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Quoting: pbWhat if the declining console sales are not a result of the lack of exclusives but of shrinking living spaces of young adults? What will they do next if the numbers still don't go up?

I feel like that would be an argument for consoles rather than against them. A lot of people don’t need desktop computers anymore since they have an OS in their pocket. Adding one device next to your TV isn’t as space-consuming as putting a computer and its peripherals on a desk with an additional screen — not to mention handhelds.

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Thanks for testing Liam. I'm going to try this out in a few and add my two cents.

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Stupid move from Sony, but no loss whatsoever for me. Fine, I just won't give you whatever the stupidly high cost will be for Horizon 3 and I just won't play it. So .... they just completely lost that money. I'm never going to buy a playstation console itself. There are so many others like me as well. It's monumentally stupid, but oh well, that's kinda par for the course for brain rotted suits in the c suite.

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Imagine having to pay upwards of $700 just to register an Epic Games Store account. That's what consoles are to me - gatekeeping games behind a hardware purchase and taking games away from PC.

I can only pray and hope that PC will still get great AAA games, and that PC game developers start listening to their actual customers, AKA gamers or "chuds", again.

Consoles are tightly locked-down computers, so IMHO, consoles are better for online competitive multiplayer titles, where anti-cheat is absolutely essential.

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I don't know how this works for other people, but games that aren't running on my system do not exist for me. And I cannot buy what doesn't exist. Games that do not exist also cannot compel me to buy a device called a "console".

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I've been a Playstation guy for a long while and I'm a fan of games like God Of War, Uncharted, etc. But I wanted to have those games on PC. It's just convenient that you can play your catalogue year after year even if you upgrade your PC. With consoles you start your catalogue over and over again with a new console release. Also, PS5's catalogue has been pretty weak, so...I wouldn't recommend anybody buying a PS5. Will it be so weak for the PS6 too? Not willing to buy an expensive console just for 2 games...guess I'll have to wait for PC emulation now.

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Steam Controller: Minor improvement to gyro micro stutter (ignore clone packets)

So it wasn't my imagination. There really is a slight stutter when using gyro to move the camera.

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Another cycle in history of the endless loop between console companies coming to PC and leaving it. Personally I am indifferent to console exclusive games.
Out of all PlayStation 3 games I liked only Demon's Souls, and I still I wouldn't miss much if I looked over it. Tried few other PS3 exclusives, they were pretty bad, after it I decided I don't care anymore. I really start to believe that exclusivity is a gas lighting strategy to convince consumers that exclusive games have more value than they actually do. And my hypothesis is supported by cultural environment that surrounds it. Just check the bizarre emotionally negative posts in social media that some people make when another game stops being a console exclusive and gets released on PC.

Regarding the topic: don't worry. These news are not about all games that are released on consoles. Only games developed by internal Sony studios will be exclusives, other won't.

Correct me if I am wrong, but games, like Stellar Blade, were not developed by an internal Sony studio, and had only time limited exclusive deal with Sony. After that, they got published on PC, yes, by PlayStation publishing, but anyways. Games like this will seek multi platform publishing, unless they estimate sales on PC will bring them less money, than exclusive deals with Sony. Sony can buy few games for this purpose, but they won't be financially able to buy most of them. Especially after everyone have seen how much profit can be made on PC.

Example 1:
Stellar Blade sold a million units in 3 days on PC.

Example 2:
Stellar Blade 2 to be self-published, may go multi-platform.
Shift Up says Stellar Blade 2 news is on the way this year, and it could be a day-one PC launch.

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I tried Proton Hotfix, but I get no audio in the game. GE-Proton 10.0-34 gives me still significant stuttering in game (so much so it's unplayable with fast cars). I would have to try the ["horrible workarounds"](https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/pull/3033).

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I have only run into cheaters a couple times, but I really only play PvE. But it is a MAJOR issue for PvP-focused players.

Someone did a test where they would run to the edge of the map and sit and wait with an Equalizer with wall hacks on, and in the vast majority of matches, he could see people running all the way across the map in a straight line directly at him. Then he'd put the Equalizer into his Safekeeper safe pocket when they got close, and they kill him. Over and over again.

I will never understand what drives people to play games with cheats. It makes the game look like shit, too. I guess it matches their skill in that regard.

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AI doing AI things. I swear: The only thing they managed is increasing the amount of crap going around, as it's easier to produce now. Maybe some developers can use them to a degree to get rid off some mindless writing tasks. But in general they produced not a single thing that wasn't already possible before.

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Quoting: Savor592Vegeta, what does the scouter say about the price of the PS6?

So: In the mind of Sony CEOs we are going to buy another PC with limited functionality for the same price as a normal PC only to play some games they artificially gated to only run on that limited PC?

Hahahahahahahaha!

Oh wait. They are serious? Let me laugh even louder!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

just wait until they crawl back to Steam because the revenue declined and noone can afford the PS6 🥰

Quoting: pbAs long as they don't start removing them...

I don't see this happening at all, the worst thing that could conceivably happen is that they could stop selling the already released PS games.

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Quoting: scaineIt'll always be "horde-survival" to me!!

