I have 90 mods in Skyrim and just enjoyed the process of gathering them, tinkering with them, and then exploring a bit with them. However, none of that at all is needed to always push at the very least, the same graphical fidelity that is on console, on an older gaming rig.

Yup! =)

Personally the tinkering is part of the joy to me, others like the sit and play. I like naughty dog too much not to have a PlayStation though, but should they ever go their separate ways I don't see myself buying a PS5

I mean, you could. You can do anything.

I don't feel like the most savvy consumer when I pay for console subscription fees, or for the same games at lower, locked settings for equal or greater prices.

But you feel like a savvy consumer supporting the biggest, most accepted DRM scheme, the most prolific use of pirating, and a development scene that actually promotes laziness on the part of developers because there are consumers out there who will do the work for free?

Oh boy.

- Steam is DRM, sure. DRM is not inherently evil. It all depends on what you do with it. You do realize that Sony and Microsoft can kill current gen consoles on a whim, correct? Valve cannot do that to my PC. Hardware DRM is far more insidious and permanent than software DRM. Plus, you don't have to buy your games on Steam a lot of the time. There are many options. Storefronts with and without DRM, or even old-fashioned discs for us grannies with optical drives in our PCs.

- Really? Piracy? What year is it? Do you work PR for Ubisoft? Keep resting on that dusty old talking point from generations past while PC keeps proving to be a big, if not the biggest, source of income for numerous publishers. There's a reason why Japan perked up its cat ears and started throwing handfuls of games at Steam in the last year or so, culminating in the same-day release and magnificent port of MGSV:TPP.

- Most of the time modding is an enhancement, not "free labor for lazy devs". Occasionally a .ini file has to be altered to undo some console-style limitations in a bad port. Removing 30 FPS locks and whatnot. But that kind of thing is not exactly a matter of toiling away, compiling hours of code. Modding is a hobby for gaming enthusiasts. Adding what the developers may not have even thought about during development, or perhaps something that couldn't be included in the vanilla because of the looming corporate shackles of console parity. Modders added multiplayer to Just Cause 2. Soak that one in for a minute. That kind of enthusiastic ingenuity is what makes me love gamers.

We're not all like him :) just the die hards, which are the vocal minority. Everyone else I know just enjoys their games, most of them on older or cheaper hardware.

I have no clue what he means by dignity though, I feel just fine playing on my PS4 too

Why not Hicken, you have already accepted paying for mandatory online when you even admitted that you would never last gen.

It's funny the things you and others won't do unless forced by your favorite company.

@maniac: Please explain how my already paying for PS+ long before online was added for the PS4 only has anything to do with this.

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

Its like the final episode of the Sapranos. You gonna go to make a comment and when you click add th-

Timezone thing maybe.... RIP