1)Yes but both gamers/ gamedevelopers dont seem to care/
Many gamers care, as the install base for the PC in terms of gaming is bigger than that of all current gen consoles combined. Devs care otherwise nobody would be developing for PC.
2)Depends on the games you play and the quality of games. Eg if you want indies go to pc, but serious big buck developers stick to consoles mostly and throw a cheap console ported pc version.
Like Bioware? Bethesda? Ubisoft? Crytek? Rochsteady? Capcom? The Creative Assembly? Ironclad Games? Blizzard? GSC Gameworld? CD Projekt?
Etc, etc, etc.
3) Depends on how you see it. Many games like re5 or dead space have issues and people play them with gamepads.....am just saying. Also console gamers dont seem to care for keyboard and mouse control which is the better control you point out.
You said it, sometimes people like to use a controller. The choice of 2 is better that the choice of 1 isn't it?
4)Mods? Most games nowadays dont even support mods. I blame the consoles but you get my point, nowadays the modding community is quite weaker compared to the old days and its pretty sad. As for the upgrades....why would you need an upgrade if the game is made and customized to run best on your console? You will only need upgrade on the pc if its a cheap port like gta iv for example. When everything else works just fine.
Whilst fewer games are using mods, there are still many, many, many moddable current releases out there. How are games made to run best on a console if the PC version runs better? That makes no sense.
5)Ask me? i spend money every year on hardware in order for unoptimized games to run decently on my pc. Therfore the logic that you dont "need" an upgrade every year and therefore pc gaming is cheaper is not 100% correct. Atleast judging by my experiance, nowadays there is a crazy need for upgrading by both console games and pc exclusives like arma 2. Now ofcourse you wil point out that that is incorrect. But there is a game called crysis that compared with other games nowadays, it can be maxed quite easilly. So my question is why cant games run as well as crysis does? The funny thing is that crysis looks better than everything and it was very hard to max out when it came out, but now there are far more demanding games than crysis. Which is why i had to upgrade and i say that you HAVE to upgrade in order to play everything at a decent framerate when you could just buy a console and never change hardware again. So YES PC IS better than console, but with all those problems its more prefable to stick to a console, there you go the reasons to buy a console "outweight" the superiority of the pc as a gaming machine.....because it is NOT a gaming machine. Game developers refuse to see the superiority of the pc and advanced features like dx10, and prefer to develop on a real "gaming machine" and throw a cheap port to the pc. Now what can you do about it? Well thats another thing. But you only see one side of the coin. Maybe to you the pc looks flawless but it seems that there are plenty of reasons on why games and game developers prefer the consoles over the pc.
There is very little need to upgrade nowadays, much less than there was a few years ago. Currently hardware development is outpacing software development by a country mile, and the games aren't yet taking advantage of the hardware. Buggy games like GTA4 have been patched and are now much more user-friendly.
PC is a gaming machine if you want it to be. Mine is strictly for gaming ergo, it is a gaming machine.
Lol at "real gaming" machine, they are all real gaming machines, be them Wii, 360, PS3, PC, PSP or DS.
*SOME* devs prefer consoles. Many, many devs prefer PC, and many console devs still port to PC anyway with *usually* a superior version.
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