Why I switched from PC to PS4, your thoughts?

I've been a PC gamer for about 8 years or so, which including building systems of my own, the last costing about £1200 about 3 years ago, but recently have made the switch to the PS4. I made the decision after playing Civ 5 with a group of mates which kept alternately crashing for each of us, making 5 turns last and hour and half... great. I had mates who agreed about getting fed up with the crashes, problems, and hours of bug fixing and work arounds that come along on PC taking up all our gaming time (one of my problems being the hard drive suddenly deciding it doesn't like its connecting cable anymore, fixed by swapping it with the DVD drive cable... what!?)

So far I've much preferred the PS4, I plugged it in and it worked, no problems. The features are much better and it's much better designed for social gaming, want to chat to mate? Already implemented, no 3rd party software required. Want to record my gameplay? Already in there too, don't need to reduce my framerate with 3rd party software or spend money upgrading to a card capable of running Shadowplay. Plus with SharePlay arriving soon, that's a massive win over PC.

The games are designed for console, that's where the market is! The optimisation for a single hardware set means great performance, and they're designed for controllers, PC's just get shoddy ports, I remember Borderlands 2 and Dead Space specifically being a pain with PC's, as the menu's were awkward to navigate with a mouse and keyboard because they weren't designed for it, not to mention hours with both spent googling problem fixes. Gears of War on PC even lost it's support and just stopped working at all, and Assassin's Creed required me to borrow my dad's old work laptop to be able to see a much needed file on the disc, which I had to copy and paste onto my PC, great. PC are missing out on some great exclusives too, The Last Of Us Remastered? Yes please.

This is where the main console vs PC argument comes in though, money. Yeah PC has steam sales and generally cheaper games, but that's often sucked me in to buy several cheap games which I've barely played, what a waste. Plus you can't sell them again, be clever with console games and you can probably spend less.

PC gamers always say 'you can build a PC more powerful than a console for the same price', and I actually agree with that, well when it comes to numbers on paper at least, but I wonder how many of these people actually have done that... at that price you'd end up with more system problems, and though technically more powerful, it wouldn't run as consistently, because it's not as well optimised for that particular PC build as it is for each identical console. Even if it did run ok though, it's so easy to be tempted with that tasty upgrade, particularly when your online competition is beating your ass because they have smoother framerates and higher res, and a high precision mouse with 20 buttons on and a ultra responsive gaming keyboard. I wouldn't feel happy with an outdated PC system, especially when I'm counting frames and struggling when tweaking settings to find that happy medium between quality and perfomance when I want both. Yeah the PS4 is technically outdated but everyone's on par, and when the graphics drops, framerate drops and potential higher qualities you're missing out on aren't staring you in the face, you're not going to notice.

Anyone else made any switches like this?

you'll be back to pc soon shallow console games get old so quick.

Amazing post, OP. You're about get a lot of shit though, cause this forum is run by hermits. Good luck!

Good for you.

Never understood the concept of switching though. You could just enjoy the best of both worlds.

lol at that switch. I stopped pc gaming when game design really switched over to favor consoles. PC games were almost a completely separate entity late 90s to 2005ish. So many genres flourished.

Ironically I find myself wanting to ditch the ps4 and build a powerful pc. My only issue is I don't really game as much anymore and I feel more inclined to buy a mac.

Hi Cranler.

And I made a switch to over 500 posts.

Cranler? how many accounts do you make per day?

(one of my problems being the hard drive suddenly deciding it doesn't like its connecting cable anymore, fixed by swapping it with the DVD drive cable... what!?)

Yeah, you're better off going with a console, I bet.

That said, I don't know why people consider it a "switch" or a "conversion" from one to another. Who says you have to pick one? Do you throw away your existing PC as soon as you buy a PS4?

I also use to be a pc gamer for 15yrs from the old Celeron pentium and finally to building Ur own pc and I've always likes Sony's consoles since ps1 and the reason from pc to ps4 is not only due to the games but these days now the price to upgrade is getting beyond a joke and can't afford it

Watch the TC quote us saying he's not Cranler.

Member Since:October 25, 2014 ; Posts:6 ( creates account today, and decides to post a "why I switched to PS4" thread out of nowhere.)

Cool story bro.

Nice alt, whoever you are.

OP is forgetting that current gen consoles are pretty much PC in a console size box.They require updates, patches,they also have issued like bugs,glitches, crashes, freezes ,frame rate issues etc.Don't forget day 1 updates,massive patches,etc. So in that sense owning consoles is no more easier than PCs

So Civ 5 made you buy a console to play games like Borderlands 2? Also, I have a time believing you were any kind of PC enthusiast if you think consoles have great performance. They did'nt last gen and they don't his gen.

Cranler. Has the same type of boring arguments like always.

Sound like someone cravin bloodborne!!! LOL

Srry lemming

That dude is such an annoying troll lol. He argues the same shit over, and over, and over. Is there no way for mods to prevent him from making these stupid alt accounts? @charizard1605@blue_hazy_basic

Well, you dont have to spend hours on google to try fix problems. You just have to turn on the console and you get patches etc automagic

Awesome. I don't have to do that on my pc either. And you only have to wait 1 to 3 weeks for the patches on console anyway. Fantastic.

On PC, if there's a problem, you can fix it in les than 2 days.

Scottpsfan14 .?

Also this , if you were indeed a PC gamer before .

this comment has never made sense..just hermit being a hermit..

I gamed on PC for awhile , but I use my Xbox almost exclusively now for similar reasons. I bought so many games on steam that I know I'll never play. I found myself hopping between different games every few days because I owned so many of them. I felt like I had to finish them all as quickly as possible.

With consoles, because the games are generally more expensive, I think harder about which games to choose. And since I have less of them, I play those games to absolute completion, and may even replay them once or twice if they're good enough. Never did that on PC, which is a real shame because I think gaming is just more enjoyable when you grow a real attachment to the games you're playing.

It's weird to say, but I think there's such a thing as having too many games to play. And with frequent steam sales it can be hard to control yourself.

I also realized, at the end of a long day I prefer to lie down on my couch with a controller in hand playing games on my TV. I know I could do this with my PC, but why spend so much on hardware costs just to replicate a console experience?

Uh most of the major games are console. Fail.

Welcome to the dark side

Watch out for hermits though