PC and Console fan boys, Whats the deal ?

As a competitive multiplayer FPS/RTS/4X/MMO gamer there is no room for me on consoles.

A "gaming computer" only costs what you pay for the GPU, as you should already have a PC with a good processor and an SSD and a decent PSU etc...

But if you like something, than nothing is wrong with that, buy whatever, play on whatever, watch whatever. If someone asks for my opinion than rages, i mean on forums its one thing, but in real life.
 
anticonscience said:
This is just utterly retarded. How can you not see comparing something that costs £350 against something that costs twice, three, four times as much is not even comparable.....I'm not arguing it's not more powerful, it is, but the fact is the price is very relevant, you seem to not want to accept/understand that for some reason.
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The price difference isn't as large as that. Yes, you can spend £1400 on a PC but you can build a PC significantly more powerful than a console for a great deal less than that, particularly since for a like for like comparison you won't be including the cost of a monitor. In raw power terms, a current console is on a par with a decent budget PC. You could probably build a PC for under £500 that would significantly outperform a console. Here's a comparison between a budget PC with an AMD FX-6300 (~£80) and a Radeon 260X (~£80) against a PS4 and an Xbox One. They also used a far more powerful CPU but it didn't make very much difference because the budget graphics card was unsurprisingly the bottleneck while gaming.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-r7-260x-vs-next-gen-console

For not much more money you could get much more powerful components.

There's also the tendency for new games on a PC to be a bit cheaper because console games have to include a cut for the console company, so that reduces the cost gap further.
 
Only took 6 pages to turn in this......... well done take a bow all off you showing how grown up you all are Jesus lol who cares what people think buy what you want enjoy it end of, most people who play a lot of games has a pc and consoles so there shouldn't be much to moan about it hardly cost a lot of money in the grand scheme of things like houses and cars.
 
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I don't understand how people can argue that PC isn't the superior platform anymore.

Consoles are more expensive in the long run, there is the fact games on Xbox One cost £50 and games on PC cost on average £25. So the fact a console is the cheaper unit, the fact games cost more and it can do less means it just ends up slower, worse looking, less productive and more expensive.

A friend has just bought 4 games to send to her fiancé as he's away in the Falklands, the difference alone there is around £100.
 
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People will always defend what they spent their money on.

Antony101 said:
I don't understand how people can argue that PC isn't the superior platform anymore.

Consoles are cheaper in the long run but then there is the fact games on Xbox One cost £50 and games on PC cost on average £25.

A friend has just bought 4 games to send to her fiancé as he's away in the Falklands, the difference alone there is around £100.
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Surely, costs is cumulative, not just for the moment. So the fact that PC games are cheaper now, you are spending more money...as you have admitted.
 
Angilion said:
The price difference isn't as large as that. Yes, you can spend £1400 on a PC but you can build a PC significantly more powerful than a console for a great deal less than that, particularly since for a like for like comparison you won't be including the cost of a monitor. In raw power terms, a current console is on a par with a decent budget PC. You could probably build a PC for under £500 that would significantly outperform a console. Here's a comparison between a budget PC with an AMD FX-6300 (~£80) and a Radeon 260X (~£80) against a PS4 and an Xbox One. They also used a far more powerful CPU but it didn't make very much difference because the budget graphics card was unsurprisingly the bottleneck while gaming.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-r7-260x-vs-next-gen-console

For not much more money you could get much more powerful components.

There's also the tendency for new games on a PC to be a bit cheaper because console games have to include a cut for the console company, so that reduces the cost gap further.
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I think this is a socio demographic issue these days not a clear cut console vs pc fanwar.

I don't know anyone, apart from on here, who has an existing pc set-up and operating system that could be used as a foundation, to then simply buy a gaming base unit or card upgrade to drop in. This ranges for people still in their teens through to retired and for, acquaintances in and outside of work.

I am in my 30s now, everyone I know has either a laptop or media pc/server for their tv/devices. Quite a few just have a tablet or iPad and some other integrated Apple hardware. When I joined ocuk originally, (pre nuke), laptops were not the norm and everyone I knew had a pc plus possibly a console; but the pc was the primary platform, and a necessary commodity for productivity, emails,gaming etc.

These days the cost of building a decent mid/low gaming pc including all the peripherals and OS (which would be needed) is significantly more than a console. Plus logistically, takes up a lot of space.

Also, I only know one person (irl) who would have the time, skill and desire to scratch build at a sensible price, everyone else would buy a pre built system (desktop or laptop) with at least 3 years warranty or not bother.

I can get a console in every room I have a TV, for the same price.

Consoles (ps4/x1) are plug and play, cheap to buy and take up nominal space.

Pre marriage, pre job, pre kids it was a different picture for me personally but now time is precious, space is a high value commodity and money is channelled into other persuits.

Others I know are in a similar situation or socialise and game in different ways. Equally I have spent more time on smartphone games this year, including star traders, age of pirates and angry birds than I have on console or pc games.
 
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I have my PC which I adore and (like everybody else on these forums) spend far too much money on.

However I bought a PS4 because I wanted to relax in bed with a controller and have more of a social aspect where I can play online with friends and have people round with up to 4 controllers.
 
Think it’s been said in posts before, but the OP pretty much seems to be on the ‘PC fan boy’ side already, judging by the first post – so I’m sure they can answer the question ‘what’s the deal?’ already.

For me, from starting work in 2001 I began to ‘PC game’ – and that only stopped about a year after the Xbox 360 came out, I switched mainly out of convenience really – sat at a desk with a k/b and mouse vs lounging in a living room chair, was no contest for me.

Over the PC years I (like most here) I taught myself to upgrade and build gaming rigs, install and customize the Windows o/s, and carry out endless tweaks, tests, overclocks and benchmarks – trying to push my kit that ever bit further. I enjoy that, a lot, and still miss aspects to this day.

As my life went on an things changed, I started to have more demands on my salary, and swapping kit out every 6-8 months became harder to do, maybe this is something that swayed me towards consoles as well…

It wasn’t until a friend lent me their 360 for a couple of weeks, that I actually returned to console gaming for any duration – sure it was like Bambi on ice trying to control a shooter (Ghost Recon actually) with a pad – but I stuck with it; and come time to hand the 360 back – I was already ordering my first!

It’s nice with console gaming not to have to worry about whether my kit will be able to play it, or play it well, or whether I will need to tweak settings, drivers, ini files, whatever…. I can just plonk a disc in and away I go (after an install).

I miss the mod community that comes with PC gaming – god knows I would probably have over 1,000 hours of Skyrim logged if I was running the many PC mods for it; but it’s not a deal breaker with me – and as it so happens, I’ve still got about 5-600 happy hours on the console versions.

After a wild de-tour, going back to the question that OP has already answered – who knows! I liken it to willy waving in cars, or on motorcycles – we all have a desire to impose or superiority onto another, so I guess you can chalk it up to that – frankly though, does it really matter?
 
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