man101 posted...
Honestly I can't wait for all the consoles to die. The console wars are beyond toxic for game development and consumers. Nintendo gets to charge whatever they want for their increasingly uninspired drivel because no one else can touch it. Sony and Microsoft barely have anything exclusive worth fighting over. And having so many games locked on old consoles because developers have no incentive to re-release them or otherwise make them accessible is obnoxious.
I fought getting a PC for gaming for years but now that I've had one for a decade I have to say it's really cool that I can play literally every single steam game I've purchased in that entire time, including games that predate my entry into PC gaming by years. Meanwhile I have boxes with old consoles collecting dust and while I would love to play some of the games I own for those consoles, the effort to find space and hook them up, particularly on modern TVs for which they were not designed, is just too much.
I don't have a steam deck but I like the idea and I wish multiple companies would develop something similar. A type of portable PC that can stream to any smart tv, or, if needed, connect via HDMI. Something like a CD player or mp3 player. Developers develop games in a universal format and so the games are compatible with whatever brand of the console you want. No more having 8 different consoles connected to a single TV. No more console exclusives. Imagine having Netflix exclusive to a certain brand of TV and HBO exclusive to another. It's idiotic. Let people develop games and let other people develop the consoles and let the market decide which are the best. If the only thing causing your console to sell is an exclusive game, or vice versa, then one of them sucks.
Then there are no more ecosystems. I have no "Nintendo scene" to wrap myself in and sleep with.