You have to clean your consoles too, dust doesn’t discriminate
Also, upgrading your SSD isn’t mandatory, BUT you can do it if you want
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666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 4 days agoI built my current pc a couple years ago and have only had to open it for some minor upgrades (new ssd) and cleaning.
For many that is even too much, then add to that all the software issues, fiddling with settings, etc etc. Consoles are and will be for a long time the simpler and quicker way to play.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 days ago
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
That’s a level of lazy I can’t get behind, but I guess the market exists for a reason.
moakley@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s not laziness; it’s time. I’ve got three kids and a full time job. If I sit down to play a game and I’m spending that time fiddling with drivers or trying to figure out why the video isn’t displaying on my tv, then I don’t get to play a game.
I swear, PC snobs are worse than recipe writers about underestimating prep time.
Gwyntale@lemmy.world 3 days ago
“Fiddling with drivers” means pressing UPDATE on your graphics driver once every couple of months, even less frequently if you don’t play the newest AAA Games.
Getting the screen to display takes the same time as with a console: Once while setting up and usually amounts to “Plug in the chord”.
If you want to play on console you do you, but thid shouldn’t be your reason.
moakley@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Uh huh. And it takes fifteen minutes to caramelize onions.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Especially when the price of consoles are matching PCs. The price of being that lazy is too high, and that’s not even factoring the advantages of everything you get out of a PC.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Some of us have lives beyond work and gaming that requires our time and money.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Price of consoles went up with RAM and storage. It got more expensive on PC too. Brand new midrange prebuilt (5060ti, 9500f, 16 GB of RAM) is now 1500€ near me. PS5 Slim Digital is 549€ at the same store.