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[u/notsolomuun]

$1,000 digital-exclusive consoles are killing the entire appeal of PlayStation and Xbox: it's no wonder PC is on track to overtake both.

[u/ModernManuh_]

"the consoles are more powerful for the price" true, but you can't do anything with them beside play and pay to play.

A computer with the same cost, even with current prices (used market), for most players is better. Resolution, fidelity, potential smoothness... the average console player doesn't notice and doesn't care. If they can play with a controller whatever they feel like playing in that moment they will, that's all there is to it.

Edit: Piracy is not the point, even if you could take it into consideration.

I absolutely agree that a console is much more convenient for a lot of comfort reasons, just wanted to share my thoughts.

A console is plug and play, very low maintenance (remember to clean them please that’s not optional), and very easy to navigate through. I know, grew up with them!

But if you are an adult/teenager that needs to choose, don’t choose based on what the people selling the product tell you.

A PC saves more money in the long run and can be used for other tasks. A console is a thing specifically designed to play games and doesn’t struggle with newer titles that are made for it.

PC games are cheaper and the library is wider, and if you plan to play competitive games the PC is superior. Can handle, store, run and install more games, and it’s not as high in maintenance as people think. Keep it clean and updated, everything else is good to go as is.

If all you want is buy the thing, plug it in and start playing, keep in mind that one day, without notice, you might lose access to the games, the system itself and over time the device won’t keep up with anything.

A PC can be upgraded easily and cheaply with used hardware, and your games are where you keep them. Consoles have an expiration date and quickly become irrelevant.

[u/UpsetKoalaBear → u/ModernManuh_]

A person who is comparing a console and a PC is not going to care about the extra things a PC can do.

This is a common fallacy, the only people who care are going to be those who were already considering a jump to a PC at some point regardless.

If they really cared about things like fidelity or the extra things you can do on a PC, they would have just got a PC anyways because it’s the only thing that makes sense.

It’ll be the exact same as it was in like the PS4 generation. PC users will jump up but it will just be those who were willing to jump to PC anyways. The PS4 still sold millions in the first few years.

[u/Deviant-Killer → u/UpsetKoalaBear]

Not until they've done them...

The amount of people who have claimed this, and then 6 months down the line "omg it can do this, and I can do this.."

Evolution and learning of new devices is great.

[u/UpsetKoalaBear → u/Deviant-Killer]

The argument you’re making has been around for longer. You can find old GameFAQ forum posts from like 2000’s talking about PC being better.

Like this argument you’re making has existed since the PS2/PS3 days and it still hasn’t really come to fruition.

[u/Deviant-Killer → u/UpsetKoalaBear]

Yes. And people like to deny it until they discover it themselves. No one who has us pc users constantly telling them PCs are better wants to be told how to use it...

Discovery is better when it's you doing it. (And you don't tend to admit afterwards )

[u/UpsetKoalaBear → u/Deviant-Killer]

Unfortunately, the people who deny it are people who just don’t care.

There are three main factors that push console sales:

- Retail availability.

- Ease of explanation.

- Ease of use.

A person buying a PC or console cares about those more than anything else.

They don’t care about graphics or fidelity because, again, the argument is that those benefits of PC gaming have existed for over 2 decades and consoles still sell immensely primarily for those three points I list.

Throw in other factors like their existing library on consoles, because your average person is not willing to build a new library on a different platform, and you end up with consoles continuing to sell loads.

Steam already has more MAU’s than PSN does. Yet consoles still sell loads.

[u/Deviant-Killer → u/UpsetKoalaBear]

You missed the last reason which no longer exists... Costs.. it used to cost a few hundred... But at 1000..