Final Fantasy 16 producer and 14 director Naoki Yoshida wishes everyone played games on the same console.

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    10 months ago

    The biggest advantage that consoles have is that you turn them on and start playing games.

    No research process, no assembling components, no installing drivers, just actual gaming.

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      It’s been a long time since that was the case though. Now you have to update the console, update the controller firmware, install the game, and update the game.

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        10 months ago

        True though you have to do all those with PC as well, consoles are still a streamlined experience in comparison

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          Sure, but they’re approaching a convergence. PCs have gotten easier and consoles have become less streamlined. With something like the Steam Deck, it’s even more blurred.

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          Steam is legitimately easier and faster to get games going on than my PS4 these days IMO. Library is laid out alot better and there’s no signing in whenever I turn on a controller. Its still easier to do local multiplayer on PS4, but not by much.

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            10 months ago

            and there’s no signing in whenever I turn on a controller

            Can you not sync your account to a specific controller on Playstation? Xbox has that for a while, though the whole software experience has generally been Xbox’s strong suit imho

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      While only the Steam Deck has achieved massive success, it shows there are ways to reduce the prep time for PC gaming, to almost as little as modern consoles (since you do, ultimately, have to install drivers on console.)