Avid Reading Horse
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Last time a console pulled off any semblance of cool was Sega Genesis, change my mind.
What’s Cooler: Consoles or PC?
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Hideous Snake
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"Cool" doesn't fit here. PC is and will always be the superior no matter how much deluded and in denial people wanna live. Bless her little heart though, I'm looking forward to having my own kids and get amused by all these conversations.
keefged4
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Dreamcast.
Topher
Identifies as young
You tell me?
STARSBarry
Gold Member
I mean my PC heats my room up when its on in minutes, so yeah my PS5 Pro is much cooler, better for the summer heat.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Nah, not for the new generation. Most kids 12+ would say PC over console at least where im from and my Kids / friends.
ClanOfNone
Member
You tell me?
Technically impressive, but tacky. The nerd equivalent of a lifted truck. Guy must have to fight off the women with a stick.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
We are a bunch of nerds on a gaming forum. If that PC isnt cool then you missed the whole thing!
PC won, again. Just bigger this time.You tell me?
Baemono
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Depends of the fan
Zathalus
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If we are talking about how it was seen socially and by society? It used to be consoles and PC used to be for nerds. That has changed in the past decade or so. Building your own PC, streaming online, chatting with your friends on Discord. These things seem to resonate more with a lot of people these days.
Thebonehead
Gold Member
You tell me?
Dalbajobas
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You should learn how to put the game into fullscreen windowed mode. [only few recent games don't have it]
deeptech
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Tech wise, it depends. Aesthetically also depends, and functionally well... it depends. I'd take PS1 or 2 back in the day as cooler in perhaps every way. But today's consoles are nothing like that, build quality is shit tier, way worse. Games are 99%+ also on PC where they can be enjoyed in much more expanded and different way. The PS5 Slim Digital I had for a while had coil whine and loud cooler on top, and for a console that's not what a sane man expects, on PC problems like these are solvable much easier, like I don't have to sell the whole PC lol!
But yea, it depends, largely so.
But yea, it depends, largely so.
Boo Who?
Member
Not everything needs an identity. A lot of people are kind of tired of identity being so so so important.
PS5 is way cooler I gotta admit. My PC's CPU and GPU heat up to 80°C and in summer it's getting real warm in the room. Fan noise is also a factor.
PS5 on the other hand, whisper quiet, even in demanding games. Even in a silent room I can't hear it. Only thing I notice that it's on is the LED and when the disc drive boots up. Kudos to the thermal designers.
PS5 on the other hand, whisper quiet, even in demanding games. Even in a silent room I can't hear it. Only thing I notice that it's on is the LED and when the disc drive boots up. Kudos to the thermal designers.
xanaum
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It depends on how much you spend on a PC, a console obviously can't compete because of price, since the hardware of a console hits a more average cost.
But the main reason PlayStation is more played and more popular than PC gaming is that, even though consoles also need game installs, they're still way more "plug n play" than PC for the average gamer, which, funny enough, is mostly Windows' fault.
So if you're a chill player who doesn't have the patience for all the extra stuff, a console like the PS5 is the people's choice for something more "cool." But if you wanna spend more and get higher hardware potential and more settings, then it's PC.
Words from someone who plays on both.
But the main reason PlayStation is more played and more popular than PC gaming is that, even though consoles also need game installs, they're still way more "plug n play" than PC for the average gamer, which, funny enough, is mostly Windows' fault.
So if you're a chill player who doesn't have the patience for all the extra stuff, a console like the PS5 is the people's choice for something more "cool." But if you wanna spend more and get higher hardware potential and more settings, then it's PC.
Words from someone who plays on both.
Randall365
Member
kind of depends on the audience - to the world at large - consoles - to those of us who have built our own rig and den, with all the lights and shit - PC obvs.
Mind you - there's a guy at work who has built his own media server and that's the most tragic thing I can think of - just get Apple Music and Netflix/Disney ffs.
Mind you - there's a guy at work who has built his own media server and that's the most tragic thing I can think of - just get Apple Music and Netflix/Disney ffs.
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The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
There are a multitude of reasons why PC's are more expensive and cooler. Some of the builds I saw were absolutely ridiculous in an awesome way.
Yeah. Imagine voting consoles after seeing something like this lmao.
