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[ValiantInstance]

If you can afford it, the best solution is to make sure both your setups don't feel worse than the other.

I bought an LG G2 for the living room a couple of years back, had the Sonos surround setup too. I loved it so much I replaced my monitors for my pc setup with an LG C2 42" and Audeze Maxwell headphones.

 

[Three]

And I play games to beat "I'm just relaxing" noobs like you.

I play with crossplay disabled so I don't think you'd be playing me even if you wanted to.

 

[Guardian Monkey]

I don't understand people who say couches are more comfortable than a good office chair. They really aren't.

I mean this is all preference, I have a leap v2 and a gesture which are both higher end office chairs and foot stools to boot for pc. But compared to the pair of Ekornes I use for tv/projector gaming there isn’t a chance in hell I would say any type of office chair can be as comfortable as a good recliner setup.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I don't understand people who say couches are more comfortable than a good office chair. They really aren't.

You need to buy better quality couches

 

[RoboFu]

I don't like mayonnaise,..

 

[vivftp]

You need to buy better quality couches

I gave up on couches, this is what I'm rocking and they're wonderful for my gaming setup

 

[CompleteGlobalSaturation]

I might be in the minority with this opinion, but I prefer to play games on my gaming monitor instead of my 4K TV.

My home cinema setup is a Bravia 9 75" hooked up to a Sony STR-DN1080 A/V receiver, perfect for watching movies. I also have a region-free Sony UBP-X800M2 4K player. Anytime I hook up my PS5 Pro to the A/V receiver and play for an hour or two, it just feels off, and I can't really explain why. It just doesn't feel right to me.

My current gaming setup is a Dell 32'' 4K Gaming Monitor—G3223Q, a PS5 Pro, and the Sony Pulse Elite (Black). It's the perfect setup for me. I can sit close to the monitor, about 14" to 16" from the screen. I like playing games with surround headphones, and this just feels perfect to me, as if it lets me get more into a zone while gaming and I can put in way longer hours sitting at my desk than sitting on my sofa.

How do you like your setup?

I have a home cinema in my living room (5.1.2 Atmos) and in my office with 5.1 (Monitor audio and SVS subwoofer).

I hate wearing headphones. The sound quality is 10x worse.

My speakers have unmatched sound quality and the subwoofer adds such a layer of depth and tactile feel when playing games.

There is absolutely no comparison.

I have tried so many headphones and NOTHING compares to a good quality speaker and subwoofer setup.

 

[10101010]

Gaming on my brand new oled>>>>>>

 

[metareferential]

The bigger my televisions get the more I enjoy being engulfed by movies and gaming. The next purchase will be a minimum of 83 inches.

My pc is hooked up to a 48" LG oled, and the other screen in the home theatre setup is a 120" with laser projector.

Nothing beats image size, if the quality is just adequate. I'd like to buy a 100+ oled, but not while paying it like a car.

Hell, I'm even considering those 144hz LED 100" tvs from Hisense.

100E7NQ PRO

 

[Gaiff]

You need to buy better quality couches

Just the sitting position makes no sense to me. Couches aren't designed for you to sit straight on them. They're not designed to support your back in this way whereas office chairs are. You don't "sit back" on an office chair. You sit up. If you sit properly on a couch, you won't have back support. if you crash on it, well, it's not good either.

I mean this is all preference, I have a leap v2 and a gesture which are both higher end office chairs and foot stools to boot for pc. But compared to the pair of Ekornes I use for tv/projector gaming there isn’t a chance in hell I would say any type of office chair can be as comfortable as a good recliner setup.

I googled them and those seem to be recliner chairs?

 

[Badlucktroll]

my fancy schmancy oled makes me drool at every game

 

[TrebleShot]

I agree with OP.
Living room is too shared with the Mrs to sit there playing games.

 

[Radical_3d]

it's still bad for gaming, and probably 1 reason some might prefer a gaming monitor.

