OK so I migrated from an Xbox 360 to a PC about 3-4 months ago and I have been regretting it since.
Here's why:
1. Crashes, the PC is hugely prone to crashes and freezes making some games nearly unplayable. My 360 has never crashed on me in the 4 years I have owned it.
2. Bugs, PC gaming is absolutely RIDDLED with bugs that consoles never encounter. An example, I've had skyrim on Xbox and PC, the Xbox version always worked flawlessly except for a few minor bugs but OH S*** was the PC a different story. I had freeze upon freeze during battles and when riding horses, animals and NPCs would launch 50 meters in the air and plummet to their deaths, I fell through the world countless times (and got killed by some invisible power whenever I entered Riften????) Playing Tropico 5 made me want to gouge my eyes it was so buggy (mind you I was playing these games well after release).
3.FPS, People love to say that PC has amazing visuals and all and that's true, a PC will obviously beat a console but to be honest a PC's FPS are so volatile, I got 80+ FPS in Arma 3 but as soon as a large firefight brokeout, boy did that s*** drop, (not to mention when people threw more than 4 smoke grenades). At least with a console the FPS will almost always be stable and look smooth unless you have like 10 nukes set off at once but I have almost never experienced anything other than smooth visuals.
This brings me on to visuals. People say that the visuals are so much better on PC but to be honest they're not, playing BF4 on ultra was barely any better than on the Xbox and who cares anyway? You're running and shooting not picking flowers and having a picnic by the river.
4. Major titles and AAA games multiplayer, PC is constantly overshadowed by developers, most games are made for consoles and ported to PC (horrendously) look at GTA 5, 4, AC Unity, etc... It's as though developers are rereluctant to make PC versions, like a dog owner tossing the leftovers at his annoying, obnoxious dog.
AAA games multiplayer is absolute cr*p, COD is far from my favorite series but it's fun every once in a while but guess what? It's desolated. The only thing you can play is TD because Domination is deserted. Same with many BF4 playlists and AC multiplayers.
5. Friends, wanna play at a friend's house?
PC: pick up your huge a** tower and lug it to their house plug everything in and get make sure he has a monitor + mouse and keyboard.
Console: take your controller
All in all the consoles are cheaper, more stable, will work for every game available for them for the next 7 years, more populated and prioritized.
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Here's why:
1. Crashes, the PC is hugely prone to crashes and freezes making some games nearly unplayable. My 360 has never crashed on me in the 4 years I have owned it.
2. Bugs, PC gaming is absolutely RIDDLED with bugs that consoles never encounter. An example, I've had skyrim on Xbox and PC, the Xbox version always worked flawlessly except for a few minor bugs but OH S*** was the PC a different story. I had freeze upon freeze during battles and when riding horses, animals and NPCs would launch 50 meters in the air and plummet to their deaths, I fell through the world countless times (and got killed by some invisible power whenever I entered Riften????) Playing Tropico 5 made me want to gouge my eyes it was so buggy (mind you I was playing these games well after release).
3.FPS, People love to say that PC has amazing visuals and all and that's true, a PC will obviously beat a console but to be honest a PC's FPS are so volatile, I got 80+ FPS in Arma 3 but as soon as a large firefight brokeout, boy did that s*** drop, (not to mention when people threw more than 4 smoke grenades). At least with a console the FPS will almost always be stable and look smooth unless you have like 10 nukes set off at once but I have almost never experienced anything other than smooth visuals.
This brings me on to visuals. People say that the visuals are so much better on PC but to be honest they're not, playing BF4 on ultra was barely any better than on the Xbox and who cares anyway? You're running and shooting not picking flowers and having a picnic by the river.
4. Major titles and AAA games multiplayer, PC is constantly overshadowed by developers, most games are made for consoles and ported to PC (horrendously) look at GTA 5, 4, AC Unity, etc... It's as though developers are rereluctant to make PC versions, like a dog owner tossing the leftovers at his annoying, obnoxious dog.
AAA games multiplayer is absolute cr*p, COD is far from my favorite series but it's fun every once in a while but guess what? It's desolated. The only thing you can play is TD because Domination is deserted. Same with many BF4 playlists and AC multiplayers.
5. Friends, wanna play at a friend's house?
PC: pick up your huge a** tower and lug it to their house plug everything in and get make sure he has a monitor + mouse and keyboard.
Console: take your controller
All in all the consoles are cheaper, more stable, will work for every game available for them for the next 7 years, more populated and prioritized.
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Please take some time to acquaint yourself with our forum rules: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=60552
Thank you.
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KeithTalent
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