A lot.
1. Price because of price..
Higher front-end price yes, but far lower expense over time. A dedicated gamer will save loads of money over a lengthy time horizon gaming on PC compared to console.
2. Most people will buy a console instead of pay for a bigger PC, at that cost you get graphics better than the PC most people barely able to afford consoles can get on PC in most areas thuse the graphics are not outdated and in some cases better.
Dont really understand what you're saying here (bad articulation) but a gaming PC will always offer better graphics and performance than a console. That's the reward for the higher front-end cost. If someone is limited to a flat 400 $ then they should go for the budget platform (console) instead of half-assing a PC.
3. Retail support, more retail games. One could argue they are expensive but then you can look at what's green lit on steam and how much trash is on there you don't have much of a choice.
Disagree. Collateral damage from Sony vs Microsoft means PC scoops up more combined retail games than either console. See Ryse, Dead Rising 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Sunset Overdrine (the latter all likely to appear on PC but not on Playstation.) Also, 98 % of retail games are multi-plat and far superior on a gaming PC. Steam does green light alot of trash but the amount of quality games still dwarf releases on either console.
4. Xbox games have/will have mods so mods are not totally out of the question.
They'd have to be very minor like skins or weapons/armor/vehicles. Definitely not something that shakes up a gaming experience like the face melting mods you get for something like Skyrim on PC that really put your hardware to the test.
5. In foreign countries, Consoles also are the cheaper option by even a larger margin (in terms of getting a PC to out do graphic on Xbox one, PS4, and even Wii U at times.)
Consoles are exorbitantly priced in foreign countries far beyond their relative worth. They're only reasonably priced in USA/UK etc.
6. Many years of games are not even BC. So playing old favorites would require getting an old computer and spending months setting it up, while I can just buy a console and put in a CD Cartridge, Card, or VHS tape and it works out the box.
Disagree. You can play just about anything ever made on newly built PC with Windows 8. There's a multitude of aps that make anything possible when it comes to BC all the way up to X-Box and Wii games emulation.
7. Enclosed systems give companies more profit, and also more profit for those who have deals with them. Nintendo excluded.
Which is great for M$ and Sony but not so much for your average gamer who is paying for online and getting ripped off playing more expensive games on inferior gaming platforms.
8. Players can bring their consoles to friends houses or use them for events. PC's you can't really do that, not easy to do. One could say laptop, but those are generally weaker for the same price range unless you want tos psned an additional $500
Nah, you can carry your PC around, it's not that much heavier than a console.
9. It's easier to sell accessories, and games in advertisements with something associated with it. PC is a general term for pretty much most Computers and laptops out, of which most run Windows. A lot of them different brands. Playstation, Xbox, you hear games for these systems you take a look at them, they are attached to something. benefits devs better as well as the consumers.
OK, PC is a bit ambiguous and PS, XBOX are not, agreed...
10. Not anybody can just make a game slap it on a disc in a box, and get through QA and the approval process. Because of that, Flappy bird clone #3455 won't get greenlit. Instead companies usually of a certain value, will make the cut, which is why outside the Wii budget games are not in cases in mass. Even the Digital only option has a similar process (granted recently Sony has been just grabbing PC indies recently and made their Indie approval a little too open.)
Agree, Sony and M$ remove your choice and free will and maybe streamline things a tad for people who aren't really into a variety of different games (read gaming.)
11. Constant updates even for some small things to make your version of the game compatible with other peoples, or in some cases, won't even run the game, is still an issue with a lot of games, while it's not on consoles.
I'm not sure about constant updates but yes, you sometimes do run into a snag here or there but more often than not you can sort it quickly. That goes with the territory of being an open platform.
12. Heavy DRM
Disagree. A few clients to play your games is what they are- at least the internet is free...
13. I can literally plug to cord to my Tv, plug in the pwer to the wall and play in 2 minutes.
I can literally move the mouse, log on and play in 10 seconds...
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