Comment on Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email

dangblingus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There will always be a market for consoles. If you buy a game, know for a fact that it works. If you have a PC, it can start to be obsolete, or your graphics card might not be supported, or your OS might not be patched, or…

  There will also always be a market for PCs, because you can do things cheaper, and/or better than consoles.

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  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While I don’t expect every single Xbox and PS owner to drop their preferred console in favor of PC, even though they should, those issues you listed as benefits of console over PC aren’t real. Consoles become obsolete just like PC hardware, your graphics card might not be supported is the same situation, your OS might not be patched is not an issue whatsoever. It’s just a shame that console owners think those things are issues.

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    • LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But… you’re wrong though. They are issues.

      PCs slowly drift out of support for games. Over the years, some, but not all, of AAA games just don’t work on your computer. Consoles have static generations where things either work or they don’t. This is the pro and the con of the PC.

      You simply do not have that problem with a PS4, it works for PS4 games. If you want a game that is only released for the PS5, then you buy a PS5.

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      • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        PCs over the years are home to new operating systems that kill off older standards that run games (dos support, 64 bit architecture, etc) but that happens once every 20 years. With console gaming, it happens once every 6 years. If I want to play Half-Life 2, I can. If I had a PS5 and wanted to play GTA San Andreas, I couldn’t.

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      • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have a PC where I could (and regularly) play almost every single game ever made, from Pong to Elden Rings. If I bought a PS5 today, I could only play games exclusively made for PS5 (not many, mind you), this also means a lot of PS1, through PS4, games that have never been ported are unplayable on a PS5. On my PC however, I can comfortably play almost every single game from every single generation of PlayStation up to PS4. I can also play every single AAA game ever released in history. Something that the PS5 cannot do, it only plays PS5 games.

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      • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve never had a game stop working, ports to PC occasionally break but I’ve never had one just quit being compatible. Hell I can boot up early 90’s games on my windows 10 machine right now right alongside early 2000’s, 2010’s, etc.

        To do the same on console you’d have to have like five or six different console gens and their discs just laying around all over the place.

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      • AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Completely ignoring that collectors preserve computer games the same way they do consoles, and just preserve a computer with the necessary requirements.

        And both those computers and those consoles are subject to deterioration which has been a large argument towards backing up games through emulation.

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    • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Heys guys, look! We’ve finally found him. The world’s most well-informed gamer!

      O’ great Gamer, hallowed be thy name… please bless us peasants with yet another nugget of your immaculate gaming wisdom!

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah man PC building is too much, I wanted to do it in my new place so I could run some emulators in my living room, thought I’d finally use Steam etc. but the prices to build are painful. I’ll take a console and go without retro gaming for a bit.

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    • Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I primarily play PS consoles. I prefer the controller. With today’s technology and cross-platform play, I can still keep playing the controller that I like with friends I have developed over the years.

      PC will be my way forward as I transition past this generation. I’ve been on Sony since the PS1 (I’m old). Plus, at least I can play the older PS1/2/3 titles on PC without a SUBSCRIPTION.

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• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d love if they bought Nintendo, it would make me buy Xbox and whatever service I could use on a PC and Xbox. Their psn.

  Nintendo suck. Their games get delayed, their consoles are mid. They literally only sell because of Mario and Zelda. That’s why they absolutely drip feed that content. The only reason we’re getting a new Mario Bros is because they’ll announce a new console next year and they can re release it. And charge full whack because they have a captive market.

  At least if Microsoft had Mario we’d get regular releases of new Mario games. That’s all I want Nintendo for.

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  • Jomega@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Their games get delayed because they actually finish them before release. They’re one of the last AAA publishers who still believe in quality control. This is a very bad take.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not a very bad take, Sony does the same thing, we have 2 fully sledged open world Horizon Games and 2 incredible God of War games released in the time it’s taken Nintendo to announce a Mario Bros platformer for their flagship device. Literally the most Nintendo game ever and they couldn’t get one that wasn’t a port on to the Switch

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      • Zangoose@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Odd examples to pick, Horizon Forbidden West and God of War Ragnarok were both delayed and the first original Mario platformer for the switch came out in 2017 (Odyssey - if you think 3d Mario games aren’t platformers you haven’t played them). Nintendo has also been releasing tons of other games as well so it’s not like they’ve been doing nothing.

        Also, to be fair, When you have a platform with 10 times the total sales (Wii U sold ~14m, the switch is at ~130m right now) it makes sense to port over the good games from the console no one owned. Mario Kart 8 deluxe, a game originally from the Wii U, has sold ~55m copies, which is about 4 times what the entire Wii U console sold. There’s a reason they kept doing it, and it’s because most of the Wii U titles were good games that people will enjoy which released on a dead platform.

        If you’re going to criticize Nintendo, criticize actually valid things like the scummy price increases on the ports (not just the ports’ existence), the poor online system that costs up to $50 per year per account, and a legal team who goes after anyone doing anything that isn’t directly playing the game. To be clear, a Microsoft buyout probably wouldn’t change any of those things because it’s making them money. Look no further than American companies like Disney largely using the same strategies Nintendo does. Microsoft is no different.

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