Yeah. Imagine voting consoles after seeing something like this lmao.
cinnamonandgravy
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normie vs turbo nerd
both're lame, as god intended
both're lame, as god intended
CLW
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How's it feel to get OWNED by a 7 year old
RickMasters
Gold Member
My PCs use ASU's and Corsair hybrid liquid cooling so, I voted for PC.
Also….. I can't load cubase on Console ….. so there's, that, too!
Also….. I can't load cubase on Console ….. so there's, that, too!
RickMasters
Gold Member
I like the wars on consoles but the PC is the land of peace.
Depends on what I am playing. I playing everything but RTS on console.
I agree. I don't care actually who sells the most consoles I Just wanna trade barbs and verbal jabs with cocky PS owners who think that because Sony is winning they are somehow winning at life. It's just so…… satisfying.
But yeah. PC master race rules. We are like the Borg in Star Trek sooner or later they will all be assimilated into us.
However…… we can still have PC on PC fighting. I like ASUS stuff so if you like MSI or gigabyte we can go a few rounds right now. we can always have a PC-Fight over who is better.
hououinkyouma00
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Cool? Console
For context I've played on both console and PC since the late 90s. I grew up as a little kid playing stuff like Janes flight simulators, Unreal Tournament and the like on PC, while also enjoying stuff like RE, SH, MGS, GT on PS1 (PS1 was my first console). Growing up PC was the opposite of cool to play games on and it was niche. Nobody I knew played on PC and the PS1 and N64 were the cool things to play games on. Then it was the PS2 and Xbox, and then the Xbox 360, and then the PS4.
I know the PC landscape was different in the UK and Europe but it definitely wasn't cool where I grew up. PC was for old people and nerds.
Then we enter the new renaissance of PC gaming or the "Twitch Age" where streaming has helped PC get really big and now it's the cool "it" thing with younger people which IMO makes it the opposite of cool still. It's just simply the "it" thing and while PC has undeniable benefits a lot of people really are just following the crowd and if consoles were the current thing they would 100% play on consoles.
Also a good amount of PC exclusives are just so "uncool" to me it's almost funny. Even as somebody growing up playing flight sims and RTS games I'm not playing these gay ass fucking factory simulators. I play on PC pretty equally versus console but the vast majority of these PC exclusives are so uninteresting to me.
Also literally nothing is less cool then fucking MOBAs and the fat greasy discord mod fanbase that plays them.
For context I've played on both console and PC since the late 90s. I grew up as a little kid playing stuff like Janes flight simulators, Unreal Tournament and the like on PC, while also enjoying stuff like RE, SH, MGS, GT on PS1 (PS1 was my first console). Growing up PC was the opposite of cool to play games on and it was niche. Nobody I knew played on PC and the PS1 and N64 were the cool things to play games on. Then it was the PS2 and Xbox, and then the Xbox 360, and then the PS4.
I know the PC landscape was different in the UK and Europe but it definitely wasn't cool where I grew up. PC was for old people and nerds.
Then we enter the new renaissance of PC gaming or the "Twitch Age" where streaming has helped PC get really big and now it's the cool "it" thing with younger people which IMO makes it the opposite of cool still. It's just simply the "it" thing and while PC has undeniable benefits a lot of people really are just following the crowd and if consoles were the current thing they would 100% play on consoles.
Also a good amount of PC exclusives are just so "uncool" to me it's almost funny. Even as somebody growing up playing flight sims and RTS games I'm not playing these gay ass fucking factory simulators. I play on PC pretty equally versus console but the vast majority of these PC exclusives are so uninteresting to me.
Also literally nothing is less cool then fucking MOBAs and the fat greasy discord mod fanbase that plays them.
Land of peace? Then why do the PCMR "warriors" always feel the need to call everybody that prefers consoles a retard or put them down in some way shape or form even though nobody asked?I like the wars on consoles but the PC is the land of peace.
Depends on what I am playing. I playing everything but RTS on console.
simpatico
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Polling this to high schoolers would crush Gen-X console GAF. They've been buying up stake in optical disc replication companies. Knowing the price will never be cheaper and an unbreakable golden age of physical media is around the corner. Consoles are just as cool as they were when people brought their Tony Hawk Pro Skater PSX black label jewel cases to school. Once these kids today find out how much they're getting ripped off by not owning the disc version of Avowed, they're gonna come running back to both consoles and optical media in general.
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