Why am I not surprised. I mean who would buy this piece of shit console seriously?
Who would buy ANY console now that you can build a good PC for not a lot of money and there are barely any exclusives worth looking into?
Well the only console I would buy that won’t be on PC release, except for emulator that takes years to make, is Nintendo. Well I would consider getting the PS4 on price cut, since I grow up with the original PlayStation.
True, and also the PCs games graphics is far superior compere to the consoles.
PC of course, and also Nintendo’s portable system, and maybe the console version as well, you all will may not agree with me and that’s fine, it’s just my opinion.
People like my father who have no interest in owning or learning a PC and just wants to stick the game in and start playing out of the box?
That hasn’t been a thing since at least halfway into this generation. Console games are no longer plug and play. You have mandatory installs already and there’ll be more next gen, you have to update your console ever once in a while or you can’t play games, there are day one patches for many games that come out, etc. And with games apparently having 50GB installs next gen with 500GB standard HDDs you’re going to have to be doing memory management too.
But it’s a simple click to do. My dad doesn’t want to learn the intricacies of a PC; he just wants to push a button and go.
These new consoles should smooth out those processes tho. Patches will be downloaded in the background and can even happen when you’re not using the console. Game installs should also be less intrusive and ubiquitous.
Have you guys seen those fans who claim 720p looks better than 1080p? I can’t stop laughing.
The “intricacies of a PC” don’t really exist anymore…
It may be a few clicks short of console simplicity, but they’re pretty damn close. Excluding of course delving into the things found on PC that aren’t found as much or at all on consoles, such as betas, SDKs and piracy, the two platforms are pretty damn close in terms of ease of use. All that’s left is the stigma from PC’s early days and for some reason no one is really bothering to acknowledge that it’s not at all like that anymore.
The newest generation looks pretty painful, with its lackluster resolution, an even bigger gap than last gen, no backwards compatibility, subscription fees, price hikes, shady business practices and splitscreen already pretty much dead. If steamOS and steam controller deliver as promised (and yes, they might not), you can even have one machine that delivers both experiences. The one big thing consoles have left is their exclusives, most of which are stale series being driven into the ground by now. They are pathetic in comparison to PC’s practical (as opposed to consoles’ artificial) exclusives such as any moba or rts. And then there’s the explosion of the 15-30 dollar games market on PC (where I’ve found ALL of my favorite titles for 2013). Of course most of this probably won’t reach the consoles’ target audience, but I think we’ll see at least more shifting than we have in the past. This coming generation is a failure.
On top of all this, a personal computer, often even a strong one, is becoming integral to everyday life. And buying a console+home/entertainment/work PC is, for a lot of people, several hundred dollars more expensive than just buying a gaming/home/entertainment/work PC. Buying a gaming PC instead of a Mac and a console will often save you even more than the price of the console.
after a few attempts my sister now knows how to get games off bittorrent sites based on number of seeds. Then mount the ISO on a virtual DVD drive or extract with winRAR, apply crack or keygen. She’s just 10 years old (and has no special interest in computers)
I’m sure your dad can figure out how run autoplay.exe and hit next, next, next, finish before playing a game.
You say you live in Melbourne. Is English not your first language? [color=’#171717’]Not trying to be offensive here
Xbox one is not my first console choice, but I’m pretty fucking excited for Sunset Overdrive.
You don’t seem to get it. He not only doesn’t like to use computers, he has an aversion to them. I tried to teach him how to use Google and, after four hours, he still doesn’t understand what a webpage is.
He’s more suited for console gaming. In fact, he says that a lot of console games nowadays are becoming too involved. He just wants to hit “Start game” and start playing. “Burnout 3” is the most complicated game he wants to play.
Yes. 
Well yes it is my first language, and please excuse me, my vocabulary is not that good. 
None taking.
that’s what I like to call “one button tolerance syndrome”
Companies love this type of user the most, why? Because it’s the type to get scammed into something only because avoiding it was more than one click/button press away.
Want examples? Consoles, Mac OS X, logitech harmony remote(the more you pay, the more shit in your house it can automate!) also, how about every browser toolbar ever! I can go on…
Is your father a caveman or an inebriate of some kind? How does a person exist not wanting to know more. When they invented guns, did he try to argue that rocks were better?
There’s about 12,000 years in between throwing rocks and inventing guns.
Comparing rocks with spears would be a better comparison, and in that case it would be a fair argument. Rocks are easy to find and can be thrown with fair accuracy and can be “reloaded” fairly easy. While spears were fairly easy to carry and do cause bleeding wounds rather than blunt trauma, but once thrown, you were out of weaponry and had to resolve to throwing rocks anyway.
So yes, during crossover periods, the old way is often equal if not better than the new way.
And in this case, while the rest of the technology is evolving, Windows is just standing firm in the past where people are required to sit through 15 minutes of clicking to get something installed. OSX just needs you to drag and drop one file, consoles just require you to pop in a disk (and at the very most just to navigate the main menu to select the game).
15 seconds, maybe.
I don’t think I’ve ever had an install (other than the OS itself) take 15 minutes (or require 15 minutes of clicking ).
Sometimes it gets even hours to get something installed, especially drivers on laptops.
But if it’s so easy to pick up rocks and throw them when your spear fails you then ins’t it better to get a spear, giving you access to both system’s advantages?
Steam more or less eliminates the installation hassle on the games end. And a lot of console releases have been getting day one patches and from the looks of it that’s just going to increase. The newest generation is just taking the bad things from PC without grabbing the good things. Plus Window’s installation system is completely unjustifiably sloppy, but it’s not a significant difference. Given the latest OSX’s hideous shift towards touchscreen centered ui (less information available but simpler interaction, and it doesn’t even make sense like 8 because it doesn’t even run on touchscreen devices), I’ll take Windows 7 or modified Windows 8 (Windows 8 has the exact same problem, it’s just easier to mo it out) any day.