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The PS5 Has Now Sold Over 61 Million Units Outpacing The PS4 (press-start.com.au)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think you underestimate how many people don't want to deal with the overhead of a PC vs a console. Like for you and me, it's straight forward and simple to use a PC but I have friends who truly struggle with technology and its just easier for them to not have to deal with anything beyond their boxed in OS on their console.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh I know that there are a lot of people that don't want to get started on having to deal with picking parts, let alone putting them together themselves.

But a lot of stores also started selling pre-built gaming PCs recently, at least where I live. So it's become significantly easier to obtain a gaming PC these days.

Other than that I feel Xbox hasn't had as many exclusives as PlayStation lately (if we're not counting PC ports). So then a decision between either console seems like quite an easy one for many.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Its more than just the hardware, many don't want to put any time into the software either. I've tried to get one friend to use the gaming PC he already has and he just flat out refuses. He finds it "breaks too often and has too many issues" which idk I've never had that level of issues but I've also been using them my entire life lol.

[–] conciselyverbose 1 points 3 months ago

There's still a lot more effort just to start a game.

Steam Big Picture mode is pretty much fine, but on SteamOS (or Linux generally) that means compromising on multiplayer games, and on Windows you're still at the mercy of Windows update breaking the "boot to controller menu" experience.