Would you ever consider abandoning consoles entirely for PC in the future?

5 months in, still have no regrets moving to PC. Playing great multiplat games in their optimal form (like Dishonored and Deus Ex: HR at 120fps) has more value to me than most console exclusives.

My 480 plays games from this gen pretty well too, 60+ fps with some minor graphics tweaks. Next time I upgrade the GPU, all those games will be 120 too.

Missing Horizon hurts a little bit, but it's a cost I'm willing to pay.
 
If the console market collapses and I had no other choice. Then again, I've pretty much decided to stop cold turkey with handheld gaming and that's what I grew up on. Once the Vita is truely dead that's it for me.
 
I can't entirely abandon Nintendo's handhelds, so no I can't fully do PC. Avoiding home consoles though? That's pretty easy.
 
I don't think it would be hard if we are excluding Nintendo (you could argue Switch is more a handheld than a console, if that matters).

A lot of Sony exclusives don't do much for me anymore (Horizon was great though), and I haven't cared about multiplayer shooters in years. It wouldn't be much transition for me compared to what I do now - sit on a couch with a controller and play mostly single player games.

Honestly I don't see myself buying another console after my PS4, aside from a Switch.
 
No way. I much prefer console experience as a whole.

And types of games I like feel more at home on consoles or don't even exist on pc.
 
I did try this for the ps2 era, i had a ps2 but maybe 2-3 games, but was getting more into using the p.c and getting into other hobbies, probably from what i can gather i missed the favourite console Gen, so i went back to play what i missed out on and realised i still really like consoles, maybe a bit more now
 
I doubt it. The ease of consoles, the exclusives and that's it really.

I'll be gearing more and more towards PC tho. I think I'll still do MP on the xbox but more of the SP games on PC
 
As a soon to be owner of a 1080Ti...
Helllll Noooo! Not as long as Sony and Nintendo are making exclusives, third party as well of course.
 
OmegaTreeFish said:
As my life has got busier I have moved on from the powerful PC set up plus a console to a cheaper PC set up plus a console. Console is now my main platform because its so damn convenient. No third party software, no maintainence, sleep mode allows me instant resume and tell it to download a game while Im at work etc. My PC is now for PC exclusives and thats about it.

When I had tons of free time I loved my PC. Tinkering with it was fun. Tweaking settings to get the best possible experience was fun. Finding cool third part pieces of software was fun. But now I have lost interest in that side of things and dont have time for it anyway and so consoles work better for me.
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Tweaking/mods are optional.
Installing third-party software and any 'maintenance' associated with that is not required for a gaming PC.
The Steam Mobile app has had the ability to purchase and download games for a long time.
If your PC is actually dedicated as a gaming PC, it can be as simple as a console.
 
Paragon said:
Tweaking/mods are optional.
Installing third-party software and any 'maintenance' associated with that is not required for a gaming PC.
The Steam Mobile app has had the ability to purchase and download games for a long time.
If your PC is actually dedicated as a gaming PC, it can be as simple as a console.
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Again, no it isnt. It can be a pretty simple set up but it is not as simple.

Your PC has to be on for that app function to work rather than in sleep mode.

Steam is a third party app
Nvidia experience is a third party app
Unless you want to limit your self to one store you need to have multiple stores and friends lists.
You cant turn it on with a controller (or if you can the function isn't standard)
You cant just buy any PC and it will run everything you need to look into what you need and that will vary depending on time of purchase and what you need it for.
You will need a mouse and keyboard as well for basic functions to work even if you use big picture mode as you will get those games that pop up a settings window that need a mouse to function.
The steam controller is mostly terrble (obvioulsy in my opinion)

There are lots of simple things that are involved in PC gaming that arnt hard but can be a nuisance.

With a console you just buy the console, it will play all the games for that platform. You get all the functions like recording, voice chat, storefront, pictures etc straight out the box all handled from the controller with no real set up from the user bar creating a PSN account and maybe a youtube and twitch account.

To say PC is pretty simple these days is fair. To say its as simple as a console experience is flat out false.

The flipside is that every single negative against PC for the console experience can be seen as a possitive towards the PC experience. There are reasons console is simpler and PC is harder and that is not a knock against the PC. Its simply a sympton of added functionality and freedom from your hardware.
 
Not as long Sony is around with their PlayStation and true exclusives.
Microsoft now has this Xbox Play Anywhere, so no real exclusives from them anymore
and I can totally live without Nintendo.
 
When my kids get older I would go back to it. I wouldn't enjoy PC gaming as much right now as I don't have much time to muck with parts, play with config settings, overclock, etc and that was my favorite part of PC gaming.

