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Discussion on: Buying a game console in 2020

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Rob Kendal {{☕}}

The Switch is amazing: lots of indie games, great prices, games load and work quickly. Lots of support for multiplayer. Can't recommend enough.

Outside of that though, I've owned them all and the big problem I have with most modern consoles is that a) they all take about 3 weeks to install a game and, b) take just as long to install that 45GB update that absolutely must be installed before you can play

My recent approach has been twofold:

  1. Invest in Google's Stadia platform. Really solid experience, growing selection of games, play on just about everything that has a screen. Mint!
  2. Took out a Shadow cloud gaming PC. It's about £14 a month, but you get a super hot gaming PC that's always up to date and upgraded with the latest kit. You can install just about anything on there, it runs on iOS, and you can play some other consoles' games, such as PS4 via their own subscription services (e.g. Playstation Now