PC's are inferentially better than any console currently on the market.

With PC's you can do a lot more beside from gaming. You can upgrade, if you want yourself and if you haven't got the money to upgrade the whole thing, then buy it a part at a time from any manufacture you like. And if a part eventually goes, you can take it to anywhere place you want and sometimes even repair yourself.

Consoles on the other hand, live in a walled garden, upgrading them is near to impossible. Unless you want to go out and buy a new one. Repairs have to go back to the manufacture, which can be costly, if your outside of the service warranty. And some of them charge a subscription for accessing on-line services which should be free to begin with.

This is a fact of our modern world, “PC's rule, consoles drool.” 

Originally posted by Jalice888

OMG Sanguinelust & Warmaker, PCs are heaps ahead in failing. Computers need replacing and upgrading themselves a hell of a lot while the gaming machine keeps on going.  The Atari 400 was a beast of a gaming machine before the Atari 1200 was out. At the same time computers needed a room to themselves and couldn't play many games at all. Playstation have built machines that still keep working well but the latest are made so any old discs can still play on them aswell. Gaming console discs don't get upgraded like PC online games and thats a reason for being so much better aswell.

Computers need upgrading to keep up with online game developements. The games get upgraded and eventually turn you off them after a long time playing for poor reward, the botters that are proliferent in almost all online games are able to do everything and the games engine rewards the accounts on the game longest instead. For being a botter account all the time on the owner of the account hardly played so that account is a noob account still. With so many botters operating that also slows your system down so you get to play even less with all the bugs. Support for gaming is always prejudiced towrds the makers so attempts for honest help never eventuates. Then after you struggle through all this some ignorant kid finds a way to hack your account and all your PC playing is down the drain.

Console playing you can keep everything safely and if it's able to go online you can control this. This way if online by Console gives any problems you can go offline and keep playing. Also with Consoles you pay once and thats it but PC online games you keep spending a fortune for so little unless you just lazy cheat for a wasted account.

Cheating by botting, hacking accounts are both useless and are the equal of all the Nigerians & Chinese people used to moan about a couple of years ago!                           

Also too much gaming all up takes years off your life, so which is easier to limit your playing to?

                                                                                                                     

PC gaming is heaps ahead in failing, eh?  LOL, we've been hearing that for more than 10 years now.

Consoles are not as reliable if you compare them to how systems were in the 90s.  Games having problems at release.  Games having serious performance issues (Bayonetta on PS3 for example?).  Games needing updates and patches now.  What's this about 360's taking a crap with the red light for some users?

But you and I have 2 different mindsets it seems.

If you want to be herded into a corral, led by the hand as to how you can enjoy your games, limit your experience of gaming by only what the console developer allows, then yes, Consoles are where you want to be.

But I want superior control, being able to vastly customize my game experience (remember mods?), better graphics and performance.  I'm happy to upgrade parts every couple years and do some tweaking along with it.  That's a small price to pay for the freedom in gaming I gain.

Consoles are OK at what they do, but the PC knocks crap out of them for the games I like.  I can never understand why console controllers are so popular when a mouse and keyboard give so many more control options.

I started gaming on a PS1 before moving on to the PS2. Shortly after I got hooked on COD2 on the pc and have never looked back. The PC can do almost everything better than a console can. I also purchased a 360 so I could play with my RL friends who owned them. The 360 community is awful. XBL is just full of 12 year olds trying to sell you  hacks or making inane noises down the mic. The only games I have since bought for the xbox were cod4, codmw2 and the orange box.. The first two of which were far better on PC. If you like MMO's get the PC. If you like any other games bar racing games or sports based games like Fifa get the PC.

While computers are more superior  in graphics and processing the only games that are exclusive to them now is MMOs and Starcraft. Unless u wanna count junk games like Bejeweled and Solitare. People are right in saying u can do more with PCs but is the cost of the rig really worth playing so few games that are around for it just for a bit of extra graphics. People can argue the whole MMO thing but really how many of those MMOs that are out at the moment are worth playing. That can be argued with taste in game but unless ur playing Wow none of the other games can hold a population worth mentioning. Warhammer is a joke, Aion here in the US is struggling, AOC is basically dead and that is the PC gamers biggest argument. If u want to be a PC gamer u need to know a lil about how computers work and while many will say its easy and not complicated at all for them,it may be difficult for others. It really is boiled down to what genre u enjoy and at the moment consoles do lag behind with graphics and the whole MMO genre but that will not be the case in a few more yrs considering there is only so far u can go with graphics and we are just bout to that plateau. All in all its about how much u know bout PC gaming and if u really want to sit there and mess with all the drivers and settings and requirements vs putting the game in and playing it. :)

Look up microsofts recently scrapped project to allow PC gamers and Xbox 360 gamers the ability to play together.

Reason behind scrapping it. PC gamers stomped Xbox 360 gamers to much that it would show that PC gamers and the PC in general is a better gaming platform.

Keyboard and mouse FTW.

Also, considering this is an mmo website. When was the last GOOD mmo released on a console. (FFXI, soon to be FFXIV) and thats PS3, not even Xbox.

Originally posted by Kyser_Soze

Look up microsofts recently scrapped project to allow PC gamers and Xbox 360 gamers the ability to play together.

 

Reason behind scrapping it. PC gamers stomped Xbox 360 gamers to much that it would show that PC gamers and the PC in general is a better gaming platform.

 

Keyboard and mouse FTW.

 

Also, considering this is an mmo website. When was the last a GOOD mmo was released on a console. (FFXI, soon to be FFXIV) and thats PS3, not even Xbox.

Exactly, Microsoft is not the quickest of company's, but if they have come to realise this fact. Then it's about time console players realised it to. Besides, PC's have got a far better community, simply because they're slightly more complicated to maintain. And as such, you're most likely to get a more mature person at the controls. Rather than a yappy ten year old, who thinks they know everything about the world around them. 

I had to vote PC.  Many of the games you would want to play on 360 will also be available on PC anyway.  Keyboard and mouse makes for much better controls for most games.  Odds are your graphics will be better on the pc too.

Originally posted by Kyser_Soze

Look up microsofts recently scrapped project to allow PC gamers and Xbox 360 gamers the ability to play together.

 

Reason behind scrapping it. PC gamers stomped Xbox 360 gamers to much that it would show that PC gamers and the PC in general is a better gaming platform.

 

Keyboard and mouse FTW.

 

Also, considering this is an mmo website. When was the last GOOD mmo released on a console. (FFXI, soon to be FFXIV) and thats PS3, not even Xbox.

Maybe you should look up some of the comments of the developers of Shadowrun regarding development of the game. They had to eventually work on the balance of the game because the console players were owning the PC players.

This whole thing about PC being a better gaming platform is silly. If you think a keyboard and mouse is a better gaming device than a controller, you only play a few genres. A controller works with pretty much every genre. Ever tried playing a fighting game, racing game or a hack and slash like Devil May Cry with a keyboard and mouse? Not really a comfortable way to play.

A PC for gaming does simply not give me my moneys worth. It requires a huge sum of money to get a PC that can play modern games, and even then the graphical difference between a high end PC and a console are neglectable.

At the end of the day, its the games that matter and console games are simply better than PC games.

I voted for a gaming pc ...but ...there is a time and place for both. If you have lots of friends that comes over you might want to consider getting a console so everybody can play. I like pc myself because you can multiple things and not just gaming.

PC no doub about that you have so much more freedom and posibillitys with PC then a limited console that on launch already have lower specs then midrange PC hehe.

But if your present is limited to around 200 bucks then maybe go for a console, PC will cost a little bit more hehe.