Way I see that is, just stay 12 months or so behind the bleeding edge. Get 1070 class gpu, learn to understand you actually do not always benefit from maxing every slider and having every check box ticked and you will find you can play with more fps on pc with better controlls and better graphics than a console. Buy games 6 months after release for half the price or less with it all patched ups need with better drivers.
The only downside is if you want to play a game day one then yes, bugs wise console might be superior.
What I like about PC is, every game I ever buy on steam I can play whenever I want. But with a console they come and go and unless you keep them all and the games which will be space consume it and not to mention expensive.
PC gaming is actually same if not cheaper for me than console and I get to keep the games
Oh I do, I am more than happy to drop from ultra to high since there is virtually no difference a lot of the time
Looking at digital foundry comparison videos, only a few games look considerably better on the PC now, most of the time, the only real noticeable difference between PC and PS 4 pro are shadows I find. I miss the days where PC games were drastically better looking than the consoles and the extra cost was more justifiable then.
I also go through a lot of faff to ensure I get the best smoothness experience with regards to different vsync methods i.e. borderless vs full screen, triple buffering on/off, maxgpubufferedframe in the config files, fps cap at 60 or 59 etc. (g or free sync will negate the need to do all of this but I won't be buying into that until the PC gaming market improves i.e. AMD get their **** together for vega, I refuse to buy closed in tech. aka gsync)
It is games like ghost recon wildlands that just makes me question why bother with PC... That game is just laughable for optimisation, on my pc, I had to drop every single setting to low/off just to be able to even hit 50 fps, needless to say the game was butt ugly... And by the looks of it, even people with beastly setups are having to reduce settings to get acceptable performance yet there are tons of open world games that run amazingly well on high/ultra settings i.e. witcher 3, fallout 4, gta 5, division etc.
And then you have releases like batman AK and deus ex, utter trash on release day/week/month, missing graphical effects for the PC etc.
That is what I have been pretty much doing the past year now for the **** games, just waiting until they get patched up but generally by the time that happens, I won't have any desire to play the game then
I don't like the 30 fps lock for consoles but thankfully they are smooth/stutter free, with PC gaming even at a constant 50FPS, it just doesn't feel/look as smooth, at least on non g/free sync displays anyway. I imagine this is down to console having their own methods for low frame latency, vsync etc. + things like motion blur etc. to help mask any stuttering that there is.
But yes, PC gaming still has some nice advantages, main thing being cheaper games + more options/tweaks/mod user base to fix/improve the game as well as extra additions like 21.9 etc.
