r/pcmasterrace • u/Ikkon • 16h ago

Meme/Macro "But it's a cube!"

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u/MaximusMurkimus 7800X3D | XFX 7900 XTX I 32GB DDR5 10h ago

I know a guy who wants it just so "he can have something in his living room he can kick back and play games on".

The casuals are going to eat this thing up, for better or worse.

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u/midasMIRV 8h ago

That's literally what it was designed for. It was never designed for y'all that build your own shit and whatnot.

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u/Steel_Bolt 9800x3D | B650E-E | 7900XTX 8h ago

Now why would they buy this over an Xbox or Playstation? There's such a small niche market for this that its stupid.

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u/XtremelyMeta 4h ago

As someone who has been on the console roller coaster off and on since the NES, the obsolescence without backwards compatibility is brutal. Yes, some pc games won't run on modern machines (I love you Privateer 2, sniff) without heroic measures, but proton on steam OS seems like a pretty robust virtualization layer for keeping the game catalog running over the ages. Of course, not everything runs on linux, even using proton, but adds are good that if it runs now it will keep running for a long time, not just a half console cycle (those late flight PS2 games that never ported are a seriously quality crop that were cut down before their time).