True, but one leads to the other here. If they were getting crushed on the corporate level, they’d be forced to turn to the consumer market.
That’s a special sort of hell, Google sheets. As an accountant, it’s not up to snuff (although it’s ability to have multiple people in the doc at the same time, and it’s co-working abilities are wonderful). Gmail too is an especially epic absolute circle of hell, from a business user perspective.
The thing is, Microsoft Office is full of bugs that are 20+ years old at this point. If someone came along with an actual enterprise level business software suite that could be easily adapted and was quite similar to MOffice, especially Excel, I think Microsoft could be pretty easily crushed. As it is, they are high on their own farts, because there’s nobody forcing them to be otherwise. There’s been a few attempts, but nothing that could seriously be an alternative as of yet. And it’s maddening, because Microsoft gouges everyone.
I remember the original being pretty mid. Am I remembering wrong? Like it was interesting for a few days and then I don’t remember ever playing it again…
Its not even the price, it’s just the principle. If you don’t hold something, you can’t control it. You could have a license expire or come under dispute on a game, and suddenly you can’t play it anymore because some random back county judge issued a ruling. A bit extreme of an example, but what’s often more the case, you buy something on a store, and then the console company cuts the store (Nintendo with DS & 3DS for example).
I’m sure the emulation and piracy/preservation community will see us through all of this, but the less popular stuffs going to get lost to time. It’s always better if you have physical media somewhere with the files you need.
You are going to need 64gb to game comfortably in the future, not very many people build a gaming PC for it to be pretty obsolete 2 years later, and being forced to have to start turning down all your settings. These AAA games get wilder and wilder and more demanding. They are often released in absolutely abysmal states too and it often takes a bit of time to get that cleared up.
Even DDR4 ram is ridiculous right now, 32gb ddr4 plus a tb nvme will probably run you pretty close to a grand. That’s not even a case, motherboard, chip, power supply, a GPU (which may be close to another grand)…
I mean if you want to play Indie games, then sure yeah any old rutabega PC will do it. But if you want it to last 5 or 6 years and be able to play AAA games at respectable levels, then you probably should build it with some muscle.
You want to try and run something like GTA 6 when it comes out on a 1080 with 8gb of ram, I mean you do you.
I don’t pay a subscription on PS5 either. Not everyone online games.
I just happened to be at a computer store the other day, 64gb of ddr5 ram was going to run you about $1200-1600 Canadian dollars. That’s just the ram, and if you are going to be building a PC right now, thats what you are going to want going forward. Even if a PS6 is $1k, it’s still the better buy if this stuff continues, subscriptions and all. Even a lower end gaming PC is going to likely (well)exceed $2k at these prices.
I mean my computer is a few years old now, it was pretty decent spec at the time (5800x3d/128gb Ram DDR4/5070ti). The issue is, when the hottest new game releases on PC, it’s often so poorly optimized that for the next couple of months it chugs, on higher end stuff let alone bottom tier stuff. It’s something that isn’t talked about as much, but PC releases (especially AAA) are more often than not released with poor builds that are fraught with issues that you just don’t seem to get quite as much at the console level.
Not to mention that PC games are all digital now too. It’s all the same issues, problems and behaviours. I don’t like it either, but my point is gaming isn’t perfect in PC land either.
I mean I have both, but you better bring your wallet if you want to PC game. Especially as of late.
I don’t even like steam. I wish everyone would fuck off with these launchers. Especially considering the price of storage and memory in our hallucinatory times.