My point is, back in the days, upgrading PCs was not as easy as it is nowadays. Now there's almost no point investing in consoles when you can get a new graphic card etc for a good price. So no advantage for consoles here. Not to mention that at least the hardware lasted more than 5 years very easily, can't say the same for modern consoles. I went through 3 Xbox360 in 6 years. Never had the same problem with my retro consoles from Sega and Nintendo. Lots of games now also require servers to really play them to the fullest and those servers rarely stay online for more than a few years, making the games obsolete very quickly in a lot of cases. Another prob retro games didn't have, at least not as much unless you count rare stuff like the BS-X addon games etc...
Maybe the games aren't hacked, for now, but the networks can get shutted down very easily. And yes, I include PS3 in my post since it's not like it was 3 or more generations back. I'm talking about modern gaming in general, which is vastly considered to start with the Dreamcast/PS2/Xbox generation. Sony had a lot of problems with hackers (Anonymous etc) on their network a few years ago. Seeing how my friends were pissed off I'm glad I was already on PCs by that point. Again, no big advantage for consoles here.
Well if that's the case it's a very good thing they found a way to make the updates less "painful" to do. I remember when I was going to see some friends to play games with them, and having to wait 5-10 minutes or even more after booting the console sometimes. One of the things that made consoles appealing is that back in the days we just had to push the power button and that was it, boom, playing the game. No need to do the kind of stuff that PCs had to do like driver updates and all that stuff.
Still, for the small amount of exclusive titles on consoles atm, I really don't see the appeal of consoles when it comes to Sony and MS. I can almost always get the same games eventually or at least equivalent/better titles on PC. Also, I know that mods are starting to be a thing now on XOne but it's not quite the same as what we can do on PCs yet. And tho emulation is possible on consoles (no, I won't pay 500$ or more for stuff like Panzer Dragoon Saga) it's always more complicated, having to mod them etc... Again, PC wins imo.
Maybe I'll take a look at what Nintendo has to offer but like many of us already said on the thread, I'm kinda tired of cartoony games and stuff like that. Unless Nintendo really bring out the big guns, like a REAL new Metroid game, I'll pass even on the Switch.
