• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

Did you move strictly from Consoles to PC/PC to consoles? Why?

I was always a console gamer, but since consoles are not what they used to be in terms of games/exclusives I am looking into the possibility to go to PC gaming for performance reasons. There is no reason to own a console nowadays. The majority of games are published in all platforms and the main difference is the performance where PC users enjoy games as they should be..
 
Always did both before this generation, last year I finally picked up a PS4, after not touching it for 10 months I sold it.

Main reasons this generation is different, finally the PC gets a lot more modern releases, there appears to be far fewer console exclusives, of which there have been none I have been interested in, and games have longer lifecycle (I mainly play multiplayer games)

All that said, I am very interested in the Nintendo Switch, I have not had a nintendo console since the Gamecube, so I will be following that closely
 
I've always been console/PC/handheld, same with my family.

That being said when xbox declared exclusives would hit PC, I sold off our xbox ones, and have forza and gears on PC now.

My WiiU sees less and less traffic, but the 3ds' get used lots still.

PS4 depending on how the Pro plays out might push me out of that ecosystem as well toward's PC (no info worth a damn at this point with actual proof)

If Sony fucks up, it will be PC/Nintendo and my OG PS4 for exclusives.
 
I'm playing some the well known (mix of old and new) smaller indie games on Steam lately, the type that will cost you 3x the price if it's on consoles when I can get it on a steal sale on Steam and boy what a different world.
 
I primarily game on PC but I'm considering getting a Xbox One S for the 4K bluray player and other TV box features. Plus Xbox Play Anywhere is pretty neat.
 
While growing up I always tried to stay 50/50 PC-Consoles, with the sacrifice that my PC would never be high-range, normally mid-range, and only one console per generation. Although I always enjoyed both systems, I was more inclined to consoles, let's say a 60-40.

Also always enjoyed having a portable, but that would always jump generations. I only had 4 portables my entire life (32 years old), the GameGear, Gameboy Advance, PSP and PS Vita.

Last gen, the PS3\X360 gen, I decided to finish my studies (university) and working plus studying didn't leave me much time to..anything, really. So around 2011 both my PS3 and PC started gaining dust and my gaming started becoming out of date.

In 2014 I tried to update myself again, bought a new computer (mid-range) and decicated only to PC gaming until 2016, when I figured that I missed console gaming and bought a PS4.

Playing up to date games in the couch, and having a really good online infrastructure (comparing to the PS3 era at least) is unbeatable.

So I'd say these days I'm not exclusive to either side, but I'm more 80 - 20 Console-PC gamer.
 
Sold my last gaming PC in 2007, when I picked up an iMac. Been using Apple products since then, so it's been 100% console for me. While I've been thinking about building a reasonably capable PC recently (following a Surface Pro 4 purchase), I really don't miss PC games at all.
 
Here are my reasons for going PC exclusively this gen.


- Console exclusives are the worst this gen. Excluding Nintendo, the only game i really miss is Bloodborne. And even in the Nintendo camp there are only a couple of games i would like. Mario 3D World is the worst 3D Mario game IMO, Starfox was a failure, there is no Metroid game... you get the picture. Mario Kart 8 is awesome but hey, i don't need the console to play it, i can just use Cemu.

- Consoles have lost their "plug and play" convenience. Right now they are even more pain in the ass to play than PCs with huge downloads, ridiculous patch sizes and ridiculous install times. On the other hand, PCs are getting more convenient than they ever were.

- I have a slow connection so a PC is a little bit more friendly to me since patches are usually much smaller in size. And sometimes i can even download them individually instead of downloading a huge complete patch every time.

- Emulation has become amazing on the PCs the last few years and the official console efforts are pretty terrible in comparison.

- I'm just tired of the 30fps standard. It started with the previous gen but now it's just unacceptable to me. At least with my PC i can play most games at 60fps except for very few games that i can tolerate at 30fps like the Witcher 3.
 
Not a strict move for me. I only really got my first gaming PC back in August.

In terms of visuals and framerates my PC is a lot better than the current consoles (due to more expensive hardware I bought) but most of my friends play on consoles so at the moment I'm going with PC for single player games and consoles for multiplayer games.

Also the Xbox Play Anywhere stuff helps out a lot too as I can play Gears of War 4 and Forza Horizon 3 on my PC with my friends on console.
 
Not strictly, but since the last generation.

Since I was a child I was a multigamer. Playing on PC in the 90s as well as the NES, SNES, PSX.

On PC you had mostly western games, on consoles mostly "arcadey" western games and japanese.
That changed though with the 360. Western games were released on the 360 and PS3, while japanese changed to handhelds.

Now on Steam you even get most japanese games, so thats where I play the most.
 
I was never exclusively one or the other, but I have moved from being overwhelmingly a console player to overwhelmingly a PC player. With my PC, I have more options in just about every game I play, and thanks to stuff like the Retrode or Dolphin, I have way more backwards compatibility than I do with any other console, without even having to rebuy my old games. I also get better graphics, and more exclusive games (and many times I get games way, way before they are on consoles, like Freedom Planet).

I really only keep consoles around these days for games that don't come to PC.
 
I keep considering going PC only, but I feel like I have pretty strong loyalties spread out across platforms due to exclusives. I don't have a super strong social life right now and I feel like having a PlayStation 4 this gen definitely gives me a social platform as well as a gaming platform -- a lot of coworkers and friends have PS4s but don't have gaming PCs, so it's usually pretty easy for me to pick up a PS4 version of a game and have some people to play with.

