The advantages of a gaming console over a gaming PC

[SvennoJ]

bigjon said:

Cobretti2 said:
nah consoles are becoming more and more like PCs. I would agree consoles of old were much simpler and plug and play.

Now consoles have patches, updates and full installs. It is getting to a stage where it is easier to manage all your patches and updates on a pc. Try managing those on a console. Or getting them again later when gen moves on to next or its taken down after a few years.

I have consoles and a gaming PC, and I wont say which is better because I pretty much rotate which games I play on which but console are definitly "less work".

 

Yes back in the day it was easier you pop in the cart and go. Now you pop in the disk wait a few min for install, than a few more (depending on connection speed of course) for the patch, console installs patch sometimes restarts then your good.

PC you have to do ALL of that, then you have to deal with downloadeding a driver for your video card because the game has issues supporting crossfire, then there is bugs that cause things to just crash (happens on consoles too, but mostly rare). Not to mention virus (which I have never gotten on a console).

 

So basically is game to game, Skyrim is the best example I can use because I had it for PS3 then traded than in and got the PC version, that specific game was 10x better on PC(MODS!, better graphics, no load times, and the list when on)

Battlefield 4 is an opposite example, hated it on PC. Much better on PS4 IMO.

Back in my younger days that was the same on pc. Bootable 5.25" floppy disks, pop in KQ1, start pc and go. The trouble started with windows, soundcards, then gpus. It's much better now, the early days of DirectX, what a nightmare. Virusses have been there all along however, boot sector virus ugh.