| superryo said: I'm with you there. While I also prefer consoles due to the easiness of it all, if I had to pay $2000 then I would play on PC for sure. I nfact when I bought DCU Online on PS3 and then the same game on the PC, the difference was night and day. While the PS3 version wasn't bad by any means, the performance on the PC was light years ahead and made it hard to go back. Again a MMO is harder to play on a console without keyboard and mouse and adding to a console while sitting on the couch is not an ideal option. |
I more or less had that revelation back in 2008 when my friend saw what I was playing on XB360 and joked "why don't you just play those on PC?" since they were all PC games ported for console. So I bought a quad core PC, gutted it, rebuilt it, opened a Steam account and suddenly I had my 1920x1080/60fps+ gaming experience.
Of course it all depends on what you're playing. Most of the games I play are better with a controller and even though FPS games are easier with a mouse pointer, I still tend to play with controller.
But I still game primarily on console, mostly because the PC that has all my games installed on it is rarely ever turned on whereas I can just pick up a controller, push a button and be playing in about a minute when I'm in the living room.
In a lot of cases, it's just a matter of which platform has the cheapest copy of a given game. Steam deal = PC. Amazon deal or retail sale = console.
Also, it's an odd personal quirk, but I often play games standing up right in front of the HDTV, arcade style, which doesn't work well with a desktop PC set up. If I was really hardcore, I could put my standing workstation in front of the HDTV so I could M/KB standing up, but I'm not that hardcore.
