PC is better than ever. The worst of the UE4 era was rough in the way youre saying, but Steam also got a lot better. SteamOS is making PC as easy to use as a PlayStation while maintaining what's good about PC.
The problem with SteamOS is that stuff like anti cheat doesn’t work at all kernel level or whatever so some games simply don’t work which is a big problem for me.
Also it doesn’t support Nvidia the last time I looked which is a huge problem but that might have changed.
Fairly new to PC yeah, since 10 years back on Steam. I jumped in right about when the ”Xbox isn’t needed” talk started so heard lots of that versus chatter back then.
I know the friction existed earlier too but I feel like PC vs console really ramped up last gen. Then became even more toxic this generation when both Xbox and PlayStation games are on Steam. Today a thread about a new graphics card pull in console fans posting ”Just buy a PS5 Pro”. It’s kinda absurd imo but maybe that existed earlier too and I just missed it I don’t know. DF digging after differences between console and PC in ports and do the $500-800 comparison builds and even do DLSS vs PSSR now isn’t helping.
I just see way more PCMR people jumping in threads that they don’t have any need to be in just to take a crack at people then I see the inverse.
This thread has multiple examples both before and after we talked where a PC person just comes in to say “I would never switch because I already have and PC is way better” and then people just answering the opposite and going “The question should be what would get me to switch to console which is nothing because PC is better” and none of these responses have anything to do with the thread at hand.
Yeah, unfortunately YouTube and the internet in general doesn’t help. They know they can get easy clicks and views by doing bottom of the barrel “engagement” content with stuff like that. I think the entire PC YouTube scene right now is fucked though because it’s just the same bullshit build after build because it’s easy views. I miss the old days of PC. Hell I even miss the gaudy disgusting acrylic builds of the early 2000s over all of this.