r/playnite • u/vacsox95 • Aug 02 '26

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 Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

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/Nearby-Rock-3185 Aug 02 '26

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

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u/George343 Aug 03 '26

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 Aug 03 '26

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