| Shiken said: It is all about price and exclusives. Some do not want to spend the extra money on a higher performing PC and at that point, you may as well go console. Why would anyone that wants to play God of War 5, Horizon 2, Zelda, Xenoblade, Death Stranding, ghost of tsushima, etc sink the money on a PC when their PS5/Nintendo console can play those same games anyway? |
Well, I would do that because my PC is stronger than all of my consoles. But, like I've said, my PC isn't fitting in my pocket, so there's reason to buy switch games.
VAMatt said:
If you have a 12 year old rig that's playing current games at a reasonably quality, you just have either spent $2500 on it 12 years ago, or spent a grand on it back then, and put a few upgrades in it since. But, your point is well taken. There are some cost savings associated with PC gaming. I guess I should sit down and do some math sometime to see if the question of which is cheaper can be definitively answered. |
I don't try to go too much into this, because I wouldn't game on a low-end PC. I did pay 2500 for my pc, two years ago, and STILL want to build a better one. This one has partially paid for itself, though, thanks to the ease of crypto mining, a couple years ago. Not worth it anymore, but I was so happy I went for the exact card I wanted.
| Dante9 said: Exclusives are reason enough, I could just stop there. Playstation is my man in that regard, always has been and hopefully always will be. Even if every game was on every platform, it's just convenient. Just get on the couch and play on a big ass TV(the only way to game), no hassle, no compatibility issues, no wondering if this bit will work with that bit and whatnot. No bulky keyboard searching for the right keys to press with the mouse taking up your other hand, no thanks. I might get used to that, but I don't have to. Sure, there's always more pixels and lighting and frame rate and cake out there, but the jump to HD was enough for me, thanks. Each generation I get a jump that's nice enough to keep things fresh, I'm good. |
I wish I could say the same. I still like my consoles. But my 4ktv is actually a 4096 x 2160, or DCI resolution, which means only pc games are going to scale properly anyway. However, I got the tv for screen real estate, and the refreshrate was the best I was going to get for the money. That was my biggest concern because I like my fighting games, and when I have friends over, the last thing I want to hear is complaints about TV lag. I wanted it to be acceptable and an alternative to my high speed monitor, since expecting people to crowd around a 27 inch monitor is ridiculous. I even have a splitter, so the monitor can be used in combination with the TV, but honestly, they didn't care that the monitor would give them a frame advantage, because of how responsive the TV already was.
I've told myself I'd use that TV for some single player games, so I can enjoy some 4k 60 games, but I've never actually done it, though. And, with PS4, I always select performance over visuals, so I've never played any of those games in 4k either.
Maybe I'll boot a game up and try it right now.
