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[-] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago

That's a good thing - as the consumer.

The less exclusives, the better. We don't need lock-ins, we need open platforms and open systems. If I want a plug&play gaming experience I can buy a console, if I want maximum performance and quality in a more maintenance and setup intensive package I can build my own PC.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

For real - it’s so nice nowadays being able to play nearly any hot new game I want to on my desktop. Never been a huge fan of consoles - keyboard+mouse was always far more natural for me, but then again I was big into C&C and SC when I was a kid. The only console I’ve really loved since the N64 is the switch, and that’s largely because I can bring it on a long flight and fuck around in ZELDA: BOTW or TOTK for hours on end, which is awesome (I tend to avoid putting games on my personal dev laptop, and it also only has an iGPU).

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh

Command & Conquer

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

One vision! One purpose! Peace through power!

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MKB is more natural because controllers are redesigned constantly to create a false sense of innovation. The fundamentals of controlling a figure on a screen have not changed, nor have hands.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here are the trends with previous consoles:

PS1 : 455 -> PS2 : 512 -> PS3 : 180 -> PS4 : 58 -> PS5 : 15

Xbox : 106 -> Xbox 360 : 214 -> Xbox One : 12

Nintendo 64 : 129 -> Nintendo Wii : 328 -> Nintendo Wii U : 38 -> Nintendo Switch : 174

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

And that’s why the newest console I own is a Switch, and everything else I play is on PC.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I’ve even moved all my Switch playing to PC hahaha

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That's super interesting. Do you have a source you could link for this data?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I just referenced the data in the wikipedia container article here for some select consoles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3ASingle-platform_video_games?wprov=sfla1

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They’re a gamer what other credentials do you need?

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The source notes that for Mac there have been 2 exclusive games across all versions, and for Windows, there have been about 2560 across all versions. There doesn't appear to be a listing for Linux unfortunately.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

So the Xbox one series (aka Xbox one 2) has zero dedicated games?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It depends on how the source categorized the information and how Microsoft classifies the Xbox One versus the Xbox One Series (whether as being two actual different consoles, or two versions of the same console.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3ASingle-platform_video_games

There is only one entry for anything related to Xbox One as far as I can see so I expect the 12 it notes are distributed across all versions of the Xbox One, or that there are 0 dedicated games for the Xbox One Series proper.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

where is the GameCube or xbox series?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I don't think Xbox Series has exclusives. All of their stuff is on PC afaik.

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There is no listing in the source for Xbox Series, however Gamecube shows 80 exclusive titles.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Jesus, only 4 games in that otherwise short short list ring a bell for me.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Its a good time to be a PC player. I mean, it was before. But it is now, too.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Shouldn't FF16 also be on this list? Given that FF7 Rebirth will almost definitely see a PC port, I don't think the ongoing development of an FF16 PC port should exclude it from the list.

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