That isn't to say that I just don't like the PlayStation 4, either. IMO it's probably one of my favorite consoles of all time already, and the future still looks bright as far as my tastes go. I think it's silly that Sony claims they're competing with the PC space with it, but I think it still hands in a very good console experience for the most part.
 
Moved from console and PC (split of about 90/10%) to now entirely PC gaming. No online costs, better hardware (and therefore end looking product) and superior controls made me wonder why I didn't as soon as I got the PC to begin with.

Though now I have moved into my new place with my partner, thinking of getting a pro so she and I can have a media device in the loungroom. That and use it for cod or FIFA and future exclusives like horizon. But now it's basically 90-10 PC's way.
 
I only play console singleplayer exclusives now, PS4/WiiU. Everything else on PC.

I think the biggest reason is PSN+ is now required for online play, on the PS3 that wasn't an issue. And also I play a lot of indie games these days or games you just normally don't see on consoles, right now I'm bingeing hard on Path of Exile again.
 
I was mainly a console player and dabbled in PC here or there. Then around 2008 or 2009 I stopped buying consoles and decided to game on PC. I miss out on exclusives, but it really isn't that big of a deal to me.

I might pick up an NX.
 
Not yet but I'm getting closer to a PC only future. I despise the phone style model they are going for now and exclusives from all the manufacturers are rarely something I'm interested in anymore.

I was more of a console gamer in my youth as I liked that things just worked in comparison to PC plus I was more into the genres that tended to be more likely exclusive to console. Console gaming became more PC like starting from the 360 generation and so that appeal died and your actually more likely to get classic "console like" games from a PC indie these days if anything.
 
I haven't moved exclusively to PC but after 2010 I started playing a lot more multiplatform games on PC. That's around the time when most multiplatform games started hitting PC and Xinput was supported in pretty much all new games. Free online play was the clincher.
 
I moved from consoles to PC ( I still play handhelds) for mainly 2 reasons:
1)consoles were "losing" local Co op games the lack of backward compatibility is annoying because I have to have X consoles to play my games.
2) price. PC is so much cheaper that I now have a backlog, when I was on consoles I never had av backlog.
 
Not 100% exclusively but pretty close. WoW is what made me move toward PC, I spent so much time on my computer that I eventually moved to other games like TF2.

I'd say I went "fully PC" around 2010 or so, that generation of consoles was growing stale and Kinect started to become a thing so I bounced, I still had consoles they just were no longer my main device.

Same deal now, I have consoles/handhelds but only ever use them for an exclusive here and there.
 
I have always played both but in the DOS/W95 days it was more PC for me I enjoyed fiddling and trying different things out that I couldn't with a console such as playing online. When I started work the majority of the time I spent was at a computer the last thing I wanted to do was spend my leisure time in front of one. I like the separation of turning on a console (I like the separation more so with VR) even though I have basically gone from one computer to another. The Gamecube/PS2/Xbox/XP was the last period when I use to mix it up a lot. I pretty much stopped playing PC games with the Xbox360 and PS3 and now only play games on PC for things I consider must play exclusives. I also don't own multiple consoles like I use to.
 
Moved away from consoles at the tail-end of last gen primarily due to AAA fatigue.

Been strictly PC ever since (with a side of iOS mobile gaming on the go).

I find the PC "exclusive" genres more geared to my tastes (Grand Strategy, Mundane Vehicle Simulators, Colony Management Sims, niche-indie experimental stuff).

Also been rocking laptop gaming and find that works far better than big-screen gaming as I can now enjoy the living room with my wife in a more social atmosphere.

Kind of interested in Nintendo Switch, but honestly don't see myself going back to consoles anytime soon.
 
I moved to mainly pc cause most of the good stuff is coming there anyways eventually

after building my pc, the comfort of being able to play all former pc games and most of the big name upcoming ones all on one platform is too alluring.

i can still use the ps/xbox controllers. i have the option of keyboard and mouses natively. I can modify settings.

japanese companies are also taking note of PC, so games like the souls series can still be enjoying on PC without relying on consoles.

hell even fighting games are PC bound. so many choices.

will get nintendo consoles as is tradition though.
 
This is the first generation where I haven't purchased all consoles. I bailed because they're really holding onto the idea that charging for online is fine. I understand why that do it, but I won't buy any console that charges for online. Made that mistake with Xbox cause online on consoles was novel, and then again on 360, but only till ps3 hit. Never again.
 
I moved from console to PC, largely because I was curious about PC gaming and didn't play enough online to pay to play.

I can't see myself ever going back, the graphical upgrade was crazy and turns out I love kb/m for FPS games.
 
Been PC only since around 2010 when I got rid of my ps3.

Its just more convenient to be a PC gamer imo.

Better load times
Better visuals and performance
More diverse genres of games
Cheaper games
Steam does everything better than PSN/XBL and its free

There is just so many options with PC. And not doing consoles I only miss out on a hand full of games I actually care about. Nothing to lose sleep over.

Interested in a Switch but only to play the new Zelda. I might pick it up when its the right price. And it is something different. Xbox and Playstation are 2 sides of the same coin at this point. They are just weak PC clones. Like 95% of their library is available on Steam/PC.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

DF : PC dormant commands from consoles to remove CPU burden
2
73
968
Wolzard replied
Crimson Deserts Specs for PC & Consoles revealed
News  2 3 4 5
243
2K
rodrigolfp replied
Blood: Refreshed Supply - coming to PC & Consoles
2
69
2K
Silentsphere replied
Twilight Princess PC Port preview; from decomp to PC
43
2K
amigastar replied
  • Poll
Who skipped this console generation for PC?
Social  2 3
137
358
KanKamAndNob replied
Top Bottom