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Heresy is like a tree, its roots lie in the darkness whilst its leaves wave in the sun and to those who suspect nought, it has an attractive and pleasing appearance. Truly, you can prune away its branches, or even cut the tree to the ground, but it will grow up again ever the stronger and ever more comely. Yet all awhile the root grows thick and black, gnawing at the bitter soil, drawing its nourishment from the darkness, and growing even greater and more deeply entrenched.
Such is the nature of heresy, and this is why it is so hard to destroy, for it must be eradicated leaf, branch, trunk and root. It must be exorcised utterly or it will return all the stronger, time and time again, until it is too great to destroy. Then we are doomed.
The PC Gaming Master Race can use Dirty Console Peasant emulators, no need to actually buy the dirty consoles!
The console industry is dying. Xbox will not see a subsequent generation; Microsoft stopped caring even before the Xbox One came out. Sony will try to mimic Nintendo and PCs even more to no avail, and Nintendo is looking to appeal to both mobile gaming and console demographics at the same time while making only one console. It's unique, insane, and it might actually work.
No system is going topple PC gaming, not at this point. PCs are too versatile and the technology is too advanced that there is no longer a divide (as what used to be the case) between PCs and consoles. Combined with how cheap PCs are getting, there's no longer a need for dedicated machines, and at this point, games are being made FOR the PC's superior fidelity and technology; now consoles can't keep up.
The biggest weapon any consoles have (or had) over one another is their exclusives. Consoles don't have a hold over the developers that publish their games on those platforms, so any time a dev decides to make a game on the PC as well, it hurts the consoles because more often than not, people are going to buy the PC port, which looks prettier, can more easily be patched due to convenient transaction systems like Steam, can be MODDED, and you can more easily find deals through Steam, Good Old Games, and Humble Bundle. This also potentially has a cascade effect; the more games that are ported to PC, the more likely it is for other devs to start porting their games to the PC as well at risk of losing money and sales figures because of their otherwise loyalty to the consoles, since there is suddenly less reason to buy a console when the PC has more available games on it. (There's also the whole sales figures ratio where devs make more money selling games digitally by cutting out the packaging/retail middlemen that allows them to make insane Steam sales and still profit immensely compared to even ten years ago, but that's a different story) PC also has the growing indie dev industry behind it, and the big hitters like Binding of Isaac, Undertale, Darkest Dungeon, FTL: Faster Than Light, Papers Please, and so on, and all the cult and sleeper hits besides.
Both Xbox and Sony are getting hit hard because of how many of their games are also being ported to the PC, both right now and retroactively. Nintendo, however, is in the best position to persevere as a console. They have the most exclusives by a mile because almost 100% of their current games are in-house developers that, outside of emulation, have a next to zero percent chance of appearing on PCs as well. Speaking of which, Nintendo has also been setting up the infrastructure to hold a reasonable chance against emulation by making all of their old games (or at least the ones worth remembering) more easily accessible. Between the Nintendo Classic, Pokemon GO and Pokemon Gen VII, it's clear they are not going anywhere anytime soon, but their biggest enemy right now is themselves. Nintendo is the Disney of video games, a "fun for the whole family" company that doesn't like to stray too far into the realm of maturity, if ever. Again, they consistently make games and things that sell millions of copies in record time EACH TIME, but they are not appealing to a large chunk of gamers out there: the Military FPS omega death rape kill demographic; all the XxCallofCODFan92xXs out there. It's not enough to kill them, but it's a stigma they have to live and contend with.
PC gamers lamented everywhere upon the release of the new trailer for The Last Of Us, Part II.
I wonder how Yahtzee feels about creating the "PC Master Race" thing, even if he meant it as a joke.
Is that a new Taric Skin?
Truly, Truly, Truly
#Outrageous