Hello boys and girls, time for yet another Truth Bomb delivered straight to your door by none other than your favourite host - me. If I am not your favourite host, you need to re-evaluate your priorities in life. Moving on!
Truth Bomb #3: All your consoles are just cheap substitutes of a gaming PC. You might not like it, but it's true. If your console does something you find amazing, if there's a feature that gives you a boner of steel, PC did it first and chances are that it did that thing ten times better.
Argue as much as you'd like, the truth of the matter is that consoles entered the market for one reason and one reason only - to become a cheaper and simpler alternative to expensive full-scale computers - this was true in the 70'ies and it remains true today. Sure, the line between PC's and consoles is getting thinner and fainter with each new generation, but that's completely inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.
Consoles lure you into a false conviction that your gaming experience is unique and superior to anything found elsewhere - wrong. It's not
"different", it's just
streamlined in one way or another. There's differences between consoles, sure, but the one fact that remains unshaken is that a good PC does everything all your consoles do
and more. A PC will do anything you equip it to do, a console is restricted to its function set with little to no possibilities of expansion and most certainly no possibility of going the extra mile beyond what the designers wished for the system to do
(without the use of homebrew, which is frowned upon by the designers to begin with, so I don't treat it as an argument here).
There's also the problem of console-exclusive titles. Ah, yes - what better way to convince players that your video game
system is better than another one than by releasing
a game that's only available on yours?
Except it isn't good at all. Here I often use the toilet roll analogy - if you take an ordinary roll of toilet paper and write a poem on it, does the quality of the paper increase in any way? Does it turn into a roll of high-quality parchment? Will it at least wipe your behind any better than before? No. No, it will not. It's the same piece of bog roll you had before, the paper itself hasn't changed at all. It might be a great poem - the greatest poem ever written, but it doesn't make the
paper any better. Said fantastic poem could've been written on any other piece of paper sizable enough to contain it and it would not degrade in quality at all. Your piece of bog roll doesn't make the poem good, the poem is good by its own merits. By extension, the good poem doesn't make the toilet paper any better or worse - the paper is either good at its job
(wiping your ass) or it isn't. In the case of the latter, all you end up with is a sore asshole and crap smeared over your hand. Console exclusivity is a tricky way of attaching completely artificial value to a system when in fact the system should stand on its own two feet just fine.
To summarize, a video game console is a cheap substitute of a PC for the technologically-impaired - that's it, that's all they have ever been. Cry all you want - deep down you know this to be true. They have their charm, they have their quirks, they have their fancy names we can attach sentimental value to, but at the end of the day, they're just pieces of plastic electronics that are supposed to perform their duties and frankly, a PC performs all those tasks admirably to say the least and can be fitted to do whatever
you want it to do without any artificial boundries whatsoever. Check mate, console peasants.
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Love me some smell of delusion in the morning. To think that old N64 titles were holding up for some inexplicable amount of time - oh, the hilarity!
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