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pirate2377, do games w World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles

I’m actually surprised that the PS5 is right behind Xbox 360 and PS3

xeekei,

It’s actually a good option now when PC gaming is suffering of price crisis after price crisis.

sukhmel,

Not sure this pricing crisis will not have an impact on consoles, too

xeekei,

Consoles can and sometimes are subsidised, while PCs cannot.

BigBananaDealer,

i think series x is a better option because theres an easy way to emulate anything you want on it

Tikiporch,

They should put that on the box.

novibe, do games w How Are You Guys Handling This?

Mac is great for emulators, so you have that.

Also mac native games, like ones you can buy on the App Store (cyberpunk etc.) run great on most M chip macs.

Also, Crossover might be a solution for some games. It works for most games fine, some work great, and some don’t work at all.

There’s also other cloud gaming services, where you can emulate a whole computer and just download steam games. Most are cheaper than gamepass 🤷‍♂️

thermal_shock, do games w How Are You Guys Handling This?

You don’t NEED new stuff to play games. My computer is pushing 8 years old, I just upgrade the nvme or graphics card when needed. I got a refurb 3070 last year for $450 with warranty, can get one on Amazon now for under $300 without warranty. You don’t need 64gb to play games, 16 is plenty and you can get motherboards that use ddr4 fairly cheap.

Look around, second hand market is fine, just very the parts. This 3070 will last me a few years minimum.

pyrinix, do games w How Are You Guys Handling This?

I don't know what I can tell you.

I'm one of those patient gamers, where I'm just happy I finally have a machine that can play about 89% of the games I have to throw at it. Moreso happier that it can confidently run PS2 emulation, something I've been chasing for years to have a machine that can do, to own anyways.

I think you just need to sit down and contemplate to yourself what you want out of a machine. It's not a good healthy mindset to be fretting about upgrading all of the time. I mean, you made a huge leap already going from 15 years to what you have now.

Also consider that, there will still be games released that look graphically demanding and everything, but will require maybe a 1060 GPU, just as an example. Probably 8GB of RAM. It's only the AAA stuff that wants everything to be tip-top shape. Don't chase those.

AnchoriteMagus,

This is honestly the healthiest take, there are just a lot of games currently out that I want to play but have no way to.

Space Marine 2, KCD2, Stalker 2, etc etc etc

It’s just been a good year to be a single player gamer, and I wanna get in on it. 🤷‍♂️

tal,

The good news is that single-player games tend to age well. Down the line, the bugs are as fixed as they’re gonna be. Any expansions are done. Prices may be lower. Mods may have been created. Wikis may have been created. You have a pretty good picture of what the game looks like in its entirety. While there are rare cases that games are no longer available some reason or break on newer OSes with no way to make them run, that’s rare.

With (non-local) multiplayer games, one has a lot less flexibility, since once the crowd has moved on, it’s moved on.

mohab,

I played +400 hours last year and most demanding game in my library has a GTX 1050 minimum requirement. There’s much more to gaming than yearly AAA releases.

magic_smoke, do games w World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles

I’m actually shocked how low 360/ps3 are.

I felt like everyone I know has at least owned one, and they where more consoles where actually used as Netflix boxes back then out of necessity due to lack of good smart TVs or set top boxes.

Plus they had an extra 5 years of being around, not to count the fact most early adopters bought another twice, especially with the 360 due to RROD.

PineRune,

I think the big difference is the older generation of gaming didn’t have to compete with every kid having a tablet they could just play games on.

SkunkWorkz,

I think the Wii stole the momentum. PS3 and 360 were just crazy expensive compared to the Wii and the prev gen of consoles. And unlike PS2 those two consoles lacked a lot of games for kids. So for parents it was an easy decision to just get a Wii. Not to mention if you already had a PS2 you had a large library of games at your disposal and the machine was modable, it’s why it still sold very well in the end of the console’s lifetime especially in middle income regions, like it sold super well in South America. So many PS2 owners weren’t going to convert to PS3, just way too expensive and can’t play pirated games.

magic_smoke,

I think that last part hits it hardest. Especially when you consider most of the 360’s sales where US.

