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SvennoJ on 23 December 2016
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BlueFalcon said:

When i was younger, I primarily owned consoles since NES days due to lower price of hardware, co-op/multi-player with friends in the same room, exclusives.

1) Lower price of hardware is irrelevant now. I need a PC for work/productivity/continuing education, which means might as well pay a little more for a gaming laptop or if you built a desktop, it's cheap to get a 1080p graphics card upgrade. $200 RX 480 gets you better than PS4 Pro's iQ/performance, $350 GTX1070 get some you 1440p. 

The huge discounts of PC games on Steam, GOG, GreenManGaming, CD Keys, Origin, UPlay and various humble bundles ensure that the savings on software easily offset the cost of a more expensive CPU/GPU like the 6700K and GTX1070. Due to cryptocurrency mining on the PC, I haven't paid for a graphics card since 2009. Every graphics card I've owned since HD4890 to R9 295X2 and GTX1070 SLI has been completely financed with Bitcoin, Euthereum and ZEC. Next year I will get a free GTX1080Ti or Vega 10 cross-fire after reselling my existing cards and selling virtual currency.

CPUs such as 6700K/6800K now last 5+ years without needing to upgrade. $60 a year x 5 years PSN or XB Live = I buy a new $300 CPU again from money I didn't waste on online on consoles. Hard drives, power supply, case, BluRay drive can all be reused. Good power supplies from EVGA, Corsair or SeaSonic have 10-year warranties.

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The #1 reason most people on here don't have a high-end gaming PC is money. It has little to do with PC exclusives or K&M excuses. The choice of owning a console and not a console + a PC is 99% because most of you are probably too young to easily afford both. Once you can easily afford both, it makes absolutely no sense to not own both consoles and PCs to enjoy the benefits of each eco-system.

So which is it, seems you're saying console gaming is more expensive, yet people don't want to go into PC gaming cause they can't afford it?

The primary reasons most people here game on consoles is exclusives, playing with friends and convenience.
I can easily afford both yet I'm satisfied with my 2 year old laptop and do most of my gaming on console. Time is worth more to me than money. A curated selection of games, less settings, fewer updates, less configurating, less maintanance, less distractions, all means more time to actually play. I just spend over CAD 1500 on psvr + ps4 pro + 20 games. Still cheaper than OR + building a capable gaming PC and a lot less hassle, thus more time spend on playing games.

When I was younger I primarily played on PC. PS2 and GC started winning me over, 360 and PS3 pushed me over the halfway point. I stopped maintaining my desktop after 2009 and switched to using laptops instead. At first my laptop still ran stuff better than ps3 and 360, yet since the ps4 I'm 90% playing on consoles. My PC gaming is now down to Elite Dangerous and a few indies. When you have kids, you don't have time anymore for mods, mmo's or playing civ until 7am. But I must say, playing Everquest and WoW with 2 PCs, together with my wife, was the best gaming experience ever.