Did consoles die when they abandoned their weird architectures

In favor of just copying Pcs?

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That's kind of an interesting way to approach the situation, but I feel PS4 has one of the strongest libraries ever so I don't really know if they've 'lost' anything

Pretty much, console this days are just gimped consoles so its pointless to get them anymore since you can always get a PC for cheaper and better.

>Gimped consoles
Gimped PCs*

Consoles up until the Dreamcast were home arcade machines. They were meant to emulate arcade cabinets. I support you could say the OG Xbox was a home arcade too despite being made of PC parts.

Consoles after that point were proprietary, mass produced PCs. The point was to get hardware into as many people as possible, as cheap as possible. The fact that they had snowflake architecture was outright bad, it makes porting, multi platforming and retro compatibility a nightmare.

With Gen 8, all consoles switched to nearly 100% identical architecture to PCs. This is what makes porting easy and it's going to allow both Sony and Microsoft to make Gen 9 consoles retro compatible.

tl;dr consoles were not commited enough before, and now they are.

who was benefiting from consoles having weird architecture?

exclusive games

This is b8

And not play games that I want to play.

>those games are "cinematic walking simulators" and you have shit taste

There, argument over.

>Consoles up until the Dreamcast were home arcade machines
No, that's what Sega focused on. Nintendo consoles focused on original games

PC has better exclusives than nu-Playstation and can emulate Nintendo games. It's objectively the best option.

Nobody, but it was cool.

There aren't any worthwhile pc exclusives you can't just play on a toaster which literally everyone at least has if not better

Console (and traditional pc gaming) died when game development budget skyrocketed and forced publishers to make everything bastardized, focus tested blobs aimed at the lowest common denominator possible.

remember when consoles were computers?
the sg1000 and the famicom launched on the same day in 1983. like the colecovision, sega used off the shelf graphic and sound chips, nintendo made their own.. and the rest is history

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Before the advent of standardized discreet graphics cards and x86 architectures, it was the only way to have any performance improvements over anything else. There were few off the shelf parts meant for gaming. Nintendo’s 3D hardware was cutting edge compared to shit like the voodoo 3.

not true, they did nothing that a contemporary x86 cpu couldnt do
>BUT MUH CELL PROCESSOR
I can’t think of a single exclusive game that actually did anything that you didn’t see on competing hardware. The blu ray drive did a lot more to make the ps3 stand out than its weird bullshit cpu

>ati waz here
>3dfx is a loozer

I don’t think many anons were around for the Wild West of the gpu wars. The console games look like shit meme wasn’t even a thing until like 2006.

Unique computer architecture is a meme.

Its a cool idea if you live in some kind of idealized dream world, where every programmer and designer is some kind of tech wizard who loves to tinker with foreign hardware that can do new interesting things. That's not how reality works though. Most people are creatures of habit and creating a high barrier of entry vastly limits the amount of people available for work and thus also limits the video games being made.

The positives of standardized architecture vastly outweighs the negatives.

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Your picture suggests that you mean the design, not the architecture. But they actually abandoned their weird architectures, like Sony with their strange PS3 CPU, so I'm not sure what you even mean.

The picture doesnt suggest anything is a fucking placeholder, you cant create a thread without a picture, only without text, Im not going to post a fucking big black cock fag

Dedicated architectures can be more efficient and gaming focused, but yeah you're right.