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@dennarda I did game on the NES and all the originals but I was born in 88. I still started from the beginning though. I played DOS games quite a bit before Playstation got released.

And you are right about console gaming being generally first in actual gaming with Atari etc (though not the first game surely). When I say "without PC's there wouldn't be console games" I basically meant to ask if you think consoles would even exist had it not been for the PC existing first and if so where do you suppose they would be now.

I probably should have elaborated on that haha

@dennarda I barely was old enough to game on atari 2600, I even remember coleco vision. But, I never really touched PC gaming until about the 286\386 days, Commander Keen Kings quest and stuff like that. I just remember the graphics werent much different than the NES/SNES at that point.

@jpeezy77 Well yeah you're right, I mean if you got a outdated mobo you are definitely restricted. But all in all if you go out and buy a LGA 2011 or one of the latest it's still fairly cheap to put a decent GPU and stuff to match it. From there you can slowly do one item here and there to get where you really wanna be.
In my experience it takes a really long time for a rig to get so out of date that it just doesn't play much of anything. Right now even an old GTX 260 is still doing most games at medium/high.
But I get what you are saying. Consoles are quite convenient, It's just they are also incredibly restrictive.

@WolfgarTheQuiet @Damazig @CharlesBurns Consoles have had the ability to use keyboard and mouse for years and years. So that's a rather poor argument as to why you think RTS and MOBA will be more plentiful there in the coming years.

@CharlesBurns @Tranula ok how about now?

@CharlesBurns @59Hertz In some ways the consoles end up costing more with the 70$ game discs and 8-15$ subscriptions. I mean of course its the same with AAA games on PC

But dang dat STEAM, i got like 12 games in the past 3 months for only 60$ it was like 300$ value not on sale.

Really wish they had sum deals like that on Xbox, don't know about Playstation = / .

@CharlesBurns I'll shorten up what I said by saying this instead.

It's to be expected that ten years from now my PC will need to be upgraded, but my PC even in its current state will still play and outshine the best that ps4 or X1 can offer at the end of the console life cycle.

And what do you think the console generation after this one will look up to when it comes to the tech that would be used for X2 or PS5? It will look at where the PC is.

So sure you can sit there and never buy a PC and be happy with the console. But 10 years from now it won't matter. Console games will have hit the peak of what the consoles can do and the PC will still be pushing forward.

The only reason you are saving money is because well as you said, you aren't upgrading anything.

Game preference is all subjective. Each platform has it's share of good games.
So if what you want is to keep up with technology then you will upgrade your PC in some way or another. If not then you can continue to be happy with the consoles for the next 10 years until the new cycle comes.

But the new cycle will just look at where PC is, trailing once again in it's shadow as always. (Unless tech itself has a massive shift somewhere in between)

@CharlesBurns @59Hertz you're insisting on a faulty reason, you're trying to say that a PC now that runs games at max graphics, won't be able to do it in 10 years, obviously, however what you must think is that ALREADY do cheap 600 euro PCs outperform the same game as the counterpart on the consoles.

PCs now wont be able to run a game at max in ten years? true, consoles can't do it ALREADY, right now they have to lower res, frames and physics to cope with thae fact that hey cant handle it.

You have no options to upgrade or downgrade on the console, what this means is in 10 years (if they do last that long), the consoles will run optimised versions of one game with the same gimmicks that exist right now such as lower textures, LODs, downsampling, new Anti Aliasing etc, to be able to run at peak performance that the console can ouput.

The same will happen for the current PCs, if you dont want to upgrade anything, you'll have to lower the graphics and all the stuff you have to , to optimise the game for your particular rig (Geforce Experience already does this for all the games installed on your PC at the touch of a button). There are of course bullshit minimum requierments that are made up just to try to get you to buy a new PC, but just about every game right now can be played with PCs below the minimum requierments, when the bullshit is obvious.