it made more sense when custom hardware for games could deliver more consistent results than what was possible from PCs. but that stopped being true in the 2010s so they just started buying the parts from the usual vendors. that’s also one of the reasons consoles got so much more expensive – they’re literally just PCs now and cost at least as much as.
I want one too but I play so few games that I think it’s just pursuit-of-shiny-toy. if it weren’t linux, I’d already have talked myself out of it. but more linux games means I might actually play something other than Disco Elysium for the Nth time.
Yeah I kind of want one as a shiny toy too. I was chatting with someone who plays Final Fantasy XI on it via a private server and I thought it was such a cool idea. But it’s honestly nothing I can’t already do on PC.
Yup it is lol. Wow might not work the same, but FFXI was originally on console and has console like controls. It’s actually easier to play it with a pad than m&k.
Yeah XI also had a neat system where the game would auto translate between Japanese and English since the servers were merged between JP and USA so you could use a soft keyboard and type in keywords like “combat” or “magic” and it would auto complete and translate, to make up for the lack of a keyboard a lot of ps2 users faced.
Hm, I didn’t know that about the PS4/5 that they are just like weaker PCs. I thought they still had weird programming like the PS3
it made more sense when custom hardware for games could deliver more consistent results than what was possible from PCs. but that stopped being true in the 2010s so they just started buying the parts from the usual vendors. that’s also one of the reasons consoles got so much more expensive – they’re literally just PCs now and cost at least as much as.
Yeah I’ve noticed that, that console are now PC price. Which is why I’d rather just stick with PC but the steam deck looks pretty cool.
I want one too but I play so few games that I think it’s just pursuit-of-shiny-toy. if it weren’t linux, I’d already have talked myself out of it. but more linux games means I might actually play something other than Disco Elysium for the Nth time.
Yeah I kind of want one as a shiny toy too. I was chatting with someone who plays Final Fantasy XI on it via a private server and I thought it was such a cool idea. But it’s honestly nothing I can’t already do on PC.
isn’t that an MMO? trying to imagine playing WoW on a steam deck and losing my mind lmao
Yup it is lol. Wow might not work the same, but FFXI was originally on console and has console like controls. It’s actually easier to play it with a pad than m&k.
ohh interesting. that makes more sense than WoW where even a keyboard doesn’t have enough buttons.
Yeah XI also had a neat system where the game would auto translate between Japanese and English since the servers were merged between JP and USA so you could use a soft keyboard and type in keywords like “combat” or “magic” and it would auto complete and translate, to make up for the lack of a keyboard a lot of ps2 users faced.