New Xbox basically kills off used games

[Dachs]

Yeah, just try to play, say, a flight sim game with a keyboard and mouse. Not gonna happen. There's a reason USB joysticks used to be as popular as they were.

 

[bhsup]

Eh, good point. I just haven't done a flight sim since like Gunship 2000 with my Logitech Wingman that plugged into the gaming port of my SB16 sound card, so I wasn't even thinking of those types of games.

 

[Dachs]

I had a Sidewinder joystick to play countless hours of X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and the other LucasArts space games

ah, the memories

 

[Mise]

You can also just plug in a USB controller for the majority of modern PC games and they'll auto-recognize and map the controls. I do it for some of my Steam games with my Xbox controller.

360 controllers have awesome PC support, they work wirelessly, and pretty much every modern game that's controller-appropriate has built-in proper mappings and support for it.

Yeah I know, that's why I said "it can't be much fun without a controller"

 

[TheLastOne36]

I prefer controller for FPS games for some reason.

 

[Hehehe]

A few years back I predicted that the new console generation would attempt to tackle used games market with some sort of drm scheme [/Itoldyouso]

Still though, with all the bad news I've been hearing about the upcoming Xbox One, I can't help but to wonder if this might be some kind of marketing scheme? First let out all these bad news to scope out the reaction, and if the reaction is too negative, make a grand announcement saying said features will be scrapped

 

[bhsup]

The "New Coke" of the 21st century? Interesting...

 

[EvenStranger]

Meh, I'm just going to "old man" it out on my Desktop. If PC Gaming dies I'll just find a new hobby.

This generation of consoles is too cyberstalky and Facebooky for me.

 

[Quackers]

Before this thread I thought there was harmony between PC & games console owners. I thought it was still Xbox vs PlayStation and before Nintento vs PlayStation; never have i been so wrong.

I don't get the big problem. I've got a nice shiny Xbox 360 for certain games and a PC for others. Typically, RTS + PC exclusive games and than on the Xbox graphically maxed games, everything where a controller > keyboard. It is a good system, maybe i'm just lucky I have both. Embrace the other side you don't know what you're missing out on

 

[Zelig]

I don't get the big problem. I've got a nice shiny Xbox 360 for certain games and a PC for others. Typically, RTS + PC exclusive games and than on the Xbox graphically maxed games, everything where a controller > keyboard. It is a good system, maybe i'm just lucky I have both. Embrace the other side you don't know what you're missing out on

Well, if I were to get an xbox it would basically be the opposite - PC for better graphics, xbox only for console-exclusives.

 

[Farm Boy]

Well, if I were to get an xbox it would basically be the opposite - PC for better graphics, xbox only for console-exclusives.

Indeedily this is true. Consoles plug into televisions. Televisions, even the big ol' fancy expensive ones, have maximum resolutions that, uhm, aren't really comparable. Which is why you have to like sit on a couch across the room or whatnot. As opposed to sitting with your nose glued to the screen in a dark room wearing headphones while gripping your.... superior control devices<ahem> like a proper little PC nerd enamored with the magic and rightness of his gaming platform choice.

 

[Maniacal]

You can plug your TV into your computer too, and they run at lower resolutions for the games.

 

[Farm Boy]

You can do this, but why would you want to do this?

Actually, consoles do have the definite edge for multiplayer where everyone is sitting in the same room with the TV. That is nice.

 

[Zelig]

Er, what? 1080p is pretty much standard for either TVs or computer monitors now.

I have my 55" 1080p TV plugged into my computer, and it works just fine.

 

[Farm Boy]

They work ok, but if you've gotten used to 1920 on 21 inches 1080 on 55 is jarring. It doesn't actually matter too much so long as they game doesn't have a lot of small text and numbers. If it does it can be a bit annoying.

 

[Zelig]

Oh, yeah. Though even with 55" you have to be sitting closer than 7 feet away for it to make any difference.

 

[Mise]

Gah, WTH is a foot....

 

[BvBPL]

Gah, WTH is a foot....

About one ninth of a hogshead.

 

[Mise]

Not even one tenth

 

[Zelig]

Gah, WTH is a foot....

I'm really sorry, for some reason every Google image result for "resolution distance chart" is in feet.