Well i went over to PC gaming a few years ago after doing nothing but console gaming, can't say i really miss the 360 doesn't mean i hate it, it's just what does the 360 offer that my pc can't do? My PC back then cost me the same to build as to buy a 360 (other than the monitor which would push it over if i didnt already have one), and that could play everything at maximum at the time, so price point isn't much of an advantage if you work to a budget (since i'm now more serious my hardware has been upgraded several times but thats mainly to cope with building my programming code in visual studio rather than gaming).
Point is the only thing better about the consoles in my opinion is developers usually build games for them and then cheaply port the game to the PC which then comes with terrible support, an example would be Saints Row 2, a great game itself but a very very bad port having performance issues even on the highest spec machines due to poor porting by a third party the developer hired, this sort of thing is one of a few reasons which make us the PC gamers angry. If developers were to do ports properly (Fable 3 is a great example of this, that ran perfectly for me, only not to the same timetable F3 took), then there would be alot less of this console vs PC going on, and to be honest surely developers should feel the need to portray their game as best they can across all the platforms rather than Consoles getting better optimized versions than PC (and on the rare occasion the other way round), i know i'd be alot more willing to part with my cash if games were developed with both console and pc in mind rather than just porting the pc at the end.
Also the "dumbing down for consoles" does happen it's just everyone on the console gets blamed when really it's companies like EA which decide they want to open their games to a wider audience, and while this is fine in itself they have to make money afterall, the game usually gets "dumbed down" in hopes that the game will be brought by those who don't play that genre of game or for the so called "casual gamers" (if you want an example think back a few month with all the hate threads for Dragon Age 2). As for the controls well i'd say both are equal while yes you can have macro's set up (i've never bothered with the 18 keys i can assign them to, other than on Final Fantasy 11) and such on the PC, when it comes to standard controls there both equal really (other than the mouse being alot better for FPS's than an analogue stick, but the analogue beats keyboard for driving), i still use a 360 pad when it comes to some games, it just depends on the game really.
Oh and if anyone says the focusing on consoles is due to pirates, really? yeah it might be easier on PC (which is why everyone blames the PC) but i'm fairly certain theres gonna be just as many console pirates out there, there might be less evidence of it but the one thing you have to remember is that when someone gets a console chipped they usually have a friend or a friend of a friend do it, this person then becomes their dealer if you will selling them copied games for a couple of quid. Also something else you need to realise is while yes the console can be bricked by chipping it then going online with the console thats down to that users own fault really, it's a similar situation if a PC gamer does so with pirated game they just get banned instead, the only time a pirated game is ever playable online is if it has lan capabilites then it can be run through software such as Hamachi.
Summary, both have there advantages and disadvantages lets just leave it there, and say haters gonna hate no matter what.
Point is the only thing better about the consoles in my opinion is developers usually build games for them and then cheaply port the game to the PC which then comes with terrible support, an example would be Saints Row 2, a great game itself but a very very bad port having performance issues even on the highest spec machines due to poor porting by a third party the developer hired, this sort of thing is one of a few reasons which make us the PC gamers angry. If developers were to do ports properly (Fable 3 is a great example of this, that ran perfectly for me, only not to the same timetable F3 took), then there would be alot less of this console vs PC going on, and to be honest surely developers should feel the need to portray their game as best they can across all the platforms rather than Consoles getting better optimized versions than PC (and on the rare occasion the other way round), i know i'd be alot more willing to part with my cash if games were developed with both console and pc in mind rather than just porting the pc at the end.
Also the "dumbing down for consoles" does happen it's just everyone on the console gets blamed when really it's companies like EA which decide they want to open their games to a wider audience, and while this is fine in itself they have to make money afterall, the game usually gets "dumbed down" in hopes that the game will be brought by those who don't play that genre of game or for the so called "casual gamers" (if you want an example think back a few month with all the hate threads for Dragon Age 2). As for the controls well i'd say both are equal while yes you can have macro's set up (i've never bothered with the 18 keys i can assign them to, other than on Final Fantasy 11) and such on the PC, when it comes to standard controls there both equal really (other than the mouse being alot better for FPS's than an analogue stick, but the analogue beats keyboard for driving), i still use a 360 pad when it comes to some games, it just depends on the game really.
Oh and if anyone says the focusing on consoles is due to pirates, really? yeah it might be easier on PC (which is why everyone blames the PC) but i'm fairly certain theres gonna be just as many console pirates out there, there might be less evidence of it but the one thing you have to remember is that when someone gets a console chipped they usually have a friend or a friend of a friend do it, this person then becomes their dealer if you will selling them copied games for a couple of quid. Also something else you need to realise is while yes the console can be bricked by chipping it then going online with the console thats down to that users own fault really, it's a similar situation if a PC gamer does so with pirated game they just get banned instead, the only time a pirated game is ever playable online is if it has lan capabilites then it can be run through software such as Hamachi.
Summary, both have there advantages and disadvantages lets just leave it there, and say haters gonna hate no matter what.
) are significantly more powerful than current gen consoles in all but their entry level models. That said, decently powerful laptops are still nowhere near as cheap (from what I've seen in Australia) as the consoles
