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PC Games Are Outselling Console Games, According to New Industry Report (www.cnet.com)

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[+] Katana314@lemmy.world -6 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Besides plug and play safety as mentioned, two other cool things:

Monthly Netflix-style rental service. For people who want to try a lot of games to find their niche, PS+ and Game Pass are great.
Sleep mode. Being able to pause a game for days on end is incredibly convenient. PCs have attempted to have this feature, but very inconsistently, and it often means you cannot web browse when finished playing.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago

Sleep mode. Being able to pause a game for days on end is incredibly convenient. PCs have attempted to have this feature, but very inconsistently, and it often means you cannot web browse when finished playing.

The fuck are you smoking? My parents PC from the 90s had a sleep mode that worked exactly like a modern console's would

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

PCs have all of this and much more.

[–] LorIps@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Gamepass is on Windows and Linux too

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world -1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I’m sorry, what? Windows yes, I used PC Game Pass for a while before swearing off Xbox. But for all its emulation advances, Linux has always had huge struggles running UWP apps, which accounts for everything on Game Pass. Even on Windows, Game Pass isn’t always the best experience compared to just using a console.

[–] LorIps@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Game Pass works through streaming, unfortunately running natively is impossible due to UWP crap. But next to that there is also EA Play and Ubisoft+ as well as free games from Amazon, Epic, etc.