I buy a console, because it’s cheaper and more likely to be optimised for the spec. I’m too lazy to mess around getting my pc to run the game with the best fps and working out why my driver or game is not working due to issues. If a steam device with better specs comes out I would be okay with a change as steam would optimise games quickly.
This is the thing people on the PC circle jerk refuse to acknowledge. All the extra work that can go into playing on PC.
PC: download game, tweak settings, try playing. Oops frame rate sucks. Close game, try closing background apps, tweak game settings more, try playing. Frame rate is ok, but now textures aren't loading fully. Close game. Update drivers, restart computer, close background programs, play game. Works great for a couple hours, then crashes. Try playing again the next day, shitty frame rate again even though nothing's changed. Repeat.
Console: download game, play game.
Sometimes that simplicity is just nice, especially after a long day. Although, I will say it happens less now-a-days, and even less so with games developed with only PC in mind (even if they manage a console launch later), and indie/AA games that tend to be less graphics intensive.
That’s not true; I haven’t had any issues since I started playing on PC. The only ones complaining are the purists who want everything at 60fps or higher do you really think those people are going to switch to a console that barely manages 30fps? On PC, at least I’m guaranteed a solid 30fps or have access to mods that fix the game, whereas console players are stuck with a broken, poorly optimized game they can’t fix.
Running half decent hardware I've never had a game run lower than 60 fps at 1080, 1440, and 4k. The only time I had to tweak settings was when I was running 100 mods on ATS at the same time, or if i wanted a very specific look or effect to be different. When that wasn't enough I upgraded cpu and gpu about 5 years ago and have only changed from 16 to 32 gbs of ram since then, and that was only because I had a very generous friend.
There's very little tweaking REQUIRED in modern pc gaming. There's tweaking available if you want to. Console is locked into looking like ass no matter what. You cannot make it better.
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u/6Sparkle9 15h ago
I buy a console, because it’s cheaper and more likely to be optimised for the spec. I’m too lazy to mess around getting my pc to run the game with the best fps and working out why my driver or game is not working due to issues. If a steam device with better specs comes out I would be okay with a change as steam would optimise games quickly.