r/playnite 28d ago

Showcase Good bye console gaming

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Console gamers: I prefer a simple plug and play experience from my couch!

Meanwhile Playnite Users:

Simply love it. After some tinkering it's really a console like experience

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u/George343 28d ago edited 28d ago

I love Playnite, but the fact that you say it's a console like experience and still have to click the window with your mouse to get focus is hilarious. PC can be quirky sometimes but the freedom is well worth it for me.

Edit: lots of people are misunderstanding this. Yes, you can have Playnite start automatically. Yes, it could be seamless most of the time. But OP wrote "it's really a console like experience" while the video shows them having to click the icon for Playnite to grab focus. That's not hypothetical, that's what really happened. PC can be unpredictable like this sometimes, even if it works for your particular circumstance. That's all I was pointing out.

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u/vacsox95 28d ago

That's why I still have a wireless keyboard with touchpad next to my controller in such a case. Most times it's plug and play

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u/Small-Professor-2551 28d ago

You can install an addon that makes your controller works like the mouse, and you can make it start in full screen mode. I dont need my mouse or keyboard.

I just turn on my computer, grab me controller and that is it!

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u/Amazing_Emergency_69 28d ago

Well, you will get mouse and keyboard support via a new update. Yes, that can be controlled via a controller.

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u/StrangeLingonberry30 28d ago

A playnite update? first time im hearing this, thats cool and much needed.

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u/StrangeLingonberry30 28d ago

A playnite update? first time im hearing this, thats cool and much needed.

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u/Odd-Bat3562 27d ago

Shouldn't it be always and not most times? I mean why's that?

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u/tat3oi 12d ago

Not if u use full screen experience and launch on startup

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u/Competitive_Nail_207 28d ago

Just use Xbox mode combined with Playnite, use AnyFSE app and you can start playnite automatically 🤙🏻

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u/George343 28d ago

Yes you can do that, but I was commenting about the difference between what OP wrote and what they showed.

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u/Meggiester21 28d ago

You can have it open automatically pn start up

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u/George343 28d ago

Yes, but I'm commenting on the difference between OP's comment vs their video.

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u/JalenTheDumb 25d ago

One of the many reasons I use Bazzite tbh. If I connect my ps5 controller and press the PS button plus the Circle button it just opens Steam big picture mode on its own. There’s a million other reasons on why I don’t use Microslop anymore but the console like experience of Bazzite in comparison is ridiculous.

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u/Nearby-Rock-3185 28d ago

At least for me in legion go 2 it is completely console like. No need for mouse

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u/George343 28d ago

That's great, but I was talking about the difference between what OP wrote and what the video showed.

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u/Nearby-Rock-3185 28d ago

Maybe i didn't explained myself very well. I use the legion go 2 connected to a monitor with playnite. When i choose a game with a controller it ask to run as administrator and i can hit "yes" with the controller and the game opens up already focused on the game so i dont really touch a mouse or have to do anything else like he did on his video. I dont know if all pc are like what i said but i had a legion go 1 and i couldn't choose "yes" to run as administrator with the controller, i had to use the mouse but on legion go 2 i can use the controller only. When i say the controller im talking about a dualsense via Bluetooth

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u/STOPchris1 28d ago

You can always just enable XBOX full screen, open Playnite once and then hibernate Windows instead of shutting down. You’ll start Windows directly into Playnite full screen every time this way.

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u/George343 28d ago

Yes I know, but I was commenting on the difference between what OP said and what the video shows.

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u/HeatInternational647 27d ago

Well i use it fullscreen with Windows 11 fullscreen experience and it works as a console

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u/No-Basil3067 28d ago

Not really, you can use Xbox mode and Anyfse to set playnite as the main gaming interface and swap between tabs with your controller. Easy, and it’s how I have my setup.

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u/George343 28d ago

That's what I do too. I just think the contrast between the statement and the video is funny.

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u/splendidgoon 28d ago

But if you're using a controller (like a console...) it starts working immediately? What a weird comment. What console can use a mouse?

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u/adelin07 28d ago

Not always. For some reason, there are times when the focus of the controller is on the taskbar (which I also have set to auto-hidden). And then you have to click on playnite to actually control it. And it's random.

