| famousringo said: I've enjoyed quite a few PC games in my day, but there are limits which the PC has which consoles do not have. The PC is trapped with the keyboard and mouse interface. It has been for two decades now, and looks to be hooked on it for the forseeable future. That's a pretty good interface to be stuck with, but it isn't optimized for gaming. In fact, it can get downright uncomfortable, since it demands you sit at a desk and many of us use a keyboard and mouse for hours every day at work and wouldn't like to risk injury by using them for even more hours in our leisure time. Oh sure, you can hook up any input device you like to a PC as long as you can find drivers for it. Just don't expect any software to take full advantage of that device, because all the developers will assume their customers will use a keyboard and mouse. The second weakness of the PC is multiplayer. PC kicks major ass at online multiplayer, but it absolutely stinks at local multiplayer. The assumption is a single user sitting at a desk, and you almost never get a game which will accept multiple input devices or display a split screen. LANs are fun, but they require a pretty massive effort to get all that hardware together. The final issue with PC games is quality control. Supporting the myriad of hardware configurations is a challenge, and playing driver roulette to try to get a game to work sucks for the consumer. Furthermore, some of us really don't like the "publish it, then patch it" model which is now creeping from the PC onto the HD consoles. I know some people like this model for the bug fixes and added content, but some of us prefer to buy games which are finished, polished, and full-featured on release. In the end, it comes down to values. I've been a PC gamer for quite a while, and I still play a few games on PC, but I'm swinging towards consoles now in a major way. I just find that consoles better represent what I want out of games these days. |
I agree with this.
It's the reason why PC gaming (apart from flash games and such) isn't as big as console gaming... PC "fanboys" (different from normal 'fans') have a similar mindset of being better than console gaming in the same way PS3 "fanboys" think little of the Wii.
It's not about bigger numbers (memory, processors, chip sets, number of games) it's about ease of use.
Yes you CAN connect a PC to a tv screen and use a controller, but that means either buying another TV, buying another PC, or doing a lot of awkward transporting, and having some fugly PC (less of an issue now as stacks are actually designed) next to your living room TV.
I want my PC near my printer, at my desk so I can use it as most do, for internet and general multimedia tasks with photos, videos and music, and as a word processor.
I don't happen to have room for a TV next to it and if I did there would be nowhere comfortable to sit for gaming.
Then there are installs and compatability issues which are in no way user friendly.
