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[Sentenza]

A less obnoxious user base, you'd think existence of consoles means PC gamers get kicked in the balls once a day. Who cares, use whatever platform you like, who cares

Delusional.

 

[Guilty_AI]

A less obnoxious user base, you'd think existence of consoles means PC gamers get kicked in the balls once a day. Who cares, use whatever platform you like, who cares

You're mixing them up with the switch userbase, keeps happening after the deck

 

[hououinkyouma00]

PC is better than ever. The worst of the UE4 era was rough in the way youre saying, but Steam also got a lot better. SteamOS is making PC as easy to use as a PlayStation while maintaining what's good about PC.

The problem with SteamOS is that stuff like anti cheat doesn't work at all kernel level or whatever so some games simply don't work which is a big problem for me.

Also it doesn't support Nvidia the last time I looked which is a huge problem but that might have changed.

Fairly new to PC yeah, since 10 years back on Steam. I jumped in right about when the "Xbox isn't needed" talk started so heard lots of that versus chatter back then.

I know the friction existed earlier too but I feel like PC vs console really ramped up last gen. Then became even more toxic this generation when both Xbox and PlayStation games are on Steam. Today a thread about a new graphics card pull in console fans posting "Just buy a PS5 Pro". It's kinda absurd imo but maybe that existed earlier too and I just missed it I don't know. DF digging after differences between console and PC in ports and do the $500-800 comparison builds and even do DLSS vs PSSR now isn't helping.

I just see way more PCMR people jumping in threads that they don't have any need to be in just to take a crack at people then I see the inverse.

This thread has multiple examples both before and after we talked where a PC person just comes in to say "I would never switch because I already have and PC is way better" and then people just answering the opposite and going "The question should be what would get me to switch to console which is nothing because PC is better" and none of these responses have anything to do with the thread at hand.

Yeah, unfortunately YouTube and the internet in general doesn't help. They know they can get easy clicks and views by doing bottom of the barrel "engagement" content with stuff like that. I think the entire PC YouTube scene right now is fucked though because it's just the same bullshit build after build because it's easy views. I miss the old days of PC. Hell I even miss the gaudy disgusting acrylic builds of the early 2000s over all of this.

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

If they release the next Playstation without an optional drive I'm switching completely to PC.

 

[Fess]

I just see way more PCMR people jumping in threads that they don't have any need to be in just to take a crack at people then I see the inverse.

There are more pc gamers now and many comes from the console space. But I'd say that it goes both ways, console fans do exactly the same thing as the pcmr people you talk about.

But anyway, as said I swapped for real fairly recently and still have a foot left in the console bubble. I don't attempt to troll when I talk about why I swapped. I'd say it's relevant. Still have a Pro for the exclusives I don't want to wait on. Still have a Series X for legacy games that aren't on PC. Not sure how I'll do next generation, depends on how the port strategies evolves.

 

[Ozriel]

Welcome to the club!

Mine was a 7800x3D build with an RTX 4080. Got the CPU, RAM and Motherboard combo from Microcenter. Built in an H7 Flow case.

Before the build, I'd watched about a million videos on how to build a PC…and when the day came i still chickened out and paid someone to come to my house to set it up for me.

And then the infamous red light on the motherboard. RAM wasn't allowing the computer to boot. Went to bed disappointed, picked up a 64GB ram deal from Amazon and luckily that worked. It's been perfect so far.

Only real niggles for me are self-inflicted. I'm using an OLED monitor (2024 Alienware 27 inch) as my primary, and I'm crazy paranoid about burn-in so having to hide icons and toolbars and ensuring it's turned off anytime I'm not using it. I suspect I'm overdoing it, but…yeah.

 

[paolo11]

Not switch but owned both console and PC. PC cuz of flexibility on GPU

 

[PrimitiveAdvancements]

I used to be a playstation gamer and fan, ps4 era at the time of conversion. What made me switch wasn't the power of PC, but the countless survival games that never came out on consoles that i wanted to play. Consoles really do lack a variety of games. I was always a the guy to tinker with my consoles because i wanted to fix things myself, even though i had no idea of what i was doing. I get my first PC in 2017. I've bought and upgraded cheap PCs because I dont feel like building from the bottom. I dont mind upgrading certain components so that is my approach to upgrades. Anyway, I stayed to PC because it was more than just survival games, it was free online, multiple choices from competiting storefronts. Never had to deal with PSN style downtime because of maintenance. Learning KB&M was the most difficult part but now I wouldn't trade it for any other input. Playing games the way I want to play, and not the way developers wanted me to play was awesome, with the mix and matching. I can target framerate or visual fidelity on a more granular level. I went from a RX 580 paired with a ryzen 1400 and a single stick of 8GB to a RX 9070 XT paired with a 5700x3d and 32GB of DDR4. I am ok, but i know i need to migrate to the am5 platform some day. Console gaming is great but you really have to deal with a lot of crap that I would never deal with today. back then, i didn't have much of a choice. Now, I'm playing the way I want to play, not their way.