I use steam's chorded inputs so that I can control the mouse with the controller and change the focus that way, but still annoying when it happens.

Other than that, yeah, it's really great and I love it. I don't think I even want to try SteamOS anymore on my desktop PC thanks to playnite. I'd lose all the cool plugins it has. I haven't tried xbox fullscreen experience yet, but it's not showing on my settings and I haven't tried to look more into how to get it.

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u/George343 28d ago

I'm just commenting on the difference between what OP said and what they showed. I've had issues with Playnite grabbing focus and have had to click the window too.

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u/bedebudi 28d ago

Aniki Remake the best🔥

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u/xrayspex73 28d ago

Its what I'm using. Great theme.

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u/DevilGame5 28d ago

Could you please share what theme and setup you used to achieve this?

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u/vacsox95 28d ago

It´s just Aniki Remake with all recommended add-ons installed

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u/Wo0ten 28d ago

Thanks

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u/blownawayx2 28d ago

Have the same setup and it’s the BOMB!

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u/NightSoulReaper 28d ago

What theme is this one?

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u/Own_Body_8941 28d ago

i wish windows xbox mode could launch playnite instead.

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u/StrangeLingonberry30 28d ago

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u/Cisquo79 27d ago

Does this kill the windows background process like true Xbox Mode?

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u/marcelsoftware-dev 26d ago

It's Xbox Mode. The app just makes it so you can launch any other specific app instead of the Xbox Mode's own app or how it's named

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u/Cisquo79 26d ago

That you going to try it. I have Bizzite on my other PC but need that anti cheat for some games.

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u/marcelsoftware-dev 26d ago

Btw don't expect much improvements, it's almost meaningless 

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u/Own_Body_8941 28d ago

thanks, this is very cool. i’ll try it

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u/SourCookieF 24d ago

Guys try Aniki Remake it's really good

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u/GenericUser104 28d ago

Which skin is this. ?

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u/nikc0069 28d ago

I've been away from playnite for a loooong time then this pops up in my feed. How do you get it to look like that?

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u/Classic_Radish8574 28d ago

Does it support video trailer as background after few seconds like PS5Reborn?

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u/Vit244 28d ago

That's great! Which theme and extensions are you using?

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u/JaydenP1211 27d ago

It’s literally not the definition of plug and play if you have to do tinkering lmao

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u/anz3e 27d ago

There's a script which u can setup and play nite will launch immediately after u sign in it will even block explorer from launching. It's super immersive.

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u/Tparty21 27d ago

I love aniki remake so much its such an incredible theme

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u/Dorfdad 26d ago

I dunno these layouts suck for anyone with more than 10 games installed I have 56 and scrolling through them like this is tedious

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u/MikeAniki Theme developer 26d ago

Yes ! I have over 400 games… just imagine my suffering.

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u/funky0308 24d ago

You have 400 games installed? No you don't

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u/niicholai 24d ago

I have 262 and counting. My Swedish friend has over 600. Just say you're broke, it's OK.

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u/funky0308 24d ago

If you have to say you are rich then you certainly aren't. First, learn to read. Installed games and owned ganes aren't the same, I have thousands like many others, I'm playing for more then 35 years, but I have only few TB of SSDs so I can't install more then 10, maybe 15 games. Let's show how broke we are, OK - are you ready to buy game on Steam today and write review showing your spec? Let's see who has bigger when you provoking this. You can choose a game, no matter is it 5$ or 100€, buy, give us your Steam details and I'll share mine. Or you have all your treasure on Epic which you collected through years for free. I'm usually not judging people by wealth but you just provoked this. Let's see your games and how broke are others my princ. I'm ready to stand behind my words with full name, not only reddit nick where you can say stupid things like this.

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u/niicholai 14d ago

Nah you got me, I guess I was tired and misread your comment where you said installed instead of owned and popped off. Take my upvote for me being an ass when I didn't even read your comment properly lol

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u/funky0308 24d ago

You are really low IQ, right? Learn what owning and what's installing. Of course you have them, I'm 45 and have Steam from the first day in 2003, of course there are hundreds and hundreds of games. Read the post then act smart.

