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I'll likely stick with games on consoles simply to make it easier to separate work and play.

While a good workstation can double as a great gaming PC with the addition of a consumer video card and there are fewer reasons to buy professional video cards for content production, if I really wanted to make the PC my primary game platform, I'd either have to build a second PC that was only used for playing, or just as likely, buy a PC game box like a Steam box or a preconfigured gaming PC that used proprietary parts as opposed to something I could just throw together myself in a weekend after spending a week to a month setting the specifications and getting the best prices on my components.

Since I've also been using a console as my entertainment center box (I also had a Windows Media PC with remote functions, video recording, etc. that I stopped using after less than a year) since 2007, and consoles will continue to exist as portals for video content, both localized, streamed and subscribed, even if my gaming habits continue to drop, I'm still going to keep buying consoles for the media functions.



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Nope!

Simply prefer gaming on a console, on big TV, with controllers and first party exclusives. Desktops are ugly, huge, cumbersome and simply not practical for me.



greenmedic88 said:
I'll likely stick with games on consoles simply to make it easier to separate work and play.

While a good workstation can double as a great gaming PC with the addition of a consumer video card and there are fewer reasons to buy professional video cards for content production, if I really wanted to make the PC my primary game platform, I'd either have to build a second PC that was only used for playing, or just as likely, buy a PC game box like a Steam box or a preconfigured gaming PC that used proprietary parts as opposed to something I could just throw together myself in a weekend after spending a week to a month setting the specifications and getting the best prices on my components.

Since I've also been using a console as my entertainment center box (I also had a Windows Media PC with remote functions, video recording, etc. that I stopped using after less than a year) since 2007, and consoles will continue to exist as portals for video content, both localized, streamed and subscribed, even if my gaming habits continue to drop, I'm still going to keep buying consoles for the media functions.


I see your point but personally I can't really relate to it. I really see that having a very good PC for work and gaming can work very well with me as I prefer the convenience of being capable of not having to change machines in order to play games, it just makes things a lot more easy to me.



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teigaga said:
Nope!

Simply prefer gaming on a console, on big TV, with controllers and first party exclusives. Desktops are ugly, huge, cumbersome and simply not practical for me.


You could buy a very good laptop and use an HDMI cable in order to play in your TV, and connect a controller in order to pretend that you're playing in a console, works for me, and it's basically the same thing.



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Nogamez said:
Way too much to read there just saying i like em short


Yup , short ones aren't painful







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No. I'll stick to consoles. PCs are too much of a hassle. If consoles die and only PC gaming remains, then I'll go out and do something productive with my time. Plus I'm too lazy and uninterested to upgrade and have the right who-the-hell-cares to make a game run



Didn't care to read, but a big no!



this is what i said last gen until there was not a single 3d fighting game on the pc yet, so i ended up buying a ps3.