Are the "PC Master Race" days over?

[patronmacabre]

I feel that the whole problem with the PC gaming master race argument was that it was trying to convince console gamers to play on PC. In doing that, it was deliberately trying to make PC gaming be something it wasn't, which is to say, convenient, simple, functional, and mindlessly enjoyable.

I always felt like the whole argument that PC gaming has better graphics, frame rates, and resolutions than console games defeated the core ethos of PC gaming. For me, the joy of PC gaming is spending hours finding work-arounds to get a game work when it really shouldn't. It's the kind of joy that comes with tinkering with emulators just to get a particular game to work. It's a rewarding experience.

I feel like anyone who grew up as a PC gamer understands the appeal of a console. It's just nice always being sure that a game on a console will run reasonably well. Consoles are also appealing because the machines and the operating systems themselves don't degrade after about five years. I love being able to go back to my PS2 and having it work almost perfectly, whereas if I were to go back to my PC from 2000, that machine would likely melt trying to even start up.

I really wonder how a lot of new PC gamers are going to react once, in about four or five years or so, they find out that there once super powerful PC can no longer play the games it once could.