For playing on a PS5 Pro that barely hits 60? Nonsense!

 

[Bitstream]

 

[Durin]

Sofa living room setup is what I do for party/local multiplayer games + movies, just the chill social space.

Desk with better back-support chair, a 42 inch OLED against the wall with 2nd monitor, keyboard/mouse or gamepad + good headphones is where I want to be when I play any video game by myself.

If your desk at home feels like work, you got a boring desk setup.

 

[R6Rider]

I might be in the minority with this opinion, but I prefer to play games on my gaming monitor instead of my 4K TV.

My home cinema setup is a Bravia 9 75" hooked up to a Sony STR-DN1080 A/V receiver, perfect for watching movies. I also have a region-free Sony UBP-X800M2 4K player. Anytime I hook up my PS5 Pro to the A/V receiver and play for an hour or two, it just feels off, and I can't really explain why. It just doesn't feel right to me.

How far away are you sitting from the 75"?

 

[Comfortgel]

I agree with OP.
Living room is too shared with the Mrs to sit there playing games.

This. I actually removed our Denon 7.1 Atmos system from the living room and moved it to the mancave, going from a 70" 4K to my ancient 55" Plasma. Moved the XSX and PS5 down there as well, and just left the WiiU in the LR. Looks nicer when company comes over, and the new soundbar passes the wife technology ease of use check.

I have a lot more fun on the Plasma even if it's 1080, and it just *feels* more like gaming now. Plus the bar is down there

 

[Vick]

I hate playing games outside of my home cinema setup.

Just about everything is a colossal downgrade, from input latency/motion resolution (Panasonic VT60 on Harman Kardon AVR), to every image quality parameter, audio and immersion (Linn Artikulat 345 Servo-subwoofer, Wharfedale Diamond towers), pitch black room and movie couch..

Feels exactly like going from an IMAX theatre experience to a movie on a portable cheap DVD player from early 2000 without headphones..
Just the fucking thought of it everytime..

 

[chromatic9]

Yes it's best to get close and immersed.

Back in the day of arcades we played close to the screen and got really immersed, it's the best way to play, you see every pixel and motion to react.

I just couldn't get engaged to play classics like Bubble Bobble, R-Type or SF2 from a typical comfy couch distance, you play little while and it just feels off and zone out somewhat. Same with sim racing, you can't be too far from the screen, just not immersive or optimal to respond to each frame.

 

[Killer8]

Some people just need to play like this to be in the zone.

 

[nkarafo]

Well, i also prefer playing on my 24' freesync, 240hz monitor instead of my 42' 4K TV.

Many more options for smooth frame rate and lower input lag trumps a bigger screen and better colors.

Though, i'm still using a controller in both cases.

 

[pauljeremiah]

How far away are you sitting from the 75"?

About 9 feet away from it

 

[R6Rider]

About 9 feet away from it

If you can sit a bit closer. I notice on certain setups at friends houses that playing feels MUCH worse when sitting further back than I normally play.

It could be a couple of things, but distance might be a factor.

 

[El Muerto]

I sit at a desk all day for work, i can't relax by playing a game at my desk. I enjoy sitting in my recliner with my 75" tv and dolby atmos theater with steam link.

 

[BlackTron]

FPS games feel all wrong on TV

Mario feels all wrong on a desk monitor

 

[Loboxxx]

 

[R6Rider]

I sit at a desk all day for work, i can't relax by playing a game at my desk. I enjoy sitting in my recliner with my 75" tv and dolby atmos theater with steam link.

I'm this way most of the time as well. I still use my office chair, but then I play on my TV instead of at my desk in the same room.

 

[RaiLiOn]

Playing PS5 and Retroid Pocket 5 on a Sony 83" A90J which I have owned since its release. I sit 9 feet away and think that 92" would be the sweet spot (possible 97"). But I could move the tv back and maybe aim for a 115 - 135" in the future when they get affordable.

