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AlfredoTurkey on 21 June 2016
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Pemalite said:
AlfredoTurkey said:

Until you can walk into a store and buy a pre-built, gaming PC in a box, that plays games that are physically for sale, it's not going to be easier for me to play games. Consoles are still very much brainless by comparison.

All PC vendors have their own, pre-built, gaming machines for sale. Lenovo, Dell, HP, MSI, Asus, doesn't matter, Steam lists some gaming machines you can buy too.
Most reputable tech stores can guide you to a gaming rig, even custom built machines. (Aus PC Market, PC Case Gear etc' do this in Australia.)

So yes. You can walk into a store, buy a gaming PC, go home and plug it in.

PC also went digital years ago. But they still sell games on Disc. (EB Games in Australia does, even in my local store.)
But why get off the couch to go to a store? Isn't that anti-convenience? It's not like most games don't require you to download a significant amount of data even if you buy it on Disk anyway, even on console.

With 180 million~ estimated PC gamers on Steam, convenience doesn't seem to worry most people.

I don't see gaming PCs in Wal-Mart, Target... I just don't see them. I see cheap laptops though. And even if I did see them, I'd still have no clue what I'm getting. With a console, I can just buy the thing, and be done for years on end. It's brain dead stuff. I KNOW what I'm getting with PS4, Wii-U and Xbox One. I have NO idea what the hell I'm getting with a gaming PC... ziltch. 

I understand for someone who knows PC gaming inside and out that it may seem hard to grasp but console games and console gaming is really just much less mental work. I buy a box once every 5 years, buy games for said box, and bam... that's it. For me to get up to speed with you and what you know, it would take a long time.