Also one could Skype on a PSP or Vita in the past, though you can't now. The Vita's email client works though.
The Xperia play even had Minecraft PE as an exclusive for a couple of months. As an aside, the physical controls on the Vita make Minecraft on the Vita a better experience than Minecraft PE on tablets and phones, even with the Vita version's world size limitation.
IMHO phones should stay phones. The changes needed to make a phone a good gaming device increase the size, weight, heat output and battery draw. We still need dedicated portable consoles for "Good" gaming on the go. Sure, maybe if you like F2P touchy games with IAP you like gaming on phones...but for other games, not so much.
and controllers that were, compared to XB and PS controllers, VERY basic and simplified, so you didn't first have to learn to play, you could simply pick them up and play.
Only with the Wii, the N64 and Gamecube controllers were more traditional.
And the other consoles simply suck as party consoles.
That depends on how you #define party console.
One of the issues is that people "think" there are no "party/family-get-together" games for the PS4...since you don't see those games on the shelf. But there ARE some party games....the thing is they're mostly in the Playstation Store.
So when a "Wii Mom" goes to the game aisle and sees "Game party pack 2016" or "Happy fun time sports-with-mii's" in the Wii/WiiU section, and then goes over to the PS4 section and sees: Fallout 4, Destiny, TESO, ModernSeasonalRealisticSportsGame2016, Duty Calls: Medal of the Battlefield Ops Master Shooty Sergeant eXTREEM edition, Demon Souls, etc etc..she's going to think there are no party games for the PS4.
It's one of the problems with digital downloads, it is hard for SCEfoo to market them to people who aren't already on PSN so they might as well not exist to "casuals". Even then it is hit or miss. I only just found out about Brut@l a couple of days ago.
You can already play games on the go and on the big screen if you have both a Vita and the Playstation TV microconsole (which is basically a screenless Vita) Not even taking into account that the vita can do Remote Play with a PS4.
Those are idiots who played the Pokemons when they were 7-year-old
I first played Pokemon in 1999 (Red/Blue) on a GBC when I was 32 you insignificant clod!
instead of real games like Street Fighter II, Doom etc.
I've also played SF2 (on a SNES, but I'm not a big fan of the game or genre) and DOOM (also on the SNES and PSone)
Playing both Pokemon and DOOM is not a zero sum game, one can like them both. Though the last Pokemon I played was Gold/Silver/Crystal. The combination of the in-game clock tied with events, and the whole trading thing designed around the schoolyard made the games not very adult friendly even if you DID have two GBC's.
No, Valve IS stupid. Gaben used to go on and on about how open source was the future, but kept his focus on Windows when another company was ALREADY using open source with their gaming hardware.
That company was Sony. If Gabe Newell dislikes MIcrosoft so much, why didn't he form a joint venture with Sony, which has been using open source software longer than Valve has! Essentially, the PS3/PS4 OS's are what SteamOS wants to be.
The reason is that while Gabe rants against walled gardens, the truth is he just wants gamers to use his OWN walled garden.
And I'm told most of these exceptions are on PlayStation 2, 3, and 4.
As far as I know, yes. If there are Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One games with such support, I'd like to know about them.
Some people like using a mouse in one hand and half of a DualShock in the other because unlike WASD, an analog stick offers analog control of the speed and direction of your movement, not just your aiming.
Yep, I prefer that method if I can get it. I know one player of War Thunder on PC who uses that method for tanks. I've also read of PC gamers buying up Playstation Move Navigation controllers (that's the one with the analog stick, not the glowy ball on the end of it) and using them with mice.
Just a reminder that FPS's aren't the only genre but every console since the PS2 has USB ports for a reason. It's not a case of "allow" but rather "do the developers want to take the time and effort to implement/test/troubleshoot a keyboard + mouse control system alongside the standard controller"
And often they don't bother to...but....sometimes they do. And I have console games within 10 feet of me with keyboard and/or mouse support. Sometimes the support won't be listed on the box, you have to check.
I'm not sure what you're getting at? Do you mean 3 adults or what? If it is a shared household of 3 adults then they can pay for their OWN PS+. If it is an adult and kids, then the adult can decided if they want their kids to have online multiplayer, or not.
But PS+ accounts are per user, so it depends on WHO the devices are owned by and how many.
For example, I have ONE PS4 and it's set as the "Primary" and I'm a PS+ user. Any sub account on the system has access to multiplayer on this system.
