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.
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BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 3 days agoThat’s a level of lazy I can’t get behind, but I guess the market exists for a reason.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
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.
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.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
The last time I had to “fiddle” with drivers on Windows, I had this integrated GPU. Now check the release date on that. Everything I’ve owned since then, has simply required the drivers to be installed. Brand new AAA games often get game-specific optimizations, which is the main reason to keep them up to date. Otherwise you don’t need to update very often.
With nVidia on Linux I’ve had more issues, but that also depends on your distro and it’s not really as bad as people would have you think. AMD is less problematic and running a more mainstream distro helps too. I switched to CachyOS and now I have fewer issues than on TumbleWeed.