Quote Originally Posted by CactuarKing View Post
I grew up a PC gamer before PS1 and found them to be fiddly and nightmarish unless you had the EXACT settings for "FILES=" and "BUFFERS="and stuff like that.

Since PS1 - It has been consoles (especially SONY consoles for me all they way as I lack patience and prefer to just pop a game in and be able to play it.

I can SEE how theoretically PC would be better as it offers unlimited customisability, but to get a top end gaming PC would cost more than a console and would need to be constantly upgraded, whereas my PS4 will continue to play games that I put into it without me having to upgrade it.

PC games are cheaper though.
I can understand this line of thinking (The first games I ever played were even before yours, and required a working knowledge of DOS just to get them running ), but things these days on PC are incredibly convenient as Pike says. Thanks to stuff like Steam and GOG, once you have the actual PC itself, it's as easy as a console to sort everything out.

Of course for many people actually getting the PC can look daunting as heck, and if you forego that, you're going to be paying for the convenience of someone else assembling it for you. It's really not that difficult though, and there are plenty of great guides out there that will take you step-by-step through it.

As for upgrading, eh, the last console generation kind of skewed things because the 360 and PS3 hung around so long, but there's really no need to upgrade a PC that often, much less replace it wholesale. Plus you can easily just update the one part you think is lacking, so you can shove some extra RAM in or replace a gfx card and it's much cheaper than a whole new console.

But hey, swings and roundabouts - as long as you're playing videogames, the how is secondary at best!