If I had a second PS4 that was NOT set to primary, sub accounts wouldn't have access to multiplayer. (except for those games that don't require PS+ for multiplayer) But I could use multiplayer on that system while others used multiplayer on the Primary.
I have a friend with a PS4, while he currently has PS+ there are times he hasn't. Now if I was to go to his house and login as "Me" on that system, I would have full access to PS+ services on his machine whether he has PS+ or not since PS+ is per user.
Ive got a 10 year old beigebox running customised windowmaker
Using a couple of scripts
Took about a day to set it up (writing all the scripts, customising WindowMaker for use with the remote, etc).
perhaps you missed the "tinker-free" part of the GP's comment. Remember, not everyone is a Linux geek. Hell, I'm a Linux user and I'm not sure I could do the scripting you've done....especially with Windowmaker.
Does it support things like WebM (MKV container, VP8 or VP9 video, and Vorbis or Opus audio)?
Have you turned into RMS? Just use h264 with AAC audio in MPEG4 containers for video and MP3 for music as the gods intended. You know damned well that "open" formats tend to be less well supported on consumer media devices so you don't even need to ask. Besides, you can have the DLNA server transcode any unsupported format, though you should just stick to the formats I listed above.
Hell I haven't updated the drivers for my videocard(sapphire 7950) since last year, and it's going along just fine with all the latest titles.
Video card updates come along fairly frequently and one probably should update them. If you're running year old drivers, you're probably not taking advantage of your video card as much as you might. And why the heck are you, a member of the PC Master Race not keeping your Windows system updated as you SHOULD be doing.
[sarcasm]Obviously a Windows Peasant, who probably isn't competent enough to administer a computer at all. Who knows what other updates this Windows Peasant hasn't done. They're machine is probably trojaned all to hell.[/sarcasm]
Another supposedly "superior" build from the biased master race reddit?
Which doesn't even include the OS, which has to be Windows for a game box, only has 4GB of RAM, not 8 and uses a Quad-core CPU (but at least it's a fast quad core)
Not only that but it is a box you have to build yourself, it is NOT a prebuilt one that you can just head out to a big box store and just simply buy, like a PS4 or Xbox One.
Topic at hand: I wouldn't recommend a console to anyone,
I really wouldn't recommend gaming on Windows. I know people do it, and that there are games that are PC only, but that doesn't mean people SHOULD do it.
While being locked into a console ecosystem that punishes you
While being locked into the Windows ecosystem of a crappy OS that punishes you. And locked into the Steam ecosystem that punishes you, or the Origin ecosystem that punishes you.
requires you to pay for multiplayer support and basic functions that are free on the PC.
They aren't truly "free" on the PC...somebody pays for that bandwidth. Whether it's some affluent nerd hosting some Quake-foo server, or Valve paying for their TF2 servers with the cut they take off of Steam...somebody pays, directly or indirectly.
Besides, console gamers get things BESIDES the multiplayer with their PS+ or Xbox live subscriptions.
And not all multiplayer in the PlayStation ecosystem requires PS+!
Multiplayer doesn't require PS+ on the Vita, or PS3. (or the PSP and PS2 if any of their games still have multiplayer running)
F2P games on the PS4 don't require PS+ for multiplayer. Examples being War Thunder or Neverwinter.
Games that use a "Send a turn/PBEM" style of multiplayer, also don't require PS+
we now get half-baked console games that are shoveled onto the PC without any care because you don't even have to PORT anymore.
Or vice versa! There are some half-baked buggy and/or badly designed indie/kickstarter/unity/budget game crap that was first released on PC and then later on PSN.
Please excuse ME while I don't jump for joy for that sort of thing.
Clickbait from 2009, which means the "last generation" they were referring to was the 360 and PS3!
Sony is talking about no future playstations.
I've seen nothing of the sort, citation needed from SCEfoo themselves.
And as to ease of use... learn to use a computer or render yourself too incompetent to participate in the modern world.
I run Linux so by my standards, you windows using gamer dudebros are the incompetents who shouldn't even be trusted to admin their own computer.
The level of competence required to manage a gaming PC is within the easy reach of a ten year old child. If that's too much for you... then that can only be pitied.
The masses simply can't be trusted to admin their own machines well. They don't have the time, knowledge or inclination. Said people should not be gaming on PC's....at all. They probably shouldn't even be using PC's for web browsing or media consumption.
