PC or Console, you can't be on both!

PC or Console ?

  • PC

    Votes: 196 67.1%

  • Console

    Votes: 96 32.9%
  • Total voters
    292
mathello

mathello

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I know there is an absurd amount of hardcore gamers here, but in 2019 when seeing that sony will be rolling out their exclusives on PC, I made a choice to no longer support any consoles. The main driver was Playstation Plus price increase, I finished playing with GoT and sold all my PS4 stuff, my vita broke and I never played on my 3DS or WiiU. They all went away and I have no regrets.

Then came the steamdeck a savior for a more console like experience on PC. And I see myself in envy of consoles in everything except pricing.

On PC you have to be the last developer with the game. You have to manually do settings, get it working on hardware right or best. I enjoy this process but I will not deny sometimes it is egregious and fails and this can get in the way of enjoying the hobby of gaming. PC because they are not all gaming devices complicates just sitting down and playing the game.

I can not count the times when sitting down to game something comes in the way, usually to do with using the controller on windows and being away from the keyboard and mouse. A shortcut is never play on PC on a tv but this was not my vision of me choosing the platform that can or will in the future play everything.

Honestly the best gaming experience for me is streaming my desktop to the steamdeck because with the touchpads and working onscreen keyboard It all works out usually. Sadly I get connections streaming issues(have to reset the router) so that never became the perfect way to play either. I will still not go back to consoles. I made this bed but given the binary choice where will you fall.
 

you can't be on both!
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No consoles for around 15 years already. The best consoles were the N64 and PS2 era.

Last consoles I owned were the PS3 and Wii. And glad I made the switch cause I was bored of the consoles at the time and PC is something I'll almost always have on when I'm home instead of collecting dust after buying the games I want.

Plenty of great games to play but Modded Bethesda games basically last me forever and are easily the most fun and best games of all times.

Was going to get the PS5 last year but that is no longer in my mind since the games I want for it are now on PC or coming.

Might get the Switch 2 but now I'm starting to lose interest in it so most likely not.
 
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Switched to consoles 15+ years ago from primarily playing on PC. I guess I will stick with it.. I don't play multiplayer games so I don't pay for ps+ if nothing else.
 
Hmmm. Do I get to keep all my old consoles? I'm torn, if that's the case. This would be easy if gaming on linux wasn't a thing but between that and steam, it's kinda hard to say console. I pick pc but it's close.
 
I mean Sony seems to be devaluing their games by going PC (not as quickly as MS) but at this rate I'm having trouble seeing why I need a ps6 when it's nothing but cross gen and games getting ported to pc
 
PC.

I actually got rid of all my current gen consoles. No regrets. I'm probably getting a Switch 2 though.

If your hardware is good enough, you don't really have to mess with any settings. Do basic optimization once and max everything out.
 
If I only get one, it's always going to be PC. It can play the most games, I can use whatever controller, and I don't have to pay for stuff that should be free like cloud saves and online multiplayer.

The ease of use barrier, local multiplayer and Japanese games were my strongest reasons to play more on consoles in the past, but Japan is porting most of their stuff over (I can emulate what they don't), as are 2 of the 3 console first-party output.

People always exaggerate how much you have to tinker, assuming their experience must be universal, or the people that haven't touched the platform in over a decade assume it's still the same. "Tinkering" for me is less than 5 mins per game until it runs well for me.

Even with the faults of Windows 11, it's still far more stable and reliable than 98, XP or 7 ever were for me. Drivers, game installation/updates, controller support, social apps like Discord and the like have become so streamlined on the platform. I like not having to care about generations, where so many old PC games are easy to play or even automated like GoG's preservation program, local multiplayer is easy on PC now, and emulation is good enough I can take it with me on the go.

That said, if you prefer something else cross-platform multiplayer is common now, and most games release everywhere.
 
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PC, no question, just due to sheer flexibility of hardware, breadth of the gaming library and ability to emulate everything up to X360 and PS3 generation (PS4 work is progressing as well).

I own all the consoles, but PC side is one I couldn't give up.
 
Easy choice.

