The only reason to talk about the wait is as a complaint. Otherwise, there’s no point in saying it at all.

Here’s what he said:

Preferences aren’t self-inflicted. It’s not like you woke up one day and thought “you know what, I’m going to dislike PC gaming.”

I’m about to blow your mind: not everyone is interested in playing games on a console, just like not everyone wants to play games on a PC. People have different preferences and priorities.

So... you thought it was obnoxious for him to state that he wasn’t willing to pay $500 to play FF7 Rebirth at launch? Alrighty.

The OP simply said “this is going to be quite the wait for non-PS5 owners for this game to be ported to PC.” I don’t see how that’s obnoxious. It’s just a prediction based on how long it took FF7 Remake to hit Steam.

Except exclusives haven’t really helped Xbox’s market share over the past decade. They tried going with a closed, exclusive-driven ecosystem and it just didn’t work out. That’s why they’re changing their strategy.

That’s a gross oversimplification. The outcome of a game’s development can be affected by a multitude of factors outside of the developers’ control. For example, the publisher can decide to push up the release date, refuse to delay the game when it needs more time for polish, impose all sorts of arbitrary creative dema…

The timing of the layoffs means people will automatically blame it on the merger, despite it clearly being part of the current industry trend of layoffs. There’s a 99% chance that both Microsoft and Activision, like all the other publishers, were going to lay people off regardless of the merger.

Don’t remember that. Just remember you saying the thing that I quoted because it was memorably dumb. If that was your attempt at mockery, I may have missed it because your other comments were almost as inane.

Took me a few minutes to dig this up from our previous debate but here’s exactly what you said:

Meanwhile, you tell someone who clearly doesn’t want a PS5 to buy a PS5. That’s definitely a rational suggestion and not at all a snarky comment motivated by your bias towards consoles. You even slipped up in one of our previous debates and stated that not wanting a console is illogical, which is quite possibly the…

The problem is that family sharing only appealed to part of the console audience. Many (most?) users didn’t care about that. They did care about the numerous limitations imposed by the XBO’s proposed DRM, though.

Yeah, if you prefer console gaming, then it makes sense that you’d rather use a console even if the games are available on PC. That’s why the whole “there’s no reason to buy an Xbox if you have a PC” argument has always been silly. If you prefer Xbox over PC, that’s a good enough reason to buy an Xbox. If you prefer…

waiting two to three years to play exclusives that may never arrive, and saying that’s an objectively better approach to gaming than buying games when they’re actually at their peak culturally relevance, is certainly a choice.

Not at all. I disagree with people on a regular basis. The fundamental issue with your arguments is that they’re based entirely on principle and ignore things like: metrics, standards, logical cause and effect, historical precedent, etc. So trying to argue with you is like arguing with a brick wall because there’s…

In the console space, discounts are definitely a big advantage that physical has over digital. Retailers actually compete over pricing whereas PSN/XBL/eShop have zero competition in their respective digital ecosystems. It would be nice if regulators forced MS/Sony/Nintendo to allow developers and publishers to sell…

I thought Xbox allowed you to install games with one account and then play them from any other account on that Xbox? I know I’ve done that for GP games.

Circle jerking isn’t productive

If you’re not interested in PC gaming, then Xbox is more appealing. Honestly, if you’re a PC gamer, there’s not much reason to buy a PS5 either now that Sony is porting its exclusives to PC. For example, I own both a PS5 and PC but I’d rather wait 2-3 years for Sony’s first-party games to be ported to PC simply…