Novander said:
I don't want a PC in my living room. I work 50 hours a week between uni and my minimum wage, dull as hell job. When I get home I just want a box I can put a disk in and video games will happen, with minimum effort on my part. I've pre-ordered the Watch Dogs/PS4 bundle, so to me this (if true) is awesome news. I didn't know Driver: SF ran at 60fps, but that's a good sign since it was also a Ubisoft game
Without making this all about "PC is better" you can do all that with a PC, its fairly cheap and easy to build an almost silent PC thats a touch bigger than the Xbone and play with a controller on your TV. You can also get compact "lounge" keyboards with a built in touchpad for browsing and social media etc, a PC isn't something thats restricted to just a desk anymore (Laptops aside for the moment, just making a point about the more static "desktops" but you can even plug a laptop into a TV and use a wireless controller as well).
There is no need to fiddle with drivers any more either, Nvidias GeForce experience will take care of the drivers for you and even optimise the settings of your game based on the hardware and its great for PC gamers that don't want the hassle but want their games running and playing as well as they can be. AMD have something similar but I have never used it so I cannot personally vouch for how well it works. There is no real increase in effort most of the time, you acquire the PC game and play it. The last console game I played was GTA V, in the time it took to actually install the damn game I could have downloaded a digital game of the same size and been playing it for 5-10 mins with my PC. With all of the installation and updates and firmware patches the consoles have now they have no real advantage in convenience, probably less with the long loading times for store and menu pages you have with a console.
The games on the PC are cheaper to buy as well which for people with a limited income can get to play far more games than they would on consoles, even with the loss of trading games in because you can often buy games in sales for less than you lose on the cost of trading a game in.
PCs are no longer honking big towers chained to a desk that need a lot of fettling, unless you want that of course. They can be compact, user friendly and as powerful as you want. Even things that where the province of the hardcore PC builder like liquid cooling and overclocking are things that can be learned about and done in a a couple of hours, or even without learning about it at all with all in one liquid coolers and automatic overclocking software.
