PC Gamers are delusional (controversial opinion)

[Brutalyst]

pokoko said:

Brutalyst said:

pokoko said:
You're being just as elitist with your stereotypes as the people you're railing against. The things you're accusing "PC gamers" of don't even apply to the majority of PC gamers.

Also, I think your return key is broken.

You might be right (except for the return key part, I blame the website! :P).

 

But I have seen so many post and forums, which all came down to one thing...

 

"my PC does better than your new 'next gen' console"

 

and though right, as I was playing my 'next gen' console is that this is way better than what I had before. Which is what we strive for at a fundamental value.

We strive to improve on what we had, at a console level, yes, it may not be at a level your PC is, but for a fraction of the price it still does the same thing your PC does, improve what I had before to a very noticable level. For a far less price and for more years than what the new item in your PC will. Granted the void will get bigger with time, but over a 8 year period a console will cost me a lot less than a PC.

What do you mean?  My PC is a few years old and is not even close to being on par with the PS4.  Personally, I don't even care that much about "graphics"--and, according to statistics, I'm pretty typical.

My PC cost $900 new.  Does that sound like a lot?  Regardless of being a gamer, I would have bought a PC that cost at least $400 in order to do other tasks, so the "gaming" part was really just an additional $500 at the most.  Does that really sound out-of-line with console gaming costs?  Especially when PC games are much cheaper?

When you say "PC gamers", it seems to me that you're only talking about a few PC gamers.  You're making assumptions that don't even apply across the board.

Personally, I split my gaming time between PC and consoles somewhat equally.  Some genres, like fighting games or hack n' slash titles, and a lot of action-adventure games, I prefer on consoles.  On the other hand, I wouldn't even think of playing a Bethesda or Dragon Age game on anything but a PC, not to mention extremely complex games like World of Warcraft.

I don't see any reason for elitism from either side.  Both have their fair share of positives and negatives.

Sorry, but your right, im only talking about a few PC gamers (harsh to generalise everyone into a minority), those few who seem to throw up the continual argument of 'why bother with the PS4/Xbox one, when my PC can (and has been) pissing all over them' which is all good and dandy to those PC users who wants to spend the money to achieve the same as us PS3 users who upraged to PS4 users have, pay out to improve upon what we have. Only console users have paid out to a far lesser extent.

 

We all strive to improve, whether we pay out to do so, or not. The end result is the same, we want an improvement upon what we have, and what we pay out reflects the improvement we get. Im sure Sony, or Microsoft could have (if they wanted too) bring out a console with a spec that blow away anything available to anyone else, PC gamer or otherwise. But they didnt, as it would be priced beyond most peoples means (and scare them away frankly) and most people (to an extent like PC users) are only looking forwards towards an noticable improvement to what they have, which those going from PS3/XBox 360 to PS4/XBox one will get for an affordable price.

 

And thats it, none of us expect the best for an XXX amount, we only want a noticable upgrade to what we have, which PS4 and XBox one do. Those both being accessible to the majorty of gamers. PC gamers saying the consoles are not worth buying because they dont keep up with there current rig is ridiculous, as there arent that many who can afford to keep up with the 'current rig' and on a regular basis.

 

Console gamers are happy to payout once every so many years for a console that will keep them occupied for the next several years at an afforabable price, and provide an uprage to what they had previously.

 

(apologies to PC gamers who dont argue the current and new gen of consoles are irrelevent due to them not competing with there, 1080p/4kp, 45/60/90 FPS PC rigs)