PC Gaming vs Console Gaming

PC Advantages Over Console
* PC lasts forever, unlike consoles which usually die when their successor comes out. This also means that the games last forever (just look at StarCraft: Brood War, they still sell that in stores after 11 years, millions of people play it online using Battle.net daily, it has an awesome ladder and stat tracking system, it still gets updated, and it is the best-selling video game of all time [excluding World of Warcraft]).

* PC has free online play (unlike Xbox Live).

* PC has several features that consoles don't.

* There are more buttons (i.e. like 40 keys on a key board + mouse + joystick).

* Quality is always improving (instead of having a fixed limit on how good graphics can be).

* Patching/updating games is a lot easier.

* And several other good features.

* There is no need to have a television with certain cables to play PC games (or a TV at all for that matter).

* You can mod games (without breaking the law).

* It's easier to get tech support for a PC game than it is a console game (since usually console game errors are caused by problems with your console and/or the game disk/cartridge).

* You can modify your PC more than you can your console.

* Opening up your console (usually) voids your console's warranty, but opening your PC doesn't void your PC's warranty.

* It's not illegal to mod games.

* You can't get your PC banned.

* PC's are generally more reliable than consoles (i.e. PCs can't get the Red Ring of Death).



Console Advantages Over PC
* You don't (ussually) have to go buy upgrades and whatnot all the time to get a smooth gameplay experience.

* You can trade in console games.

* It's a lot easier to return a console game to a store than it is an opened PC game.

* Not all computers run all games (and not all games run on all computers).

* New consoles (ussually) cost less than new computers.

* Console games are generally cheaper than PC games.

* Most PC games don't let two people play the same game at the same time on the same computer together (unless it's a hotseat game), but you can do split screen on most console games.

However most people see pc gaming as expensive and are confused by it. They would rather just buy a console. Also most people think that you need a good computer to paly games because theirs won't play them, but hte simple fact is that they just need a graphics card and that their computer is an office one. On average most people spend £400 on a PC and for £380 my mate got a desktop with a 4850 and an amd x2 @ 2.9 GHz which can run rings around consoles. Seen as though people buy PCs anyway you actually SAVE money aswell as havign a more powerful machine. Then when you take into account hte lower costs of PC games it all makes sense.

System Wars vs System Wars....

This is the PC Games forum, not System Wars.

Aside from the obvious, in a gaming perspective you can't go wrong with either. Lots of PC games are going with the console standards, held-back graphics quality and optimizations. Even if that's the future of PC gaming, the PC is the only true high-definition machine as it can run ported games better, no XBOX-Live monthly fee, more versatility (play in on monitor, HDTV, use console controllers, keyboard, mouse etc...). Games on the PC are usually lower priced and unlike the console, a PC may go beyond 1080p and doesn't have a "fixed" settings (Graphic Settings is the main solution for many weak and strong systems).

Console Advantages Over PC
* You don't (ussually) have to go buy upgrades and whatnot all the time to get a smooth gameplay experience.

* Not all computers run all games (and not all games run on all computers).

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* Console games are generally cheaper than PC games.kevin1gamer

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