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[Appollowexx]

I couldn't give up my PlayStation exclusives. I love my PC (just upgraded to a 1070, so good) but I actually game more on the PS4. I can't imagine missing out on The Last Guardian, Bloodborne, Uncharted, Until Dawn and Ratchet & Clank. Not to mention all the amazing upcoming games.

PC is fantastic if you have the money to keep up every few years, you get this incredibley preserved backlog on Steam (still fire up Broken Sword and HL2 once in a while), there are tons of cool free to play games from sites like Gamejolt (although also a lot of crap) and of course you get the best performance possible.
However nothing beats a console experience. Never any issues with games, more exclusive AAA titles, pay a few hundred dollars once off for a box and you're set for 5-7 years. Apps all together and accessible at the click of a button.

Although I do like that MS are putting most of their big games going forward on PC. I guess if Sony did this too I maybe tempted to go PC only, especially with Steam Big Picture allowing for a similar living room experience.

 

[sense]

I used to be mostly a pc gamer for a long time until close to the end of last gen even though I had a ps2 and PS3 for some of the exclusives especially mgs and then uncharted/last of us/God of war later. I dropped off multiplayer fps gaming on pc at the start of this gen due to real life taking away most of my time. I bought a PS4 and never really looked back and am too lazy to build a new pc plus I have gotten invested in the PlayStation ecosystem and its exclusives now so unless they come to pc I don't see myself abandoning them. Have a decent laptop to play some pc games like xcom from time to time.

 

[aravuus]

Playstation still has some exclusives I want to play but if I could get them for PC, yeah, I'd get rid of my consoles in a heart beat.

 

[MattXIII]

As I've gotten older I've abandoned PC gaming almost completely.
I grew up gaming on both PC and console, but these days I find consoles just waaay easier to deal with considering my limited time.

Like everything, gaming habits change over time I guess.

 

[facetheslayer92]

As I've gotten older I've abandoned PC gaming almost completely.
I grew up gaming on both PC and console, but these days I find consoles just waaay easier to deal with considering my limited time.

Like everything, gaming habits change over time I guess.

Fair enough. This is where a lot of people are at.

 

[dreamer3kx]

Was thinking about doing this the other day and I just purchased a pro.

 

[messiaen]

My PS4 and X1 are already in storage. Wii U/3ds/vita have been gathering dust lately. In other words, I more or less have already. I only play Overwatch for 3 or 4 hours weekly nowadays. I could see Switch being the last console I actually buy.

As I've gotten older I've abandoned PC gaming almost completely.
I grew up gaming on both PC and console, but these days I find consoles just waaay easier to deal with considering my limited time.

Like everything, gaming habits change over time I guess.

I was actually the opposite. I mostly played games on consoles till the 2000s, then I slowly transitioned, but now my career calls for an expensive PC sans a nice GPU, which I'll omit I upgrade for myself. So going exclusively PC for the most part has been easier/more natural for me.

 

[iFirez]

I would personally say the opposite - I am more likely to give up PC for consoles.

In the past year I've almost gone from a 90% PC gamer to a 90% console gamer. I play slow, story based games and enjoy those the best - I've found myself just feeling more comfortable sat at my sofa with a controller playing these than at my PC especially after working for 7 hours a day sat at a PC.

 

[alt27]

Not a chance. Console all the way

 

[jtan]

I can't imagine leaving the ps4. I don't game much on my PC, but sometimes games won't run after I waited for the long install and then I have to look online to find the issue. Granted it doesn't happen often (again, I don't game a lot on PC) but I don't experience this in consoles.

 

[Hippopuncher12]

Only if Sony exits the game.

 

[Rathorial]

Also to download patches, games etc without worrying, you'd need at least a 24Mbps Internet connection
We had 50MBps for over 8 months, so I downloaded and upgraded whatever I could. Now we're stuck at 5Mbps again.
No way I'll invest again in 50 GB digital games, PC and consoles. So indie games and games under 5 GB in size are the most convenient. Or else I'll have to leave the machine on for the whole weekend, downloading and crumbling the rest of the daily internet tasks.
Even disc console games will be affected if the patches are huge. PC is more likely to offer smaller yet quality games.

Yeah, large games such when you lack fast internet, even with retail games given multi gigabyte patches aren't rare anymore. If I did game on consoles more, I'd also have to deal with game hard drive installs sucking up all the space on that paltry 500gb they provided at launch, and either delete to make room or buy a bigger drive to replace...where my PC I can just add in a 2nd drive or backup to any external with ease.

2016 has been a stronger year for big games, but I still find smaller games grabbing my interest with more frequency.

 

[PrimeBeef]

Probably not since I love me some Nintendo. However, my PS3 purchase back in the day, I have not bought any other non Nintendo system. Most of the games I would want to play would I can get on PC.

 

[Grim Patron]

Scorpio.

 

[OneUh8]

I pretty much do this now. Most all my gaming is done on pc. Occasionally I'll play a console exclusive game. I even got the Switch and Zelda, love it, but still nothing comes close to pc gaming.

 

[sneas78]

Hell no op. Ps4portable. Switch. Xbox. Vita. 3ds . Pc. Vive. .. need to have them all.

 

[spazchicken]

There was a time where my PS4 didn't get touched for six months due to PC. But I'd have to have at least one system around.

 

[pretty done]

I did it for like 2 years, I got bored and bought a PS4 Pro recently. PC exclusives generally are not aimed towards my taste, but I like graphics and frames.

 

[Syrus]

Never

 

[reKon]

No because I can't play all the best games or the ones I'm most interested on PC.

