| Conina said: If you buy a PC today with a preinstalled Windows, put it under your bed for the next 4 years and then plug it in again, you don't need to install 100 updates. The windows patches will run automatically, no input of you required. Java, Adobe and your browser will open requesters to install the newest versions, just deselect the bloatware and click "OK"... only the newest versions get downloaded and installed, not the steps between old and newest. If you have Nvidia, Geforce Experience will also offer a One-Click-update. Steam will update itself and all its games automatically. That's it. |
Alright, this is about PC gaming not being as complicated as I made it sound right? Yet you are making a lot of exceptions here. Lets dial back a little.
Say you have $400 and a TV at home. Now you have three options. One is to just go out an buy a PS4. The second is to go out and find a PC for $400 (be it a laptop or a zotac or anything that have everything preinstalled and all you have to do is just connect it to your TV). The third is to streatch your budget out as much as possible to afford an experience that is at least on par with what you can get for consoles.
Option 2 is off the table cause no prebuilt PC isn't going to have the specs that can match a PS4. "mini" PCs in that price bracket dusually don't even had a dedicated GPU. And consider that you will also need to throw in a controller since you primarily wanna use this for games. This leaves you with optione one and three.
So option 3, you are going to be building a system from scratch. This means, cpu, gpu or an apu. motherboard, HDD, PCU, keyboard, mouse, controller, a case, and windows OS. Now no matter how you wanna spin it, there are like 9 to 11 things theer that you need to build your PC. And you have to get super creative with your buying options and even go into the used market here or there to get the best deals. You are either willing to do all this and know how to, or you are looking for someone that already has and buying the system off them; and that system will not cost you $400. Now being that you are building this system from scratch, nothing in that list is simply a plug and play affair. You have to know something about a BIOS or EMFI, you have to install device drivers for everything that you are putting in your rig.
Everything you have read above, are things that you will not have to do with a console. And that is why PC gaming is more complicated. Its easy to say oh my PC does this or that or can do this. But pls, show me a PC gamer that has never had to update or find the right driver for some newly added hardware and I will tell you that PC gamer does not game primarily on a PC.
This isn't a diss on PC gaming. I was just point out that as far as ease of use goes, PCs are orders of magnitude more complicated than consoles. And believe me when I say that have to deal with any two or three of those things is enough to put majority of the gaming public off. Lets not even get into all 9 to 11 of them.
