Daily Poll #1

[SckizoBoy]

Not sure whether PC really counts cos they're constantly increasing specs and don't have any 'generations' per se... but I suppose you could apply the metric of whether you can play respective console gen games on them at default settings... eh... w/e.

I play games on my laptop, but only really older games (hard stop at 2014 more or less). Otherwise, I have a PS4...

[MadMummy76]

IMO PC doesn't count when talking about this. I mean, do I have a PC that I play games on? Yes. Does it have parts made for video games? Yes. Did I build it in 2010? Yes. Its a bit more nebulous, so I picked just the "one" option for Switch.

If you can play current games on it with fidelity that matches or exceeds current gen consoles, then it is current gen, it's simple as that.

[Merlin]

If you can play current games on it with fidelity that matches or exceeds current gen consoles, then it is current gen, it's simple as that.

Computers don't follow console generations. But in any event I don't think you remember the part where I built a computer in 2010. It defo can't play anything that comes out today.

[MadMummy76]

Computers don't follow console generations. But in any event I don't think you remember the part where I built a computer in 2010. It defo can't play anything that comes out today.

Computers don't have generations, therefore you need to use your own judgement to determine whether yours is current or not.

Obviously I can't judge whether your computer that I know nothing of is capable of playing games or not. I just gave you the parameters to judge for yourself. BTW if you purchased a high end PC at the end of 2010 it's not out of the question that it will still run games today. https://www.techspot.com/article/156...t-years-later/

[isturbo1984]

It's very concerning to me that more than half (as of right now) of the people here own just one platform. Not that they are all fanboys, but this definitely indicates strong bias in the industry.

[Merlin]

bias....or just money not being unlimited.

[isturbo1984]

Maybe. I doubt it though. What difference does it make on how much money someone has when it comes to being bias? I can't afford a Porsche, but I don't hate them because of it, lol.

[Temuldjin]

You could try and make one of the next daily poll's about if anyone here have an older Gen Console/Retro Console, I think that would remove much "worry" you have about a bias in the industry, or i could just be wrong and will be confirmed... Regardless i think i would be an interesting poll

[aileron]

My video gaming is almost zero these days. The little time I have for myself I tend to spend on pen and paper role playing games hence you will see me more in that subforum than this one. I bought a new computer and a few video games last year but sadly I realized my computer cannot play any current gen game even at lowest settings. Why Bard's Tale IV needs 3GB of video RAM I will never understand. It's going to be a couple years before I get a new PC again so I'm kind of screwed (working within the confines of a hardware budget that is. Yes I could just buy another PC or console now but I don't want to spend my money on that right now). I'm considering a Switch because of the price point and that I could use it while riding public transit to and from work. I've been considering it for a long while now... I should really decide.

[Binmaniac]

PC and Switch, getting tempted to buy PS4 though

[Temuldjin]

I haven't bothered with current gen for over a decade, m exclusively a PC gamer.

I did however go out and buy an N64 and Gamecube a few years ago and several of the classics for those games.

[Temuldjin]

sure i have, pc games, in my group of friends/gamers current gen is a label for consoles only, that might not be how the rest of the world uses it (apparently) but i've never heard of anyone talk about PC games as "current gen"

[isturbo1984]

Ah. I thought you were being weird, lol. No, it isnt a label for consoles only. Not accusing you of this, but it kinda sounds like a strange PC fanboy elitism concept. I don't see how that line of thinking serves any purpose other than to unnecessarily divide console gaming and PC gaming. In any case, now you have heard of a PC gamer (me) who is talking about PC games as part of a generation.

A generation line might be dictated by consoles more, but it is also dictated by general computer tech as well. A game like Tomb Raider (2012) for instance might ride the line of a generation, especially when considering PC. But it is a last generation game. Pc games are in the future, they aren't "next gen." With the ability to upgrade, they are next "last gen," but a lot of games sure are. PC gaming is, by default, always a current gen platform. Nobody is pretending PC is a console here.

[Temuldjin]

I get what you are saying, but you didn't really convince me.

Like PC games "generally" gets better and better year after year (lets ignore indie games/retro games with a distinct visual style and the low quality AAA games for now) every year the hardware for PC's get better and better and the quality of game and the size of games you can make increases bit by bit and over a few years there are drastic changes to the product that can be made.

Where on the other hand you have the consoles generations, every (2-3)? years you have a new generation of consoles that gets released that are spec vise superior to the former generation but always have "locked specks" and when people generally talk about "current gen" they are talking latest generation of console, in this instance it's the playstation 5, the switch and the x-box "something" at least that is what the people in my circle of friends friends do, or the youtubers i watch does. (or it might just have been me to projected my own "belief" of current gen on to them and they never said or did anything to make me question that, so i could just continue with that belief unchallenged until today where you pointed it out)

[Temuldjin]

PC and Switch, getting tempted to buy PS4 though

why? the PS4 is about to meet it's end of its life cycle and there worn't that many "really good games" people will look back on as "classics of that console"

[Temuldjin]

Sounds like an addiction man xP

[isturbo1984]

My philosophy is I have only so much time to play a hobby and passion I love... I want to make sure I get to play the best of what is out there. So I buy all the boxes to do just that. It's all about the games for me. If you treat the different consoles as an investment, its nott hat expensive, considering the price of some of them on sale later in a generation is about the cost of 2 new games. This is just me though.

[Binmaniac]

It's purely for the exclusive games; I'd love to play Spiderman, God of War and The Last Guardian. Also, some other titles like Detroit: become human and Horizon: zero dawn look interesting.