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CrazyGamer2017 on 19 April 2018
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VGPolyglot said:
CrazyGamer2017 said:

Still playing with a controller on a television is EXACTLY what defines console gaming, it's a native feature of consoles. PC got adapted to that later on because PC had to admit that it's a great idea but it's not originally speaking a PC thing.

Consoles are also natively speaking gaming machines which PC's aren't.

That's ignoring home computers like the ZX Spectrum/Commodore 64 which where specifically made to be connected to a TV and use controllers.

Yes it is, I am speaking of PC's as PC's are today in the hands of most PC gamers...

But if you wish to take machines like the ZX Spectrum/Commodore into account then fine. First those are not the FIRST computers in history so my point still stands: Computers are NOT originally gaming machines, they got adapted and the ZX/Commodore are LATER adaptations.

Also one could further argue that since those machines are immediately plugged to a TV and a controller they are more like consoles than PC's proper, versatile consoles one could say since they allowed for functions that go beyond a simple console... And then again nowadays consoles go way beyond what a Commodore could do so for all practical purposes I see a Commodore more like a console than a PC proper. But I suppose you could argue that.