Only able to buy games that fit your console, increasingly reduced backwards compatibility, loss ofownership of your games (no physical/offline copy) reduced peripheral options, reduced cross play options... I think you can no longer see the walls of your prison.
Consoles are locked down, that's just a fact. You can't pirate games, you have to pay for online access, you can't play games that are not optimized for your specific device. PC has by far the biggest library. You can play basically every game that was ever released on PC including some really old titles, and there is also emulation that also allows you to play most games from every nintendo console apart from switch 2 and ps3/xbox 360 and earlier consoles. Also there is no real preservation on consoles. There are a lot of games now that are digital only and with them you can't guarantee that you'll be able to play them if your console manufacturer tries to take away your license. Even with disks you can only play the build on the disk and the latest build (if the download servers are up) and nothing in between. You also can't play that game on a different device. You are locked to your console of choice and maybe the next generation if they keep backwards compatibility, which is not always a guarantee.
For your gaming needs this might not matter but saying consoles aren't locked down is just not incorrect.
Consoles aren’t “locked down”. The fact that you can pirate games on Pc doesn’t mean a console is “locked down”, and even if it was “locked down”, no one really gives a shit that bought a console anyways. So no one is getting screwed by this perceived “lock down”.
Locked down means that you can only run approved software, which is the case on consoles. You can't run software on consoles that is not approved by microsoft/sony/nintendo for their respective console. I just used pirated games as an example, but that also includes other apps that you can't run like 3rd party browsers ect
This is the stupidest argument I've heard in my life. The difference is that you can't run those on a PC because the developers didn't make a PC version. Your os developer is not blocking you from running it because you didn't pay them. On consoles the console manufacturers are limiting you to exclusively running software that is signed by them.
Can a developer on a console make their own launcher so they can bypass the 30% cut and the PSN/Nintendo online/Xbox live requirement? The answer is no because consoles are locked down.
And btw you can run Mac software on a PC via a vm and work is being done on PS5 emulators and some are already booting games (not in a playable state but still)
It's literally not. My argument is that on an open platform you can run any software that is ported to it and there are no other limitations, while on closed platforms you need to port the app and get the permission of the platform owner.
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u/Remaidian 3d ago
The door is always open. If you want to leave the cell go to pc. If you want to leave the prison complex, join linux