Which console is right for me

Which console is right for me

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Halb

53,012 posts

183 months

Wednesday 19th February 2020
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Well I bought a Switch! Finally! Got Mario Kart and the two Zelda games.

Aerate

264 posts

148 months

Wednesday 17th November 2021
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Is this thread worth a bump? It’s very old now…

I have an 11-y-o boy who’s into Mincecraft and Roblox on his own, fairly new, Windows Laptop and a 9-y-o girl who plays a bit of Minecraft on her own Chromebook and does childish colouring-in type games on my iPad.

I like the idea of a console so that they can invite real live people round to play computer games, rather than have a half-assed playing ‘together’ experience online.

Which console is going to be best for them?

Pommy

14,244 posts

216 months

Thursday 18th November 2021
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Aerate said:
Is this thread worth a bump? It’s very old now…

I have an 11-y-o boy who’s into Mincecraft and Roblox on his own, fairly new, Windows Laptop and a 9-y-o girl who plays a bit of Minecraft on her own Chromebook and does childish colouring-in type games on my iPad.

I like the idea of a console so that they can invite real live people round to play computer games, rather than have a half-assed playing ‘together’ experience online.

Which console is going to be best for them?
I'd say go for:

1. The machine that's has games they like. So for instance Forza Horizon is only on Xbox. Spiderman on PS. And so on.

2. Real friends in the house will turn into playing their mates online, so get the machine their mates have so they can play each other.

Apart from that I figure they're much of a muchness.

SimonTheSailor

12,576 posts

228 months

Friday 6th January 2023
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Thinking of buying a second hand PS4 with a few games.
I've heard of the 'blue screen of death' - was this fixed by the PS4.

Last console I had was the PS2 so I assume I' m going to see a massive leap in ...well, everything ?!

boyse7en

6,712 posts

165 months

Thursday 10th August 2023
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tubbyfireant said:
I got a PS4 Pro and I use it almost everyday since 2018, all good so far. It requires regular cleaning, though, like once every 3 months, the fan gets too loud otherwise. I also got a Switch Lite, very cool little device!
I bought a cheap PS4 a while back and gave it a good clean out when i fitted a new disk drive, but it is still ridiculously noisy when playing a game.
Virtually silent on the menu screen, boot up Tomb Raider or Uncharted and it sounds like a airliner warming up. I have to wear headphones so i can hear what is going on.