"The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine"
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Wright is doing something sly here: he grants consoles the win he knows the audience can measure in a single receipt, then pivots to the harder-to-quantify territory where PCs quietly dominate. “Temporary advantage” is the loaded phrase. It frames console superiority as a seasonal condition, not a permanent hierarchy, and it smuggles in the idea that the real contest isn’t horsepower but optionality.
The line also reads like a designer’s worldview more than a shopper’s. Wright, the SimCity and The Sims guy, built his career on systems that invite tinkering, modding, saving, sharing, and iterating. When he says there are “many things you can do,” he’s not just gesturing at email or spreadsheets; he’s defending an ecosystem where play bleeds into creation. “More conveniently” is doing heavy work: it recasts PC complexity, often mocked as hassle, as the very condition that enables agency. Consoles are optimized appliances; PCs are messy workshops.
The context matters. New console generations always arrive with a clean story: fixed hardware, predictable performance, and a seemingly unbeatable cost-to-power ratio. Wright acknowledges that talking point because it’s true at launch. But he’s also warning against confusing a controlled, subsidized entry price with long-term value. As components drop in price and software possibilities sprawl, the PC’s advantage isn’t just upgrades; it’s everything around the game: mods, communities, multitasking, customization, even the freedom to repurpose the machine when you’re done playing. It’s a pitch for platforms as lifestyles, not boxes.
The line also reads like a designer’s worldview more than a shopper’s. Wright, the SimCity and The Sims guy, built his career on systems that invite tinkering, modding, saving, sharing, and iterating. When he says there are “many things you can do,” he’s not just gesturing at email or spreadsheets; he’s defending an ecosystem where play bleeds into creation. “More conveniently” is doing heavy work: it recasts PC complexity, often mocked as hassle, as the very condition that enables agency. Consoles are optimized appliances; PCs are messy workshops.
The context matters. New console generations always arrive with a clean story: fixed hardware, predictable performance, and a seemingly unbeatable cost-to-power ratio. Wright acknowledges that talking point because it’s true at launch. But he’s also warning against confusing a controlled, subsidized entry price with long-term value. As components drop in price and software possibilities sprawl, the PC’s advantage isn’t just upgrades; it’s everything around the game: mods, communities, multitasking, customization, even the freedom to repurpose the machine when you’re done playing. It’s a pitch for platforms as lifestyles, not boxes.
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