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[Horseticuffs]

I've got Ps4 and a Wii U, but figured I'd just go PC since it seems just about everything but Sony and Nintendo exclusives are going PC these days too and my brother had given me his old PC .

For around $900 including tax I upgraded the old PC with a 970 gtx, i5 6600, new mobo to upgrade the old one, and 16gb of RAM compliant with the new mobo.

The games are just so much cheaper and everything runs like a dream on ultra. Doom, Overwatch, no problems.
Witcher 3 gets into the 38-45 fps range when shit's getting intense but it looks amazing and I'm very satisfied.

 

[BleedOrange]

I'll probably rebuild my PC to get MS first party on PC/Scorpio. May hook the PC up to the TV if it looks alright too.

 

[low-G]

Back info: I've been pretty heavily a console gamer from 2005-2015, but I did build a new gaming PC last year, which is my best build ever (been building PCs since the 90's, and this one was probably the furthest up the performance / price curve, and I went silent PC which meant a lot to me).

All that said, the idea of iterative consoles has always majorly turned me off. I never bought any N64 games after the expansion pack was released, for example. The idea of these upgraded consoles defies everything which I believe is good about console gaming.

Basically the announcements have made me far more of a PC gamer than anything apart from the console makers' online services straight up dying could.

Currently have a Wii U, PS4, X1, but will put money into upgrading this PC...

 

[opulent_lemon]

I always preferred consoles over PC because of that "plug-and-play" factor that consoles used to have. Pop in a cart and play. Pop in a disc, a minute of disc access and play.

It's not that way anymore. Turn console on, firmware check/update. Waiting. Pop in new game, multi-GB software update download. More waiting. Wait wait wait wait. The relative immediacy (or actual immediacy, with a cartridge-based console) of consoles that gave them an advantage over PC is gone.

And mandatory game installs in modern console gaming not only add to the excessive wait time, but they also create more cost/hassle in quickly burning through on-board storage space and creating a need for the purchase and installation of a new hard drive.

Consoles have lost their advantages against PC, in my view. It's why I've dedicated 90% of my gaming budget to non-connected consoles from NES through PS2. No firmware updates when I turn these on. No software updates. No game installations. My only limitation (on some consoles) is memory card space-- but even if I can't save a game, I can still play it. I'm never in a position where I have to decide if it's worth deleting a game from my hard drive in order to purchase a new game.

I probably won't move to PC, but incremental consoles nail the door shut on any further modern console purchases by me. I'll stick to retro stuff.

Yes storage space is a factor which I forgot as well. While I've not abandoned consoles yet, as I am loyal to a few franchises, I am interested to see how consoles evolve and attempt to remain relevant moving forward; these half-step upgrades that we have now (Scorpio, Neo) are certainly stirring up controversy.

 

[Sandfox]

The PS4 will probably be my last Sony device and I'll just focus on PC.

 

[womp]

I've posted this in similar threads but it helps show how 'consolized' PC's have gotten for comfy couch gaming. My brother and I built this PC in November of 2014.

Here's my 8 year old starting the family room PC on a hard boot to play SW Battlefront. Takes just under a minute to go from power on to the game loaded up to the Battlefront logo. Obviously if you leave the PC on 24/7 or in sleep mode you could shave the time to even less since it avoids total Windows booting, however I wanted to show an extreme case here. Steam's Big Picture makes it easy to have a nice console looking UI jukebox of games. Game updates are seamless and fast behind the scenes, and downloads are much faster than through a console (a 46GB game is downloaded, installed and ready to play in about 36 min on my network).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBKdPRx5xYc

You can see my little Thermaltake Core V1 'subwoofer' case's small footprint too. Excuse my nasally voice over, I had a cold at the time of filming.

 

[cramoss]

I don't know why but the complete opposite has been happening to me. I've been gaming on PC since 2007 with a PS3 aside and it's the first time I've been wanting to go almost full console.

