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method114 on 13 September 2024
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Chrkeller said:
SvennoJ said:

PC has a lot of added time costs though. Time / convenience is more valuable than money for people interested in a PS5 Pro / consoles over all.

You can call it a scam, but you'll never have to configure a game, never have to hunt for solutions online, never run into compatibility issues, and you don't need to put it together and install an OS, drivers etc on it.

I can save money too by peeling my own potatoes, cutting them in sticks and frying them in oil from scratch. Or I can buy a bag of 5 minute super fries, stick em in the air fryer and be eating in 5 minutes. Arguably fresh fries taste better, but I don't have time for that. Same thing with gaming PCs. I can make it look better, run better, save a couple bucks in the long run, however I just want to sit down and play at the end of a long day.

Anyway I see DF already debunked this.

And it was the same when the PS5 came out, lots of PC builds of comparable pricing with supposedly the same performance. Not sure who these cheap builds are for anyway. Gaming PC enthusiasts will want to have plenty overhead, not be bottle necked by 'comparable' performance. They want to have better looking graphics than on console. Those going for PS5 Pro are of the same mindset, but already passed on PC for lack of convenience. They're not suddenly going to abandon their library of games to muck around with a 'comparable' performance PC.

It's a shame Steam gave up quickly on the Steam PC. If that would have caught on with full support, optimized settings for all Steam games, it might get more people to abandon consoles. For mass market the onboarding experience needs to be as seamless as with consoles. You buy a box, put it next to the TV, turn it on, get greeted by Steam big picture mode and pick what to play. Then discover you can do a lot more with it.

The gap, both convenience and pricing, has gotten massively smaller between PC and consoles.  That is just the reality.  

I agree with this but the convenience is still in favor of console. I tried to go to gaming PC because the performance of games is incredible and I don't spend much time configuring games. With that said a bunch of little things drove me crazy and I eventually went back to console gaming.

1. Hacking. Man hacking is insane on PC. I played R6 all summer with my cousin and every single day we logged in our ranked was adjusted up and down because we either played against hackers or had hackers on my team. I remember one time watching a guy on our team shoot someone through a wall on accident. He even apologized I couldn't believe it.

2. Party/game system. It's such a PIA to join a party chat with my friends while in a game. I never realized how convenient this is on Console until I couldn't do it the same way with a controller on PC.

3. Full controller support still isn't there as far as doing everything with a controller.

4. One day I spent almost all day trying to get Arkham city working on my PC. Spent a whole day trying to get it work. Finally did after a windows reinstall but updating all my drivers killed it. This wouldn't have happened on console and while this is ultimately my fault I still wasted most of my gaming day just trying to fix this game.

5. This was the final issue when I said enough. I had constant issues with my xbox one controller disconnecting. I even bought a new adapter and controller and it worked for like a month straight then disconnected. Then I would have to uninstall the drivers, reboot, and then the controller would work. I was done after that and went back to console.

I love PC gaming when the game is running and I'm playing with a controller. Everything after that becomes a PIA if you just want to play on your couch.