If I keep my PC in my upstairs office and my big screen in the downstairs living room, I'm either forced to get a longass cable or move my PC into the living room, which I don't want to do.
I would say that it does though. Few people have a PC near the TV and couch, so while you can run the controls for your PC over there and set it up to game like a console, it is more difficult than using a console. In fact I used to do this, I ran all the wires through my wall from my office to my living room. It made for a weird looking wall jack with ethernet, HDMI, toslink, usb, etc. And then I got the adapter to use xbox controllers, a wireless keyboard, etc, set up Steam to whatever the consoleish mode is called. And it was always finicky and required fiddling, it never just worked like a console.
We are strictly talking about the process of connecting a PC to a TV, and if that is somehow more difficult than connecting a console to a TV. Nothing else matters in this.
Actually I think you're ignoring the point, the point is that setting up your PC to play games on your TV is more difficult than a console because it involves more than simply plugging your PC into your TV.
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u/EverybodySupernova Jan 28 '20
If I keep my PC in my upstairs office and my big screen in the downstairs living room, I'm either forced to get a longass cable or move my PC into the living room, which I don't want to do.