In favor of just copying Pcs?
Did consoles die when they abandoned their weird architectures
Jeremiah Nguyen
Wyatt Jones
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
David Nguyen
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.
Joseph Harris
>Gimped consoles
Gimped PCs*
Wyatt Foster
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.
Colton Scott
who was benefiting from consoles having weird architecture?
Carter Adams
exclusive games
Brody Gonzalez
This is b8
Leo Jackson
And not play games that I want to play.
>those games are "cinematic walking simulators" and you have shit taste
There, argument over.
Jason Hall
>Consoles up until the Dreamcast were home arcade machines
No, that's what Sega focused on. Nintendo consoles focused on original games