There are endless discussion on the internet why pc gaming is superior than consoles and vice versa.
I don’t understand that there is a necessity to prove that one is better than the. Just play your game and let other gamers enjoy their game too.
Any hobby that costs money will have factions. Camera gear has your Sony vs Nikon vs Canon, you have Android vs Apple for mobile phones, etc. The more money you spend, the more you speak out against other choices. As evidenced by this post, PC parts cost a lot of money…
There are endless discussion on the internet why pc gaming is superior than consoles
It is objectively. It’s the only platform which fully supports modding (and historically the only one that supported it at all) with sideloading (not through stores provided by the game dev). Modding is huge for the longevity of a game. At least in my experience, PC games tend to have more settings to customize your experience. You can install external tooling like Reshade and others. If you buy on GOG, you actually own your games. There are some games that just aren’t suited to consoles, like RTS, while I can’t think of any genre that works badly on PC. You also get to choose where you buy games.
That said. Consoles exist for a reason. They’re ready-made systems that can play games designed for it without a hassle. You only have to worry about upgrading when a new console comes out, and you always know whether a new game will run on your console. You don’t have to worry about stuff like driver updates either.
I think objectively speaking, PC is clearly better for gaming than console. BUT subjectively it’s a different story. Most people would probably prefer consoles due to them being more accessible.
Just play your game and let other gamers enjoy their game too.
This is most important imo. At the end of the day, subjective enjoyment is what matters most, so that’s where the comparison should go. And imo there’s not much of a winner there, there’s good and bad traits for either, and there’s going to be different people preferring either.
At some level, it’s because each platform costs a lot of money. If a game is not available for your platform, it’s super expensive to get another platform. So other platforms having fun games your platform doesn’t can mean losing out— either you won’t get to experience the game, or you’re going to have to shell out, and either way hurts. Thus, it is actively in your best interest if the other platforms fail, thus encouraging devs to spend more effort on your chosen platform.
I’m a PC gamer that hates console gaming for good reasons.
First, what are the important differences between PC gaming and console gaming?
- PC gaming is more open, users have more freedom and control over their games which allows creative things like mods.
- PC gamers typically use a keyboard and mouse, while consoles use a gamepad.
- PC gamers have varying hardware, console hardware is mostly all the same.
Because of this, console games have become the “lowest common denominator” of video games. If you’re a developer, you target the console and then port to PC. Games are dumbed down, slowed down, and graphically reduced for the console audience and then PC gamers are invited to slurp from the same trough. Modern console gaming has brought us such innovations as quicktime events (playing simon-says with buttons is not gameplay), weapon wheels (not the worst thing tbh), and exclusive deals (paying the dev to NOT release on other platforms). The keyboard and mouse is really a superior way of controlling a game. You have more buttons that you can hit quickly and aiming with a mouse is quicker and more precise. A game like Starcraft might never have been made if consoles were as powerful and popular back then. There actually was a SNES port of Starcraft and people literally only play it as a joke, the controls are too clunky.
In conclusion, I hate console gaming because it made my PC gaming worse. Worse menus, worse controls, worse graphics, less creative freedom, worse gameplay. I should also mention that most of my criticisms are for shooter games. Platformers on consoles are great fun and get ported to PC mostly without these issues.
It all happened starting with the xbox 360, the ps3, and the 2008 recession.
Everything always seems to come back to late stage capitalism and greed.
This is often the other way round nowadays though. It definitely used to be the case during the 360 era. But now loads of games use a mouse like cursor in games, even on console. And sometimes if it’s not like that the UI still looks mouse driven looking like it expects you to click on buttons but instead that have added a PNG of the button you need to press slightly over the UI button. It’s awful.
As a long-time pc user, but also used to love PlayStation and Nintendo, I dislike consoles for enabling companies to make more money on less effort and being held to lower standards, accelerating the negative effects of capitalism. Basically, irresponsible consumerism and easily manipulatable tribalism. Basically, dumb fucking kids buying endless amounts of garbage and allowing investment firms to churn out even more garbage, inviting all of the greediest MBAs and passionless pieces of shit into the gaming community. Fucking EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner.
Fuck.
I don’t hate consoles. I hate what has happened, and hated watching it happen in slow motion unable to do anything about it. It’s STILL happening, too.
Microsoft holds a LOT of blame for this. But also other things, values, groups, and entities.
Empathy exists in humans on a spectrum. Different people have different priorities. Accepting these 2 truths explains a lot of human behavior and history.
I hate Consoles because of multiplayer paywalls and lack of crossplay on other platforms as well as locked down software
I hate mobile games because most are but t extort the user of their money with pay to win and gambling and there is generally the hardware limitations of phones and sometimes software limitations or locked down software
PC Gaming is better because you can build a system that meets your needs, upgrade it and swap out hardware along with being able to install ant operating system you want or even dual boot more than one operating system
I do kind of also dislike gaming laptops because you can only upgrade the ram in them, if you want a gaming laptop go with a framework ganing laptop as they have swappable parts excluding the cpu because the cpu is still soldered on because of cpu manufacturers though you can swap the main board
I dont hate consoles. I just know that PC is an objectively superior platform. More power, more freedom.
