I don't know if you've heard, but 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the PS5 Pro is pretty expensive. I'm not here to write about that, because it feels as though 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:everyone in games journ൩alism already has. And they're right! It is. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation is committing to producing the best console possible, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:expense be hecked, while Xbox's strategy of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:making a cheaper model has backfired with many cross-platform games no longer willing to optimise their games for the Xbox Series S, meaning Xbox as a whole misses out on some gems, or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:faces long delays. The answer to this, many would tell you, is to embrace PC gaming. But I'm not quite there, and maybe I nev🐈er will be.
With the PS5 Pro costing $700, it's pretty close to the price you'd pay for a decent gaming PC - a PC that would also do other things, like stream movies and music in high quality, offer mass storage space, and probably also have a keyboard that sounds neat and has flashy RGB lights. You know, the stuff PC gamers like. PCs are also capable of a higher level of visuals. While 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Alan Wake 2 looked good on PS5, higher end PCs could pus💮h it even furtheඣr.
PC Gaming And Console Gaming Are Two Different Worlds
For many people, PC gaming is the only way to play. It offers the chance to tweak settings to the finest minutiae for every game, the mouse and keyboard controls offer more precise movement and control, headphones and other peripherals tend to be crisper and have more chance of being compatible, and PC gaming is also far easier to integrate with tools like Discord. No one needs to sell me on PC gaming - I get why people think it's good🍸. It's just not for me.
My complaints with PC gaming are childish, I fully admit that. Brain hurty from settings. Bum hurty from chair. Me like sofa. But that was always the deal! If you play PC, you get your own private Idaho. You need to pay a little more for the privilege, and will need to update it as of꧙ten as you care to be on the cutting edge, but you can build something tailored to you, in a personalised gaming space, and get to retreat into your little RGB cave with headphones on to fully immerse yourself.
Consoles have always been a more family affair. We all had them in our bedrooms as teens, sure, but as consoles have embraced being entertainment devices with Netflix installed, and as the gamer demographic has aged into adulthood, they have become downstairs items plugged🔥 int🌺o the main TV. You get to relax on your sofa, get out of the work environment that many associate their PCs with, and play video games with a controller. You can't change the settings that much, your aim isn't as precise, and some gadgets won't work properly, if at all, but the trade off is you never need to mess with it and it's cheaper. Now, that deal has been broken.
Consoles Are No Longer Cheaper, Or Even Much Easier
Many will point to Nintendo keeping up its end of the bargain, and I agree. The Switch is modestly priced, has a bunch of great games, and has♉ always lived up to the 'play handheld or play docked' philosophy of the console's design. With some excellent exclusives that arrive at a decent pace, it's a good console to own - the only major downsides are preowned games never really come down in price and poor online connectivity. I thoroughly recommend owning a Switch. But it's a different sort of console, and even the Switch 2 won't have the power to run the biggest games around, so it’s an ecosystem unto itself rather than a viable alternative.
Consoles can't claim to offer a cost-effective route into gaming anymore. The base PS5 is already fairly expensive in this environment of wage stagnation, before you get to the $70 games - games that, if bought on disc, you'll need to shell out for an additional drive to play on the Pro. It's a situation that's unlikely to change in the short-term either, with Sony making cuts and losses on its poorly thought out live-service strategy that seems to still be in motion, even if we can all see it careening slowl𓂃y into a car wreck. Not to mention its single-player games, like🗹 most other major studios in the industry, are growing increasingly expensive and taking longer to make. This is not a business model where you can pass on savings to the consumer.
Xbox tried that, with the subscription route and the lower entry cost through a cheaper, downgraded console, but as I already mentioned and go into more depth about at the link in the opening paragraph, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:that strategy has also failed. Now, it has emerged the lowest tier of Game Pass can no longer guarantee exclusives as launch, and possibly not at all. Sales figures, subscribers, and critical scores might all paint a picture of who won this generation, but so far, it feels like bot꧙h console giants have lost, and made console players the biggꦛest losers of all.
The PS5 Pro Is So Expensive Due To A "Lack Of Competition", Saysꦚ Analyst
With no real competition, Sony can chℱarge what it likes for the PS5 Pro.
