Is PC the best platform for eastern gaming

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I see so many mmorpgs coming first on pc and it seems like it has every third party JRPG title coming out other than Nintendo exclusives. I feel like it's a the best platform for the following genres below especially if you include emulation.

Fighting Games
Hack and Slash
Jrpg
mmorpgs
 
Yes! it has everything eastern these days. I personally have all my Falcom games on PC.

No console has as much old and new Asian games as even Steam alone.
 
No, only for MMO and some Free to Play games.
Fighting Games
The speed at which online play is dying in these PC versions is simply astounding. The fighting game community on consoles is much more united and plays these games more, even the very old ones.
 
Modern yes. But it will take a long time for anything to outdo PS2 on this front.
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No, only for MMO and some Free to Play games.

The speed at which online play is dying in these PC versions is simply astounding. The fighting game community on consoles is much more united and plays these games more, even the very old ones.
Alot of fighting games have cross play on there though.
 
Alot of fighting games have cross play on there though.
As someone who plays Tekken 8 and constantly switches between the PC version and PS5, yes, crossplay is there, but some players simply turn it off immediately. And on PC, especially if you're at a high rank, you'll usually be fighting the same four or five players, and on the worst days, there are times when the search matches give you same person two or three times in a row.
 
As someone who plays Tekken 8 and constantly switches between the PC version and PS5, yes, crossplay is there, but some players simply turn it off immediately. And on PC, especially if you're at a high rank, you'll usually be fighting the same four or five players, and on the worst days, there are times when the search matches give you same person two or three times in a row.
Interesting I play Tekken 8 too on PC and I have no issues playing against other players especially on other platforms. However I'm not at a high rank though.
 
As someone who plays Tekken 8 and constantly switches between the PC version and PS5, yes, crossplay is there, but some players simply turn it off immediately. And on PC, especially if you're at a high rank, you'll usually be fighting the same four or five players, and on the worst days, there are times when the search matches give you same person two or three times in a row.

And on console, 90%+ of tekken players are wifi warriors
 
Isn't Sony sucking off Indian and Chinese devs pretty hard the last couple of years? So maybe Playstation is where you can get games from there. That's at least what I would expect.
 
Including emulation is such a cop-out. Yes, other platforms games can be made to work, but that's not really a game that was released for the PC. A bit disingenuous.

Either way, while PC is waaaay better for Japanese games than it used to be, we're still stuck wading through an ocean of shoddy ports… many of which I'd suggest are better off played on consoles instead. It's better, but not where it needs to be to really declare PC is the end all, be all for "eastern" gaming.
 
Is "PC is the best platform for eastern gaming."

If you dont mind OP, I've taken the liberty of rearranging and eliminating superfluous words from your question.
 
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Why it was at EVO and has made a name in the FGC.
It's a long history of confrontation between the two camps. Nintendo itself doesn't want to classify it as an esports fighting discipline, considering it a family game. Throughout its existence in the esports arena, Nintendo has done everything possible to suppress this scene.
 
A lot of jrpgs for example are notoriously bad PC ports. Best to play them on consoles.
"Notoriously bad PC ports" usually still run circles around their console counterparts.
They are called "bad ports" because they lack improvements, or because they don't support a custom-made mouse&keyboard mode or some other trivial bullshit like that.
They still...
- look better
- run smoother
- load faster
- scale to higher resolutions
- eventually support modding

...more often than not.
 
I have removed the post since cost isn't a consideration and my post has been seen as platform wars. I apologize and did not intend to hijack the thread.
 
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Do you consider costs? Because if so ram prices have changed the choice to PS5 over the past 2 weeks but perhaps they will back off eventually. Currently 64gb of GDDR5 is more expensive than a PS5 some have reported.

Because there is little hope of these prices going back down, the smart move is subsidized fixed priced hardware if you are buying new today. Otherwise you may spend several hundred dollars more for ram than you did 2 months or even 2 weeks ago. The next steam machine looks great guys but it has worse graphics than PS5 and will cost 800 to 1000 dollars.

AMD and I'm sure Nvidia will raise prices again and PC gaming will become even more niche and difficult to enter for the average normie. If price is no factor, I'm sure there are supercomputers at Nvidia that could be overclocked and cooled under LN to get the best performance but you asked what you asked. Edit: I added this article which proves me right.


What the hell does this have to do with the thread I'm talking games specifically. Besides for gaming ain't nobody buying 64gb of ram on pc. 16 gb and 32 gb is more than enough for eastern gaming.
 
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A lot of jrpgs for example are notoriously bad PC ports. Best to play them on consoles.
true, but sometimes there is fan patch or mod that makes everything better
but generally yeah, console fare better in short run. but the ability to customize experience is why pc seems better approach, in the long run.
 
What the hell does this have to do with the thread I'm talking games specifically. Besides for gaming ain't nobody buying 64gb of ram on pc. 16 gb and 32 gb is more than enough for eastern gaming.
No offense and I didn't mean to hijack your post. I read the title which asked if PC gaming was the best platform for eastern gaming. Of course without considering the price it is. As for games, I would say yes too, it is also the best platform due to the large number of exclusive games.

Hopefully this answers your question. I did not intend to platform war, rather to point out that anyone considering a new gaming platform in 2025 would be remiss not to consider the current price of ram when deciding which machine to get. However, of course if you are just asking about software with not price considered at all and not ease of use considered then I would say the PC is the way to go.
 
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true, but sometimes there is fan patch or mod that makes everything better
but generally yeah, console fare better in short run. but the ability to customize experience is why pc seems better approach, in the long run.

There a lot of Jrpgs that you can't play on console like Xenoblade Chronicles,
 
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