@FallenOneX @caddis1181 To be totally honest, a good gaming PC can cost around $700 - 800 if you build it yourself. I built mine for that price and I can run pretty much any game between Medium and Ultra. True, that seems pricier but the graphical fidelity is much higher AND I can surf the net and do my school or business work on it. I think the productivity parts make up for few hundred dollars difference between a PC and a console.
I do understand that it does take more time and knowledge to build your own gaming PC and not everyone can afford the time or money to do that type of thing. But that's why I don't like it when people just argue black and white about whether PC is better or console is better.
I like to think the PC is a custom built hot rod and the console is a nice BMW sedan. The hot rod is great for people who want the power and customization with the time and knowledge to make that work. The BMW is for a family who just wants a nice powerful car that can get them where they need to go while having a comfortable ride. Would the family be happier in a hot rod? No. They would probably hate it. So they are really different machines for different audiences. But just saying that pure raw power will always stay with the PC though.
@roastedzombies @axsun19 No, no. I understand the appeal of consoles, and respect them for the type of machines they are and the audiences they gather.
But consoles are, sorry to say, an antiquated concept. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, computers costed literally thousands of dollars and their main return-on-investment is their ability to do business and advance science simulations. So Nintendo (and all the others) was brilliant to make a low-powered computer that was only a fraction as powerful as the real computers but also a fraction of the cost. Normal consumers didn't want the advance computing for work, and they got a machine that just plays games that weren't too cpu-intensive.
Let's look at consoles and PCs today. Consoles cost $400 - 600. A good gaming PC can cost around that price, AND it can be incrementally upgraded whenever new tech comes out at an affordable price. Consoles are stuck with the same specs for its entire life cycle. And if you look at the specs of a console, you will quickly see that it IS a PC but very restricted and not upgradeable.
So my earlier point about how consoles were born from the desire to have a low cost computer that only plays games and nothing else to save on cost is now obsolete because PCs are now about the same price but it can ALSO do your business work and advanced scientific calculations. The price of PCs went down while console prices remained the same, so it only makes sense to get a computer.
Well, I can go all day talking about why I think the PC is better, but lets focus on why consoles are good:
1) Easy software maintenance - The OS is so specific and restricted that there are no viruses or glitches unlike PCs.
2) Games will always run - If you want a machine that will always run a game without low FPS or incompatible drivers, a console will provide that.
3) Majority of gamers own consoles, so companies focus on games for consoles - Console owners end up getting fantastic "console-only" games because the user base is in consoles.
@conorhat @axsun19 Yeah, I really don't understand the rationale of not including 4K in the PS4 or Xbox One. They know that 4K is maybe 2 -3 years away (tops), but they expect to support these systems for the next 6 - 7 years?
PC games can already run 4K games on a 4K monitor (yes, it requires 4 GeForce Titans and yes we don't have 60 FPS). By definition (pun intended), the PS4 and Xbox One are already obsolete! The new generation consoles have powerful hardware, but it can definitely not handle 4 GeForce Titans.
This is not a hyperbole, but I really think that a few years before the end of life for PS4/XBONE we will be using 8K gaming on the PC.
Hmm, did Sony just confirm that PC players have been better gamers for the past decade? PC gaming has had 1080p games for years while PS3 players were stuck with 720p games (at best).
Hey, is it me or is anyone else noticing that Jess is moving kind of weird in the video above? I think they are shooting in 60 FPS in that video, so that's why Jess is doing that weird soap-opera blur-free movement.
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