I never disputed this, but you are arguing that PC games are all shit for some reason or another unless they’re ported either from or to PS5.
Wait, that’s what you think you’re arguing against?
No wonder this conversation is so loopy, then.
The fact that consoles are a huge asset for PC gaming doesn’t mean, and is nowhere near the same as, saying that “PC games are shit unless ported directly from the PS5”. Your straw man is not just subtly misrepresenting my point, it’s having some entirely unrelated conversation in a different room with a different person.
Consoles get to be a massive asset for PC games without… well, whatever that statement is supposed to imply. PC games benefit a LOT from having a set target for mainstream hardware be a fixed point for five to ten years. They benefitted strongly from access to a large volume of affordable, standardized, compatible controllers (these days things have been that way long enough that the standards aren’t going anywhere, but it was a massive deal in 2005, which is the period we’re talking about, despite your surprise that we’re talking about it). And yes, the target for PC-only gaming today would be both different and significantly less pleasant without those things. The shift to a more PC-centric market already made it so that ten-year-old games dominate the landscape.
It’s not just CounterStrike. It’s Fortnite, Overwatch, GTA 5, Minecraft, Roblox. PC gaming’s characteristics encourage those types of forever games targeting widely accessible hardware. Consoles existing in parallel open the door to additional viability for AAA releases targeting higher end specs. Not that you wouldn’t get any of those without consoles, but for the past 20 years consoles have been a big reason that’s a whole genre instead a one-in-a-generation thing you’d get when an engine company wanted to flex its tech muscle for potential engine licensors and accidentally made a game in the process.
Wait, that’s what you think you’re arguing against?
No wonder this conversation is so loopy, then.
The fact that consoles are a huge asset for PC gaming doesn’t mean, and is nowhere near the same as, saying that “PC games are shit unless ported directly from the PS5”. Your straw man is not just subtly misrepresenting my point, it’s having some entirely unrelated conversation in a different room with a different person.
Consoles get to be a massive asset for PC games without… well, whatever that statement is supposed to imply. PC games benefit a LOT from having a set target for mainstream hardware be a fixed point for five to ten years. They benefitted strongly from access to a large volume of affordable, standardized, compatible controllers (these days things have been that way long enough that the standards aren’t going anywhere, but it was a massive deal in 2005, which is the period we’re talking about, despite your surprise that we’re talking about it). And yes, the target for PC-only gaming today would be both different and significantly less pleasant without those things. The shift to a more PC-centric market already made it so that ten-year-old games dominate the landscape.
It’s not just CounterStrike. It’s Fortnite, Overwatch, GTA 5, Minecraft, Roblox. PC gaming’s characteristics encourage those types of forever games targeting widely accessible hardware. Consoles existing in parallel open the door to additional viability for AAA releases targeting higher end specs. Not that you wouldn’t get any of those without consoles, but for the past 20 years consoles have been a big reason that’s a whole genre instead a one-in-a-generation thing you’d get when an engine company wanted to flex its tech muscle for potential engine licensors and accidentally made a game in the process.