But all that requires effort. For many people, if there is an obstacle that takes away even just several minutes prior to actually playing the game, an important time window might be missed and the opportunity gone.
Also, sitting down in a dedicated space that more often than not features associations of work, an office etc. to play a game has a completely different vibe to it. You pretty much are required to switch your head space to “gaming”, it becomes a thing, something serious, non-casual. Depending on your living arrangements, you’re isolated from your family sitting in the living room while you’re in the “office space”, playing. You’re not lounging on a couch since that isn’t all that compatible with the input style of most games (ever found a relaxing pose operating a keyboard and mouse? For the love of god, teach me). I know PCs handle controllers just fine, but IMHO, not many games are optimized for controller usage on PC.
All that doesn’t really lend itself to a lifestyle where gaming, while still being enjoyed, simply doesn’t have the same goals or can even attain the same priority in life.
Let me shave off 25 minutes of my day to just relax on the couch dude, life is hard enough.
Vub@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Because we want to enjoy gaming in the couch and have no crappy hardware mess, driver and update hell. Just a box that works and can be played from cozy cushions while talking to friends next to us instead of sweat, back pain and eye strain at a desk.
If you like pc gaming that is great but it’s weird that you can’t see there are different types of gamers.
aluminium@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ironically when I was at a friend who owned an Xbox One, he had to update his crap system way more often.
Vub@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh yes I have an Xbox as well and the GAME updates are annoying as hell but the system OS itself only gets one small update maybe once a month at most. I think the convenience of a console with one box, a power cable and a hdmi cable and with the click of one button to have it up-to-date and a fixed ca 7 year lifetime with one system compared to a pc that you have to build yourself, check compatibility, install the OS, install and update graphics and other drivers with a floating generation meaning having to buy new hardware to match new games - it’s just a different thing.
Some love the building and updating part of a pc though, that’s great for them.