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Honestly, that's the entire reason i lost interest in consoles after buying the PS4. If i need to:
1 Boot up the console.
2 Update the system (twice).
3 PSN account bullshit.
4 Insert disc.
5 Install the game.
6 Download 50GB update for the game.
7 Install said update.
8 Finally start the game.
9 Login and TOS bullshit.
10 Finally play game.
I might just as well use my PC for gaming at that point. The games library is larger and the exclusives are just not worth it. Especially after Sony started releasing those on PC as well.
They put a stop to that, and now it's more clear why: they want absolute control over the price of their games.
Which is a shame. I was going to buy Marvel's Wolverine and that God of War remake collection.
Now I will go back to not supporting Sony in anyway shape or form
PC gaming has more exclusives btw
Arggg too.
i've never had to spend hours finding the 'right driver' for my PS4 to run a game. or having to mod the game to get it to just play.
which is why i gave up on PC gaming, I'm old and I just want to play games, I don't wnat to spend 2-3 hours 'troubleshooting' every game on my PC and having to swap drivers because some games only run on some drivers.
Funny, I've never had to.do.those things on my PC.
that makes one of us
Two of us.
And we're on Linux even. It has its own share of issues. Generally, if a problem is game-specific, the fixes are stuff like "switch Proton versions" (there's a little dropdown in Steam or whatever launcher you use) or "toss some environment variable in the launch options". But those are really a thing of the past now, stuff just works.
And it never took installing drivers for a specific game (...huh?). Installing drivers is a thing you do once, if that, during initial setup, just like you'd do account creation for a console.
-- Frost
cool. I am not you. I have to do it basically every time i want to PC game, and always have.
even my nephews have to do it frequently and they just bought new gaming PCs that are a few months old.
Yeah you should probably stick with consoles then.
On PC I don't have to rebuy games because Sony doesn't believe in backwards compatibility.