So right now PS3/PS4 is it for me. Once the kids crash , I flop on the floor and put in a few hrs of pew pew before bed.
 
I love my gaming PC that I've been upkeeping and swapping out parts on for over a decade. In my more recent years I've stuck to my gaming PC + handhelds, as I don't like being stuck in one place for very long. Now, between the Steam Link and In-Home Streaming, plus a 3DS, PS Vita and Switch, and I've got all I need for a very long time!

Would definitely never drop the handheld consoles though. I like playing my games everywhere, not just sitting in my house...
 
rawd said:
When my kids get older I would go back to it. I wouldn't enjoy PC gaming as much right now as I don't have much time to muck with parts, play with config settings, overclock, etc and that was my favorite part of PC gaming.

So right now PS3/PS4 is it for me. Once the kids crash , I flop on the floor and put in a few hrs of pew pew before bed.
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I will never understand the obsession and the compulsory need to play with config settings, overclock and stuffs over just starting the game without touching them on PC.
 
Yes. Consoles are getting too expensive, paying for online, and now refreshes? Games on PC work pretty much forever, online is free, better prices, I can play at a much higher framerate or 4K, more control options, and my PC does more than game. I've already managed to get two friends to go PC. The others aren't big enough gamers to ever really do it.

Then again, we all love Nintendo so I can never give them up.
 
The games would really have to suck for me to do that. Unlikely to subscribe to frequent revisions if that's the new norm.
 
ArtHands said:
I will never understand the obsession and the compulsory need to play with config settings, overclock and stuffs over just starting the game without touching them on PC.
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Not only that, but Overclocking is somethign you do once. Takes like half an hour (plus leaving the PC running a test bench for mayber an hour), and it's entirely optional.

But the narrative here would have you believe that PC gamers start their days at 5am, update their drivers for two hours, then reconfig all their games for another 4 hours, then overclock for 3 hours, then they reinstall windows 10, and by the evening they play DOTA 2 for an hour, only to start again the enxt day.

As I keep on hammering on this thread ot maybe spark somehting in people's brain: the time that your average console gamer spends locked behidn a load screen >>>>>>>>>>>>>> than all the time I spend doign anythign other than actual gaming on my PC.

And yet console gamers in this thread say the load times aren't a big deal. Well, if those atrocious load times aren't a big deal, building and OC'ing (optional) your PC ONCE in it's lifetime sure as hell isn't either. Neither are the automatic driver/system updates you get once in awhile. Neither is the minute or two you spend setting graphics options before starting a game.

Hell, time is one of the main reasons I got into PC gaming. When I realized I was spending more time waiting for my console to boot, waiting for my console to load, waiting to do what I wanted to do in a sluggish, unresponsive UI, waiting for slow downloads and updates, etc, etc.

They've gottne better since last gen, for sure, but PC gmaing is still more immediately available for me and by now I've gotten too used to 60+FPS, mods, ultra wide resolutions, and graphics settings as well as input options, to reasonably go back.

Except to possibly handheld gaming. On the edge of ordering a switch even though I know I'll only ever play a few games on it (tactical JRPG's and Zelda).

It's the same Nvidia hardware that powers the Nvidia shield, right? What's the possibility that they will allow you to stream your PC games to it via Nvidia's Geforece experience? If they announce that I'll buy 2.
 
I was tempted to do this in the early 2010s (when my interest in PC gaming was higher), but decided not to. Now I'm primarily a console/handheld player again. It's just more convenient and enjoyable for me.
 
Lister said:
Not only that, but Overclocking is somethign you do once. Takes like half an hour (plus leaving the PC running a test bench for mayber an hour), and it's entirely optional.

But the narrative here would have you believe that PC gamers start their days at 5am, update their drivers for two hours, then reconfig all their games for another 4 hours, then overclock for 3 hours, then they reinstall windows 10, and by the evening they play DOTA 2 for an hour, only to start again the enxt day.

As I keep on hammering on this thread ot maybe spark somehting in people's brain: the time that your average console gamer spends locked behidn a load screen >>>>>>>>>>>>>> than all the time I spend doign anythign other than actual gaming on my PC.

And yet console gamers in this thread say the load times aren't a big deal. Well, if those atrocious load times aren't a big deal, building and OC'ing (optional) your PC ONCE in it's lifetime sure as hell isn't either. Neither are the automatic driver/system updates you get once in awhile. Neither is the minute or two you spend setting graphics options before starting a game.

Hell, time is one of the main reasons I got into PC gaming. When I realized I was spending more time waiting for my console to boot, waiting for my console to load, waiting to do what I wanted to do in a sluggish, unresponsive UI, waiting for slow downloads and updates, etc, etc.

