PC Won The Console War

DX covers the rise, fall and second golden age of PC gaming and the platform effectively won the console war by obtaining nearly all exclusives from both Sony and Microsoft. Also discussed is Nintendo's strategy for console exclusives and how they win without competing.

Huge thanks to Svem, the greatest It-z player, for the Naruto footage.

#pc #pcgaming #pcgamer

[DigiKnighty]

I love how you don't do a cut every 2 seconds and do retention based editing. Just chill and enjoyable voiceover over the footage

[CyberRager]

I like how since 2016 you evolved from a raging schizo into an honest and informative videogame reviewer, well done, been following you since i was 13

[lynackhilou]

Piracy was huge on consoles, and i do mean huge, in my country ( 3rd world ) while growing up 98% of games sold in shops are pirated copies of the ps2 , ps3 and xbox 360 games . You had to jailbreak your console but since it's easy to do and a couple legit games were the cost of a minimum wage, most people went the piracy route .
It's easy to think of piracy as a pc issue since this last 2 gens piracy on consoles is harder and less accessible, but in previous gens it was pretty common

[ElJosher]

Ultrawide, emulation, graphical settings, and sales are what keep me in pc

[GamerAlexVideos]

Also, let's not forget about how damaging Games for Windows Live was to PC gaming during the 7th generation. It's still frustrating to deal with to this day, so I can't imagine using the service when it came out. What was Microsoft thinking when they made GFWL?!?!

[misberave]

"Two dogs fight for a bone and the third runs away with it"

[pepela]

it's the best time to be a PC gamer but definitely not the best time to be a gamer

[garrick]

For me, the scarcity of PS5 really kicked me from PS4 to PC. The relative ease of connecting a PC to a huge TV also helped. The blurring of the lines between PC monitor and TV was a factor.

[korakys]

As a die hard pc gamer who lived through the dark times one of the major factors that fucked us was that it was _Mircosoft_ that built the xbox and entered the console space. They had no reason to support gaming on pc any more and acted like it. They also went from being one of the foremost publishers of pc games to a complete halt. Even to this day they don't sell some of their back catalogue of pc games.

[Defa_Noob]

In their desperation to make more money a keep player retention consoles just ended up pushing their core audience to a different platform, ironic.

[fluttzkrieg]

Last console I owned was the PS3, my dad bought it for me like 15 years ago. Still have it with several games but the controller isn't working anymore.

Got many years of fun out of it, but I don't plan on ever buying another console considering I've built a monstrously expensive PC nowadays.

[LB-ygbr]

You know what did it for me? Backwards compatibility. Sony refusing to allow me to keep playing my “old” games felt like spitting in my face. PC still lets me play Master of Orion 2 and baldurs gate 1, both of which have amazing mods available to breathe new life into them. Console games all have a lifespan, but pc games are forever. Shit I’m playing the original Xcom and it’s still amazing. I played the “new” xcom 2 and it just filled me with disgust and I went back to the original from the 90’s

[DXFromYT]

The art for my intro, this video's thumbnail and title card was done by artist Azuma Yasuo. They have a Patreon as well, and you can find their links in the description!

[MGSmainthemeBACK]

How I can forget that the ports were based on ps2/xbox versions of a game rather than the ps3/x360... those were dark times... glad that's a thing of the past

[TheHangarHobbit]

You forgot the most important change from the earlier console gens....consoles simply became DRMed PCs. There is no porting from some strange instruction set like Power PC or Cell to X86 because both of the major consoles are just AMD PCs with DRM on top, both are using X86 instruction sets and GPUs no different than what you would get from Micro Center.

As for Nintendo it will be interesting to see how they fare if the rumors are true that the next gen Steam Deck with have a dock with active cooling so that the APU can clock higher when in dock mode, as then portable gamers will have access to the huge Steam library and the better graphics while still having portability.

[SheepAmongG.O.A.T]

Steam single handedly saved PC. At that time the throw away devices were being pushed hard over PCs like the laptops and tablets. This is also when indies exploded for the same reason. Before that everyone focused on the latest and greatest. Now were all cool with playing basically what is sub par compared to a AAA title.

[AhmadAliK]

I thought of another reason why companies make pc ports. You see how ps3, ps4, switch, xbox 360 emulation is on the rise, and many gamers who want to play console exclusives from these consoles will find a way to pirate them (roms, iso files, fake storefronts). But, if these games were originally released on pc, a large portion of gamers will buy the games from steam especially that old games become cheaper and have more discounts, and from my observation, many gamers pirate games out of necessity because the official way of playing the game is not accessible enough. So, porting your games to PC guarantees that you keep your game on digital storefronts forever and the sales figures will only rise overtime

[Disthron]

Fun Fact: The PC pirating issue was always nonsense. Similar to the 'shop lifting' thing. If you don't know, big corporations don't try to claim their shoplifting numbers on insurance because they actually have no idea how much is being shoplifted. If something goes missing, it's just listed in the same account of stuff that gets dropped on the floor or falls in-between a shelf, is left somewhere where it's not supposed to be.

In 2015, when Denovo was first pushed out, it took almost 6 months for pirates to crack Fifa 2015. This is practically unheard of... but EA did not make any noise about selling tons more copies than usual. The fact that it wasn't cracked had no appreciable impact on sales at all.

[UnlockedANDunleashed]

I didn't even feel like the video was 18 minutes, that's a sign of good content, imma sub keep up the quality

[tarnishedhunter]

The craziest part is how modders have evolved past Bethesda and how modding is a bigger exclusive than console exclusives