Quote Originally Posted by Psychotic View Post
I think the whole "Pick up and play" advantage for consoles was eroded with the advent of mandatory installation for consoles.
This x 100. Maybe it's because I'm an old fart. See, back when consoles were stuff like, you know - the NES, SNES, Genesis, N64 etc., I truly honestly preferred consoles because they were so damn easy. You plugged the cartridge in, turned the thing on, and off you went! It was wonderfully easy!

Then memory cards showed up, and then console dashboards showed up, then having to make accounts for things like Xbox Live or whatever showed up, then sitting around for 20 minutes waiting for the Xbox to update showed up, and "oh look this game you just bought won't play on your Xbox because you don't have a big enough hard drive, SURPRISE" and I don't know.

I still play consoles, I have wonderful memories with them and I don't have a beef with them whatsoever but it's so much easier for me to just pull up Steam, hit install, plug in a controller and go.

If consoles were still truly plug-and-play, my tune might be different. But as it is, I'm an old fart, and Steam is easier to understand.