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Topic: Consoles as We Know Them are Gone (Read 9859 times)
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Jain Zar
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I thought ET for the Atari 2600 nuked this whole video gaming fad... we all just haven't noticed yet.
It did. But easy to use computers picked up the ball till Nintendo got things running again.
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Salamok
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Controllers were cheaper, and it turns out, people put up with them. God knows why I would want one on a PC when I have the vastly superior mouse available.
hard to use a mouse while chilling on a bean bag, plus I haven't seen any player 1, player 2 mouse solutions. Who the fuck uses their PC on a beanbag? You are confusing cause and effect. Few people use controllers (despite their availability) because their PC is not in the living room. Though the "problem" would of course be trivial to solve if PCs ever became living room equipment. For that matter there are plenty of controllers on the market already, all of which use generic drivers. But who the hell would choose to use one when their PC is already on a desk and isn't going anywhere for reasons wholly unrelated to gaming input devices. Are you deliberately being obtuse or is there some more permanent mental condition that you suffer from? I was pointing out that people do play consoles socially while chilling in their living room and one of the main reasons this doesn't happen with PC games is the choice of input options. The mouse is a great device for precision pointing but I personally believe getting caught up in pixel level precision aiming to be an immersion killing endeavor. I'll take twitch over that any day of the week. edit: I think few people use controllers because there are no fucking standards and as such the devs don't design games around them. If M$ or Intel or even the top 5 MB manufacturers got together and agreed that X was the way ALL controllers are going to be designed and work, then started including them with every PC sold, well then we would have a decent alternative to the console.
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« Last Edit: March 24, 2008, 06:57:06 PM by Salamok »
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UnSub
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I thought ET for the Atari 2600 nuked this whole video gaming fad... we all just haven't noticed yet.
It did. But easy to use computers picked up the ball till Nintendo got things running again. Which computers were those, exactly? Thinking about my early computer experiences, I used them just like a console -> Ready, Run, Press Play on Tape. Anything more complex than that and I didn't do it.
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Roac
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Consoles are very good for playing games. PCs are good for doing everything, and as a by product not as good at specific things. PCs will not be dead until consoles are also good at doing everything - and these shitty web interfaces on the current batch of consoles isn't even close. Consoles won't be dead until PCs can provide the ease of use, living-room convenience, and stable platform for gaming. In the somewhat near term (10y) consoles might eat into enough basic PC functionality (email, basic web) to dent the PC market. Microsoft might not fuck up DirectX enough so as to provide a reasonably stable platform for gaming, with just enough easy to use media stuff to make it playable in the living room and eat the fringe of the console market. Both will still exist, and be doing just fine.
Why? Because I still wear a watch. Er, what?
In the room I'm in, there are ... six separate devices to tell time, not including my watch. The adjacent room, which I can see into, has... five more (I've never counted them before... that's kinda bizarre. Just once can I get a stove that reads air pressure or something?). None of them are as convenient as my watch. It does what it I need it to do very, very well. Consoles are like that.
Anyway, one more asshole declaring the death of PCs or Consoles.
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"Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us." -SC
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Fabricated
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~Living the Dream~
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someone explain to me why I should care about someone announcing another web-delivery pay-to-play/subscription thing again
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." - George Bernard Shaw
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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What? No kudos for the Solid Grammar Snake? Bah.
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