Why bother buying consoles next gen?

[Pemalite]

LMU Uncle Alfred said:

Pemalite said:

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. :/

Okay. But I just provided a shit ton of evidence that issues occur on console and extremely frequently... You have only provided opinion pieces.
Where as, anecdotally I haven't had any issues on my PC in months, despite running outdated software.

LMU Uncle Alfred said:

OS updates can brick PCs just as well.

OS Updates don't tend to brick PC's... Because, you can just reinstall/repair the OS.

Skeeuk said:
A console you just plug and play with no issues and play games with friends.

The evidence I provided prior has outright labelled this statement as well and truly false.

Skeeuk said:
Wolfenstien doesn't work properly unless you install 2016 drivers what a joke. If I had bought the ps4 version it would have simply just played full stop.

Works fine on my rig.

Skeeuk said:
So although pc gaming has always been very good it's never going to be the mass market popular gaming device that someone will get on birthdays Xmas etc console are amazing in what they do.

PC Market is larger than console though...

Skeeuk said:
If ps5 can do 4k/60 at a good price point then it will be more difficult to go pc only imo

The death of the PC has been something that has been happening for the last 30 years apparently. Still hasn't happened yet.