Somebody explain the appeal of consoles in 2026 to me. I can easily connect any controller to my PC, and get games at half the price for it?
As someone who contemplates getting either a PC or PS5 for playing FF7 Remake trilogy: a used ps5 goes for around 250€ - 400€
A PC that runs the games at medium settings costs… Well, at least double that. A used RX 6700 XT alone is almost the price of the whole console. And that’s just the GPU, I haven’t even looked the RAM prices… Then add CPU, motherboard, SSD…
So the appeal is price.
Edit: RX 6700 XT is the official recommended GPU for running Rebirth at medium settings
Hold the controller closely to your parent’s wallet and unlock this amazing new skin.
You, and YOU alone can help Solid Snake in his mission. Should you choose to accept, the objective is simple. Remove the RFID resistant wallet from your parent’s back pocket. Inside, there will be a plastic card that contains the nuclear codes. Take that card, and press it to the face of your controller. Hurry, agent! The world’s counting on you
Ah, the same corpo who once filed a patent about having to yell the name of a product whenever its ad pops on the TV.
Oh don’t tell me, they’re trying to pavlov the population?
And once the barrier to payment is that low, well, microtransactions in games naturally follow.
- “Tap your card now for a character boost for this boss fight”
Do you need a patent for that? Can you even patent something so silly and trivial?
I took an existing thing and put it inside another existing thing. That’s a novel idea, right?
We could put card terminals in everything! Put card terminals in the fridge to pay for food?
I can’t think how this is any better than just using the card you already saved on the account. Even from their point of view, this is an extra step in the payment process.
That’s why all these microtransactions are in their own made-up currency.
Like I’m ever “buying” a game from them again.
Sony patent could let players tap a credit card on their PlayStation controller to rent games.
- Ftfy, Dexerto, if something can be taken away from you at any time, you don’t own it, you’re only renting it.
Next it’ll be Mountain Dew verification cans
$300 controllers coming soon, still with stick drift and rubber joystick tops that turn into slime over time.
If they fixed it, you wouldn’t have to buy new ones
And if it’s anything like my Dualsense, needs to be charged all the time. I basically use it as a wired controller now and barely use my PS5
I skipped the PS4 gen and went from 3 to 5. Is it just my poor memory or did the PS3 controllers not last longer? I know the 5 has more going on in it, but the battery tech has to improve greatly as well in ~14 years
Ps3 controller where basically the best controller ever made in terms of battery life and reliability. Hall effects, amazing battery life, could fall from a 2 story drop and keep on trucking.
They where so reliable that’s it’s part of the reason I think they have been slowly making them worse ever since.
So that people have to actually buy new ones.
Outside of a SINGLE battery replacement from age, my original day 1 ps3 controller is still going strong while every PS4 and 5 controller I’ve had has started to fail in one way or another in like a year ish.
I think the Wii U pro controller had the best battery of all controllers. That thing would just like a month and there was barely any standby drain, it kept well ahold of it’s charge. But the DualShock 3 was a close second.
buy
lmfao
Silly rabbit, buying isn’t owning!
Paying for*; buying is owning
Life imitates art
The meme is so old, tapping cards to pay did not even exist.
Sony really made the meme real, what a fucking world we live in
This was a joke once upon a time
And the easier victory of course provides you with a sense of pride and accomplishment.
First of all how much easier can it get? I just have my paypal or venmo saved and can’t even remember the last time I needed to update it, it always works and always there.
Second if anything it should be on the console not the controller. Its just another thing that will drain my battery and for something that will never get used. If its on the system i could care less. Will there be options to buy without it?
this is going to be awkward when my taint-chip starts to trigger purchases.
As store payment? sure, why not, include fancy terminal in gamepad… totally won’t increase price of device, like we lack options to pay in internet, but having one more, ok…
U don’t mean [pay to continue], [buy in-game currency], [pay to skip ad mid boss fight] or [pay to gain access to next stage without waiting for stamina]? not at all… suuuuureeeeee…
Tap credit card to parry, hold credit card down to block. Move credit card forward, down, down-forward followed by payment to shoryuken.
$5…$10…$20…$50…C.C.C.Comb$100 BREAKER!!
There’s already nothing stopping anyone from adding the latter I believe? In freemium games anyway
…but not own them.
