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Earlier in the interview, he said that thanks to free-to-play and $5 games on Steam, the PC platform is "decimating" consoles just in price alone. Even more, free-to-play has supposedly killed off a hundred AAA studios. The problem with consoles is that they're not only a closed platform, but they're getting hurt by the free-to-play trend on PC and mobile.
"The problem with console is that it takes a long time for a full cycle," he said. "With PCs, it's a continually evolving platform, and one that supports backward compatibility, and you can use a controller if you want; if I want to play a game that's [made] in DOS from the '80s I can, it's not a problem. You can't do that on a console."
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I agree Free to Play games like League of Legends, Dota 2, Team Fortress, and the many $5 Steam games are better priced than new $60 console games.
PC also has the most gamers since almost everyone who is a gamer has a PC thesedays since most Gamers are into tech, and also need a PC to play PC games, watch online video, and edit their gameplay video which they recorded with their Game capture device on their console.
Also, building or buying a Good PC is more affordable these days where you can build a gaming PC for $500 to play many games at high video settings, and other games at medium quality settings.
"The problem with console is that it takes a long time for a full cycle," he said. "With PCs, it's a continually evolving platform, and one that supports backward compatibility, and you can use a controller if you want; if I want to play a game that's [made] in DOS from the '80s I can, it's not a problem. You can't do that on a console."
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I agree Free to Play games like League of Legends, Dota 2, Team Fortress, and the many $5 Steam games are better priced than new $60 console games.
PC also has the most gamers since almost everyone who is a gamer has a PC thesedays since most Gamers are into tech, and also need a PC to play PC games, watch online video, and edit their gameplay video which they recorded with their Game capture device on their console.
Also, building or buying a Good PC is more affordable these days where you can build a gaming PC for $500 to play many games at high video settings, and other games at medium quality settings.