• mercury
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      1 year ago

      Consoles are nice for TV setups, unless you use steamOS, which is also nice for TV setups…

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          1 year ago

          I had never heard of this before. This seems really cool!

      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        It’s nice, but it’s not perfect. My gaming pc currently uses big picture but I still have recurrent issues at times. Like the inability to fully disable the guide button for certain “games” when that would be a super useful extra button for emulators like retroarch.

        Couch gaming is just not that great on PC sadly. I’ll deal with it because it’s the only way I get close to exactly what I want, especially with the emulators. But it sure as hell doesn’t replace an actual console experience that I find myself using way more than my PC that I have probably spent more on over the years than my PS5 cost, which is also more powerful since my pc setup is pretty old (still on a 1050Ti).

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        1 year ago

        I’ve got a PC plugged straight into my living room TV. There are solutions to consoles becoming unnecessarily locked down.

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        1 year ago

        Just need to download new firmware for a few hours. Load the game you wanna play, then download that update. And then download the new season.

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          1 year ago

          That isn’t unique to consoles. I have plenty of games on PC that tell me I need to install some third-party launcher and then update the game when I try to open it.

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          1 year ago

          Lol, you never have to update drivers? Updating console firmware is rare, easy, and doesn’t take a few hours.

          Season downloads apply to PC as well. They get auto updated anyways so it isn’t a factor for either case.

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          1 year ago

          Sure, but that all happens automatically, and will simply work when it’s done. It won’t come up with some bs conflicting error with some other program I don’t even know about on my computer.