I totally agree and it’s a pleasure to read someone who’s able to talk about the advantages of each side.
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LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 day agoNo PC that isn’t a lower powered handheld can pick up and play like a console. Consoles are also, at least for a few years, the far more economical decision. It’s maybe changed now but I’d challenge anyone here to match a digital PS4 for $400 USD with a PC. It’s a tall order.
I am now a strictly PC gamer. It’s better for most things. But consoles still make sense to a lot of people.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Ah I think I misinterpreted the thrust of your comment
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Maybe it’s because I don’t use it enough but the last Sony console I bought was the absolute opposite of “no fuss”. It was nothing but mandatory unskippable updates and I constantly got signed out and had to sign in and the 2fa app kept changing names. And also all those updates and sign-ins had mandatory EULAS you had to scroll through. Such a hassle.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
I mean if you read through EULA’s respect but they take seconds to get past. As for updates, I’m guessing you turned off auto updates and/or power your console down completely whenever you’re not playing it. Otherwise it should just be updating in the background and you never have to wait.
I’m not saying those aren’t viable decisions with their own pros, but the stuff you were encountering was completely avoidable. I never triggered 2FA on either my Xbox (one -> XSS) or PS4.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
For the updates: I put it to sleep. However my power cuts out every now and then. When the power comes back, the ps4 turns itself back on on and makes obnoxious beeping noises, just to tell me the power was cut. The dumb thing is it will stay on that screen until manually dismissed and won’t auto-update until you dismiss that screen, with no timeout. The hassle-free appliance experience!
For your claim that the eulas being easy to skip, keep in mind that sometimes there were back-to-back updates that each required me to agree to a eula. So I would babysit the thing, walk away when it was taking forever, and when I came back it wouldn’t even be ready for gaming. Even windows isn’t that obnoxious.
Also my tv at the time had no way to disable CEC (my new one does, and also doesn’t crash lol).
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
I mean dude that’s just a larger problem. If you were PC gaming that would be an even bigger issue.
Get a surge protector with battery - APC is a very affordable brand.
Walican132@lemmy.today 18 hours ago
As an aside. I fucking hate smart TV shit. We were gifted a like Samsung 80 inch 4K tv and I was so excited to get that as a gift. I’d never had a tv bigger than 35. But all the smart shit makes it such a miserable experience.
I’ve also decided I hate HDR. Who made the decision that the TV has its own HDR settings, the console has HDR settings, and then individual games have settings as well. I have no clue if my shit is looking the way it’s supposed to. I recently got a PS portal and on god everything looks better on it than the TV, I think because it’s preconfigured.
I miss just plugging in the game and it looking fine.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Yea, hdr is very standardized.