Again, I run Linux, so NEVER pull that "console gamers are dumb" shit with me.
Hey gamergaters, those youtubers you love so much aren't paragons of virtue and transparency. Hell they're less ethical than formally trained journalists. You're better off reading the magazines than following some hyperactive Eurotrash guy for supposed reviews. Even Yahtzee of ZeroPunctuation isn't actually a good reviewer. "Fuck shit cock wanker bollocks yet another penis joke from a misanthrope, ramblings about those crappy UK Dizzy games, glastonbury branston pickle" may be funny, but it doesn't make a good review.
And now every Dudebro out there wants to be the next TotalJerkass, PeePeeDie or ImrichenoughtobuyaYacht-see.
Well Bollocks on that you wankers.... I hate everything except crappy UK platformers written for crappy hardware without good sound chips or proper disk drives. Now let me promote a crappy physics game starring a kielbasa written by some 19 year old aspie in Warsaw who thinks he's the next Notch, when he's really the next John Romero.
Dude those articles weren't published on the "same day", you're exaggerating there. And those articles were in response to an uptick in asshattery from dudebro gamers towards casuals and anyone not a 15-25 year old male.
When over a dozen publications published nearly the same article all saying that "gamers are over, gamers are dead"
If you actualy read those articles you would have known that all they basically said. "Gamers" as an exclusionary term used by 15-25 year old dudebros is (or should be) dead.
But no, a bunch of guys like you got all butthurt that you might not be the center of the electronic gaming universe anymore and decided to take out your anger on those you perceived as the "invaders". Meaning casual gamers, but especially women.
If you don't mind the degraded graphics and performance of the console versions, then I salute you.
#define degraded.
Notice those were the PS4 versions not the PS3. The only console game that I've really felt disappointed by the performance was Skyrim on the PS3...and that only "some" of the time.
Although, to be fair, Saints Row IV was $5 on Steam almost 2 years ago
Yes, I know that PC gamers, especially those outside the US are just a bit "cheap", more so than console gamers, it's why PC games get discounted faster. But it's a Race to the bottom that encourages the feels-ever-more-entitled-to-cheap/free attitude amongst "some" of the PCMR.
I'm quite willing to pay full price for "some" games in genres I favor (RPG's/action RPG's). For games like Saints Row (GTA style sandbox) or Borderlands (shooter RPG) I went for the discount.
but if you want it for PC, be prepared to pay the full $50.
I hear good things about it but I haven't picked it up, in part because you're stuck with Gritty GrimDark Geralt and can't create your own character. It's why I favor Bethesda and Bioware.
What bothers me most about PSfoo game pricing is the pricing on all those Moe JRPG's on the Vita. I've been tempted to pick up one of the Atelier series (I hear Atelier Ayesha is excellent) but the $40 for such games is a turnoff and they rarely get discounted. (and they eat up many GB of space on the vita cards)
The article's title is misleading, and the actual article doesn't support your premise. Did you actually read it or just pick the first "consoles are dead" link you found. The actual article has Mark Cerny saying he was tired of people saying consoles were dead:
Looking back at the immediate explosive success of both the PS4 and the Xbox One, itâ(TM)s hard to imagine that anyone ever doubted console gaming was here to stay, but now everyone is singing a different tune. Speaking with IGN at the Develop Conference in England, Mark Cerny, lead architect of the PS4, admitted that he was exhausted with the back-and-forth discussion surrounding the death of console gaming.
âoeWhatâ(TM)s amazing to me is how quickly this has changed, right?â said Cerny. âoeYou go back two years ago, consoles are dead and Sonyâ(TM)s a dinosaur to be releasing one, if you talk to certain analysts. You go back one year and âWow, itâ(TM)s so exciting to have a new console!â(TM) But now youâ(TM)re going, âbut theyâ(TM)re deadâ(TM) again. Soâ¦â
So maybe everyone needs to take video game console one generation at a time. At this point, weâ(TM)re approaching 20 million consoles sales from the latest generation, many of which have been sold to those who were harbingers of the console apocalypse just a few short years ago. It looks like console gaming is here to stay for the foreseeable future.
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Sony did that in 2011 with the Xperia play...it didn't quite take off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Also one could Skype on a PSP or Vita in the past, though you can't now. The Vita's email client works though.
