I don't understand high-end console gaming. The always-online requirement to play offline content that can be revoked at any point. The mediocre graphics. The unskippable/unmoddable games that you can't even resell after you've finished them.
I get having your mates around and you all share a screen or have four split-screens to have fun on, but these games don't really exist anymore in the push to have you play your friends online instead of there in person. I get that people have busy lives and can't always be there, so for a lot of use-cases online play makes sense... but when they are there, it'd be nice to have that couch gaming option via a console.
If it's just online play, then what seems rational to me is to just have a high-end PC and come to the realisation that gaming has left the living room and is now in the private confines of the study/bedroom.
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I don't understand high-end console gaming. The always-online requirement to play offline content that can be revoked at any point. The mediocre graphics. The unskippable/unmoddable games that you can't even resell after you've finished them.
I get having your mates around and you all share a screen or have four split-screens to have fun on, but these games don't really exist anymore in the push to have you play your friends online instead of there in person. I get that people have busy lives and can't always be there, so for a lot of use-cases online play makes sense... but when they are there, it'd be nice to have that couch gaming option via a console.
If it's just online play, then what seems rational to me is to just have a high-end PC and come to the realisation that gaming has left the living room and is now in the private confines of the study/bedroom.