greenmedic88 on 19 October 2015
| LMU Uncle Alfred said: One of the biggest strengths of PCs seems to be one of its biggest weaknesses as a gaming rig: You can do so many things with a PC. Youtube is so easy to access quickly and a lot of times beats a gaming urge, and then you don't want to game. Or a news site wins, email stuff, dating sites, work, finances and of course for some, porn. That's a lot of different addictions and needs competing with the gaming part of the PC. You can do that stuff with consoles, but consoles aren't associated with surfing the web and getting lost for hours.. The console frame mind is 1 controller, 1 screen, 1 objective. It feels jarring to navigate the web on a console. It's a human specific weakness, but that's the whole point anways so bleh. |
I suppose that's more of a personal discipline issue more than anything else. People who watch porn or play video games on their work computer in the office during business hours have issues.
I found it easier to build separate systems to divide their functions. At one point I had a dedicated HTPC, a dedicated gaming PC and a separate workstation. In the end, I reverted back to using a professional laptop for work and consoles for media and games. Much easier to separate work and play.