The Xperia play even had Minecraft PE as an exclusive for a couple of months. As an aside, the physical controls on the Vita make Minecraft on the Vita a better experience than Minecraft PE on tablets and phones, even with the Vita version's world size limitation.
IMHO phones should stay phones. The changes needed to make a phone a good gaming device increase the size, weight, heat output and battery draw. We still need dedicated portable consoles for "Good" gaming on the go. Sure, maybe if you like F2P touchy games with IAP you like gaming on phones...but for other games, not so much.
and controllers that were, compared to XB and PS controllers, VERY basic and simplified, so you didn't first have to learn to play, you could simply pick them up and play.
Only with the Wii, the N64 and Gamecube controllers were more traditional.
And the other consoles simply suck as party consoles.
That depends on how you #define party console.
One of the issues is that people "think" there are no "party/family-get-together" games for the PS4...since you don't see those games on the shelf. But there ARE some party games....the thing is they're mostly in the Playstation Store.
So when a "Wii Mom" goes to the game aisle and sees "Game party pack 2016" or "Happy fun time sports-with-mii's" in the Wii/WiiU section, and then goes over to the PS4 section and sees: Fallout 4, Destiny, TESO, ModernSeasonalRealisticSportsGame2016, Duty Calls: Medal of the Battlefield Ops Master Shooty Sergeant eXTREEM edition, Demon Souls, etc etc..she's going to think there are no party games for the PS4.
It's one of the problems with digital downloads, it is hard for SCEfoo to market them to people who aren't already on PSN so they might as well not exist to "casuals". Even then it is hit or miss. I only just found out about Brut@l a couple of days ago.
You can already play games on the go and on the big screen if you have both a Vita and the Playstation TV microconsole (which is basically a screenless Vita) Not even taking into account that the vita can do Remote Play with a PS4.
Those are idiots who played the Pokemons when they were 7-year-old
I first played Pokemon in 1999 (Red/Blue) on a GBC when I was 32 you insignificant clod!
instead of real games like Street Fighter II, Doom etc.
I've also played SF2 (on a SNES, but I'm not a big fan of the game or genre) and DOOM (also on the SNES and PSone)
Playing both Pokemon and DOOM is not a zero sum game, one can like them both. Though the last Pokemon I played was Gold/Silver/Crystal. The combination of the in-game clock tied with events, and the whole trading thing designed around the schoolyard made the games not very adult friendly even if you DID have two GBC's.
No, Valve IS stupid. Gaben used to go on and on about how open source was the future, but kept his focus on Windows when another company was ALREADY using open source with their gaming hardware.
That company was Sony. If Gabe Newell dislikes MIcrosoft so much, why didn't he form a joint venture with Sony, which has been using open source software longer than Valve has! Essentially, the PS3/PS4 OS's are what SteamOS wants to be.
The reason is that while Gabe rants against walled gardens, the truth is he just wants gamers to use his OWN walled garden.
Do games on either current console even support LAN multiplayer?
There are some few that do, yes. Diablo 3 UEE on the PS4 does. I'm not a shooter fan so I don't know which shooters on PS4 do LAN.
And I'm told most of these exceptions are on PlayStation 2, 3, and 4.
As far as I know, yes. If there are Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One games with such support, I'd like to know about them.
Some people like using a mouse in one hand and half of a DualShock in the other because unlike WASD, an analog stick offers analog control of the speed and direction of your movement, not just your aiming.
Yep, I prefer that method if I can get it. I know one player of War Thunder on PC who uses that method for tanks. I've also read of PC gamers buying up Playstation Move Navigation controllers (that's the one with the analog stick, not the glowy ball on the end of it) and using them with mice.
Just a reminder that FPS's aren't the only genre but every console since the PS2 has USB ports for a reason. It's not a case of "allow" but rather "do the developers want to take the time and effort to implement/test/troubleshoot a keyboard + mouse control system alongside the standard controller"
And often they don't bother to...but....sometimes they do. And I have console games within 10 feet of me with keyboard and/or mouse support. Sometimes the support won't be listed on the box, you have to check.
I'm not sure what you're getting at? Do you mean 3 adults or what? If it is a shared household of 3 adults then they can pay for their OWN PS+. If it is an adult and kids, then the adult can decided if they want their kids to have online multiplayer, or not.
But PS+ accounts are per user, so it depends on WHO the devices are owned by and how many.
For example, I have ONE PS4 and it's set as the "Primary" and I'm a PS+ user. Any sub account on the system has access to multiplayer on this system.
