1 Reason to switch from console to PC: Given time, you will be able to emulate all the consoles with your PC.

They're still going on about plug and play... Consoles haven't been plug and play since the 7th gen.

For a site called "Make use of", they certainly can't make use of their braincells...

according to the webster's dictionary to console is to "comfort (someone) at a time of grief or disappointment." makes alot of scence really the more this goes on

Here's an unrelated side conversation: There are some people who follow a name instead of an idea. Here's what I mean: Pretend I had two choices: an "open console" or a "closed PC" , then I would become a console gamer. To me it's not about a name - It's not about "console" vs "PC". It's about open vs closed. freedom vs controlled. As someone who owns close to 1000 games I'd consider buying a console if it allowed me to choose different storefronts, mod my games, break the DRM to have true ownership/make my own physical disk, host my own cloud save system with my own NAS server, take advantage of ultrawide monitors, or monitors above 4k and above 120fps, etc etc. If one of these companies sold an open console, I'd conciser it. If Android-OS one day gave me more openness and advantages than Windows or Linux - I'd consider it. I'm not loyal to the name "PC" or "Windows" or "Linux", I'm loyal to openness - I'm loyal to myself. Openness comes before "PC". Does that make sense?? Maybe I'm just getting into semantics at this point since I know PC means open and console means closed, but sometimes I feel like people forget that.

Maybe games journalists should write about all the reasons they should still be alive.

as a former console gamer who mostly builds and games/draws on PC why would I want to downgrade my gaming experience?

Okay here's something i don't understand with these people. They surely use computers in their lives in some capacity right? That game journalist must've used a desktop or a laptop to write that nonsense article, they must keep personal documents in their computer devices somewhere and work with them frequently, maybe even use cloud services of some kind. Basically everyone who uses the internet has some idea of how to use a modern computer yet for some reason they can't figure out how to install Steam on their computers and play games on them. Why? No really like what is the actual challenge here?

I love pc, one monitor for either gaming, sfm animating, drawing, etc. And the second monitor for watching youtube videos while im playing games

I switched to pc 3 years ago, I will never look back. Nothing against console I just love the freedom and choice of how I want to play games.

I'm starting to think game journalists are just purposely making dumb points to make people switch to PC.

Was this journalist a playstation fanboy Because how he only talks about playstation and its products

A PC is a full on personal computer. It's much more than a gaming device. Games journalism will never cease to be a joke I guess.

10 year old FX6300 rig here. Paired it with a GTX 760 first and then with an RX 580 in 2019. Still running most games pretty decently. Ran Lies of P great for instance. Wouldn't change it for a PS5 or Series console. PC gaming flexibility is unparalled.

As a console player NOBODY should switch to console if they're able to afford a more powerful PC. Why the f*ck would you willingly limit yourself if you're capable of buying better hardware...Consoles are supposed to be a more affordable less powerful alternative...they don't compete or replace a high end PC.

It's amazing when people who don't actually know anything about it try to talk about technology.

"Picking up the controller and turn on the TV"... You know we don't have to do both of these actions on PC, right? 😂😂

I love the 7 reason because yestersday i was playing with 3 other friends on a couch (castle crashers, TNMT shredders revenge and pro evolution soccer 6) with a PS4 joystick, a PS5 joystick and 2 xbox joysticks. Which console allows me to do that? And PES 6 it's a game from 2006

Whilst I was waiting for prices to come down to build my new PC (My old one broke due to water damage after doing me just fine for about 10 years) I bought a HP pavilion laptop for £500. It can still run all but the most demanding PC games just fine, and when at home I used it plugged into my monitor as a second screen and had no issues playing modern games whilst watching youtube (I played through cyberpunk just fine whilst running youtube on my other screen). When I wanted to travel, I just unplugged a few cables and brought the power cable (I have a decent second mouse I got for £30 and xbox controller). It would be very easy to set it up for easy use as a living room device by telling Steam to auto launch in big picture mode or using a wireless keyboard with built-in mousepad to launch games. I prefer a full on desktop, but I was never left wanting with my laptop and rarely used my xbox. It also only took one more step to setup than my xbox, and most games I know of automatically set graphics options for you so you only really need to go into the options to adjust things to your personal liking (eg turning off motion blur).

really loving the amount and quality of your content. Been a sub for awhile and you have evolved a lot as a content creator. The growth of the channel really shows in both content and subscribers

i think anyone over the age of 16 that isn't a fanboy for their platform knows why they play in what they play. IN most cases it's very subjective. i doubt anyone ever changes their minds with articles like these.

Why you should be a prisonner of the ecosystem of console while you can be free on pc and get everything you want even cheap yeah i'm talking about games

Small correction: Postal: Brain Damaged IS coming to consoles in-fact it's coming to Playstation on the 25th of this month.

