Is PC Gaming really the best?
Is PC Gaming really the best?
One of these titles isn't supported on the PS4. If you invested the price of a PS4 in upgrading your setup, Minecraft and Wolfenstein would appear significantly improved compared to the original system.
Consoles are reason we have bad ports, exclusive content,... Consoles could be just PCs , but corporations need moar $ . $ PC can provide console experience and much more Future is open standard. At least should be. Play minecraft 2 on any machine.
Is PC gaming really the best? Yes. It's not that much more expensive either. $59.99 is the price point console games stick at more than PC games. Then there is the peasant tax, they need to pay a fee for every month if they want to play online. Consoles target mass consumers. Whenever a business makes a mass market product, they make it so that even the dumbest person can use or rather buy their product. This typically limits products below what the average user can handle. Majority of consoles is purchased by someone else than rather than the end user. Mom/dad/uncle/grandpa buy most consoles, the competing for their attention by console makers becomes a race to the bottom just to get their attention. Adults buy consoles for themselves too but majority are purchased by adults for kids. It just doesn't feel right for me to go and buy for myself the very same thing my sister bought for her daughter. There is another myth that I would like to use this opportunity to debunk: "Consoles are optimized and have powerful hardware" Now, the hardware uniformity does allow for easier programming and it does allow the devs to squeeze most out of the hardware. However, it cannot make a Titan out of a 650ti. Not even close. The consoles are restricted by their form factor. The hardware and it's thermal characteristics have to suffer because of the size expectations consoles must meet. When xbox360 launched, it's GPU was the equivalent of a 7800GTX, which was a high end PC GPU at the time. Both consoles had good hardware for that time. However, the hardware was pushed to it's thermal limits due to console size constraints, RROD &YLOD were the result. This time around, they went with rather weak hardware. Both consoles feature the equivalent of a Radeon 7770. People often say that Microsoft and Sony are selling consoles with razor thin margins or at a loss which is complete BS. You or me can go and build a equivalent PC for the money. Now imagine how much the console makers actually pay for the hardware, these business order millions of parts at bulk prices, without middlemen fees that you or me, typical consumers usually pay. To make it a fair comparison, building a PC on a budget has to be done reusing existing parts (an old case for example) and buying used parts that don't have to be new (a power supply or a mobo for example. If one is willing they can reuse old parts and buy used parts from reputable PC forums and assemble a very cost effective PC. 3 years ago I built a PC like that because I had financial priorities elsewhere. What made it even sweeter is that GPU almost paid itself off with bitcoin mining. I could have replaced it recently but it withstands aging phenomenally, even passing the Ryse test so I'm holding off and increasing the budget to build a full fledged gaming rig once again down the road when 4K becomes more mainstream.