BigBananaDealer,

they were still making soccer games for the ps2 until like 2014

Bluefruit, do games w How Are You Guys Handling This?

Older and or used hardware is gonna be a place to start for CPU and GPU. Used dell optiplex can get you most of the way there, then buy a decent GPU when you can. Just make sure it fits in the case and the PSU that comes with the optiplex can handle the power draw. I’d recommend a new PSU though. Dont buy used for PSU or storage is the best advice I can give.

Optiplex are not gonna get you top of the line performance or anything but it’ll be a lot better than nothing and you can always use it for something else later like a nas, a server, home theater PC, etc.

Psythik, do games w How Are You Guys Handling This?

Wasn’t Game Pass like $6/mo on PC not too long ago? Who’s paying $20 for this crap? The game selection isn’t even that good.

y0kai, do games w Arc raiders is a horrible game
@y0kai@anarchist.nexus avatar

I haven’t had an issue with this at all. I’d say over 50% of the time, if I communicate with other players that I don’t intend to kill them, we end up working together.

artyom,

50% is way too low

Lysergid, (edited ) do games w Arc raiders is a horrible game
  1. This indeed sucks if you came just for loot but it leads to different experiences, once you realize there is no loot you can PvP, PvE or simply exfil and try again, that’s the beauty of extraction shooters
  2. Agree, they need to fix pops spawn
  3. Kinda agree, can’t say exfil camping is a big issue. The only badly designed exit is metro in the city
  4. Seeds is something you get for each round from Scrappy regardless of win/loose so that you can buy basic crafting materials from Celest regardless of how good/lucky you are
  5. Movement is not perfect but better than in any other extraction shooters I played. Stones are always problem, only Battlefield have them better. But overall it’s ok.
  6. No it’s not. I had few disconnects and was able to rejoin the match with 0 loss

Lights or rather lack of them is bigger issue for me. Rats sitting in dark corners with shotguns is almost always death sentence. I understand the realism but I can’t see shit in buildings. That’s why I stopped playing Buried City.

I wish it was 1st person shooter.

I think devs realized that they can’t pull off a good story with PvE so they added PvP. Someone didn’t get what they expected, others (like me) got what they wanted.

artyom,

Lights or rather lack of them is bigger issue for me. Rats sitting in dark corners with shotguns is almost always death sentence.

I solved this problem by getting an OLED monitor 😂

defuse959, do games w World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles

Microsoft really shit the bed. And then continued to do so. This makes me happy.

Rumo161, do games w How Are You Guys Handling This?

Switching to Bazzite (a Linux Distro, made for gaming). No Ragrets so far

jacksilver,

I don’t think bazzite runs on ARM macs.

tal,

It looks like it doesn’t support ARM architecture systems at all, or anything other than x86_64.

docs.bazzite.gg/…/Hardware_compatibility_for_gami…

Minimum System Requirements

  • Architecture: x86_64
jacksilver,

Yeah, I figured that hadn’t changed, but was too lazy to actually look up the source, thanks for adding it.

However, with box64 you can emulate x86_64 on arm, however I think macs don’t have the gpu integration. Crazy thing is on some phones with snapdragon chips you can emulate games up to cyberpunk 2077 decently well.

box86.org

xeekei, do games w World's Video Game Companies

Honestly thought Ubisoft was the biggest European games company, but it ain’t even close.

DioramaOfShit, do games w World's Video Game Companies

EA should have e a Saudi flag not usa

missingno, do games w Arc raiders is a horrible game
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It sounds like you're upset that a game that clearly put a lot of focus on PvP in its design, has PvP in it. I'm not sure it's fair to blame the game because you expected something else.

TORFdot0, do games w How Are You Guys Handling This?

Play old games, I guess? Arc Raiders is one of the only new games I’ve played in a long time. Recently got an Xbox one to play the golden age cod games.

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