I do agree with other comments that the tags are often useless. I tried to find a good RPG for the train today, I was hit with things like Borderlands 4, which might be technically "role playing", but not really what I would associate with that tag.

it will overlap with games that have horde survival mode, but without mechanics of bullet-heaven.

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Vegeta, what does the scouter say about the price of the PS6?

So: In the mind of Sony CEOs we are going to buy another PC with limited functionality for the same price as a normal PC only to play some games they artificially gated to only run on that limited PC?

Hahahahahahahaha!

Oh wait. They are serious? Let me laugh even louder!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Quoting: vic-bayIf microslop really wanted to prevent their games from running on Linux, they would just block it with some anticheat-like measure or straightly blocking it like genshin impact devs did.

You do realize they did just that with Call of Duty Black Ops 7, right? Don't think for a second Microsoft actually "loves Linux", they do, but in the classic "[triple E](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish)" ways, even if they at first appear to be more adept at hiding it.

There's no other valid explanation at this point. The Steam Deck absolutely sold "millions of units", aka, what Tim Sweeney want for him to have Epic reenable EAC for Proton, which was intentionally disabled at first for "that reasoning". Of course, that turned out to be BS, and his settlements in the Google anti-trust lawsuits show it, as does him never suing Microsoft for the same reasons of a "monopoly", which with the whole Windows 8 Microsoft Store monopoly attempts, actually started Valve done the whole Linux route in the first place. While that attempt failed, Microsoft still keeps trying to make lock-in a thing, just like Google and Apple.

The real reason he won't allow for Fortnite on Linux it is because he, like Microsoft, sees Valve as competitors, and Linux gamers as too free from his control, and he can't be helping his competition, can he? (Even if it means burning millions of bridges and more in the long run!)

And in reality, any "code" that runs at ring 0 that isn't the OS itself or FOSS (so independent people can see what it's actually doing) and even more so if it can detect a VM and refuse to run should be treated as malware. Do not run it! And don't fall for that lock-in!

probably you missed my point, here is tldr version: low level rendering internals is not the place you intentionally mess up for any reason other than rendering performance.

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Does it run on Mac? EAC + no native is a blocker for macOS because there is no Proton EAC runtime equivalent for Mac. However with Denuvo it might run.

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at least it's not the DRM I guess but anything Irdeto puts out as far as I'm concerned is akin to digital smallpox and I ain't interested

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Very glad I didn't pick this up, given how I feel about Denuvo.

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I personally do like Bullet Heaven as a tag for the VS-likes. Because, yeah, those games do make you feel like you are the danmaku boss instead of the other way around.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneGamers often have no idea about Genres.

TFW I'm searching for new [logic](https://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=6129) games and get [this](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3743420/Real_Estate_Simulator_2/) or [this](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3355800/Bank_Simulator/)...

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Thus, solving the problem of cheaters once and for all. 🍌

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Quoting: StellaWhy did they remove Lego? That tag was genuinely useful

My guess is LEGO didn't like non-licensed games tagged with LEGO (can't blame them for that).
All LEGO games have LEGO in the title, so the tag didn't make sense anyway.

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> no one replied to GamingOnLinux for a code

So it's confirmed, microsoft doesn't want people to play FH6 on Linux ;-)

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thanks for the testing. I'm really interested but the 70€ price is steep😤

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Quoting: scaine[...]like Borderlands 4, which might be technically "role playing", but not really what I would associate with that tag.

Gamers often have no idea about Genres. Something that contains roleplay elements (as character building via skills and equipment) becomes "RPG" for some people. Even developers/publishers have this issue. Horizon Zero Dawn is no RPG (as Sony claims it) but an Action Adventure.

Quoting: StellaWhy did they remove Lego? That tag was genuinely useful

I guess they don't want to get legal issues with Lego as some YouTubers for wrong labeling. 😅 Relabeling as [Building Blocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_blocks_(toy)) would probably be the right way.

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Why did they remove Lego? That tag was genuinely useful

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Seen people comment that it works pretty well on CachyOS+Proton-GE, but I have a hard time believing that since Forza 5 login is borked too, just uninstalled the whole game. I'll just wait...at least it's refundable. I paid for FH5 twice 😭

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Well ... historically consoles degenerated over the years. Not a surprise they try to apply life support to their dying platforms in the form of exclusives. It's how Nintendon't (despite suing people) survived the last two decades and yet don't know they are on a dying platform as well.

I mean not even Microsoft realised Windows is a dead platform as well and still clinging to it and just making the live of every Windows users even more miserable every day just because they can not let go and accept the future is cross platform (not web based cross platform)

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Quoting: walther von stolzingI've finally run emacs inside Minecraft ... fine; but I think what I really want to do is to run Minecraft inside emacs.

Give either EXWM or EWM a try?

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TBH for me all their best Single player games are already on PC. The only thing currently I would be interested in the future is another addition to the Last of Us series and potentially a new God of War game. I would assume both these titles would not launch til PS6 at this point.

Though hopefully some good will come out of this and Sony will refocus on making good Single player games again. This constant chasing of live service money is clearly not working.

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