want your PC to be. Even if your PC can run a new game on max settings 5 years from now, you can always a just the game's graphics settings or even just use preset graphic settings in a game. It's not that hard once you look into it
For me, modding will always be an important factor on how much I enjoy a game or forget about it after a while
Sony is losing a lot of my goodwill. I bought a PS5 controller in 2021. It was good for up to three years before it started showing stick drift. I even thrashed the analog stick a bit during that period. Then early 2024, I bought a brand new controller. It lasted 8 months before both sticks started showing stick drift. I know Sony is deliberately manufacturing poor quality products that break down early to force players to buy their expensive controllers more often. I have had enough of Sony's anti-consumer practices. I won't be buying any more PlayStation consoles after the PS5 ages out.
Damn your so lucky no stick drift within 3 years? all my 4 dualsense got stick drift on 3-6 months of use. Never got stick drift on my ps4 controller until now.
@@arjun220 First Apple, now Sony with their planned obsolescence. The only real solution is to vote with our wallets
I noticed at school when the Wii came out.
That most start to agree that you actually only needed a pc and a Nintendo to get access to the vast majority of games.
It was also the great era of Playthrough videos on TH-cam so that everyone could get on the fun.
there is also the fact that console emulation is available on pc. now you can play wii, ps2, gamecube, even ps3 and xbox 360 games on pc nowadays.
Can even get the Wii U and Switch emulated nowadays.
Don't forget the progress on the ps4 emulator that's already running a playable bloodborne
Ps5 emulation by 2026😅@@ge5510
@@espurrseyes42 Nintendo just killed the biggest Switch emulators.
And we are starting into XB1 but who cares with 14 exclusive games or whatever they can take their time with that one.
Great video! I remember building my gaming pc in 2016 and gaming in the early 90s on home computer. Had some consoles in between growing up.
PC won without even needing to compete. The consoles literally shot themselves in the foot.
Correction. X Box and Playstation shot themselves in the foot. Nintendo is doing just fine by doing their own thing. The Switch is absolutely dominating the console market by actually being a game console with its' own unique features and games.
You could have made a longer video including GFWL, esports, pubg and fortnite all played a part in growth from 2014 - 2018.
As a PC gamer I've never seen the so called fall you mentioned? :)
He's American, they mostly use consoles there, while in Eastern Europe and Asia it's mostly the opposite.
The fact that me and my friends are just starting ESO and actually loving it. Just shows how powerful the PC platform is
PC = freedom
Console = restricted machine
That Cap
Not quite. I can play a Switch game on the go. Even if you consider the Steam Deck, which lets be honest, is really a supplemental device to a proper PC, you're restricted by even single player games still insisting you be online just to play them.
@@davidaitken8503 oh silly bun you can play every single game release from nes to switch from nintendo on the pc or steam deck if you know where to look and set them up. thats why nintendo are trying to kill emulator left and right
PC = gaben
Console = no gaben
the math checks out guys.
@@davidaitken8503 not really fair to bring up online only single player games when cloud based switch games exist
I was an Xbox guy. But when the specs for the Xbox One dropped, I decided it was time to move to PC - Microsoft's priorities were plainly stated to **not** be about gaming on their gaming console. Turns out that's when the decline started. I really could not have picked a better time.
You are so wrong, mate. Not just games - many genres exist only on PC, like RTS. Many others have by far superior experience on PC, like shooters. And poorer half of the world went straight to PC gaming because they didn’t have money for consoles, but could get access to PCs because they had other uses beside gaming. And of course PC is a democratized platform which results in more innovation. Consoles losing relevance is just a natural result
Got a 3060ti & still able to play most not all games & I'm still happy
The biggest current issue with PC is awful ports full of shader compilation stutter and traversal stutter, but I’d take that over console releases running at low resolutions any day
He did say it wasn't perfect, and this is largely due to engines like Unreal being horrifically unoptimized for the very nature of PC development
Shader compilation stutter can be easily fixed by spending a few minutes pre compiling the shaders at start up before you play and games that don't do this have incompetent developers
@@cacomeat7385 Yeah, all the games I had issues with were made in UE4 or UE5.