If I had a second PS4 that was NOT set to primary, sub accounts wouldn't have access to multiplayer. (except for those games that don't require PS+ for multiplayer) But I could use multiplayer on that system while others used multiplayer on the Primary.
I have a friend with a PS4, while he currently has PS+ there are times he hasn't. Now if I was to go to his house and login as "Me" on that system, I would have full access to PS+ services on his machine whether he has PS+ or not since PS+ is per user.
https://www.playstation.com/en...
Ive got a 10 year old beigebox running customised windowmaker
Using a couple of scripts
Took about a day to set it up (writing all the scripts, customising WindowMaker for use with the remote, etc).
perhaps you missed the "tinker-free" part of the GP's comment. Remember, not everyone is a Linux geek. Hell, I'm a Linux user and I'm not sure I could do the scripting you've done....especially with Windowmaker.
Does it support things like WebM (MKV container, VP8 or VP9 video, and Vorbis or Opus audio)?
Have you turned into RMS? Just use h264 with AAC audio in MPEG4 containers for video and MP3 for music as the gods intended. You know damned well that "open" formats tend to be less well supported on consumer media devices so you don't even need to ask. Besides, you can have the DLNA server transcode any unsupported format, though you should just stick to the formats I listed above.
http://manuals.playstation.net...
Hell I haven't updated the drivers for my videocard(sapphire 7950) since last year, and it's going along just fine with all the latest titles.
Video card updates come along fairly frequently and one probably should update them. If you're running year old drivers, you're probably not taking advantage of your video card as much as you might. And why the heck are you, a member of the PC Master Race not keeping your Windows system updated as you SHOULD be doing.
[sarcasm]Obviously a Windows Peasant, who probably isn't competent enough to administer a computer at all. Who knows what other updates this Windows Peasant hasn't done. They're machine is probably trojaned all to hell.[/sarcasm]
Another supposedly "superior" build from the biased master race reddit?
Which doesn't even include the OS, which has to be Windows for a game box, only has 4GB of RAM, not 8 and uses a Quad-core CPU (but at least it's a fast quad core)
Not only that but it is a box you have to build yourself, it is NOT a prebuilt one that you can just head out to a big box store and just simply buy, like a PS4 or Xbox One.
Topic at hand: I wouldn't recommend a console to anyone,
I really wouldn't recommend gaming on Windows. I know people do it, and that there are games that are PC only, but that doesn't mean people SHOULD do it.
While being locked into a console ecosystem that punishes you
While being locked into the Windows ecosystem of a crappy OS that punishes you. And locked into the Steam ecosystem that punishes you, or the Origin ecosystem that punishes you.
requires you to pay for multiplayer support and basic functions that are free on the PC.
They aren't truly "free" on the PC...somebody pays for that bandwidth. Whether it's some affluent nerd hosting some Quake-foo server, or Valve paying for their TF2 servers with the cut they take off of Steam...somebody pays, directly or indirectly.
Besides, console gamers get things BESIDES the multiplayer with their PS+ or Xbox live subscriptions.
And not all multiplayer in the PlayStation ecosystem requires PS+!
Multiplayer doesn't require PS+ on the Vita, or PS3. (or the PSP and PS2 if any of their games still have multiplayer running)
F2P games on the PS4 don't require PS+ for multiplayer. Examples being War Thunder or Neverwinter.
Games that use a "Send a turn/PBEM" style of multiplayer, also don't require PS+
Forget to set up automatic updates?
we now get half-baked console games that are shoveled onto the PC without any care because you don't even have to PORT anymore.
Or vice versa! There are some half-baked buggy and/or badly designed indie/kickstarter/unity/budget game crap that was first released on PC and then later on PSN.
Please excuse ME while I don't jump for joy for that sort of thing.
Might and Magic is a better WRPG on the NES than Wizardry and Ultima.
I'm a high 6 and I know about hot grits, $$$ Profit!, CowboyNeal, and beowulf clusters of libraries of Congress. And isn't it, “Frist post“?
Reminds me of that Mac Davis sci-fi Christmas Carol christmas special from the 70's that replaced Christmas with "Commerce Day"
http://www.gamespot.com/articl...
Clickbait from 2014.
http://www.fool.com/investing/...
Clickbait that claims that the Fire TV/mobile is a competitor to the PS4/Xbox.
http://www.cnet.com/news/xbox-...