I can still run the first PC game I bought in the late 90s on my current PC. Same goes for all the other games I've bought since. No legacy hardware required. No need to buy a new version of the game after a hardware upgrade. Some of my favorite games from back then still have active multiplayer servers, others still have active creative communities that have essentially produced decades worth of free DLC and content updates. Some even have both. On top of that, my PC handily runs pretty much all of my favorite console games as well.
 
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Only 2 choices!!! switch 2 and ps5 pro. Im going to be playing ghost of yotei, death stranding 2, mario kart world, and donkey kong day one. And This is before gta 6 timed exclusive biggest game of any generation ever comes out lol. Have fun watching my gameplay footage on YouTube.

On the go or on my couch im covered. Hand my family a joycon to play coop or hand them a playstation controller to play some split screens. Simplicity at its finest. Just chilling like an old school og gamer in the 90's. Ima call it neo 90's!
Oh and im 90 percent physical. I can resell some of these games for 2/3 times as much as i bought them for lol 😂. Investing long term into the games like gold always payed off for me.
 
The Lunch Legend said:
Do Sony still make PCs? I wanna buy one.
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mathello said:
I know there is an absurd amount of hardcore gamers here, but in 2019 when seeing that sony will be rolling out their exclusives on PC, I made a choice to no longer support any consoles. The main driver was Playstation Plus price increase, I finished playing with GoT and sold all my PS4 stuff, my vita broke and I never played on my 3DS or WiiU. They all went away and I have no regrets.

Then came the steamdeck a savior for a more console like experience on PC. And I see myself in envy of consoles in everything except pricing.

On PC you have to be the last developer with the game. You have to manually do settings, get it working on hardware right or best. I enjoy this process but I will not deny sometimes it is egregious and fails and this can get in the way of enjoying the hobby of gaming. PC because they are not all gaming devices complicates just sitting down and playing the game.

I can not count the times when sitting down to game something comes in the way, usually to do with using the controller on windows and being away from the keyboard and mouse. A shortcut is never play on PC on a tv but this was not my vision of me choosing the platform that can or will in the future play everything.

Honestly the best gaming experience for me is streaming my desktop to the steamdeck because with the touchpads and working onscreen keyboard It all works out usually. Sadly I get connections streaming issues(have to reset the router) so that never became the perfect way to play either. I will still not go back to consoles. I made this bed but given the binary choice where will you fall.
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I dislike windows so much that I refuse to tinker with this shit operating system, I am on a computer all day long for work. The last thing I want to do is game on a computer. And given the fact that stutter is an ongoing issue. I prefer consoles. Press the logo of the company to bring it up. And that's it I am gaming.
 
Console. Despite over 20 years on PC I will still choose console.

The Lunch Legend said:
Do Sony still make PCs? I wanna buy one.
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VAIO has not been a Sony product since 2014. As far as I know Sony only really owns intellectual rights but it's a separate company now.
 
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You know, I've been playing PC games since the early 1980's, and I love the platform.

But, my god. 'PC gamers' in 2025 are the most irritating, annoying fucking cunts on the planet. The fact that most of you are posers who are buying overpriced PC hardware to play console ports aside, the endless repetition of the same point is just so tired and insufferable. Yes, we get it. The world gets it. Online is free on PC. Shut the fuck up about it, for the love of god.
 
Topher said:
Seriously though.....I do get your point. Every platform has insufferable devotees.
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Since Sony jacked up their prices and Nintendo revealed what they want for the Switch 2, the PC evangelism has become fucking insufferable. It seems like there's not a single thread that exists without some fucking idiot barging into make the same arguments that have been made over... and over... and over again - or to inform us of their VERY IMPORTANT DECISION that they've 'made the switch' and are 'never looking back'.

It's just boring and repetitive, day in, day out, in every fucking forum. I've been a predominantly PC user for decades, and hearing it ad nauseam is just becoming utterly insufferable. What is the point of this thread? That the retarded OP can give us an update on his feelings towards various platforms, and a bunch of mouthbreathers can chime in with their predictable, cliched, scorching hot takes on how awesome they are for buying a PC?

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usually PC but fall back to console when i'm low on hdd space, pc tied up doing other things like AV editing or ai, or games that are only on console. certain games i only play on console like CoD cause i would never waste precious ssd space on a game like that, but don't mind wasting the space on the console.
 
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