Are the "PC Master Race" days over?

[greenmedic88]

For some, the argument will never go away although if they really believed it, no PC gamer would even bother with a debate.

As it's been said, truth: it's all a matter of personal preference when it comes to gaming platforms.

I've done the self built gaming PC when I wanted better performance than consoles could provide, and I paid quite a bit more money in hardware to learn the ins and outs of system building and to end up with a build (I built several while experimenting) where the performance justified the additional costs to say nothing of the time I spent drawing up specs, shopping, building, reconfiguring, overclocking, etc. etc.

I had fun with it as a hobby and that fun had less than 50% to do with gaming on a PC; the rest was learning, building, tinkering, reconfiguring, optimizing, etc.

I'm teaching a friend's kid and nephew how to build a gaming PC this weekend, which has prompted me to go back into pricing and spec mode since I've personally stopped gaming on PC on any meaningful level (rare).

For strictly gaming, I'd still rather play on the PS4. For the price of a $400, soon to be $350 console, that would buy me a good price/performance $330 video card (GTX970) and not much else if I were starting from scratch.