This one is about Windows apps on Xbox, and has nothing to do with your premise.
http://news.softpedia.com/news...
Clickbait from 2009, which means the "last generation" they were referring to was the 360 and PS3!
Sony is talking about no future playstations.
I've seen nothing of the sort, citation needed from SCEfoo themselves.
And as to ease of use... learn to use a computer or render yourself too incompetent to participate in the modern world.
I run Linux so by my standards, you windows using gamer dudebros are the incompetents who shouldn't even be trusted to admin their own computer.
The level of competence required to manage a gaming PC is within the easy reach of a ten year old child. If that's too much for you... then that can only be pitied.
The masses simply can't be trusted to admin their own machines well. They don't have the time, knowledge or inclination. Said people should not be gaming on PC's....at all. They probably shouldn't even be using PC's for web browsing or media consumption.
Again, I run Linux, so NEVER pull that "console gamers are dumb" shit with me.
Hey gamergaters, those youtubers you love so much aren't paragons of virtue and transparency. Hell they're less ethical than formally trained journalists. You're better off reading the magazines than following some hyperactive Eurotrash guy for supposed reviews. Even Yahtzee of ZeroPunctuation isn't actually a good reviewer. "Fuck shit cock wanker bollocks yet another penis joke from a misanthrope, ramblings about those crappy UK Dizzy games, glastonbury branston pickle" may be funny, but it doesn't make a good review.
And now every Dudebro out there wants to be the next TotalJerkass, PeePeeDie or ImrichenoughtobuyaYacht-see.
Well Bollocks on that you wankers.... I hate everything except crappy UK platformers written for crappy hardware without good sound chips or proper disk drives. Now let me promote a crappy physics game starring a kielbasa written by some 19 year old aspie in Warsaw who thinks he's the next Notch, when he's really the next John Romero.
Dude those articles weren't published on the "same day", you're exaggerating there. And those articles were in response to an uptick in asshattery from dudebro gamers towards casuals and anyone not a 15-25 year old male.
When over a dozen publications published nearly the same article all saying that "gamers are over, gamers are dead"
If you actualy read those articles you would have known that all they basically said. "Gamers" as an exclusionary term used by 15-25 year old dudebros is (or should be) dead.
But no, a bunch of guys like you got all butthurt that you might not be the center of the electronic gaming universe anymore and decided to take out your anger on those you perceived as the "invaders". Meaning casual gamers, but especially women.
TVs with multiple inputs and AV/HDMI switchboxes are a thing that exists.
If you don't mind the degraded graphics and performance of the console versions, then I salute you.
#define degraded.
Notice those were the PS4 versions not the PS3. The only console game that I've really felt disappointed by the performance was Skyrim on the PS3...and that only "some" of the time.
Although, to be fair, Saints Row IV was $5 on Steam almost 2 years ago
Yes, I know that PC gamers, especially those outside the US are just a bit "cheap", more so than console gamers, it's why PC games get discounted faster. But it's a Race to the bottom that encourages the feels-ever-more-entitled-to-cheap/free attitude amongst "some" of the PCMR.
I'm quite willing to pay full price for "some" games in genres I favor (RPG's/action RPG's). For games like Saints Row (GTA style sandbox) or Borderlands (shooter RPG) I went for the discount.
but if you want it for PC, be prepared to pay the full $50.
I hear good things about it but I haven't picked it up, in part because you're stuck with Gritty GrimDark Geralt and can't create your own character. It's why I favor Bethesda and Bioware.
What bothers me most about PSfoo game pricing is the pricing on all those Moe JRPG's on the Vita. I've been tempted to pick up one of the Atelier series (I hear Atelier Ayesha is excellent) but the $40 for such games is a turnoff and they rarely get discounted. (and they eat up many GB of space on the vita cards)
The article's title is misleading, and the actual article doesn't support your premise. Did you actually read it or just pick the first "consoles are dead" link you found. The actual article has Mark Cerny saying he was tired of people saying consoles were dead:
I've been a console gamer for a LOOONG time (the 80's), but ever since becoming a Linux user I'm somewhat more negative on gaming on PC's.
The PS4 is a nice machine and I recommend it. That said, there are games that aren't on the PS4. WoW, LOL, SupCOM, that sort of thing.
But I believe that sooner or later, even games like those will go cross-platform. It's happened with practicaly everything else.