demon’s souls is a fairly significant factor in wanting a PS5 though
I can say from experience that a ps5 is the wrong choice
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Fwiw Sony first-party games should be getting PC ports a bit after release going forward after Horizon and God of War made tons of money. Demon’s marketing material originally said it was a timed exclusive so I wouldn’t rule it out
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PS5s play games better than $500 gaming PCs. If you need to buy just the card, a 2060/3060 plus an SSD will play games better at the same price point. But if you want to buy into the promise of (still vaporware) SSD GAMING without spending more than $500 the PS5 is the only way. But then again I’m 100% certain you’d have a better experience playing Demons Souls emulated on a PC rather than Demons Souls Remake on the PS5.
Tbh, I’m in the same situation, and my solution is that I’m just going to keep seeing how far I can push my GTX1050. I also want a new laptop and I feel like I’m sensing Macbook Air M2s around the corner, so… yeah
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Is the actual correct answer to buy a Steamdeck?
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No, a Steam Deck is effectively a portable PS4 Pro in terms of power. An Xbox Series S is the right value/size for a console imo if you don’t have an existing PC from the last five or so years to drop a new card in
Steam Deck is realizing the dream of the Vita from a PC angle ten years on
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steamdecks are cool but I don’t have much practical need for one right now… the switch is still more than capable enough for me.
because I barely travel these days, I mostly like my switch because I can play it while taking a bath. I don’t think I’d feel ok about taking a steamdeck there though.
I think the open question with the Steamdeck is “will this be supported by everyone?” because it’s like, on the one hand, did they solve the problem of a PC that’s price-competitive with a console but doesn’t run everything like garbage? on the other, it’s running desktop x86 Linux in a power/platform envelope that has historically been a horrible kludge, and it’s only because of the Switch’s success that the form factor seems viable
Valve did the same thing at the end of the last generation where they were like “hey, we can ship affordable and fairly reliable Linux hardware if we only care about matching the graphics baseline of a PS3!” and then those did not really work out over the long term due to the combined disadvantage of needing a software translation layer that most devs didn’t want to support directly and being quickly outclassed in spec terms once last-generation releases stopped being popular.
I feel like it’s a good buy regardless if you were already in the habit of buying software twice on Switch and PC (really? OK but I understand some people do this) or don’t know too much about PC/open ecosystems but are on a limited budget and want to experiment with that stuff. beyond that it’s pretty up in the air imo
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I suspect it’s going to settle in to the same niche the Vita and Switch occupied in turn of the right place to play indies and the occasional 3D action game but primarily the former. And those indies haven’t been more demanding in a decade than, say, Outer Wilds pushing a launch PS4 so I think it can fit in this niche for some time. The Switch is about half as powerful and still the bestselling platform for some
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It is definitely a better experience than:
- parts bin “handheld” running ancient Android distro
- hacking a PSP, Vita, or Switch to run custom firmware or an ancient Android distro
- existing, more-expensive parts bin handhelds running Windows 10
- most non-gaming Windows laptops
- the average person’s wifi streaming experience
It is less fuss than sideloading emulators onto an iPad but an objectively bad hardware value relative to one for anything but videogames
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I think I’m having a Bogostian reaction to it, ie I’m approaching it from the category of “is this fussy or is this not, or is it a poor combination of fussy and unfussy,” which is commercial Linux in a nutshell
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I think it’s an on-ramp for typically console people doing any of the above but who can’t or don’t want to go in for a “PC” or even a “home theater PC.” There’s a market for (variably) fussy software all-in-one hardware
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nice try but it will take more than a dumb meme to dissuade me
they also took out the latria hearbeat
rarely has it been so gratifying to be a hater
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what do you mean by latria heartbeat?
you can hear the heart beating all throughout 3-2 until you knock it down (except maybe in the blood swamp i think) in the original
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well that sucks
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How do they fuck this up?
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oh it’s just gone for most of the level. i do think it’s there if you get real close