PC Gaming is Better

After being a long time console gamer, I finally built my own gaming rig. Over time, I’ve transferred to almost exclusively gaming on PC and never looked back.

I haven’t owned a console since the Xbox 360. We have reached a certain point in gaming that the consoles, and the cost of two or all three of them equate to the same price as a higher end PC. There is also a shift that has started to take place in the “exclusiveness” of games as it were. I have used PS Now For PC, a trial of it, to play through Horizon Zero Dawn were it is being streamed to your PC. That game is also making it’s way to PC now.

The cost of games goes up and the ability to keep them exclusive to just that console is increasingly difficult we are seeing. Even though currently with the PS5 we don’t know what the future of PS Now for PC will entail, we’ll see what happens with it, but that is $50 for a yearly subscription as opposed to a $500 or $600 console coming out by the end of the  year.

Even though I may miss out on some games due to just being PC, I can’t justify the cost of one console anymore just for 2-5 exclusives that release a year that I may actually be interested in playing, then just to have this piece of hardware sitting there doing nothing and collecting dust. The only console I may get would be a Switch for Breath of the Wild 2 and some other Nintendo games.

It’s true as there is no denying such objective truths.

PC > Console

I have a dirty secret, I collect consoles and can be found playing them in the dark of the night when no one is looking.

I have a PS4.
And I used it, too.

For Netflix.
Then I got a smart TV with Netflix…

I like PC & I like console handheld like switch & Vita.
I guess the difference will be how you live your life. I take trains to work everyday. in which I’ll play Vita & Switch. 1 hour one way, 2 hours a day at least. Can bring it to the toilet. And so on.

I don’t own a console.  Or even a TV for that matter.

So yeah, most of my gaming is on PC, but what I really love about that is that I can get into modding games.  Games like GTAV, Fallout4, Morrowind (waaaay back in the day) .  I absolutely loved Modding out Dragon Age Origins, back when it was out.

The big downside tho, is that nowadays, you really have to spend some money on your box to be able to play a lot of the games that are coming out now.

Edit AGAIN-  That, and you can’t play private servers on consoles, AFAIK.

That, and FUCK SONY with their restrictions.  Modding FO4 on a PS4 was garbage!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by DarkeWolf.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by DarkeWolf.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by DarkeWolf.

Well, some of that is changing with the Streaming services. You have PS Now For PC that works quite well actually and they rotate the games out on what you can play. I played through almost all of Horizon Zero Dawn on the 7 day trial, and now you can play Spider-Man if you want. Who knows what the future will hold concerning PS5 and the PC version of PS Now, but currently it’s a great cost saver instead of getting a console. The only console I may get would be a Switch to play Breath of the Wild 2 and some other Nintendo games.

+1 for mods.  +1 for hard drives (or +5 for SSD’s.)