[Verbal]

Originally Posted by Stu

Whilst I love the N64 the PlayStation trumps it for me. As great as they are for open source, community content and cheap indie games PCs back catalogues for true triple A titles just cannot compare to consoles. And nobody goes around to a mates house with a pizza and some smokes to watch them play Rome : Total War with themselves. PC gamers are solitary creatures who brag endlessly about whats under their hood.

Never heard of LAN parties then?

These days all these games can be played online. PC's can also be updated within minutes, the new xbox is already outdated when compared to the PC. People using it will be using the same graphics card for the next 10 years and thus having a sub par experience.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Verbal

Never heard of LAN parties then?

These days all these games can be played online. PC's can also be updated within minutes, the new xbox is already outdated when compared to the PC. People using it will be using the same graphics card for the next 10 years and thus having a sub par experience.

Of course I have heard of LAN parties but Doom II was a long time ago, brother. And playing against strangers online is nothing compared to four chums squinting to see a splitscreen, munching each others supply of health packs.

Who cares about high end PC gaming? Nobody is developing for it because the market is too small and the benchmark is decided by what is in consoles. Most devs want their software to run on consoles too and the tech can be stretched a lot. Sure Skyrim don't look as good on the 360 but hey I paid for it 8 years ago and I still do not feel like I am missing out on much.

Conversly because most people do not have the time or money to update their rigs every year, most of the mostly widely played PC titles run on years old systems rendering the whole technology argument close to meaningless.

PC gamers can run a dull, glorified tech demo like Crysis 3 on max settings but at the end of the day most of the geniunly stunning games this year - like every year - will be coming to consoles. All my friends will be up for a game and nobody will have to worry if their Intel 600x Jabbahut will be good enough for it.

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by Stu

Of course I have heard of LAN parties but Doom II was a long time ago, brother. And playing against strangers online is nothing compared to four chums squinting to see a splitscreen, munching each others supply of health packs.

Who cares about high end PC gaming? Nobody is developing for it because the market is too small and the benchmark is decided by what is in consoles. Most devs want their software to run on consoles too and the tech can be stretched a lot. Sure Skyrim don't look as good on the 360 but hey I paid for it 8 years ago and I still do not feel like I am missing out on much.

Conversly because most people do not have the time or money to update their rigs every year, most of the mostly widely played PC titles run on years old systems rendering the whole technology argument close to meaningless.

PC gamers can run a dull, glorified tech demo like Crysis 3 on max settings but at the end of the day most of the geniunly stunning games this year - like every year - will be coming to consoles. All my friends will be up for a game and nobody will have to worry if their Intel 600x Jabbahut will be good enough for it.

To update a gaming PC you would have to spend less than half of what you spend on buying an Xbox/PS..whatever. A game on the PC will get released and be playable for years because they are constantly 'modded' by the players...a concept that would be totally alien to console users.

Nobody developing for the PC? That is just simply not true and quite funny.

Most games that are out on the PC a console would not have a hope in hell of even loading.

Vanilla Skyrim looks **** on the PC because it is a port from the consoles. But hey you can mod it to take full advantage of a PC's capabilities.

How much is the new xbox? Around the £600 mark? I bought my gaming PC and a 30" HD monitor for less than that.

You certainly do not need to spend stupid money on a gaming PC capable of running each and every game that is out now. Mine is nowhere near 'top end' and I quite easily play every game going on max settings.

Once you have a gaming PC, and you want to upgrade in 5 years or so, you can go out spend a couple of hundred on a graphics card, some RAM and a new processor and you have a gaming machine that is head and shoulders above any console they will ever bring out.

Either that or you can go out and spend £600 on the next Xbox.


Those 'genuinely stunning games' you are going to get on the consoles, are in the PC world, about 5 years out of date.

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Verbal

Those 'genuinely stunning games' you are going to get on the consoles, are in the PC world, about 5 years out of date.

In what whacky ass hood do you inhabit where the likes of Dead Space, Uncharted and The Last Of Us were five years out of date when they were released? Planet My PC Can Do A Higher Resoloution Version Of That? Who cares. People wonder why PC gamers sound entitled.

The Xbox One clocks in at 500 euro. The PS4 400. Most of those units will shift and find their way into homes when it will retail for 300 and will sit untouched earning back your money for the better part of a decade. Get me a PC and 7-8 years of the necessary upgrades necessary to run the swathes of apparent PC titles consoles cannot run for the same price and I will show you dozens more yearly five star titles for consoles that all but negate the argument anyway.

Metal Gear? The console. Virginia Tech? The PC.

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by Stu

In what whacky ass hood do you inhabit where the likes of Dead Space, Uncharted and The Last Of Us were five years out of date when they were released? Planet My PC Can Do A Higher Resoloution Version Of That? Who cares. People wonder why PC gamers sound entitled.

The Xbox One clocks in at 500 euro. The PS4 400. Most of those units will shift and find their way into homes when it will retail for 300 and will sit untouched earning back your money for the better part of a decade. Get me a PC and 7-8 years of the necessary upgrades necessary to run the swathes of apparent PC titles consoles cannot run for the same price and I will show you dozens more yearly five star titles for consoles that all but negate the argument anyway.

Metal Gear? The console. Virginia Tech? The PC.

Rightio Stu. Go to your happy place and carry on with your overpriced, out of date but newly released consoles. Its not my job to convince you.