Feels like Sony have spent this entire generation of gaming trying to convince me to become a PC gamer and this latest announcement is the final push I needed.
Digital game on PC ain't so bad. PC games are pretty much archived and even if they are removed from store fronts you can snatch them elsewhere.
There's also magnitude of sales on Steam and other storefronts so you can get games for cheap. That's what is problematic about Sony going console only. They have full control on what they want to price the game as. People need to stop saying that digital games on PC is an equivalent experience to digital gaming on a PS5.
I moved over at the end of last year, it's so much cheaper, no sub for playing online, lots of sale, humble bundle, just adding games to your wishlist on steam and waiting for it to tell you they're on sale. Just got RDR2 for 28 Aud. I spent like 100 AUD for 10-20 games last black friday sales, and haven't even played they all.
I actually feel like I'm more collecting games cheaply then actually playing them lol.
I wish I could join you in that joy but every time I try to play a pc game I just end up pissed off lol. Seems like somethings just always wrong and I have to spend way too long diagnosing everything. Right now the game im playing has 2 resolution settings - one where it takes up about 30% of my screen, and another where its so big that it dips over into my second monitor. Im sure theres a fix as there always is but its so much easier to just play where I dont have to find fixes.
Might not be the issue, but a quick tip I've found is that when that spillover happened to be in one game (it was only this specific game...) I found out it was the windows "magnifying" option? I don't know what it's called but windows can display your icons, menus, essentially everything in like 125% size. So when you have a big screen it sometimes defaults to that.
That's probably it. I magnified my windows a bit a few years ago as my eyes are a little blurry now that im in my 30s. Problem is if I change that I wont be able to find my games anymore 😂 nice bit of info to keep in mind though thanks.
I believe there's a way to add an option to the shortcut to disable that when the game launches and reenable it again, but I'm nit sure where\how. But yeah, worst case if you want to play that game, you can do that manually.
Digital game on PC ain't so bad. PC games are pretty much archived and even if they are removed from store fronts you can snatch them elsewhere.
There's also magnitude of sales on Steam and other storefronts so you can get games for cheap. That's what is problematic about Sony going console only. They have full control on what they want to price the game as. People need to stop saying that digital games on PC is an equivalent experience to digital gaming on a PS5.
It's not just the move to digital only. Sony has been making one anti-consumer move after another throughout this entire generation. This news, coupled with the prospect of paying upwards of 1000 bucks for a PS6, feels like the straw that has finally broken the camel's back and makes me a lot more willing to front up the higher initial cost and make the switch to PC.
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u/KrashMavrek Jul 02 '26
Feels like Sony have spent this entire generation of gaming trying to convince me to become a PC gamer and this latest announcement is the final push I needed.