> You also don't lose access to older games if you get a better system.

To be fair, all the latest generation consoles are near 100% backwards compatible with their respective last gen. This has historically been more tricky due to architecture changes but it seems like all consoles have converged into more or less bog-standard prebuilt computers so it's less of an ask.

But still, I trust my Steam library to last longer than anything I've bought digitally on consoles.

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LinXitoW 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've recently played through all the Dragon Age games on the same PC. A PS5 can only do Inquisition and the best one, Veilguard.

Before that, I played Psychonauts 1.

We forget how many insanely good, solid games existed even in just the PS3 era.

	▲	hbn 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I also played through all the Dragon Age games on PC recently! Origins needs a small patch to run on a 64-bit machine and it doesn't scale very well on a 4k monitor without 3rd party software but other than that it's a great show of backwards compatibility. > the best one, Veilguard I assume that's sarcasm or you're the first person I've heard to say that :) Actually the reason I finally played the series is because my buddy worked on Veilguard. I'll give them credit for assembling something as cohesive as it is considering it went from a single player game to a multiplayer game and back to a single player game during development.

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Zetaphor 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On Linux I can play games going back multiple generations as well as emulating other consoles

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tvshtr a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Ehh, but on Linux nowadays it's whichever gen, plus modding, multiple frontends and storefronts.