Ka-pi96 said:
Most of them. I've never had to fiddle with drivers/settings etc. Get the odd time where a game won't start until I've downloaded a driver update but that's not exactly hard. Besides, speaking of updates 99% of the time they are automatic anyways. Windows does most of them automatically, usually including driver updates. While Steam auto downloads any necessary game updates. PS3 only does that if you pay for PS+, while I'm not aware of either the PS4 or Xbox One being able to do that yet. So that 'frequent updates required' thing isn't really a thing. Updates are done much more in the background and you rarely notice them, same can't really be said for consoles. As for extra space... well you know a laptop could be used for PC gaming too right? Besides I expect the vast majority of people already have a computer + desk for other purposes anyways so it's not as if it's any more space than was being taken up by your old PC anyway. |
It's definitely not constant, but on consoles I've never had to go on message boards and get recommended to try a beta driver to try to fix problems. Never had problems with sound disappearing or lose all my controller bindings. Also far less random crashes or severe random slowdown during gameplay forcing me to go into settings and find a better performance profile.
You have a lot more freedom with PC but that sometimes comes at a price. My kids love Minecraft mods, I can't stand them. I'm the one they always come to when it crashes or they've loaded it up with a bunch of incompatible mods for different game / forge / java versions and it won't start.
It depends a bit on how you game. If you play hours a day on PC you won't notice all the updates, configuring settings and getting drivers once in a while are just a minor blip compared to a 60 hour game. If you game once or twice a week on PC (and not have it on all time) you're likely greeted with a bunch of programs that want to update, including windows, and configuring games becomes a much bigger chunk out of your limited play time.
Most of my PC gaming is on laptop now, which is always on and up to date. (Well until windows update broke, I haven't found a solution yet to fix it, always stuck on preparing to update) It's a bit limited with a Geforce GT 740M but runs most games well enough. It's far from ideal, a laptop is even more akward to stick next to the tv. It's good enough not to miss the PC exclusives that interest me. Meanwhile multiplats are fine on consoles, zero effort, zero association with work, turn on and play.
Btw PC is needed less and less for exclusive. The Point & click genre is getting better on consoles. I just bought the book of unwritten tales 2 for ps4, physical copy only 19.19 (38.69 on Steam), install time less than 5 seconds before being able to play. Not even a patch to download. I've had smooth PC experiences too, yet never that smooth. (I played the first one on PC with sound issues)