They've gottne better since last gen, for sure, but PC gmaing is still more immediately available for me and by now I've gotten too used to 60 FPS, mods, and graphics as well as input options, to reasonably go back.

Except to posisbly handheld gaming. On the edge fo ordering a switch.


It's the same Nvidia hardware that powers the Nvidia shield, right? What's the possibility that they will allow you to stream your PC games to it via Nvidia's Geforece experience? If they announce that I'll buy 2.
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b-b-b-b-b-BUT you have to!
 
shinobi602 said:
My main thing isn't *time*. I'm perfectly fine waiting a little for a game to install and for a patch to install, it's putting one together and troubleshooting when shit goes awry. I built my own years ago with a 570GTX, Phenom, etc. Power supply was more than sufficient, everything was working fine, games would close down after 30 seconds of playing. I tried for a while, got a new card. I just didn't feel like doing that anymore.
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I don't understand what 'that' is though. Returning a defective product? Your card was not working properly, it happens. How is that any different from getting a defective PS4, troubleshooting it and returning it if necessary?
 
If exclusives weren't a thing and my friends who play online switch then sure, but I want it to work on my TV and the whole driver updates to auto-download. So yeah maybe not soon.
 
No chance i currently have PC, PS4 & Wii U, the PS4 & Wii U get most use out of them due to their amazing first party games.
 
probably not... There's specific games on consoles that I like that rarely get PC releases, like Madden. Also there's typically an ease of use with consoles that I appreciate having. My wife plays some games on the Xbox, like Super Mega Baseball, and while those are available on PC, I doubt she'd want to launch my PC to play them, even with something like Steamlink.
 
I never touched my Xbox one, besides the odd exclusive.

Now that MS is making most ? All? Of their first party console exclusives on Windows, the logic side of my brain told me to sell the system.

And I did. It's completely Alien to me gaming on PC but it makes the most sense considering I have a powerhouse sitting doing nothing.

I still have a Ps4, and will probably game exclusive with that. But when I run my HDMI cable and play on the TV from the PC....My opinion may change.
 
Im not sure I understand people saying consoles have better quality of life stuff like sleep modes. That has existed on PC for decades?

But Im not sure. I find PC much less of a hassle in both gaming and for entertainment.
 
I would never limit myself to one platform. As a fan of Japanese games, there are so many wonderful games I could never play if I'd go PC only. Bloodborne, The Last Guardian, Nioh, the Yakuza series, Persona 5 etc.
 
HashtagLapsed said:
Im not sure I understand people saying consoles have better quality of life stuff like sleep modes. That has existed on PC for decades?

But Im not sure. I find PC much less of a hassle in both gaming and for entertainment.
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If my PC is in sleep mode it loads up faster and everything is as I left it. Can be handy but with how fast they boot with an SSD its kinda redundent.

If my PS4 is in sleep mode I can have it dowload updates and games and leave my game in a suspend state so it instantly resumes to where I was when I stopped playing.
 
Nope, single player experience is so much better on console it's not even funny. There is an incentive to make games like uncharted on PS that would never exist on PC because they get paid by Sony to make it
 
OmegaTreeFish said:
Again, no it isnt. It can be a pretty simple set up but it is not as simple.
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Well that's fair.
After being a PC gamer for so long, there are things which are second nature that I wouldn't even consider to be a barrier to entry - but obviously are to some people.
There are many things that I would consider to be a barrier to entry for console gaming, which console gamers are probably just used to.
I don't necessarily agree with your list though.

The point I meant to get across was that PC gaming does not need to be complicated, even if it's not quite as simple as the console experience.
You don't need to mod games, tweak settings, or run any software outside of Steam itself.
A lot of the things which make PC gaming 'complicated' are things that the people complaining about its complexity are choosing to do themselves.
 
Lister said:
Not only that, but Overclocking is somethign you do once. Takes like half an hour (plus leaving the PC running a test bench for mayber an hour), and it's entirely optional.

But the narrative here would have you believe that PC gamers start their days at 5am, update their drivers for two hours, then reconfig all their games for another 4 hours, then overclock for 3 hours, then they reinstall windows 10, and by the evening they play DOTA 2 for an hour, only to start again the enxt day.

As I keep on hammering on this thread ot maybe spark somehting in people's brain: the time that your average console gamer spends locked behidn a load screen >>>>>>>>>>>>>> than all the time I spend doign anythign other than actual gaming on my PC.

And yet console gamers in this thread say the load times aren't a big deal. Well, if those atrocious load times aren't a big deal, building and OC'ing (optional) your PC ONCE in it's lifetime sure as hell isn't either. Neither are the automatic driver/system updates you get once in awhile. Neither is the minute or two you spend setting graphics options before starting a game.

