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Bofferbrauer on 18 October 2015
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SvennoJ said:
The real savings come from the games, as they always say. Of course not from new releases, but if you're fine waiting for a few months or a year then it can be a lot cheaper to play a lot of games.

I agree, I've spent 78.67€ thus far on games on PC and I got 22 games for this, including one freebie (technically 2, but I had the second one already, so I gifted that one away) There's no way to come anywhere close to this on a console

It's great you can upgrade PCs yet at some point the motherboard will need to be replaced as well and/or a bigger power supply. The big advantage of consoles is that any game made for it will run. With PC you never know what you'll get until you try it.

Well, the games should run on a new PC with a (non-OEM) discrete Graphics card, just not on higher settings and there's some (or very much, depending on the game) configuration work to do. But on consoles all run with the same settings and are much more easy to use, and generally look better with similar hardware. So, point for the consoles.

Building a PC on par with PS4 is a moving goalpost on its own. It might be on par in raw numbers yet an optimized console game will always outperform a 'made for every configuration' pc version on similar specs. As console games get further optimized for the specific hardware, those pc versions will run worse and worse on that PC.

True, although PC finally getting low-lewel API should alleviate that drawback a bit, yet not enough to get the same results as consoles on "similar" hardware.

My old PC pretty much needs a complete overhaul at this point. Even the HDD can't be trusted anymore. (Those things don't last that long, it's full of recovered bad sectors already) I've switched to using a laptop so it hardly gets used anymore. It's still hooked up to a 1280x1024 monitor... it's getting old, laptop is 1080p.

Similar case here, although I already have a 23 inch 1080p LED Monitor. I do wait for ZEN though as I want to stay with AMD. The HDD problem is one I ran into in the past too, which is why I use NAS HDDs (Like the Western Digital Red series, pretty cheap and reliable) which are meant to run 24/7 over a prolonged period of time

If I'm going back to PC gaming it will be for VR. I'll sample it on ps4 first though as the cost of building a OR compatible PC is a lot higher.

I've experienced VR 3 times before: On my Sega Master System, which had some 3D goggles, earlier on PC, as some graphics cards in the late 90' came with 3D goggles and a friend of mine kickstarted Oculus rift. In all 3 cases I'd say it's nice but really no must-have for me and too damn expensive either way, as VR headsets will cost as much as an entire console either which way.