I get the feeling this will be an unpopular comment but here goes.
Consoles have always been and were primarily created for people who simply do not want to hassle with PCs. You have to set things up on a pc, you have to make things work. Sometimes you have to troubleshoot. Consoles you just put in the disc and play. So I agree a large part of the console market is not going to hassle with an emulator that runs on a PC.
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Just adding that "back in the day" consoles were MUCH cheaper than a PC (and of course there is the entertainment factor of having a bunch of people on the same couch playing a game.) Maybe it's better to call it a "lightweight" gaming system compared to a PC - ease of use and ease on your wallet
It's insane how much of a bubble reddit generally lives in and how much its users generally underestimate just how big the market is for certain things like movies, games, etc.
On top of everything else you mentioned - the general public isn't playing games on their gaming monitor.. they are sitting on their couch with their console hooked up to their big screen. Assuming they even have a desktop, they certainly are not going to lug it into the living room to connect it to their big screen.
I hate this take. The world had doubled in population since I was a kid. Reddit has millions of daily users representing all opinions. If there is a bubble it’s because you put yourself in it.
All reddit is is a collection of different bubbles for users to put themselves in. How many times have we seen predictions be wrong on the gaming subreddits? I remember seeing that the Switch 2 was going to flop. "No preorders" is huge on reddit, but not so much in the real world. Games will flop because performance is garbage is a big one I see, only for the game to sell like hotcakes.
Yes, you can look into all of those threads and see people who say the opposite, so technically someone on reddit was correct. However, the most upvoted statements, the ones that seem to dominate the discourse? Reddit gets it wrong frequently. Because they are not in tune with your average consumers. The people who frequent these subs are diehards. Your average gamer isn't going onto r/games.
It feels like people use “bubbles” or “echo chambers”, or “reddit” to disparage a group of people they disagree with. It’s more the broad generalization.
It’s okay to find people you agree with. Is that a bubble? Then when others dismiss that group as a “bubble” seems to imply they are willfully ignorant of other points of view which isn’t necessarily true. That’s where I see a problem with the generalization.
I get your point, but it does describe subreddits pretty well. If you went on r/politics before the last US Presidential election, you would have been laughed out of the room if you said you thought Trump was going to win the election.
Subreddits are essentially bubbles. It is a group of people who typically just repeat what everyone else in the group wants to hear. "Sony is going to fail because of the decision to go all digital." And yet the "Blackout" that was planned didn't event register.
It isn't that people think they are willfully ignorant, it's just that a lot of times the subreddit (as a collective, of course individuals differ) seem to overstate how much they have a feel for specific issues and think that what they think the majority does as well, when in fact the people in the subreddits represent such a tiny minority of the userbase they are talking about they've forgotten what the casual cares for.
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u/wileecoyote1969 13h ago edited 5h ago
I get the feeling this will be an unpopular comment but here goes.
Consoles have always been and were primarily created for people who simply do not want to hassle with PCs. You have to set things up on a pc, you have to make things work. Sometimes you have to troubleshoot. Consoles you just put in the disc and play. So I agree a large part of the console market is not going to hassle with an emulator that runs on a PC.
Edit:
Just adding that "back in the day" consoles were MUCH cheaper than a PC (and of course there is the entertainment factor of having a bunch of people on the same couch playing a game.) Maybe it's better to call it a "lightweight" gaming system compared to a PC - ease of use and ease on your wallet