Why bother buying consoles next gen?

[Chazore]

VAMatt said:

I'm not anti-PC gaming.  I own a gaming rig, an XBone S, a PS4 Pro, a Switch, and have had every other major piece of gaming hardware since Atari 2600.  I have no platform bias. It is clear that if one wants the best performance, they can only get it on PC.  But, it is also clear that even playing at console quality on PC is more expensive than just buying a console.  It's a fact, and it is significant to many people.

As to your other points, many people choose not to pay for online play (because they don't care about it).  And those that do pay $60 or less per year.  Mid-gen upgrades are not necessary to stay close to the current top-tier.  Gamepass, EA Access, and the like are not exclusive to consoles.  Those costs exist for PC gamers as well, if they want them.  

I never said you were, but your logic makes it seem like it's pointless to ever invest in one. The price argument is almost always brought up in regards to a PC vs console discussion and that argument is acted and claimed as if it trumps every other argument under the sun, or as if it holds more important over any other argument. The very idea of price comparisonsend up being subjective when you look at the amount of type of products out there that people buy. I for one consider anything Apple to being an absolute ripoff, yet millions of people out there think the exact opposite and are more than happy to pay for the brand image price alone.

Paying at console level is up to you and what you want to do with it, but saying that a console build "rots" far faster is a bit of a stretch. It's not much of a fact, its you'd adding in the mythos of having to "always, always" upgrade all the time, which you really do not need to do all the time, and you also forget about tweaking settings, modding games etc that offer performance boons, boons you do not get on consoles a lot of the time. 

Again, you're adding up to paying to play online as nothing but a speck, when it really isn't. if you're going to claim that I always have to upgrade all the time for a console level build, then we'd have to use my example of paying to play online to a negative point. 

Those costs don't always even exist on PC, not when we don't have to pay for said discounts, and have multile key sites and online storefronts to choose from. Does everyone on PC like renting games now vs console users all of a sudden?. (I'd love to se this data that suggests we're both heading exactly the same way 100% on both platforms)