Another thing to keep in mind is that if the “streaming future” really is the future and soon to be upon us there will not be a point in purchasing anything beyond a good screen/TV.
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True. But I do think that future is quite far away still. I tried Stadia and it was via Edge browser on Xbox and it was good but not without noticeable input lag and some artifacts. The few times I tried Xcloud on Xbox itself…it wasn’t great.
I think this is still quite far away.
I already own a PS5/XSX so my approach is to wait til mid gen refresh would hit (or if they don’t, in that time frame) and go PC then. Hopefully by that time Sony will be down with the day 1 release.
Launch consoles should hold me over a couple more cars generations, at which pint you’ll probably be running console games at 4k/60+ with RT at a minimum.
yeah it’s not really happening this decade. It’ll continue to be supplementary to local gaming and won’t really give a replacement experience unless you have an absolute dogwater laptop from the mid 2000s with celeron CPU and integrated intel graphics of 512MB in which case yeah even a modern mobile phone is a step up from it. It’s also nowhere to be seen in a lot of countries still and good internet is still not as ubiquitous and game streaming requires data caps that can get swallowed up like water.
PC gaming as a replacement for a Series X or PS5 is a real luxury choice… A lot of extra money for not a lot of benefit. I mean if you have the cash go for it, but it’s not at all like the old days where you had totally ground breaking stuff that was miles beyond what consoles could do regularly releasing as PC exclusives. Now you get the same games as console, plus the joy of moving a few effect sliders to the right or whatever. If that’s worth thousands to you, fine, but I can’t really recommend it.
On the other hand, PC gaming for PC gaming’s sake continues to be well worth it. All sorts of stuff like strategy games, CRPGs, sims, classic games, and thousands of indies that just play better or are only available on PC. But you don’t need to outdo a Series X to play those, just get a decent monitor/desk setup for your laptop.
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These streaming services have still got to run off hardware so PC setups will still be around even if consoles get abandoned. It won’t fully replace console hardware for at least 20 years, there’s too much money to be lost on the countries with poor internet.
Regarding older games I occasionally play some of my old classics on my gaming laptop and did so on my PC, they look great and better than they are on XSX for sure.
What I did regarding a sofa setup, I also used my PC as a home media center so it would automatically boot up Kodi, and then with a single button it would load steam’s big picture mode which works great with a controller, and you can add all your non-steam games to it as well easily so I never needed to use a mouse.