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Barkley on 18 April 2017
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Mnementh said:
Barkley said:

Except forall the benefits that differentiates Consoles gaming from PC Gaming.

1 - Physical Releases & Used Games, these are practically non-existant on PC (though this could change on console in the coming decade.) This is especially invaluable in regions with poor internet infrastructure or data-caps.

2 - On PC you're basically forced to use Keyboard + Mouse in the vast majority of games for online multiplayer or suffer a massive disadvantage.

3 - Price/Performance, try building a PC as powerful as a PS4 for £200, Hell Sainsbury's were selling used XBO's for £130 the other day. Bluray Drive + HDD + Input Device (gamepad) + Case + PSU + CPU + GPU + Ram + necessary cables and a crappy headset in some cases.

4 - Gamepad Usability, this can likely be made better on PC with certain applications, but navigating through Windows 10 on your gamepad while lounging on the couch? Good luck.

5 - Centralized System, Windows is an open system, which does have many advantages over a closed system, however there's also many advantages to having a closed system. Everything is in one place, everything is official. You don't have to download Origin, Steam, Uplay, or any third party applicatoins. You don't have to go googling for this or for that application/software/tool, everything available on PlayStation is on the Store, it's simple. You pay a price for the simplicity in the extent of it's functionality but for most that price is worth paying. PS4 - One Friends List, One Library, One OS, One System, One Store.

6 - Idiot Proof. Unlike PC's you don't need to check system requirements, you don't have to edit graphics options to get the game to run how you want it to, and the system itself is a lot easier to navigate.

7 - Trophies/Achievements, this is a big deal for some (Ka-pi!) and steam achievements are bloody awful, as they have no seperate value and no standardisation between games. I.E This game has 5 steam achievements, this game has 800. Each steam achievement is worth... 1 achievement.

1. PC's have physical releases.

If by physical release you mean a code in a box or a steam.exe file on a disc.

2. Only for shooters. For fighting action games a controller is far superior. That's the beaty of a PC though. You can play each game with the tool that fits the best, you are not bound to one controller for all games.

Shooters by far the biggest genre for online gaming on console, though this would also apply to Moba's and other MMO's that are launching on consoles now.

3. PC-games are usually scalable in effects. And a PC with similar specs to a console isn't more expensive. Yes, the first year or so a new console may have a price-advantage, but soon the components used in a console go down in price. You forget that you have to stick to the same hardware for years with a console. So a year after console release you should be able to build a PC with similar specs for similar price or lower.

Eh? If anything the Price advantage is bigger now then it was at launch, I gave two price examples in my post. Yes a PC with similair specs to a ps4/xbo is more expensive. If you want to say otherwise then provei t.

4. There are already applications that work as a frontend for gaming and some other stuff and are easily usable with a gamepad.

Difference is you can do literally everything on the ps4 with a gamepad, there's never going to be a frontend on Windows 10 that can do literally everything with a gamepad.

5. You list it as disadvantage, but it serves also as an advantage. The game you want isn't on the PlaystationStore? Bad luck on PS, no problem on PC. And as long as everything you want is in the same place, just use that one store.

No I list it as both, it's literally the first line. "Does have many advantages over a closed system."

6. Games are very scalable. As long as your PC isn't ten years old, most games should run. With worse graphic though.

Not true, we're getting games that need at least 8gb of ram to boot. The Call of Duty Ghosts fiasco comes to mind.

7. Sony could bring their trophy-system with them to PC. Problem solved.

Problem Solved? Every developer on PC is suddenly going to use Trophies? They bring it to PC and Sony games would be the only ones using it.

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