Poll: According to my peers, PC gaming is inferior to consoles.

[ElNeroDiablo]

The way I see it, console gamers have gaming as a hobby. PC gamers have PCs as a hobby. Hence they tend to feel strongly about their PCs being better than some console. I'd hazard to say most PC gamers feel the same about consoles as they do about Macs.

Y'mean the over-priced/under-spec'd crap Apple pumps out that can be thumped in all processes by a custom-build rig at about half the price, that Apple also gets away with legally locking a preinstalled copy of OSX on (unlike M$) as Apple builds the systems and makes the OS (unlike M$ who steals code for the OS, over-charges for it retail and tries to bully OEMs like Dell and HP into putting on all their systems with a EULA that tries to bind a single copy of Windows to each machine which can get thrown out of court as they only make one part of the system not the whole thing)?

Yeah, I'm a person in IT who's also a Computer Gamer who uses Windows (until Steam finally releases a Linux version) and prefers FOSS over monolithic corporate greed <hint: it costs $450 AUD for a retail copy of 7Pro 64-bit off the shelf of a place like Dick Smith Electronics, when I could get a OEM version for $135 + piece of hardware (say, $50 DDR3 4GB chip) + S&H>.

 

[masticina]

No I still do not understand.
I never understand people that say they reinstall their windows every 3/6 months. I didn't reinstall windows once since i got this machine two years ago. I sometimes wonder what people do on those machines that need a /format C:\ every 6 months.
Seriously the only times I broke windows it was pretty much either on purpose, by my own stupidity (this system32.sys looks suspicious lets delete it!!!!), or massive hardware failure (like that never happens in consoles).

I don't understand the "installation of the game, and drivers and patches and crap" argument either since there is Steam or other launchers that autopatch and have essentially no installation at all beyond the download.

Like i said, you run Linux, I never could wrap my head around linux (and I'm not exactly technologically impaired). Its one of the most unnecessary complicated OS ive ever seen. Seriously I appreciate that the haxxors like to control the cpu fan via command-line. But to say you switched to Linux because Windows was too "buggy" and linux "worked" just reminds me of Steve Jobs and the Mac spin about how it just works. Seamlessly.

Well you haven't tried Ubuntu that is sure, I agree that 5 years ago it could be trouble to work with linux. Hell 10 years ago you would beg for something looking half decent. But now it is like windows in looks or Mac... depending on what theme you install.

And yes there are people who have to re-install windows .. it happens yes! Just because you don't doesn't means it isn't true. I know world changing ideas..

but we are going off the banter here. The original question is PC gamers versus Console gamers, well I was a PC gamer once and games like Neverwinternights, Red Alert 2 and the likes yes I played them. One of the best was Vampire the Masquerade: bloodlines. That game was buggy but so darn good.. think skyrim prepatched or oblivion prepatched. There was so much good content there that you didn't mind that it needed a Fan Made bug fix! [up to 5.9 by now I belief]

Hey in time I might dig in the old box of hardware and get those running again. For now though I streamlined my way. Laptop is for work and media and consoles are for gaming. I like it that way even though I do agree Red Alert for the console... sucks! You need a keyboard and mouse there!

 

[NIHILHATE]

You don't need expert knowledge and a yearly £500 upgrade when you've got a console.

 

[Necromancer1991]

Watching someone play FPS on console is like watching special olympics, if you have ever used a computer mouse.

As somebody who has done both, they work, it's not as though people with a controller can't hit what they're aiming at, 9/10 the aiming is balanced around whatever peripheral you're using.