I have a Switch for the inimitable and superb first-party exclusives from Nintendo's ace teams that exploit the hardware and prove masterful when it comes to game design.
I have a PS4 Pro, again, for the powerhouse first-party team output from the best studios in the US, Europe and Japan who frequently push the hardware to the metal.
I have a gaming PC to play the very best games from Microsoft's excellent first-party Xbox studio teams, to use Xbox Live, and to enjoy multiplatform titles with no compromises to frame-rate that are an inherent problem with Jaguar-based consoles at the moment.
All three of the major platform holders make money from me on software and services, and I reap the benefits of being platform agnostic and game-focused first.
I weep for the fools who are so biased and so partial that they worship at the temples of platform fanboyism while mega-corporations sit back and laugh at the free PR they're getting from these community wars, and I guffaw at those who claim to be video game hobbyists in one breath, yet create artificial barriers to using certain game platforms in the next breath.
It's all about the games, the developers, and playing where the games are at their best - irrespective of the box crunching the numbers.
@mighty-lu-bu: It's a game by game scenario though, man. For example, your PC can run Super Lucky's Tale at 4K/60fps/Ultra in its sleep. In fact, you could probably run two instances of the game simultaneously at those settings. On PC, this game hits 4K/60fps with a low end i5 and a GTX 1060.
On the other hand, your PC can run the likes of GTA V, Destiny 2, The Witcher 3 and Assassin's Creed Origins at 60fps -- where the consoles have no hope in hell of doing so, due to CPU limitations.
@Bread_or_Decide: Strange, as I seem to have the option to output my PC to the living room big screen and sound system, and play games using wireless PS4 and Xbox One controllers from the couch, sometimes even driving wheels/pedals and fighting game sticks! And every console game stuck at 30fps, I can play at 60fps/Ultra. Unbelievable but true! How can this be possible? Could it be that the PC is as flexible a gaming system as one chooses to make it? Gasp!
@jako998: A huge win for PC gamers, you mean. Like, many more wins. How do you expect a 30 fps console version to compete on even ground with a 60fps PC version? Or a fine-tuned gaming mouse versus an analog stick controller? It's grossly overmatched.
Best to stay with Xbox One vanilla and Xbox One X competing against each other.
The first Predator is a perfect sci-fi action film.
It's John McTiernan in his peak form, while he was making movies like the first Die Hard - another perfect action film.
They are preserved by history and vindicated by awesome watchability to this day.
Predator 2 is the fun drunk guy at the bar that pushes things too far, but is kooky and entertaining. It's all over the place, terrifically foul-mouthed and loose, but still manages to hand in a great Predator creature and is held together by Danny Glover's huge peak era presence.
The AvP films had very few moments, mainly due to poor writing and uneven performances; plus some bizarre treatment of the creatures.
Predators was better than it had any right to be, perhaps the exoticism of being off-Earth, anchored by Adrien Brody and the quirks introduced by contributions from Robert Rodriguez, who served as Producer and spent a lot of time on set.
Anyway, I think I'd rather just have a -good- new Predator film, with appropriate writing, plenty of muscle and guns, more of the creature's lore.
In any case, you don't need to reboot the original Predator. It's fucking solid gold for life.
@Simba13: Console exclusives are still fun, and necessary. We get to see the elite developers squeeze every last drop of power from a closed spec. That's always interesting.
@shadowpandora: Well it goes over 60fps most of the time, it's just easier to communicate 60fps to console players celebrating a neutered 30fps version, as it seems there's a cognitive dissonance when PC players start mentioning post-60fps frame-rates -- like they jump into "That's a $1200 PC dude!" mode. Even though you can do 60fps PUBG on a humble $550 GTX 1060/RX 480-based PC if you want. Anyway, yeah. 60fps and up, depending on display Hz :p
Well, they are first and foremost a software and services corporation. Any stabs into hardware, such as the Xbox division and first-party Surface PCs, are all about pulling people into their ecosystem of software and services. So anytime one of these PC gamers says, "Great, but going forward I can play every single Xbox first-party studio exclusive, the best of the best, on my Windows PC" -- that is yet another player partaking in the Xbox division's ecosystem of software and services. In other words, a win-win situation for Microsoft, and a customer that's every bit as valuable as the one accessing their software and services on an Xbox device. So console players will just have to get used to primarily PC players chiming into these threads with comments like, "I'll be playing Crackdown 3 at 60fps and you won't" - because Microsoft values their business just as much as yours.
Incidentally, I'll be playing PUBG at 60fps and you won't. ?
@Enragedhydra: "Pubg is not console exclusive its been out on Steam for awhile"
Man, was it not super clear based on my lamentations about playing it at 30fps with a controller, not to mention the point about the Xbox One version being a "limited time console exclusive" that I'm well aware it's been out on PC for a while (where I play it at 60fps with a finely-tuned gaming mouse)? Not being snarky, just thought that was super, super clear ?
Loftis: "...the fact that all the blockbusters, like Destiny [2] and Star Wars Battlefront II, are just going to run way better on Xbox One."
They will LOOK better on the X in most cases thanks to the GPU grunt and VRAM overhead, but they will still RUN at the same performance - thanks to the weak sauce 2.3 GHz Jaguar CPU.
PUBG is a nice limited time console exclusive, sure, but playing that game at 30fps and with a controller sounds frankly atrocious.
"But when everybody is playing it at 30fps with a controller, it's fair and balanced!"
No, it just means everybody on the XB1/X port is experiencing the same level of performance gimp and janky input response in that game. A whole bunch of folks "settling" for less, on an even ground of inferiority.
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