The thing is, I don't know why. I have both a PS4 and PC on a comfy TV with Big Picture Mode enabled, so I get the console-like experiencie I'd like on PC. Even the same games I have more fun on the console which is even weirder because of performance problems and the plug and play concept has become very thin with all the updates, patches, installations, etc etc plaguing the consoles nowadays.

Maybe it's the closed ecosystem, maybe the controller itself, I've no idea.

 

[Deleted member 752119]

The only thing holding it back imo, is that you cannot play multiplayer games (that are M&K focused) on your TV..

Lap desk and wireless keyboard and mouse?

I already had those, but I stlil probably won't do much keyboard and mouse gaming. I don't play much in the way of competitive shooters etc. anyway. And I still have my PS4 for stuff like Overwatch. Though I'd be fine on PC with controller there since I don't play characters that require much aiming.

I do like the idea of gamepad only playlists. Maybe MS will do that with some of their play anywhere games.

 

[nailbombxx]

Im planning on building a gaming PC and Im currently heavily debating on selling off my PS4 since it will be obsolete in a couple of years anyway because of the NEO. Its a really tough decision, I still want to play Bloodborne..

 

[CrankyKong]

I was already on the PC train, but this just reaffirms my choice.

 

[test_account]

on one you are assure to have better control when / how / why you upgrade. a big difference imo

That is true, although its always been like that though. If you buy a new console every 3-4 year or every 5-7 year, you always had the choice what to upgrade on PC regardless of incremental console releases or not. Thats why i'm curious to why incremental console would change much regarding going to PC or not. Maybe incremental consoles are being viewed as basically a new system, and people feel that they need to buy a new system more often, but that shouldnt be the case. Incremental consoles doesnt really change the PC vs Consoles arguement, in my opinion.

The unknown question is how long PS4 will be supported, but that question is somewhat relevant to PC as well, to how long your current hardware will last before you need to upgrade to play newer games. When i was a PC gamer, it was usually 3-4 years. Maybe its a bit longer now.

 

[Deleted member 752119]

The unknown question is how long PS4 will be supported, but that question is somewhat relevant to PC as well, to how long your current hardware will last before you need to upgrade to play newer games. When i was a PC gamer, it was usually 3-4 years. Maybe its a bit longer now.

It seems to be longer now, especially for people not chasing 4K.

The other issue is if/when we get to a point that games aren't running great on PS4/Xbox 1 as developers are prioritizing the Neo/Scorpio versions, people with the base models are more or less stuck. They either upgrade consoles, or deal with the poor framerates or whatever else the developers shipped the game with for the base models. At least on PCs users can lower settings to get it running as well as possible on their machine. Even for the less savy it can be as simple as dropping from Ultra to High, or High to Medium. And most games will still look and run better than even on the Neo/Scorpio on PCs 3-4 years behind newest tech.

 

[test_account]

It seems to be longer now, especially for people not chasing 4K.

Thats good

The other issue is if/when we get to a point that games aren't running great on PS4/Xbox 1 as developers are prioritizing the Neo/Scorpio versions, people with the base models are more or less stuck. They either upgrade consoles, or deal with the poor framerates or whatever else the developers shipped the game with for the base models. At least on PCs users can lower settings to get it running as well as possible on their machine. Even for the less savy it can be as simple as dropping from Ultra to High, or High to Medium. And most games will still look and run better than even on the Neo/Scorpio on PCs 3-4 years behind newest tech.

Sure, that is true, assming that they have a powerful enough PC that lets them run games well enough even at lower settings. Otherwise they also will have the same problem. My sister currently has that problem actually, her PC is about 3 years old and The Division is running really poorly even at the lowest settings and resolution. The PC wasnt the most powerful one even 3 years ago, but it shows that people can have this problem on PC too, depending on which PC they got some years ago. Hopefully the the developers will at least make the games decent enough on the older console models.