I do hate mobile, tho. Because it is 99% bullshit skinner boxes, shovelware and scams.
And don’t forget that, while PC hardware might be more expensive (on the other hand you can build a superior PC at the cost of a console), games are way cheaper in the long run with countless sales on PC. I accept that everybody likes what they like. But PC games used to drive technological development, which consoles slowed down. And I hate that.
People like to support their choices. It’s not a ton different than sports. There have been periods where console and PC have had the advantage over the years, but it’s now become more of a choice of what you want your computer to look like. Mobile is generally universally hated because of the effects it had on the industry as a whole by accelerating the rise of micro transactions and loot boxes to an industry standard.
Why I hate console gaming: The limitations of consoles regarding the graphics and available buttons carry over to PC. Weapon wheels are a good example of that. Especially around the 2010s, when consoles were in the focus of the publishers, PC versions often felt like badly ported console games, including graphical and gameplay downgrades that weren’t necessary at all.
Why I hate mobile gaming: Microtransactions and the manipulation of the player that comes with them. They slowly crept into so many games. Sure, mobile gaming didn’t invent them, but it perfected them. Now even 70€ titles have a cosmetics store and a season pass on day one.
Why I hate PC gaming: The elitism, how awfully expensive building a PC got and the worst one: Cheaters. Cheaters that not only destroy the fun of other PC players, but of console players too with the advent of cross-platform multiplayer. It shames me that console players automatically turn off cross-platform, because they are afraid of PC cheaters.
Because they ARE bad console ports. Because console versions sell more, because they don’t know any better, because consoles have a lower barrier to entry, because they’re cheaper, and that means that your demographic STAYS that age, because as babies are born and become old enough to play they get consoles, so investment firms can make the same stuff and make a fuck ton of money.
PC players are old, more experienced, and generally DO know better, so garbage butt shit doesn’t sell as well as it does on consoles.
It’s not a jealousy issue, it’s one of disappointment and frustration.
We can’t change the landscape without education. This is true even for politics.
Unfortunately, change is hard and stupid people breed, and hate and destruction is easier than understanding and construction.
Pc players are so fucking desperate for good things, and the console and mobile market prevents anything good from ever happening by being terrible role models for business.
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I don’t speak for others but i personally hate consoles because of their walled garden approach to games, proprietary and anti-repair design, and for paywalling access to multiplayer.
There’s a lot of hate for mobile games because it does seem like literally millions of folks are abused and exploited by them. Sure, there’s neat gems buried in the App Store/Google Play, but… the sheer volume of literal scams is unreal.
That, I get. Screw scammers.
I got no issue with the good stuff though. Or even the mediocre stuff.
All the other snobbery is folks people being immature snobs. And the cross-brand ‘rivalry’ isn’t so extreme anymore, anyway.
Maybe a mix of tribalism and sunk-cost fallacy. People want to feel like the made the right choice regarding platform, while justifying the money they put in a probably closed ecosystem.
Because PC is better than console.
Because PC is better than console.
This is exactly why there’s animosity.
I prefer console because: it just works. Devs don’t need to address bugs related to hardware, and they can tune their games for the performance of the console.
I don’t have a lot of free time so knowing it will work within seconds of hitting the power button is worth it to me.
I used to PC game, and still do for a few that are better with a mouse/keyboard.
I don’t hate on anyone that prefers a different gaming system.
I was being facetious but yes you are obviously right. It’s just down to anyone’s needs and preference at the end of the day.
Consoles suck.
I assumed but without the /s it’s hard to tell on the internet.
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Depends on your needs. For my needs, PC is better.
I see what you mean. Everyone’s needs are different. But PC is better, of course
I have a Pc but don’t want to bring it into my living room every night to play games on my 81” screen.
Consoles have their place.
Mobile phone games that are just glorified gambling casinos are fucking trash and should be outlawed.
Just stream it over LAN.
For most people that would require running cable, either along the floor or with network drops. With WiFi there’s a noticeable input lag that can make some games unplayable.
To a point. There’s just a bit of an entry gap when it comes to PC. If you have the money to build a PC that will last you years and can run just about 95% of all games released to the point of you having built the machine to entire backlogs of previous generations of games that were released on console. You won’t be disappointed. The amount of those games is staggering and it can all be done with one PC as opposed to having to buy a console that’s already pricey, then having to buy the actual games which have gotten even pricier on their own.
Humans are tribal creatures
And we have a hard time understanding others’ perspectives, which I think is also a big factor here.
