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Big-Swing2849 t1_izg94nh wrote
What he said.
Mosley_Gamer t1_izgasme wrote
Yes it's called a PC.
Kear_Bear_3747 t1_izgal0q wrote
That’s a PC, bro.
unndunn t1_izgy8qk wrote
For a while, Valve was marketing “Steam Boxes”; small-form-factor PCs designed to act like consoles. Pretty sure those has upgradable graphics cards.
Other than that, the only two actual console examples I can think of are Neo-Geo and Sega 32X.
midnight_rebirth t1_izk1rhp wrote
That product was honestly ahead of its time. Something like that for this gen that gets around the Linux limitation would be amazing.
RocketBobcat t1_izi1og8 wrote
N64 expansion pack?
You are describing a PC
smudger68 t1_izgu2st wrote
You should see my Sinclair Spectrum.
DrBrainWillisto t1_izgz0tf wrote
Yes, a PC
quarrelsome_napkin t1_izhncme wrote
Yeah…. It’s called a PC buddy 😂
A_lost_10mm_socket t1_izg8dex wrote
No
bearattack79 t1_izgqegq wrote
Sega 32X
BeardyTipple t1_izih0et wrote
As others have said you may as well get a PC. Only being able to upgrade the GPU would just result it in being bottlenecked by the old processor and memory anyway, so whilst you’d see an improvement in some areas you’d never get the performance upgrade you’d be expecting, especially for the money spent on a new card.
reaper527 t1_izizub7 wrote
No. Consoles are designed to be as compact as possible and this means everything is soldered onto the mobo. The video card isn’t plugged into a slot like a pc. Its more like a laptop or tablet.
ArgentStar t1_izj8hs2 wrote
A few consoles have had minor expansions that can be added. N64, Sega 32X, etc. But that's usually just more memory or a new media to allow for more game content (but not actually "upgraded"). Actually changing the graphics capabilities would be more difficult to implement and you'd just end up with a multi-tiered systems of games and hardware that would essentially remove the main selling points of consoles. Adding those kind of features would lose more customers to PC gaming than it would gain through added features.
CyberKiller40 t1_izj8lxe wrote
As other pointed, changing internals is a PC thing, but at this point XBox seems to be quite close in general software concept to this. Meaning since XBox One, the console OS is the same and allows to run the same games transparently and it looks like Ms will continue this, so it's possible future XBoxes could be seen as a simple hardware upgrade (though you still get a whole new box), instead of a new platform like all generations in the past.
tigerchill09 t1_izkaafx wrote
I've never heard if this, they may be some but everyone now wants an Xbox series x or ps5
SipDhit69 t1_izg8mnw wrote
Thats a PC