Why bother buying consoles next gen?

[Burning Typhoon]

Cerebralbore101 said:

Anthem is one of the worst games of all time, so nobody should care if it bricks a console. It's like saying Carnival Games will brick your Wii. 

Yes, somebody could send a malicious message and brick your PS4. Meanwhile PC needs anti-virus to protect it from attacks that are much more common on that platform. PC getting viruses isn't exactly the same, but you get my point. 

Xbox One offers nothing over PS4 or PC. There's literally no reason for anyone to ever buy one. So, I'm not worried about how often it fails. 

Yeah, if you buy cheap 3rd party stuff it may brick your Switch. Nintendo specifically tells you not to do this. This would be like if a PC user bought an unreputable harddrive, and then was surprised when it failed six months down the road. Don't buy cheap shit for your gaming setups!

I agree with PSN being down, and bugs showing up a lot on console versions of games made for PC. This was especially a big deal on PS3. I still love my PS3, but it was just flawed. Too many games like Orange Box, New Vegas, Skyrim, Fallout 3, Dishonored, and Mass Effect series either ran subpar on it, or crashed often. 

First off, Anthem doesn't brick consoles, but it does cause serious errors for them, obviously.  However, it's a new 60 dollar game.  If you spend 60 dollars on a game you don't expect it to be absolute trash and break a console you've paid for.  If you console is broken because of a game, you are out of a console.  You should care.

You can think the game looks promising and be willing to get it for 60 dollars day one, and it makes you think your console is bricked.  But, it's a bad game, so no body should care about that?  But, in one of your comments you want to say, "it's not the same thing, but you get what I mean."

Well, you understand what it means to see a game that looks promising, interesting, and you want it to be a good game, and ignore the reviews to play it.  And it makes you think your console is broken.

I thought the same about mirror's edge: catalyst but it didn't cause any issues with my PC.