"Master Race" plz lol! Your precious PCs aint that good...

While I understand some of your points, some just don't make sense.

1: Resale of hardware, I am currently selling my GTX 680 for 275 in order fund my 2x 970 purchase. I paid 550 for that card. So i'm getting about half the cost 2.5 years later.

2: Multiplates are the best. This year Dragon Age Inquisition is my most anticipated game and it will run better on my i7 3930k and SLI GTX 970's. Smash is the only console exlclusive I'm pumped for this year.

3: Not all of us wait for steam sales. Games I really want I buy day one. DA:I is a day one purchase. As will be GTA V, The next Fallout Game, The next Elder Scrolls game and pretty much any RPG.

4: I like my consoles as well, I bought Infamous: SS day one, I bought Forza 5 day one. I will buy the Halo Collection Day one as well as Uncharcted 4. Bloodborne will also be a day one purchase. I buy games I love day one, the rest can wait until a sale. I will wait for a Amazon or Best Buy sale of a console game or PC game as well as a steam sale.

Hell, I even bought Dragon Age origins, II, ME1-3 on PC and then again on PS3 just because I wanted trophies and to relax with a controller. If Devs make a game I can really get into and play for hours on end, I will buy and sometimes twice just for trophies.

This is a classic case of consoleious delusious...

What OP see's:

What the games actually look like:

My mid range PC can run Crysis 3 maxed at 2560 x 1440, and your little baby toy can't :)

Yeah,PC gaming isnt perfect but its the Sony fans that are lunatics.

This is the kind of stuff you would expect to see on the consoles. LoDing won't be as high for a few reasons. First off the consoles need to conserve polygons where they can, that's just a given fact. Second, console gamers sit further away from their screen on average so distance details are even smaller to their eyes, thus dropping the LoD at a distance is a good way to save some polygons.

As you can see the up-close details are more or less identical. That's because situationally on a console, keeping the detail high on nearby objects is the most important part. Even if a console game could run identical PC settings fine, it's a waste to render the same way. Consoles get special LoDing because of the different situation that most gamers play the game in. There is no point for distance details on a console version to be nearly as high fidelity as that on the PC. It's a waste of polygons and rendering that could go into something else.

Really, unless you're looking for those kind of defects in the background, you aren't going to notice any differences in image quality. Console gamers aren't playing with their noses to the screen. Knocking down the LoDing just doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

Gaming development 101: just because you can doesn't mean you should. When it comes to rendering, if it's details that don't really enhance the final image quality for your average user, you can afford to lose them.

On the PC they have to ballpark a bunch of LoDing and sometimes just give players full control. On a 4k setup you'll want better LoDing as your distant details will be taking up far more pixels and be more apparent on your screen. At 1080p it may not be as important so you can knock it down a bit to save some frames. Unnecessary LoDing for the sake of winning graphic debates on the internet is a horrible way to program a game. Even on the PC.

Playing Battlefield 4 on the PC is a prime case of a game dev understanding that unnecessary details for the sake of unnecessary detail is a complete waste. Distance LoDing even on ultra consists of billboards (flat textures that always point towards the user) and low details. This is because there is no reason to waste frames on something you won't be looking at much. This is partly why BF4 is so optimized and runs so smooth.

It's just logical game development, hell it's logical programming. I'm not saying the consoles are stronger than PCs or anything, but having special LoDing on the consoles that's probably worse than your typical low PC settings is going to be the norm because console games are generally developed around the user being 10 feet from the screen so little details that take up a grand total of 20 pixels aren't a huge deal and aren't missed. Why waste the rendering if you don't need it?

@Thunderdrone: Jesus.

You cows give console gamers a bad name. There is no way - no way - that a console can produce the graphics a PC can.

I say that as someone who does not like playing games on a PC.