Why bother buying consoles next gen?

[LMU Uncle Alfred]

Pemalite said:

LMU Uncle Alfred said:

It's also not all about specs.   You can have a powerful PC, but for some games when they come out you might not have a specific driver for a particular game to run without crashing or glitching, or if not a driver, without having to tweak your PC settings.

I am running drivers from November last year. It's perfectly fine in all new games.
I think people over-blow issues like crashes and glitching when it's really not even a big problem on PC anymore.

Hows about that time when Anthem would brick Playstation 4 consoles?
https://pokde.net/gaming/sony/playstation-4/anthem-bricks-playstation-4-consoles/

Or before that when you could send a message and Brick consoles?
http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/10/ps4_messages_designed_to_brick_your_console_reported_by_users

Or when a bug temporarily bricked Xbox One consoles?
https://www.techradar.com/au/news/mysterious-bug-bricked-xbox-one-consoles-for-a-few-hours-on-wednesday

Or when 3rd party docks would brick Nintendo Switch consoles?
https://www.imore.com/these-third-party-docks-wont-brick-your-nintendo-switch

Or certain USB-C cables would brick Nintendo Switch consoles?
https://www.destructoid.com/after-the-mass-bricked-switch-situation-nintendo-explains-which-usb-c-cables-are-safe-497397.phtml

Or hows about the online stuff having outages like the Playstation Network?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2018/10/16/psn-down-playstation-network-is-having-problems-on-ps4/#26f499ac4cf5

Or Xbox Live?
https://www.news.com.au/technology/home-entertainment/gaming/xbox/gamers-thought-their-console-was-broken-after-xbox-live-went-down-this-morning/news-story/7b21dd7483db874ae04825e8646ad402

Recent games on console like Assassins Creed Unity, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Anthem, Skyrim and so much more were stocked full of bugs on console.
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/6-bugs-and-glitches-that-have-ruined-video-games.html/

I could keep going...

But the PC is somehow the exclusively buggy, unreliable platform? Common. All things man-made are prone to failure you know.

 

There are of course games that run shoddily on consoles when they come out, but I'm talking more about PC ports compared to their console counterparts. 

The issues you're mentioning are more uniform and easier to pin point solutions to once found that will effect all or most of the consoles.  Sometimes these issues don't get fixed, but if they can it's almost always by patches only.  Not saying the same can't be said of PCs, but there's a higher curve to fixing some PC game issues you could run into to get them to get past glitches or crashing.

Regarding the Nier driver issue for instance, one of the solutions was to rollback a driver to an older version.  I'd rather not do anything like that that could have wider implications. :/

As for the more network related issues you mentioned, that's a problem with everything unfortunately.  OS updates can brick PCs just as well.