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Playing on a TV is different than on a desk. Of course you can do both with a PC, but often you don't have your PC in the right place to play on the couch in front of your TV.

There are console-exclusive games, depending on which types of games you like those exclusives can be extremely interesting.

A PC is more expensive, almost always has been. If you need a desktop PC anyway, that might not matter much as you only need to factor in the better GPU for gaming. But with the GPU prices right now even a mid-range card is more expensive than a full next-gen console.

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I'm with you on the benefits, but for those of us who successfully use a PC as a TV console, console exclusives are a real kick in the teeth.

Bloodborne was released in 2013 and I am still waiting to play it.

> console exclusives are a real kick in the teeth.

Console exclusives are often funded by manufacturers, so the game may not exist without the console.

I am naive to the economics of it but I imagine they could also choose to act as publishers where they take a cut of sales on all platforms. I believe their objective is to entice people to buy the console on the basis that it has better games than the competition - not all together bad - but as someone who likes video games I would like them to find another way to compete.

To me the issue is that games aren't required to release on all consoles. Nor should they be required to be, because that goes against the whole idea of free market competition: if all games are required to be released on Xbox, what is stopping Xbox from hiking up their prices? Paying developers for exclusives is the opposite and is competition.

"If you build it they will come", doesn't work. Look at the PS Vita, which very quickly stopped getting Sony support for games and languished. It shouldn't be up to all game developers to release on Vita, it is up to Sony to attract developers.

It runs better on emulator than it does Playstation, there are 60fps mods :)

There's a PS4 emulator that is capable of Bloodborne? :o

I have a decent gaming PC but still got the PS3, PS4 afterwards and now the PS5 for their portability. We have gaming / couch co-op nights of 4 and play Fifa or split-screen games.

The PS3 even supported 7 controllers and is still used for some Bomberman Ultra. The PS4 and PS5 sadly max out at 4...

And these are still half the size and weight of my PC. Of course there are mini-itx gaming rigs out there but those cost as much or more than all my consoles and controllers together.

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