Gamers may have begun to shy away from the now more expensive PS5. U.S. April data highlights a 30% decline in PlayStation console sales compared to the previous year. Before the impending Switch 2 price increase, Nintendo’s handheld extended its lead over the competition.
It’s not laziness; it’s time. I’ve got three kids and a full time job. If I sit down to play a game and I’m spending that time fiddling with drivers or trying to figure out why the video isn’t displaying on my tv, then I don’t get to play a game.
I swear, PC snobs are worse than recipe writers about underestimating prep time.
“Fiddling with drivers” means pressing UPDATE on your graphics driver once every couple of months, even less frequently if you don’t play the newest AAA Games.
Getting the screen to display takes the same time as with a console: Once while setting up and usually amounts to “Plug in the chord”.
If you want to play on console you do you, but this shouldn’t be your reason.
Uh huh. And it takes fifteen minutes to caramelize onions.
The last time I had to “fiddle” with drivers on Windows, I had this integrated GPU. Now check the release date on that. Everything I’ve owned since then, has simply required the drivers to be installed. Brand new AAA games often get game-specific optimizations, which is the main reason to keep them up to date. Otherwise you don’t need to update very often.
With nVidia on Linux I’ve had more issues, but that also depends on your distro and it’s not really as bad as people would have you think. AMD is less problematic and running a more mainstream distro helps too. I switched to CachyOS and now I have fewer issues than on TumbleWeed.