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Solid on 12 September 2009
Khuutra said:
Reasonable said:
Johann said:
PCs are definetly better. But they're also more expensive, harder to work with, and become dated faster than you can blink.
As Kantor said, consoles guarantee support for their entire lifecycle. That's a whole lot of suport.

Yeah but PC's have better backwards compatibility support and arguablly better lifecycle support via emulation and other approaches - heck I could play Elite or most older console classics on my PC if I wanted (okay, a little effort to set it up required).

I notice many speaking about exclusives - isn't that somewhat redundant?  The only way I can make the comparison is to imagine you could have all games on each - i.e. a level playing field.  Exclusives aren't about hardware but business decisions.  For example Halo 3 would clearly be better on a PC in exactly the same way Halo was better on PC.

I'm also amazed people are talking about controllers - a PC can support any controller you want.

I repeat (because I'm in that kind of mood) the advantage of consoles has nothing to do with the gameplay experience itself, but lower cost, ease of use and size/design to sit under a TV.  Any game on a console could be played on a PC and with better resolutions, etc.  Any control method used on a console could be used on a PC.  Technically, the PC is clearly superior from a pure gaming perspective becuse it equals and in fact in some cases excells the gameplay experience of a console - the only downside is the box is bigger, the cost is more and it's more complex to set up.

The point being that consoles will have more experiences catering to that particular controller: it's why I find the standardization of hardware changing this generation to be so delightful. The DS and the Wii are largely fonts of experience that are not found on the PC at all.

You can use the Wiimote on a PC and for the DS, theres lots of touch surfaces that can be used on a PC.



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Aion on 12 September 2009

Consoles, i don't like too be sitting down for hours using a keypad and mouse. Controls are so much better and it's very easy to operate.



 

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sergiodaly on 12 September 2009

both... exclusives and few multiplats in consoles but RTS and FPS must be played in PC ...

CSS and TF2 always keep me around the PC...

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JUG on 12 September 2009

I think the problem with this debate is that one man's conception of PC gaming is different to someone else's. Yes it's true that you can hook a wii remote up to a PC, but that requires a level of expertise that a normal person does not have. If you want to bring technical expertise into the debate to prop up the PC side, then we could turn the whole argument around and say that a real technological expert could modify a console to give it many of the advantages which a PC supposedly has.

When talking about PC gaming, I mean the kind of gaming you get from a PC with a normal level of expertise, I think it's the only sensible way to approach the debate. And exclusives are relevant because they dictate the kind of games you can play on the respective platforms. When talking about gaming on a Nintendo console you don't just think of the hardware, you think of the games; it's part of the whole package.



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Smidlee on 12 September 2009

Why would you want to hook up a wii controller to a pc? PC already has both a hand tracking device (mouse) as well as head tracking (TrackIR). Consoles are better for party games than the PC which is where the wii controller often comes in play.



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vlad321 on 12 September 2009
JUG said:
I think the problem with this debate is that one man's conception of PC gaming is different to someone else's. Yes it's true that you can hook a wii remote up to a PC, but that requires a level of expertise that a normal person does not have. If you want to bring technical expertise into the debate to prop up the PC side, then we could turn the whole argument around and say that a real technological expert could modify a console to give it many of the advantages which a PC supposedly has.

When talking about PC gaming, I mean the kind of gaming you get from a PC with a normal level of expertise, I think it's the only sensible way to approach the debate. And exclusives are relevant because they dictate the kind of games you can play on the respective platforms. When talking about gaming on a Nintendo console you don't just think of the hardware, you think of the games; it's part of the whole package.

I higly doubt you will be able to mod your console to play gfx on better levels or use mods or any of that stuff outside of homebrews.



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Dgc1808 on 12 September 2009

Consoles for me.



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Words Of Wisdom on 12 September 2009
vlad321 said:

I higly doubt you will be able to mod your console to play gfx on better levels or use mods or any of that stuff outside of homebrews.

This is about like saying "I doubt you'll be able to mod your console without modding your console."



Mise on 12 September 2009

PC by far, for many of the blatantly obvious reasons already mentioned by several people. But especially for the game catalogue: IMO, for every great game a console has, PC has five to ten more.

But then again, this isn't exactly a fair comparison. PC gaming has existed for decades with (almost) full BC, while consoles last for roughly five years each, and console BC has only been used in handhelds until recently.

 



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JUG on 12 September 2009
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JUG said:
I think the problem with this debate is that one man's conception of PC gaming is different to someone else's. Yes it's true that you can hook a wii remote up to a PC, but that requires a level of expertise that a normal person does not have. If you want to bring technical expertise into the debate to prop up the PC side, then we could turn the whole argument around and say that a real technological expert could modify a console to give it many of the advantages which a PC supposedly has.

When talking about PC gaming, I mean the kind of gaming you get from a PC with a normal level of expertise, I think it's the only sensible way to approach the debate. And exclusives are relevant because they dictate the kind of games you can play on the respective platforms. When talking about gaming on a Nintendo console you don't just think of the hardware, you think of the games; it's part of the whole package.

I higly doubt you will be able to mod your console to play gfx on better levels or use mods or any of that stuff outside of homebrews.

Well, to be honest I have no idea what I'm talking about on that front. But I simply imagined that it must be possible to open up your console and adda few bells and whistles and after a bit of tinkering it can do a load of stuff that it couldn't do before. I think the main problem with my line of argument here is the classic 'Ship of Theseus' problem: when does it stop being a console?



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