Hell, time is one of the main reasons I got into PC gaming. When I realized I was spending more time waiting for my console to boot, waiting for my console to load, waiting to do what I wanted to do in a sluggish, unresponsive UI, waiting for slow downloads and updates, etc, etc.

They've gottne better since last gen, for sure, but PC gmaing is still more immediately available for me and by now I've gotten too used to 60+FPS, mods, ultra wide resolutions, and graphics settings as well as input options, to reasonably go back.

Except to possibly handheld gaming. On the edge of ordering a switch even though I know I'll only ever play a few games on it (tactical JRPG's and Zelda).

It's the same Nvidia hardware that powers the Nvidia shield, right? What's the possibility that they will allow you to stream your PC games to it via Nvidia's Geforece experience? If they announce that I'll buy 2.
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you got into pc gaming because of load times?
 
On the contrary, with the way Ms is handling Xbox I don't think I'll ever come back to pc.

We have now a perpetual library, games being able to target and look better on future hardware and some genres that are now coming to consoles like mmos and crpgs.

Looking forward the only way I see myself going back to pc is if they really go all in by turning a pc hooked up to the TV into an Xbox.
 
PC has always been primary. The only reason I own a PS and Switch is for the exclusives, which is exactly why the chance of me ever owning an Xbox is virtually zero.
 
Probably not. I've been gaming on PC as long as I remember, but there is something unorganized that I don't like about it. I feel like its strengths are my biggest issues.

I'm know this is a personal problem that I deal with and I'm not trying to imply that one is objectively better than the other, but I'm weird. When I'm gaming on my PC, it irks the shit out of me when I have to switch from controller to mouse/keyboard for something. I'm just weird. I like things to work a certain way and I don't want to have to mess with it again.

I don't like the currently available frontends, I hate having to open origin or uplay versus steam for many games and I find myself always trying to tinker things to work in a way that I'd like, but I'm never happy. I'm always having controller issues in local co-op, it just drives me batty.

Once again please note that this is just an opinion. It's not gonna change unless the platform changes (not that I'm demanding it to). I don't need to be made aware of workarounds or anything else. I'm familiar with them. Consoles have their issues for sure (updates, etc), but for me, they stay out of the way of whatever I'm doing.
 
Sure, in a hypothetical situation where (worthwhile) console exclusives don't exist and there's a high quality handheld PC solution available.
 
I did the opposite at the tail end of last year.

I'd been a PC gamer for probably 15 years when I stopped in December. I made the swap for a number of reasons. The main crux was that my PC was built in 2011 and it was really struggling with some games and upgrading would realistically require upgrading several components simultaneously, a cost I wasn't willing to pay given since I built the original PC, I have got married and had two kids.

I have like an compulsion where I want to get the games looking as good as they can, but also have standards to meet in terms of what I would deem acceptable performance. More and more I wasn't meeting either goal and I was getting sick of spending hours tweaking settings and trying different things in order to try and find some kind of ideal balance for each particular game.

I don't have much spare time to game anymore because of the aforementioned wife/kids/life so I don't want to spend it in menus rather than playing the games.

I'd also had my PC hooked up to our TV in the lounge for several years and was using a controller for most games. It was therefore a pretty easy choice to buy a PS4 for a fraction of the PC upgrade cost whilst also solving my performance issues by simply removing the option of tinkering with graphics settings altogether and gaining completely consistent performance with peers (bar those with PS Pro's of course).

Edit: Also, I can't overstate how amazing Rest Mode has been for me since the switch. I didn't even know it was a thing when I bought the PS4 but being able to stop at a moments notice if summats up with the kids and then resume exactly where I left off, even days later if needs be, is such a good feature for me.
 
OmegaTreeFish said:
The flipside is that every single negative against PC for the console experience can be seen as a possitive towards the PC experience. There are reasons console is simpler and PC is harder and that is not a knock against the PC. Its simply a sympton of added functionality and freedom from your hardware.
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Needs to be quoted on its own.
 
I would do that in a heartbeat now that all the games the were Vita exclusives now are been released on steam (along with all the other Japanese games that used to be console exclusives), but as long as bloodborne exist I'll keep having PlayStation consoles.
 
No,tbh I play mostly AAA games and PC is currently not working out very well for me.

Batman AK(crashes) - gave up got X1 version.
BF1(crashes) - gave up got PS4 version.
WD2(stutters) - gave up got PS4 version.
Wildlands(stutters) - gave up got PS4 version.
FH3(Win10 store) - gave up play X1 version.
Cod IW(multiplay probs) - gave up got PS4 version.
 
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