 

[Teppic]

I generally go where the games go.

 

[Altered Juice]

The golden age of PC gaming has been over for some time now. Backwards compatibility isn't a problem when my staples purchase can run up to certain GameCube-ps2 games. No point investing in a 3rd party box

 

[mokeyjoe]

I had considered it, but the sort of exclusives coming out at the moment persuade me otherwise.

 

[Dubz]

I like PC a lot, but I have it hooked up in my office and not in my living room for a number of reasons. The most important reason being that I play FPS mp games a lot in the PC, and I would hate to play MKB on the couch.

PS4 Pro gets the majority of my gaming time, and I'm very happy with it.

 

[Strangelove77]

I'd rather be dead.


Just kidding. Kinda.

Seriously though, if I stopped playing on console it would be because I dropped playing games altogether.

 

[0ptimusPayne]

Hell no, but as a console gamer I was interested behind the idea of steam machines so that I could play "older" titles on higher end settings. Don't like how they turned out, unless someone has a recommendation of a good model.

 

[AzaK]

I think I've just done that, about a month ago. I waited for the Switch presentation and it was even worse than I could have hoped. It was cringeworthy and showed that Nintendo had nothing to offer with it. The lack of games was laughable, let alone any big third parties. Around that time we got an idea of the power of the system and again it was the low end of what we would have thought.

I then looked at my PS4 and thought "why the fuck am I paying so much money every year for online as well as massively expensive priced for digital". So I just went and got a PC.

Even my mid level system does me 1080p @60 on high for anything I've thrown at it and I have it now set up as a MAME machine as well as with Dolphin and CEMU. Games have been way, WAY WAY cheaper, better load times, everything. It's had the shitty PC experience when things don't work but I'm really happy with it overall.

I haven't touched my PS4 since then.

 

[Fess]

Already did for multiplats. There are zero reasons to buy a multiplat on console today. You can use controllers on PC too now, and play on TV, and the graphics and framerate is better.

But the exclusives keeps me tied up to console too. Ignore Zelda BOTW? Horizon Zero Dawn? Nah.

 

[MUnited83]

Already there. Only even have a PS4 for Bloodborne, it's mostly a expensive Netflix machine these days.

 

[Azuran]

I gladly would if some of my favorite series weren't console exclusive. The less money I have to spent on systems, the better. Plus you can easily connect a PC to a TV so it's not like you lose the TV experience.

 

[BasilZero]

Only if first party titles come to PC.


Otherwise no, as long as there are first party titles, I'll be having both Console+PC.

 

[Rickenslacker]

I'm kind of there now. I haven't picked up any of the current crop of consoles, and I don't really feel compelled to despite owning at least one console from every generation for the last 25 years. There's just enough third party crossover now to get my fill, and the first party content isn't enough due to a lot of the added inconveniences that consoles have started to take on being more of a deterrent. Breath of the Wild is the closest I've gotten to wanting hardware for a game, but both the Wii U and Switch just have too many nagging concerns for me to do that.

 

[gfxtwin]

My PC is displayed on my tv and i use it, itunes, steam BPM, windows games, and online streaming media as an entertainment center thing. I'd be cool with only using that for gaming if Sony and Nintendo offered something similar to what microsoft does with xbox games on PC but i don't think it'll happen any time soon.

 

[Oblivion]

Hell no.

I play my gaming systems in the comfort of my couch/bed.

Plus sitting upright can cause long term back problems.

 

[The Dear Leader]

I'm pretty happy with my PC, PS4 Pro and Switch at the moment.

 

[MindGamingMantis]

When PC has games to play, I'll build a pc.

 

[coughlanio]

PC + Switch for me, gives me the spread of games I need. My desk is in my living room, so when sitting at the PC I can take advantage of my 165hz 1440p monitor, and when I want to relax on the couch I can play at 4K 60hz. I do miss Sony exclusives though.

 

[fluffydelusions]

When PC has games to play, I'll build a pc.

Wat

 

[anddo0]

Entirely? No

I am however trending towards making PC my primary device.

 

[texhnolyze]

Scorpio.

What a ridiculous bump.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

I've pretty much been since I still don't own a current gen console, this is the longest I've gone without moving to the "current gen" since I got an NES for Christmas in 1989. I might get a PS4 Pro this Fall but I still don't feel pressed to do it and if there's not a good price drop and bundle I'll just put the money towards building a new PC.


EDIT: Oh this is a two month old topic, I know this has come up before many times but there ya go...

 

[Shaanyboi]

Not while there are exclusives I still want to play.

 

[lupinko]

No.

Reasons:
- Nintendo games
- Sony games
- not all Japanese devs make PC games
- PC games can be so poorly optimized that you need a crazy rig to bruteforce them.
- I'm an arcade gamer first then everything else second, and since I'm currently living in Japan I can continue this age old mantra.

I like the PC too but there are just some games that will never be on pc and of course without crossplay some games just have larger communities on console / arcade (e.g. fighting games).

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

No, people overrate the PC. It's far from the perfect platform.

 

[Irishonion]

I like the ability to do all of it. Right now mostly on console though.

 

[TLZ]

HELL.

NO.

NO.

NNNNNNNNNO.

NNNO.

NO.

 

[adj_noun]

edit: darn bumps

 

[Jacobson]

As much as I love PC gaming, I also love Nintendo/Sony, so no. I'd like to think they can co-exist peacefully.

 

[rokkerkory]

Nope PC is way too much $$$

 

[MindGamingMantis]

Wat

PC is great for multiplats or mobas or shit like that.

That's reason enough not to get one. It has no exclusives that entice me.