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LurkerJ on 14 November 2015
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sc94597 said:
LurkerJ said:

That's why the latest CoD and the latest Batman, two of the biggest releases this year, are running worse on PC? Beta CoD BOP 3 had the same issues found in the final PC release, Come on, it's well known at this point that lots of developers just don't put a lot of effort when they port their games. Not the PC fault but it's a problem I may have to run into every now and then. The possibility alone irks me, especially that it happened already with titles that aren't cross-gen.

It has nothing to do with consoles being optimized and much to do with the PC version being a bad port (just as the consoles get bad ports here and there.) The argument that was made was consoles don't have to deal with API's and the optimization could be made with the specific hardware in mind as opposed with general hardware. The argument wasn't made that ports are bad and that PC games are not being optimized at all, even considering that they can be optimized for general performance gains. By the end of the generation all of those games you mentioned will show performance gains, while if a game runs poorly on a console it will always run poorly on a console, with possibly minute advantages with patches. Case in point: Witcher 3 and Fallout 4. There are just as many poorly performing console games as there are poorly performing PC ones. At least with PC you aren't at the whims of the developer to fix it. 

By the way

 

^ Better than on consoles with the r9 380. 

I am not disagreeing with what you are saying. I am really not. I was just pointing out how Superior CPU and GPU doesn't mean it's always gonna run games better, and if it does now, will it for the next 5 years..

I am also not proposing that the PC in the OP is more expensive than consoles. That's bullshit. Online is free on PC and that alone saves you $250-300 over the years. 

All what I was trying to say in my first post here, there will always be room for consoles even if superior PCs start costing less. For many different reasons. People are not ignorant of how cheaper gaming on PC has got. A semi decent laptop with an integrated graphics card (haswell/broadwell GPUs) enables you to play a large list of compatible games at reasonable settings, a library of games that's larger than that of the PS4 is readily accessible on semi-decent laptops. Older games but they are still amazing games.

I just don't think there is rivalry between PC and consoles outside of gaming forums. Some people will always choose consoles over PCs regardless of which is better in my or your opinion, and NOT because they are ignorant, they have their reasons.

Bigger market for consoles doesn't mean smaller PC market. Bigger PC market doesn't mean smaller market for consoles. So why do people leep pitting the two against each other ?

@OP:

I refuse to have this case anywhere near my living room, let alone under my TV