2y ago

No matter how many times they've declared PC gaming dead over the last 30 years, it's kept on kicking

www.pcgamer.com

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Gaming journalism is dead tho. This is a good example.
I feel like the only "they" that's ever said this was people making and selling consoles. It’s propaganda and articles like this do more to propagate it than combat it. Stop it.
- If I recall correctly, Tim Sweeny said you needed a +900$ for a PC to equal the power of a 500$ PS5. Which wasn't true even when he said it... and it was time when the ps5 just launched and covid-19 era chip shortage hit the gpu market the most (the ps5 is a SoC with unified ram and underpowered CPU, you could buy the usual second hand Optiplex for ~50$ and spend the remaining 450$ for a GPU/PSU that surclassed PS5)
It's just click bait, nothing more.
Consoles are pcs
- Nowadays they are but that wasn't always the case.
- You wish XD a PC let you do what you want.
  
  /1. PC is short for personal computer, if it has a motherboard and can be used outside of a commercial setting then it’s a PC
  /2. Whether you are using a closed source OS like Windows/Xbox/Mac/PlayStation/Switch on your device or an open source one like Linux it doesn’t change the device
  So if your argument is that a console is a console because the user hasn’t installed Linux yet then why use the term PC instead of calling it a Linux device?
Some games are just better on PC. I can’t imagine playing Cities Skyline 2 on a console.
Or people are just comfortable with what they have and don't always want the latest, greatest thing that usually costs hundreds of even thousands of dollars these days. I'm perfectly comfortable just playing minecraft on my PC once in a while on my own on a ten year old system that I bought and built myself for about $500 and pay for a $20 game title.
I really don't care if someone tells me or shows me their $5,000 rig (that they'll upgrade in a year) that is streaming the latest multiplayer game they spend hundreds of dollars on every year to level up and hopefully become a world reknowned gamer online.

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