That's if you actually believe your worth is tied to the size of your bank account.
Looking at it from the other side, nothing is a waste of time. You were given a small amount of it on the cosmic scale, and how you use it is your right and privilege.
Yeah, the censorship is like a pincer attack these days--both from the extreme left and the extreme right. Strange bedfellows, these oppressors.
Yes. Way too many likely what-if's. Not for me; never will be.
Maybe $700 if you build it. $500 is just a bit too low, I think. Prices are much better now than last year, and memory is going to continue to drop in price. Nvidia Turing cards in the sub-$300 range will expand to 3 in the coming months, and one of those will dip below $200. (There's one now, the GTX 1660ti for around $280.) AMD is lowering prices a ton in response, on their 500 series. Ryzen is serious competition for Intel CPUs. It's a good time again to build a PC. Just go...
Latency is the immediate issue. The longterm issue is giving up possession of your games. If someone else is running them, they control what you get and when you get it (and if you get it). You don't have them at all. I can see some casuals preferring a service that streams their gameplay footage to them from afar. No game systems to buy or set up; no hardware to tinker with or maintain; no file management; no discs or backups. But I doubt real gamers will ever go for that.
Now that the cryptomining bubble has burst, PC hardware is quite affordable again. A competent one can be had for the price of two current consoles. If I can't afford that, I'll play on one current console, long before I give in to the streaming nonsense.
My condolences. You have my heartfelt sympathy.
Not true. What system has ever been killed by piracy? Even the PC, where piracy is by far the easiest, is a healthy gaming platform. People who were going to buy games will still buy games, despite whoever downloads them for nothing.
They didn't advertise the deed on a website, or sell what they modded for profit.
Pretty much like weeds, really. That doesn't mean we stop using weed killer on our lawns, though.
So you're flat-out saying the Switch is not affordable? That's nonsense. It's a consumer product, with a consumer price. Anyone who wants one can get one, if not today, after racking up some modest savings.
Some programs will hog the CPU without actually flogging it. If they're well-behaved (usually meaning priority isn't too high), the system can still function well, and run other programs just fine, because resources will get distributed as needed.
The easiest thing in the world is to graph CPU temperatures along with usage (in something like HwInfo64); but they didn't do that here. If they were concerned about overheating, they should have.
Still chuckling over here . . .
@Fist4achin - Yes, VE Day for Europe, VJ Day for Japan.
No. Forward compatibility would the 360 running Windows-10 programs, or the PS3 running PS4 games. True FC is quite rare.
Remember where you are. Then you'll realize why the upvotes and downvotes go the way they do. Don't ever post here expecting mostly sensible responses.
As other posts above attest, nothing restricts you from playing either system on either setup. You can hook up a PC to that fancy hardware. Personally, I have both my X-One and my game PC hooked up to my 27" monitor, sitting less than 2 feet away from my nose--Xbox through HDMI, PC through DisplayPort.
Not quite. While the 8th console gen is closer to PCs than ever, plenty of differences remain. There will still need to be software development specific to each platform. However, everything else can be unified. (I suppose it's possible to encapsulate the differences into an engine layer or HAL, but that would create quite a bit of inefficiency, since each system architecture has its own path to best optimization across entire software products.) Where the 9th gen goes remains to be ...
I don't think you have anything to worry about. Those will keep coming. However, that doesn't mean I'm going to praise the exploitation of gamers. There's a right way to do games like those, and constant money leeching or pay-to-win are not it.
The things I can do are a very small subset of the things I wish I could do. That doesn't mean I'm going to feel bad about enjoying whatever I can enjoy.