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by musicale 13 days ago
> Nothing worth noting released on those consoles

Have you heard of Elden Ring?

Or is your complaint about cross-gen, timed exclusives, and PC releases? Or that there aren't enough new franchises beyond established series and remakes?

Personally I see all of the above as fine. For example Capcom has Resident Evil Requiem (series), Onimusha (remake), and Pragmata (new).
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weezing 13 days ago
All PC games. This generation of consoles was just worthless, no meaningful exclusives. The only thing that might save them is GTA VI.
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musicale 13 days ago
GTA6 is presumably a timed exclusive, so why ignore other timed console exclusives like... FFXVI, FF7 Remake, God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, Stellar Blade, Ghost of Tsushima, Death Stranding 2, Spider-Man 2, Rise of the Ronin, etc.?

And what about Astro Bot, Demon's Souls, Ghost of Yotei, Gran Turismo 7, Saros, Sons of Sparta, ...?

Or anything by Nintendo?

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pjmlp 12 days ago
Looks to back catalogue since ZX Spectrum, Amiga and all the other systems, available on PC.
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musicale 12 days ago
Pretty much this. Everything is a timed exclusive and eventually available on PC through emulation etc.

That being said, it's still nice to be able to easily run something like Demon's Souls, Fable 2/3, or the latest Mario/Zelda/Metroid/Pokémon/Fire Emblem/Animal Crossing/etc. without having to mess with emulation.

The games that really seem to have vanished into the sands of time are MMOs with no available private server. Though I still hope to be able to play DC Universe Online, Wildstar, etc. someday.

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pjmlp 12 days ago
Most of us don't suffer from FOMO for a few AAA titles.

There is hardly anything that would make me shell out for a console like I did with the PS2, and that was only because eventually I could get PS2 Linux, with official access to the hardware, minus a few tidbits.

PS3 OtherOS killed and without graphics acceleration.

XNA and UWP Developer mode, killed.

Games themselves, plenty of choice on PC stores.

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musicale 5 hours ago
Prices have gone up since then, but at the time this article claimed $7/fps for PS5 vs. $17/fps for Steam Machine (which attempts to provide a console-like experience):

https://www.steamfps.com/guides/steam-machine-vs-ps5

see also:

"$400 more, fewer FPS" https://shattered.io/steam-machine-vs-ps5/

But this also notes that 5-year TCO may be lower once you account for PS+ subscription fees and Steam sales/discounts.

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