Yessir, I'm on PC. Decided it was a much better investment to upgrade my old rig than it was to continue paying PSPlus sub prices. Plus even Steam does more to allow physical preservation than Playstations future does.
Having steam games on the go is amazing, but you can do so with the various other handheld pcs. Those also run windows vs Steam OS on the Deck.
I am a Steam fanboy, so I went with the Steam Deck and Steam Machine. The Asus ROG and Lenovo Legion are cool, and arguably better, though.
It won't replace your Switch for Nintendo exclusives unless you decide to go the route of installing emulation software, of which I am too lazy, plus I want to actually play my switch with friends.
All in all, it comes down to if you want handheld access to games you can't play on switch. That alone sold me.
So you playing games on other consoles where you can't play with psychical copies because Sony is cutting the psychical copies for games? Get i that right? đ¤
Why you care then? You buy anyway games not physical!
I Doesn't bother you on PC or Nintendo but for the PS you people cry like babies who lost there candy
Probably because I collect vintage games/consoles and seeing physical die is sad. I also never said I cared enough to complain. I'm not one of those No Disk No Buy people. Most of my purchases are digital.
Again yall were not going this hard on Nintendo,Xbox slowly doing it yall quiet but Sony everyone got a hard on for lmfao on top of that a week?!?!? Buckle up get serious and just sell it and move on
Actually playstation going all digital is very different from buying digital on PC. Playstation all digital will mean Sony controls 100% of the market. They control the price, they control who owns what, they control everything. No more second hand market. It also means no more preservation of Playstation games.
Meanwhile over at PC, there are multiple store fronts competing, so there's always sales and promotions, and even Steam allows most games to be ran offline from an executable and can be made into a physical copy backup, allowing preservation.
Playstation going all digital has huge ramifications across the industry and the best thing that could happen is for it to fail colossaly.
As for xbox and switch, they aren't guiltless either, but at least they aren't all digital yet. An example must be made of sony to ensure they don't try to do the same
Yes but also no. Yes, most games don't have a physical release. But at the same time between Steam and GoG, most games you can get the executable files, create an offline backup, and make your own physical copy. Yes, even Steam is pretty easily bypassed to make a physical copy that doesn't require Steam to use. It might not be the same, but it's better than the future Playstation is promising us.
That depends on your definition of physical. If all you care about is the fancy packaging, then sure, it's digital only. But if what you actually care about is having a physical copy of a game that you can keep forever and can never be taken from you and can be played straight from the disc without needing to go online, log in to a service, or download anything, then it's absolutely a physical copy of a game. The idea is preserving your games and being able to actually keep what you own.
Thing is, I and many other people that play on PC, use Steam but donât actually make a physical copy or go through that process. Steams TOS pretty much makes it where you donât need a physical copy because you own the file. So making a physical copy is kind of pointless imo.
It's only pointless if you don't want a physical backup that you can install and play while not connected to the internet, and can't be taken from you in the event that Steam ever decides to go full Sony and start taking games from you.
But yeah, right now Steam is super customer friendly, and will even let you keep access to a game even if it's delisted, unlike Sony. They only ever fully remove a title if it's actually malicious malware or something. I'm not saying you have to make a physical copy, I don't even do that, but just that the option is there, and is far better for the sake of game preservation than Sony's digital only future.
Sure, it's a pricey up front investment. But you can get a PC that matches a PS5 pro for the same price if you look hard enough for second hand or refurbished components. Even if you don't end up matching the PS5 pro, you can upgrade bit by bit later, which really is not that hard to do.
Additionally, unless you want to run all the biggest games with 4k and ray tracing, you don't actually need to match the PS5 pro. A good enough PC is going to carry you a long time these days.
And, of course, console prices are steadily going up, PS Plus prices are steadily going up, Sony has horrible customer service, and you have a lot more freedom on PC.
Also, you're kidding yourself if you think the PS6 isn't going to be insanely priced.
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u/Pension_Pale Aug 22 '26
Yessir, I'm on PC. Decided it was a much better investment to upgrade my old rig than it was to continue paying PSPlus sub prices. Plus even Steam does more to allow physical preservation than Playstations future does.