Fun Topic. Which are better for Gaming? PC's or Consoles?

[shio]

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

shio said:

ironman said:

Whoa! I blame PCs for the fight sticks. Other than that, Make no mistake, two of the three major consoles are more PCish than anything before them. Console gaming owes a lot to PCs, but the era of PC gaming being the king is over. I'm not saying PC gaming is a horrible thing,obviously it's not because millions of people game on PCs daily, I'm just saying that the Console has taken over in many aspects.

@ Vlad...funny, I was just going to post the same thing, you have failed to convince me that you know what you are talking about since I have had to hold your hand every step of the way. It's funny because I am not a huge PC gamer, and I know more about the technical aspect of it than you. I am glad you decieded to stop embarrassing yourself, it's better for everybody involved...except for those looking in and laughing at your failed points.

Let me ask you this, when has PC ever been king? And king in terms of what? Amuse me with your answer, because never has PC been so close to the console industry in terms of marketshare, and never has PC had so much more game releases before this gen (there are far more PC games in development than all console games combined).

In what aspects has consoles taken over. The way I see it, they have only copied what PC is doing, without ever being able to challenge PC in them.

Uh....Back in the late 70s, PCs (including Macs) were the ONLY venue for gaming.

Following this, we had Atari and NES come out, but PCs were still huge.  Especially in Japan and Europe, PCs not only held vast marketshare, but rivaled the consoles.  Indeed, the PC units spawned many of the Console hits and many games that came out on the Atari or NES were also on PC platforms such as MSX, Commodore or IBM (Dragon Quest, Metal Gear, Castlevania, Maniac Mansion, etc).  Plus, the PC was way ahead of the consoles in certain areas of innovation and processing power.  While the Genesis and Super Nintendo was just coming out, the PC was coming out with games like Tie Fighter and Sim City 2000.  Its arguable to say that PC was more successful than consoles for quite a while.

It wasn't until around the mid 90s that consoles really started to overtake the PC market.  Mostly because of a combination of a lot of good PC developers began to taper off of making good solid games and because consoles kept rising in both quality and quantity.  As soon as the Playstation and N64 came out, the PC had some major competition.  But at that time, they had little to offer aside from Blizzard and a fledgling FPS market.  Many of its key genres had either lost interest or support from developers (simulation games, action/adventure games, puzzle games, etc).  Some of these genres are coming back now, but its only due to the effort of very select companies.

You don't know anything. Consoles were the first ones to reach the public, and PCs only did the same 10 years after the consoles. In the 70's and early 80's, the PC gaming scene was pretty much composed of hobbyists making small PC games as a hobby. And it was only in the 90's that PC reached mainstream, something consoles had done in the 80's.

PC gaming was never bigger than Console gaming, but now it is starting to challenge them. PC gaming will keep gaining space the more this gen continues.