 

[SweetTooth]

so a Sony TV, that's already a bad start when it comes to input lag. I hope you at least have it in Game Mode. even in Game Mode that TV has 18ms of input lag... which is on par with LG and Samsung TVs from 10 years ago

to get to the same level of input lag a modern LG or Samsung has at 60hz, you need to run that Bravia 9 at 120hz. basically you have twice the input lag on each refresh setting.

if you don't use game mode, then your lag will be so extreme that it should barely even be playable.

Holy shit .. when you hate Sony so much you start spouting nonsense and sounding stupid on the way.

Sony TV are TOP of the foodchain in TV world.

 

[StueyDuck]

I can't imagine how tough this must be for you.

just know that I'm keeping you in my thoughts and i hope we all get through this together

 

[Hohenheim]

Definitely prefer playing on my 32" 4K OLED at my desk, especially for immersive games.
Sometimes I play at the TV (65" Oled) since the consoles is plugged in there, but the immersion is nowhere close to the PC desktop setup.
It's cool for stuff like "Split Fiction" of course, and some chill games where I don't need to be immersed in the gameplay.

 

[Aesius]

I like playing at my desk better too for most games. But I'm exclusively a PC gamer now. I can switch between keyboard and mouse/controller on the fly, and I have an ultrawide monitor, which I think is more immersive when sitting up-close.

But if a game doesn't support ultrawide, I'll play on my 55" 4K/144hz TV.

 

[JohnnyFootball]

I do both. I have an AMD 9070XT/7800X3D Fractal Ridge build in my living room with my 65 inch OLED and Onkyo Atmos setup. Its a lot fun. I was using Bazzite/SteamOS, but I switched to Windows 10 enterprise that boots right into Steam Big Picture mode and I am happy.

For my desktop I have my 9800X3D/4090 with my Alienware 32 inch QD-OLED and my 34inch Acer Ultrawide QD-OLED both at 240 Hz.

Assassins Creed games i find to be a LOT more fun on my living room PC.

 

[kevboard]

Holy shit .. when you hate Sony so much you start spouting nonsense and sounding stupid on the way.

Sony TV are TOP of the foodchain in TV world.

holy shit when you're such a fanboy that you instantly project it onto others.

FACT: Sony TVs are always behind in gaming features, they were basically last when adding VRR and still don't support Freesync.

also FACT: Sony TVs have among the, if not THE highest input lag of any major vendor, only now catching up to other TVs from a decade ago, with their brand new ones from 2025 finally being on the level of other TVs from 2020.

they might be top if you want to watch movies, but the topic on hand in this GAMING forum is why OP prefers GAMING on a monitor instead of his Sony TV. I gave one possibly answer as to why that might be. his 2024 TV literally has the same latency as the TV that I owned in 2016 had.
his TV has the same latency as the latest Samsung TVs have with their frame interpolation enabled.

for Gaming, Sony TVs have always been behind the times. they aren't as absolutely useless anymore as they were say 5 years ago, where their latency was literally worse than TVs from 2007, but they are still behind in that regard. and that's just an empirical fact.

 

[SweetTooth]

holy shit when you're such a fanboy that you instantly project it onto others.

FACT: Sony TVs are always behind in gaming features, they were basically last when adding VRR and still don't support Freesync.

also FACT: Sony TVs have among the, if not THE highest input lag of any major vendor, only now catching up to other TVs from a decade ago, with their brand new ones from 2025 finally being on the level of other TVs from 2020.

they might be top if you want to watch movies, but the topic on hand in this GAMING forum is why OP prefers GAMING on a monitor instead of his Sony TV. I gave one possibly answer as to why that might be. his 2024 TV literally has the same latency as the TV that I owned in 2016 had.
his TV has the same latency as the latest Samsung TVs have with their frame interpolation enabled.

for Gaming, Sony TVs have always been behind the times. they aren't as absolutely useless anymore as they were say 5 years ago, where their latency was literally worse than TVs from 2007, but they are still behind in that regard. and that's just an empirical fact.

