The problem with modern consoles

Do you remember a time when you used to be able to put a game into your console and just play it? Remember the PS2/Dreamcat/Gamecube and every console before them? Well those times are gone. Now every time I want to play the latest game I have to update the fucking system. This is a pain in the arse and wholly unnecessary.

So when the Xbox 360 came out I was really hyped for it. I got the console and at first everything was great. Then I got to the updating. Back then I had really poor internet connection so downloading an update could sometimes take over 2 hours. When I got a PS3 I suffered the same problem. It was so slow that I used to go over to my friends house and play on his Xbox until mine had finished updating.

Well here we are in 2014 and the problem just seems to be getting worse. So tonight I decided to try and hook up my PS Vita using remote play to my PS3 so I could play vita games on the big TV. This meant that first of all I had to update my Vita software. Then I had to update my PS3 software. Then My PS3 demanded that it was connected to the internet via ethernet. Why? I don’t know.

After that I still couldn’t get the two to connect. The reason for this being that my PS3 had logged out of PSN. Why do I need to be logged into the PSN just to link the consoles?

But this got me thinking about bigger things happening with consoles recently. As far as I’m concerned a games console should be just that. A console to play games on. So why is it that every console nowadays has to have features like Netflix? I’ve already got half a dozen other devices in my house that can do this.

Also I know I’m ranting here, but why does every console have to have some sort of gimmick nowadays? What’s wrong with a basic controller? Why do I need 6 axis control, touch screens, touch pads, kinect, motion control etc?

All I want is a console where I put a game in and play the game. Is that really asking too much?

EDIT: Well now I feel like a idiot. Turns out remote play works the opposite way around to what I imagined.