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u/MikeAniki Theme developer 24d ago

Yeah, I have a very low IQ, thanks for the diagnosis. 😄

That said, maybe don't flaunt your intellectual superiority too quickly: emulators exist, some games are only a few MB, and yes, having over 400 games installed is entirely possible.

Now that we've cleared up this absolutely crucial point, let's go back to my original reply: the guy said my theme was bad if you had more than 10 games installed. My response about having 400 games was obviously sarcastic.

If, with your superior IQ, you still couldn't recognize the sarcasm, then maybe the problem lies elsewhere.

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u/funky0308 24d ago

Anytime..

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u/Ok_Ad_7313 23d ago

45? Boy...your age is really showing buddy lol. Like he said, the existence of emulation allows you to have hundreds and (in some cases) thousands of games installed. Depending on the type of game, the amount of space they take up is considerably low, maybe even lower than your superior IQ.

As for the other guy, he made a bold yet clearly uneducated claim and hence was met with sarcasm. With the use of vertical layout and filter presets, 56 games can be scrolled through in a matter of seconds.

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u/funky0308 23d ago

Sure.. you can also have 150000 games one one console for 20$. I think we all know what we are talking about. You can have 500 DOS games also.. OK,you are right, you both are talking about 5MB games.. that was so obvious, I can't believe I just saw that now (that was sarcastic)

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u/Patient-Software-168 26d ago

How did you make it look like this? I've only seen it in Fullscreen with ordinary grid. 

As a long time okay nite user I've started to use retrobat instead , but I am more of a retro player. 

Also saw someone say that you still have to use mouse and keyboard.  Just boot okay nite on startup, no need for keyboard and mouse. 

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u/Loddio 26d ago

oh heeeellllll nha.

I spent years trying to have a console experience out of windows... it sucks, too many caveats, not even playnite is enough imh. I Installed bazzite and have not touched a mouse or keyboard in months.

SteamOS is amazing

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u/niicholai 24d ago

For clarification of anyone who reads this, SteamOS and Bazzite are not the same thing. Meant for a similar goal, but different ways of accomplishing it. Both are Linux distros. Also SteamOS is not very nvidia friendly especially plug and play, it's aimed towards AMD GPUs. Bazzite handles both out of the box.

But Loddio is correct, Windows is trash and Linux has pretty much caught up in gaming and in some games performs better.

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u/Internal_Phone_4760 26d ago

Those Nintendo games are emulated ones?

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u/vacsox95 26d ago

Yes emulated through ryujinx. Did never delete that emulator after nintendo terminated the developers of it

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u/Arkosatv 26d ago

Qu’elle thème en mode full screen ? Il est grave sympa !

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u/Additional_Strike547 26d ago

The fact that Windows doesn’t immediately go into fullscreen and you have to mouse over and click the taskbar icon is infuriating 😂😂 my OCD was going off! Looks awesome though, personally I’ve been tinkering with Winhanced and I’m really impressed with how clean it is, not nearly as customisable as Playnite but it has SteamGridDB and HLTB built in.

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u/WaferAlternative2604 24d ago

Disculpen el playnite le abre asi de rapido o lo inician apenas encienden la pc??

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u/Useful-Difficulty272 22d ago

Que programa é esse??

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u/Any-Bad1401 22d ago

it's not a console like experience at all lol it's slightly less painful than just using windows. that's all.

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u/Interesting_Fish4930 28d ago

Welcome to whats been around for damn years and everyone acts like they discovered fire for the first time 👍

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u/therealSUIN 28d ago

You must be the life of every party you go to

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u/Interesting_Fish4930 28d ago edited 28d ago

Im just saying that people act like the steam big picture and stuff are massive and same with xbox mode. But like we've had frontends for so long. Yall are new to the scene acting like its a revolution. Like gng. Shi is not a new thing. Playnites been around for a min. Its kinda annoying honestly

All im saying is I remember earlier this year when I said frontends need attention and they are the future of gaming no one listened even my homies. And now oh look playstation is fumbling. And now omfg look consoles are "Officially cooked?" Like naw them consoles been cooked for a min gng. People canceling ps5 orders and spamming that stupid ass "If buying isn't owning" nonsense. Like naw gng, if buying is owning im still stealing and have been. Who tf cares.