Why bother buying consoles next gen?

[Chazore]

0D0 said:

Chazore said:

Or you could buy a pre-built gaming PC or even have someone put it together for you, or even go to PCpartspicker.com and literally steal/copy someone's build and have it built for you.

 

When it comes to making/building a PC, we're not in the 90's to early 00's anymore. 

Or you can just go to best buy and pick up a ps4 for 300 start playing. You play like you turn on your phone. Simple as that.

PC will never be more convenient than a console. I suppose PC gamers just are so used to PC setups and they like so much building things that they just can't see that.

It's like that idea of having smartphones that could be build and upgraded in parts. Most people wouldn't want to do that, only PC enthusiasts. It's rather nonsense.

And you can do that with a pre-built as well, simple as.

Consoles over the past generation have been trading convenience for some things PC's have been doing for years, but as a result, they've taken on bad luggage, ranging from downloading hefty patches, to crashing unexpectedly, to simply needing multiple OS updates, the likes of which were once just exclusive to PC.

PC gamers know what they know because they've bothered to learn about the platform, rather than staying stuck in the late 90's to early 00's way of thinking, that we all magically need 2-5k for a single system, that we always need the most beefiest of rigs, and that we somehow need to constantly update those rigs hardware wise every year, let alone software weekly (which we don't). I don't think console only gamers see that their way of thinking is about as backwards as someone waking up from a 90's induced coma, that they think the world hasn't changed in over 20 years. 

That hasn't stopped people from "upgrading" to the latest iphone, that contains one or two hardware updates, which mean very little compared to the insane asking prices for pay as you go contracts (which cost about as much as a decent PC I might add).