A premium PC might no longer serve its purpose, and gaming could lose its appeal.
A premium PC might no longer serve its purpose, and gaming could lose its appeal.
Before anyone arrives with the typical PCMR tone, let me explain things clearly. For a long time, the idea of owning a high-end gaming computer was a vivid dream for me—and probably for many others—especially the thrill of playing games at their absolute best visual quality. Yet I’ve noticed that today’s PC gaming, especially in 2019, is increasingly focused on online experiences and service-based models, with e-sports everywhere, battle royale titles, MOBA games, massive multiplayer platforms, and so on.
I work from Monday to Friday for ten hours each day, juggling my second college course, so realistically I can only play for a few hours on weekends at most. For a long time, I’ve stuck to single-player story-driven or semi-RPG games, as competitive online play isn’t really my thing anymore.
The issue here is that I’ve been browsing recent titles and realized most top single-player games are exclusive to the PS4—like God of War, Horizon, Last of Us, Spider-Man, Bloodborne, Uncharted, Last Guardian, Detroit: Become Human, and so on. Not just Sony exclusives; there are also console-only titles such as Red Dead Redemption 2. Meanwhile, every game that actually runs on PC is available on the PS4.
So here’s the situation: I don’t care about online competitive games anymore. I no longer play those. The PS4 Pro hardware can handle these games in decent quality now. That’s why I’m questioning whether I really need it anymore. Maybe I should sell it while it’s still current, buy a PS4, and stop worrying about it?
Has anyone else experienced this? Or do people just purchase the PS4 and abandon their PCs?
I'm all in with you about being honest, I really enjoy working with hardware and always have a top-tier PC for that reason!
High end is always gonna be up there, like the aforementioned 144Hz or 4K, there's gonna be some performance ceiling that the consoles are bsuy catching up to. Until those differences are undetectable, there's a purpose to enthusiast gaming. As far as single player games being console exclusives, that's just licensing. It's anti consumer and a huge bummer, but that's what it takes to sell consoles. If I could play God of war and bloodborne on PC, I would, and you too probably. However, it makes lots of money to restrict these properties, and if anything, it shines positively on the PC market since console makers clearly feel the pressure from the growing PC market.
Well yeah, that's the thing though—what's the point of playing at high quality when the best games aren't available on PC? I'm really frustrated because everyone loved Red Dead Redemption 2 during the holidays, and I have a machine that's way faster than a console, making my fingers hurt. It feels really bad... I don’t plan to own both, but I’m seriously thinking about selling my PC for a PS4 since having access to good games is more valuable than having only high settings on a limited library.
I don't see why you can't have both you can pick up second hand PS4's cheap nowadays, There's also still a possibility that if you sell your PC a game you were hoping/waiting for releases but wait... you can't play it because it's only on PC and you just sold yours. But I see where you are coming from but once I made the switch from console years ago I don't think I can cope with using a joystick anymore.
In fact, I already play half of my games on the PS4 controller, you understand. Most third-person titles such as Hitman 2 are only first-person ones, so I stick to using the mouse and keyboard. It's interesting too that I've come across a lot of games exclusive to the PS4 or other consoles, and none of them seem to be available on PC.