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Explaining hardware to enthusiasts
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from my wife - we sit in front of a computer all damn day. we don't want to sit in front of a computer all damn night too. we want to sit down in front of our TV and play games together in the evening. we just want it to work. we've built PCs and we have no interest in cobbling something together and supporting it for it's lifetime. don't act like that doesn't come with a huge cost of time.
100% This, I work in IT all day. The last thing I want to do with my personal time is build and support a home built machine attached to my TV that my kids or wife will use to watch Netflix or play a few games. Especially if I am out of town and something stops working.
That’s why I own a PlayStation and pay a premium for their games on an inferior platform compared to PC. It generally just works with out me having to fuck with it all the time. I’d get a Steam box for the same reason.
I have game consoles, but I don't use them regularly. Every time I turn them on, they want an hour of updates and a password reset just to use the dvd player.
A PC just works.
I bet a Steam Machine would just work too, because Valve aren't as incompetent as the competition.
PCs do not just work. They require updates a lot more than your average game console especially if you're cursed to use Windows.
I can use my PC's DVD player while I wait for sudo pacman -Syu, or I can even not update it at all if I want. I can do the thing I wanted to do and then update it when I'm done.
To be fair, if you would use your PC as rarely as you seem to use your gaming console, it's probably also want to take an hour to update...
I could still play games or watch DVDs while it updates
An hdmi extender, routing a cable, and getting some wireless peripherals (which you'd need anyway) is a huge cost of time?
Unless you live in a mansion, I guess..
I like the steam box but idk
All this tells me is you don't frequently mess with your computer enough to break it.
I want a steam box because my PC is always in some state of me fucking with it. I don't want that to get in the way of my gaming.
??? What are you on about? Stop breaking your shit and then acting like the issue is the fact that it's a PC and not the fact that you're actively choosing to mess with it?
Like, what is breaking in the first place?
I LIKE breaking my shit. I don't like missing my games. Steam machine is an easy answer.
...it doesn't come with a huge cost of time. Literally no idea what the fuck you're talking about. Where is the time cost?
You just buy a new PC every time you have a driver issue, huh?
Driver issue??