Danman27 on 01 July 2014
| EEJLND said: "Consoles have become pointless, since they're using the same architecture as a pc [...]". Since when were console's big selling point the architecture anyway? I would say never and only few even know the architectures of consoles and PCs - so it really doesn't matter. And even though I know the hardware facts, it surely does not stop me from playing on a console - I mean why should it? What consoles have over a PC, you ask?! It's much more comfortable! Of course, there are also updates, but on consoles, at least on the PS4, everything works so fast, intuitive, easy and automatic.So, I don't have to do anything prior to play a game. Well. maybe except for waiting a little bit - and this waiting time can be completely shut down by activating the console's auto-download feature during stand-by, so that you are always ready to go and don't waste time. And even if you don't activate that feature, you can do whatever you want during the update process - watching movies, playing games etc., since everything happens in the background. And here again: not so on PC. Furthermore, there are far less problems on the consoles with the games. For me, it is actually "Plug & Play". While on PC, people often have to deal with several problems like a game is not running properly despite having a high-end PC. While it doesn't happen with every game, of course, it is also not that seldom. Some of the cons of PC gaming in comparison to console gaming: - updating games manually and in the foreground - meanwhile gaming is not (really) possible - installing games take quite a lot of time - updating drivers of hardware like graphics card, CPU - for quite a few users some games are sometimes not playable at launch, so they have to wait days or even weeks and months(!) until the game developer and/or graphics card manufacturer provides an update resp. driver - dealing with problems despite high-end hardware and spending much time searching for workarounds and maybe not finding none - searching for the optimal graphics settings - managing background processes, searching for a "game killer" process That's just a few problems coupled with PC gaming, which can often take way too much time as I personally also play on PC and experienced them not too seldom. Also note: Many of those problems would be not resolvable for a gamer who is not that into tech. |
I'm a big PC and console gamer. I've got to say one thing. Almost everything mentioned here is a problem with consoles as well. Except for drivers (updating is optional BTW, and improves performance). Searching for optimal graphics settings is actually fun to a lot of us believe it or not.
