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If you could only play on one game console for the rest of your life which console would you choose? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Let's say the PC doesn't count and you aren't taking into account backwards compatibility, emulation, online play, homebrew games, and the cost/availability of games.

I feel like I'd want to choose the PS3. Like the Xbox 360 it had a decent lifespan and a lot of games were produced for it. A lot of which are already some of my favorites.

The only things that would make hesitant are I feel like a lot of modern games are larger and have open worlds which I feel like that could be nice in the long run and many of my favorite games for the PS3 have been re-released.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it can run all that. You may have to jump through a few hoops (just like in the case of the Steam Deck, just different hoops), but it can run all that.

I'll also turn your question back to you: how many people use the Steam Deck for productivity, rather than for gaming, which is its intended purpose? And does it matter?

Like it or not, the steam deck is a gaming console, even if you can run non-game stuff on it too. Heck, even stuff like the Game Boy had (official!) accessories like the Game Boy Camera and Game Boy Printer, which were both useful outside of gaming. Does that stop the Game Boy from being a (retro) gaming console? There's an ongoing project to provide productivity apps for the Game Boy (though, arguably, it did not ship yet, but you can extend the game boy with a cartridge in whatever way you can imagine).

Or, you can use your SNES as a MIDI Synthesizer (https://www.supermidipak.com/)! No modding or anything necessary, it's just a regular cartridge. Can it be used for fun? Yes. Is it a game? No. You can do a lot of stuff with an SNES cartridge that has nothing to do with gaming. There was even a cartridge that let you play online games on the SNES (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBAND) - but not only games, it also let you read and write messages to other people. You didn't need to go into "desktop mode", nor install a browser, nor do anything special. You plugged in the cartridge, and it worked. It was far less locked down than the XBox or even the Steam Deck! Does that disqualify the SNES (or the game boy) from being a gaming console?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

To me a PC is something that has less restrictions to be able to do what you want out of the box.

If Steam Deck is a console then PC is a console to me too.

So then my answer to the thread for console is PC.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So then a Game Boy is a PC, and so is the SNES, and the SEGA Genesis. Cool, cool, makes perfect sense.

Myself, I think the wikipedia definition is far better than yours.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

By your definition I don't see why PC wouldn't be a console, since being to do some things doesn't exclude it. And why exclude PC as console just because it can do a lot of things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's a very important difference between what you can do with a thing, and what the thing was intended for, and what it is best at doing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wikipedia that you referred to before calls Steam deck a handheld gaming computer. If Steam Deck is a console why wouldn't a gaming PC fall into the category of console.

This all seems arbitrary. It is all subjective anyways. You can see steam deck as different from PC. I'll look at Steam Deck and PC as the same. So to me both are either console or PC.

You can also take it up with valve for their it's a pc comments. Even the reveal they did with ign calling it a handheld gaming PC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtiRGTZvGM

Even the Steam Deck store page description is

All Steam Decks (both LCD and OLED) are powerful, portable, PC gaming devices made for comfort and a console-like experience.

At best described as "console-like experience"

Steam Deck has a user-friendly interface specifically designed for its gamepad controls. Its software and operating system are tailored for Steam Deck, making it the easiest way to get into PC gaming.

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

This is also a nice watch of Gabe talking about the openness of the PC ecosystem and how if you want to you can install epic game store or run oculus quest on the Steam Deck. Take what you will from it but I feel like Gabe and the people who worked on the Steam Deck see it more as a PC than console.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kO6Dj2XNfY&t=588