Why Do People Hate On Consoles ?

pre 2000 consoles > PCs
post 2000 PCs > consoles

Around the time I ditched my Dreamcast I was either running a Voodoo Banshee or a 5500. Consoles these days only seem useful for entertaining the kids or drunk mates.
 
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Basically this. And any other opinion is wrong. I'd hate to limit the magical experiences available on consoles just because of some pig headed notion I hold that PC Master race is the best.
 
Live and let live. They both have their own areas of superiority.

I wish I had the money and to setup a decent gaming pc from scratch again. I used them for totally different games. RPG and RTS on pc, almost everything else on console. Dragon Age Origins and Oblivion were great on PC, but I hated Skyrim and would be pretty sad if I had a PC and the same dumbing down is now regular for those kind of games. Inquisition on console is horrendous compared to Origins on Pc.

I never really played fast First Person maze games on any platform, so frame rate wasnt an issue too much. In fact playing MMO like Warcraft on high frame rates still looked poor to me compared to some maligned console games.
 
It's not that certain PC gamers hate consoles. It's more like they like to use the specs of their system as some sort of pathetic **** waving contest.
 
The only way that consoles are superior are that they're accessible (easy to set up, guarantee that they'll play the latest games [although that might be changing], small, fairly quiet, you need two cables only...) and they're much cheaper. Maybe half the price, once you've factored in your TV and your second controller and a game. And you know what, this is a huge advantage that means they're the best choice for most people who just want to game.

I feel there are two types of PC gamers. Those who play games as hobby and have more money than sense, and buy the latest alienware desktop or some flashy £2,000 laptop with a Nvidia 965 in it and willy wave about how good their kit is and "hurp derp 900p lmao" at every opportunity. This vocal majority are probably responsible for most of the console hate and peruse IGN and leave youtube comments.

Then you have the people for whom PCs in general are a hobby. They build their PCs, overclock them, clean the dust out of them, do clean OS installs more regularly than is strictly necessary. They probably have a million older PC parts and make a second PC tower for no reason and have a back-up graphics card to back up the back-up graphics card which is backing up your actual graphics card. These people also game. But they understand that consoles are 'just fine' for most people. I am one of these people. This afternoon I will probably play some modded skyrim I have spent hours tweaking, and then maybe some ARMA 3. But at 11pm when my gf has gone to sleep I will go into the lounge and fire up UC4 on my big TV on my sofa with a beer. I have five consoles from the Dreamcast to my PS4.

PC gaming makes a lot more sense once you're 'established' and don't need to buy a monitor, speakers, mouse keyboard, desk, power supply, DVD drive, hard drive. For me, an upgrade will be a motherboard, CPU and RAM, because I already have those other things, which is around the same price as a new console bundle. The cost factor is being watered down too with the release of the PS4.5, similar to me getting a new GPU every ~2 years.
 
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Why do I have a PS4 instead of the mighty PC's I used to build? Simple, I'm saving for a house deposit and with a console there is no constant temptation for upgrades. Otherwise I would not get much use from it.
 
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The only way that consoles are superior are that they're accessible (easy to set up, guarantee that they'll play the latest games [although that might be changing], small, fairly quiet, you need two cables only...) and they're much cheaper. Maybe half the price, once you've factored in your TV and your second controller and a game. And you know what, this is a huge advantage that means they're the best choice for most people who just want to game.

I feel there are two types of PC gamers. Those who play games as hobby and have more money than sense, and buy the latest alienware desktop or some flashy £2,000 laptop with a Nvidia 965 in it and willy wave about how good their kit is and "hurp derp 900p lmao" at every opportunity. This vocal majority are probably responsible for most of the console hate and peruse IGN and leave youtube comments.

Then you have the people for whom PCs in general are a hobby. They build their PCs, overclock them, clean the dust out of them, do clean OS installs more regularly than is strictly necessary. They probably have a million older PC parts and make a second PC tower for no reason and have a back-up graphics card to back up the back-up graphics card which is backing up your actual graphics card. These people also game. But they understand that consoles are 'just fine' for most people. I am one of these people. This afternoon I will probably play some modded skyrim I have spent hours tweaking, and then maybe some ARMA 3. But at 11pm when my gf has gone to sleep I will go into the lounge and fire up UC4 on my big TV on my sofa with a beer. I have five consoles from the Dreamcast to my PS4.

PC gaming makes a lot more sense once you're 'established' and don't need to buy a monitor, speakers, mouse keyboard, desk, power supply, DVD drive, hard drive. For me, an upgrade will be a motherboard, CPU and RAM, because I already have those other things, which is around the same price as a new console bundle. The cost factor is being watered down too with the release of the PS4.5, similar to me getting a new GPU every ~2 years.
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PC gaming isn't more expensive when you factor in the costs of games. It balances out very quickly once you start picking up games.

Consoles are about the exclusives. If you've set your PC up properly, it's just as quick and convenient getting in to a game than it is on a console. If it's a new game you've not played yet, then it's even quicker because you have to install games on the PS4 and Xbox One now which are quite slow at doing so.
 
For me its just real life friends>format which puts me on ps4. I'd quite happily be on pc. My problem is I don't buy many games. Maybe 2 a year tops so I don't get the cheap game benefit of pc and I'm terrible for tweaking my rig, I can't help myself. LOL

But over the last 10 years I've had the most fun on console purely as its what friends have. Last few years I had a pc and just switched back to console this year. I love the game experience on pc and the choice but I just end up going on for a couple of games and then coming off due to lack of real life friends on there, game feels amazing, experience overall feels dry. Gaming with people you know is just what its all about for me.

As to the hate I think people like to define themselves as this and that. An in crowd seems to need to hate on the out crowd to define who they are. For me gaming is gaming. Its all the same but its best done with friends.
 
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ignorance and stupidity

I have a kickass pc and a ps4

I get to play just about everything I want to

why would I want to limit myself to only certain games and miss out on other great ones such as the last of us or uncharted 4? and why would I want to limit my experience is great big games such as fallout 4 when I can mod it to my hearts content on my pc?
 
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It's not that certain PC gamers hate consoles. It's more like they like to use the specs of their system as some sort of pathetic **** waving contest.
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You mean like all of the jests about the PS4 being so much greater than the Xbox One? :p
 
I've done the console thing, but the type of games on there simply don't interest me. My style of game is a football manager, a Sins of a Solar Empire or Civilisation. The console market doesn't seem to cater for gamers like me, unless I'm missing something. Personally I don't understand all the tribalism, but then humans seem inclined to it.


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From my point of view, back before multiplayer was big on consoles we had games like Call of Duty United Offensive and Battlefield 2 on PC.
Epic multiplayer games that worked well, looked great and most importantly were geared beautifully towards PC.

Fast forward to the PS3 and 360 and suddenly we get games like COD3 and BF3, designed to work on a console's more limited hardware and are worse for it. Mod support disappears, matchmaking systems creep in (eurgh) and performance on a PC declines as we're now not the target audience.

So yea, as a primarily PC gamer I don't have much love for consoles as they've played a large part in making my PC gaming experience worse.
 
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