LEGO Horizon Switch Aims at “Family Friendly Audience,” Xbox Excluded to “Push PS5 Hardware Limits”

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LEGO Horizon Switch Aims at “Family Friendly Audience,” Xbox Excluded to “Push PS5 Hardware Limits”

VariantAEC19d ago

@Shiore2u
Are you really going to try and gaslight me (a PC to console convert who still owns a 2017 gaming laptop – which in 2017 was high-end not to be confused with top-tier) into believing PC has the best User Experience? Is Windows 11 the epitome of best user experience for gaming today? Are you being genuine!? Of course not. No one would say that except a fanboy. PC has so many more issues mostly due to ******** HW fragmentation which is undeniable and yet still ignored by PC ****-hard fanboys.

Every disagree is a feather in my cap. For one PC as I explicitly suggested HAS THE POTENTIAL TO OFFER THE BEST HW. Are you all disagreeing with that? I guess so. Many PC GAMERS will try to build rigs at least as capable as the current generation of home consoles, but most won’t as we see from Steam HW Survey the second most popular GPU is the GTX 1650 which is weaker in rasterization performance next to the GTX 1070 in my laptop (not a Max-Q variant – my laptop is chunky and GPU performance much more closely matches unneutered desktop GPU by the same name while the Max-Q variant is noticeably slower). The RTX 3060 is still expensive close to $300 new, and even so it won’t run many new games very well especially at launch and at resolutions over 1440p while consuming more electricity to push beyond console quality settings. Add to that the fact that software pricing is the same at launch as on console (including pre-order pricing on Steam). The best benefits of PCs are theoretical, even if you have an unlimited budget.

The UX is much worse. Windows 10 and 11 are not gaming UIs. Start up is sometimes slower than booting a PS5/XSX console (even on the best PCs today), power consumption can be ridiculous (this is less of an issue on laptops; desktops may require up to 2.4 times the energy needs of PS5/XSX depending on PC configuration), K/M is not a great way to play every game and racing games and flying games (personal experience from 90s to present), and Windows is the walled garden which PC gamers exist inside of. While tiny slivers of OSx and Linux (encompassing all distros and GUIs) gamers exist, most are trapped on Windows. Then you also have the limitations of handheld PC gaming machines which like consoles are all mass produced and specifically made for playing videogames. Handheld PCs and laptops also come with the same or very similar restrictions as current-gen consoles as far as upgradablity is concerned.

That last point is why your disagrees don’t matter, though I mention them because it helps outline the hypocrisy and idiocy of PC fanboys. The fact is PC HW can be way worse, in the same league, or way better than console hardware. You have potato spec HW like Steam Deck & other handhelds as well as MiniITX and MicroATX formfactor desktops which PC gamers hype up despite their limitations and hefty price tags, all while dissing PS5 and Xbox Series X (and while Switch HW limitations are indefensible its still smaller, cheaper and more convenient than most if not all handheld PCs). This is apparent to anyone with any understanding of HW. PC is just a huge mess. PC gamers likely waste more time tweaking the few games they do play rather than actually enjoying them (I know I did). Console is just better on most fronts especially in terms of pricing even with the added cost of years of subscription services and buying new software at launch for each device will come up about even over a decade’s time.

You can lie to yourself and try lying to me, but your power company, bank account, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, basically all the benchmarks on the internet, almosg anyone with any sense as well as myself will just shove these facts back into view.

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