Why bother buying consoles next gen?

[LMU Uncle Alfred]

Burning Typhoon said:

LMU Uncle Alfred said:

You didn't ask about anything.  You just said you had a lot of games that you say run well, but not everybody has the same PC set up as you. 

You also don't get to dictate what games are relevant for this as people play all different kinds of games with different set ups.  

It's also not all about specs.   You can have a powerful PC, but for some games when they come out you might not have a specific driver for a particular game to run without crashing or glitching, or if not a driver, without having to tweak your PC settings. 

If yours is running N:A well then good for you.  Not everybody was so lucky at the beginning when it came out.  There were driver issues in particular that were causing issues.  But it didn't stop there.  There are solutions, but there's  a lot of workarounds https://windowsreport.com/fix-nier-automata-issues/  

 Some people also don't like waiting for games to get fixed and that alone could end up souring ever getting a certain version of said game.  If you're ok with waiting on them and in some cases tweaking your PC settings to get them to work, then more power to you.

These problems are a completely valid reason why gamers should consider still buying consoles over PC.

Because the title is "why bother buying consoles next gen" and you try to bring 30 year old games into the mix.  If you're going to play 30 year old games on PC, then yeah, of course PS5 would be better.  Do I really need to specify that?  We're not even using windows 7 anymore.  Anyone who playing next gen games are not going to be using windows xp, or 7, or something like that.  I'm talking about primarily next gen stuff.  There's no reason to dig down into the grave of 90s gaming/electronics to pull up some literal dirt old reasoning and hold it against modern games as if it's a legitimate reason to stick with consoles.  Because Mega man from 1991 was a bad game.  It wasn't even a port.  A totally different game sharing the same name as the original.  But then you totally ignore that all those old games on that list have newer, competent ports.

No 3D game I own will run on my windows 7 PC.  It doesn't even have a graphics card, and it doesn't meet the system requirements.  Just like how my PS3 doesn't meet the system requirements for any PS4 game I own.  If you have the correct hardware, it will work.  That's what I'm talking about.  Having the proper hardware.  If you have the proper hardware to run the game the way it was intended, why do you need a console?

So, no, my specs aren't important, because I have the proper hardware.  I could run some dirt old games on this PC if I wanted to, but the most part, if you have improper, or old hardware, it's not going to work.  Just like how my PS2 games wont work in a PS4.

If you'd kept up with the original post, you'd see that I own every playstation console.  I did that so no one could say I was bashing consoles.  I was legitimately asking the point of owning a console, and the only thing people are doing is naming falsehoods and misconceptions that I know are falsehoods and misconceptions because I own both.

My PS4s, both of them, collect dust.  I get more use out of my PS3, and none of my consoles get as much use as my PC.

As for getting the games earlier, that counts as a valid reason, I'm not saying it doesn't.  But that just makes it a timed exclusive.

There were a variety of eras of games in that link including more recent games, but you're pigeonholing on a few of the games being 3 decades old. It stands to reason that if port issues for PC games have persisted throughout different eras of games, including more recent ports, then it will continue into newer eras.  That's why it's perhaps not the best idea to invest into PC gaming for some; at least not right away.

Console issues tend to be more universal and the issues easier to resolve by developers.  They still happen yes, and some of them don't even get fixed yes, but it's a step up. 

Having the correct or best hardware alone may not solve some issues you run into on PC games. Sometimes there are software or setting issues you'll have to research to find the solution to and implement because the developer/publisher doesn't care to fix them.  Those things can make it so it's less attractive to purchase PC ports over the console original.  That's all I'm saying.