Where has it had any negative impact on GAF at all? Speaking of blowing off questions what disadvantage is their of making a comparison to the PC version? Nobody loses out in that situation. If you aren't interested just ignore the information.
This thread apparently. It comes up frequently that the GAF community is divided by all these face-offs. Not just for PC, for consoles too, I just think those actually have some value because we don't know the outcome before hand, they're not exclusively dick waving. PS3 and 360 was constantly back and forth, that's interesting, and that's important. If you owned both, which version of FFXIII should you buy? Which version of Bayonetta? Which version of RDR? Which version of GTA5? That's valuable consumer advice. Yes, it's used for console war ammunition too, but that's a side effect of something that's actually worth while. If the PS4 wins every face off against the XBO, those comparison will be every bit as pointless as this one.
For many people playing games on consoles is far more convenient, this means that the PC version has to do something special to get them to switch over. PC games may all be superior fair enough but you can't possibly say that the difference between all PC and console versions are the same. With some games it feels like a generational difference with others you barely feel like you notice a difference.
You're right i can't remember specific examples because for essentially the last 2 years i've really only played 2 games for any decent length of time. I don't think either one of us is capable of remembering the difference between all the console/PC versions of games.
Those things, the other elements which separate the PC from the consoles, they're subjective, which is fine, I prefer consoles actually, I'd rather take a huge hit on performance and image quality for the things I like about consoles, but that's irrelevant. When people say 'the definitive version', they're not talking about having a map on the gamepad, or an hour of extra ship battles on the PlayStation versions. They're talking about the the performance and image quality, the objective things you can actually breakdown and compare accurately.
If the XBO version of Watch Dogs runs and looks better than the PS4 version, the PS4 version isn't better because you can hack quicker, or any other random thing people use to separate individual versions.
It's a global overview of performance, it's not about preference.