This was written by someone who clearly started on consoles first, then migrated to PC environment.
People really be demanding new games while old masterpieces aren't being appreciated enough
I mean there are people out there that still want to play those old games but they have to do that through emulation anyway in order to actually play them if they couldn't afford a console or even bother getting one because PCS are much more versatile when it comes to emulation types for whatever console there is
We have over 40 years of games. Old games are still great
@@veilmontTV Amen. You just need to know how to look for them and learn to use software like dgVoodoo if necessary.
It’s honestly shocking how Baroque of all games had the biggest rep glow up of all time. Went from an obscure Sega Saturn/PS1 DRPG that only got localized on PS2/Wii, to a fan translation that gets mentioned in numerous lists and has a video essay edging closer to 1M views.
What a great video! Not only did I not find anything wrong with it, but I learned new details! A rare occurrence!
I'm getting into PC gaming myself TBH. I'm a little burned out on modern gaming consoles. The PS5 (disc version, of course) will be my last console I'll buy for a good long time. The only thing that kept me from fully jumping in though is the severe lack of options for physical media. It absolutely sucks ass that there's no way to 100% own games that you can have in a collection. There's a certain kind of magic to be able to look at a collection on your bookshelves and play them. That, and also no couch co-op multiplayer kinda sucks.
To fully own a PC title you need either to buy them on GOG (which sells games without DRM) or pirate them. and then you put it on a ROM disc or just on another HDD... Even if the "physical" aspect is only the HDD and bot a disc like consoles
@@jeanpeuplu521 This exactly this. Also a lot gets locked to a system even if you have the disc when it comes to things like DLC. GOG or piracy also answers this problem as well.
A lot of game data isn't even on the disks anymore. Some games don't ship with certain parts of the game and some are broken on launch but run fine because of a day 1 patch they release weeks before the release date. DLCs obviously aren't on the disk, but lets say if your hard drive flops 10 years from now and you install a new one on your PS5... Half of your games will be missing lots of content or broken
@@finkamain1621 I've heard you can put games on USB sticks and plug them in PCs, like you would a cartridge to a console. Would that be a possible option to look into?
@@harveyplissken4604 You can with any pirated old games really, but with consoles to USB to PC you usually have to jailbreak them to be able to copy them onto a USB. Xbox 360's XBLA games can actually be copied no problem and played on an emulator and the demos are actually the full game, so you have to go into the emulator's settings and tick an option to "unlock" the full game. Full retail disk games can be installed no problem as well but they don't play very well on emulator yet as the Xbox 360 scene just isn't there yet. If you have the DLC's too you can transfer them as well.
You can also just copy all your Xbox 360 games, profile, updates, and DLC to a USB/SSD for backups if your drive dies in the future
Very good video, subscribed. 😃👍
Thanks!
RePOP was pointless. It doesn't look much better than the PS3 version. And losing the original soundtrack licenses kind of ruined it anyway.
idk how getting games that were exclusive to 7th gen consoles 15 years later on PC is winning. PCs were trash in the 90s and PS2 era where consoles were superior for playing games. late 6th and into 7th gen PC hardware started to really take off and leave consoles in the past especially if you had the money to get some of the best hardware. It's still somewhat true a new console release makes it difficult for a equivalent spec PC to be built for the same money, but usually in a year especially with used parts its easily doable. PCs also can do much more than game, but I find that a weak argument if we're just talking about playing games, for many people a console is still going to be the better choice. I'm fortunate to have the latest consoles and a high end PC, I don't really care where I play, so long as the games are good.
Steam Deck won the console war for me.
yes in 1990 when id software figured out how to make smooth scrolling on IBM compatible and released commander keen