Yeah I wonder why they always get nominated for overall best TVs and mostly win it or get close second.

You must have cheap TCL with badly calibrated colors or got used to cheap screens playing Switch lol.

 

[Beechos]

Complete opposite here. Can't game on a monitor unless it's a pc centric game like a rts that needs mouse and keyboard. Just can't sit on a pc chair playing super close the monitor with a controller just doesn't feel right.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

 

[pauljeremiah]

your home cinema running at quality mode or performance mode?

Performance.

 

[Itachi87]

Gaming on the couch is much more comfortable and I don't have to worry about eye strain.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

Monitor over TV is like rollerskates over a car. It's for zoomers and peasants.

Thus spoke Zarathustra.

 

[CitizenKratos]

Can’t play in monitor siting my desk at all.

65 oled plus complete Sonos system all the time

This is me too exactly.

 

[Justin9mm]

Yes you are in the minority.

Whether its sub par sound quality or your sofa or both, your Home Cinema setup obviously sucks!

I'm exactly the opposite, no headphone or chair can give me the comfort of my Atmos home cinema and recliners.. Considering you mentioned you can sit closer to your monitor, I would say your TV is also too small from where you are sitting. The problem is your setup, not playing in your so called 'Home Cinema'

 

[rodrigolfp]

Imagine calling potato 16:9 screens "cinema".

 

[RJMacready73]

Nah, comfy recliner, LG Oled, Sony Theatre Quad enveloping me in sound is far more immersive than sitting at a desk looking at a wee monitor

 

[flying_sq]

Fast paced FPS and RTS I play on my PC, everything else I play on my home theater

 

[awwr999999]

Monitor always beats home cinema setup for gaming. From Projectors to the largest OLED TVs I've had them all and they are great for movies and TV shows but not for gaming.
You never see pros playing from a couch, you just can't get properly engaged like that.

Pros are also gaming at 4:3 because it's the aspect ratio that's closest to the human FOV.
Drone pilots use 4:3 because it provides a wider vertical field of view.
On the flip side, the PS5's rendering everything natively at 16:9 and doing 30% more work to fill out a display in ways that don't benefit gameplay or immersion.
16:9's reduced verticality and wider field of view dilutes the sense of focus and intensity that the narrower 4:3 provides.
TVs have been dictating the way video games work for too long despite the fact that games bring in more money than film and TV combined.

 

[MarV0]

Pros are also gaming at 4:3 because it's the aspect ratio that's closest to the human FOV.
Drone pilots use 4:3 because it provides a wider vertical field of view.
On the flip side, the PS5's rendering everything natively at 16:9 and doing 30% more work to fill out a display in ways that don't benefit gameplay or immersion.
16:9's reduced verticality and wider field of view dilutes the sense of focus and intensity that the narrower 4:3 provides.
TVs have been dictating the way video games work for too long despite the fact that games bring in more money than film and TV combined.

I agree 4:3 is ideal but tell that to the LCD substrate manufacturers that started this 16:9 nonsense because it was more convenient for them.

Don't even get me started on ultra wides, horrific looking at games through a cylon visor things.

Ironically large curved monitors do make sense as our eyesight has a curvature, 1000R is ideal.

 

[rofif]

since i bought my first PC 15 years ago i abandoned couch gaming, when i bought my PS5 i hooked him on my 65" TV for like 2 days and them just moved him to my desk too, playing on couch is really uncomfortable to me, now i have a 32" monitor but i want to upgrade to a 42" and thats it.

Ps5 is a she

 

[Jinxed]

Havent used a monitor for pc/consoles in the last 8 years besides for work. Monitors for gaming is a thing of the past for me.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Agree with OP. I have a 25cm deep pocket sprung mattress, but I hate it. Much prefer sleeping on the floor with some nice cushiony straws topped with deerhide.