The haptic feedback and adaptive triggers are frankly just gimmicks. I checked them out with Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart on PC (which does support those features when using the DualSense controller) and while it is cool that the controller can do that kind of stuff, I found the experience as good, if not better, just playing with the controls on Steam Deck. The adaptive trigger feature in particular was more annoying than helpful and the functionality was pretty well replicated without the trigger having to stop midway through pulling.

I've been a console gamer and prefer controller over keyboard and mouse, but I just built a budget gaming pc not long ago so I can play older games at a much higher resolution, I still prefer console but it's what I have grown up with plus I don't really have Good PC money lol I can definitely see why a lot of people prefer PC, I played Max Payne 3 at 1440p 60 fps and it was like playing a remaster as on console the best you can play is 720p 30fps, so PCs are definitely more future proof and I am definitely enjoying older games looking better not only resolution and framerate wise but also the higher textures and graphic effects in general. Games are awesome and just enjoy yourselves, I know I do

@ 16:20 There are PC games these days that support the PS5 controller's Haptic Feedback AND Adaptive Triggers feature. I know cause I use the PS5 controller to play PC games. I also know there is an app that allows you to use these features for games that don't support it natively yet. So these features are either available natively on PC or an app can give you access to these features for games that don't natively support it yet.

Console gamer here and got to admit Ultra kill looks so fun

They love the couch co-op argument omg, most exclusives do come to PC (remember where games are made) and most current exclusives are meh. we need them PS3 era bangers still chained hopefully not lost for good but god bless RPCS3 emulation FTW!

I bought a PS5 for $460 I still rather have a gaming PC & can’t wait till I do

I play both so I don't have to worry about it

The only thing I can even slightly get behind here is how much configuration each game requires on PC. Especially mine because I have an older setup. But that's literally just because I'm stupid and no matter how much I research this stuff I don't understand it, so that issue is entirely on me.

From personal experience, I was a xbox and PlayStation only gamer from 2012 to 2018, during that time, I had to get 2 replacements xbox 360s, a replacement xbox one, and a replacement ps3 because they all broke with time, costing me an extra £2000 or so. I swapped to pc in December of 2018 and got all my parts at a big discount, only costing me £850, and only had to upgrade my pc's CPU once in the last six years, and decided to upgrade my ram and buy more fans, barely bringing the cost over £1000 total. Half the cost in maintenance and I get access to mods, steam sales and keysites, I don't regret switching at all, I didn't even have to lose my controller, steam has better controller support than any platform, so every point about them is pretty much true for steam too, including haptic feedback even though I just turn that off. I regret that I used to be like these console warriors, it was a mindset based on my own ignorance, so it could be the same with a lot of these guys.

I absolutely love your videos joe can you tell me some good pc games you suggest I play. I like knowing other people’s opinions. Ty for your vids and just being around😊

Im literally playing tears of the kingdom on my main monitor at 60 fps 4k on my main monitor as I watch this lmao that was a funny moment

I can personally confirm that Tears of the Kingdom can be played on PC, and has been there longer than it has been on the Switch

I'd rather lug around my gaming laptop over my switch any day of the week for gaming on the go. It even has enough space on the bottom below the keyboard to be a small but effective spot to use a wireless mouse one (though high dpi helps a lot there). It's not even that heavy at only 3lbs for it's weight and it doesn't compromise too much on screen size because of it either (still has a 15 in screen).

Also I'm not sure if Microsoft is still even offering this but they had finance plans (no interest either) for the two series consoles that included xbox gold and gamepass ultimate. If you took out the price of the services from the monthly payments the part for the consoles would come out to $6 or $13 (or around there) which isn't bad at all tbh. If they are still doing it however it does almost completely remove the price barrier to entry for gaming on the xbox side at least. The only reason I consider it a good deal is the fact it doesn't have any interest and only lasts two years, so if you bought yours in 2020 or 2021 your payments are already done pretty much.

I love how their "Pro's" can easily be countered with Steam Deck like in 11:09 mark of the video

When a game journalist uses a fan they have to Google, what high and Low. means lol

Switch to which console? P$5 slim pockets? No thank you lol

I have both a ps5 and pc I did not sell my pc because of the controller and haptic feedback and I love it

i switched to pc and love it, but the dualsense is like an addiction, it took me a while to not need it

I m running a 5800x 3d +6700xt in a lian li o11 dynamic black. customizability, i get to look at hardware and fan LED dances to mystic light with voice and music. consoles dont do that. and they barely able to play that game that are designed for.

There was one point in time when console were better than PC. The time before the GPU. Thanks to consoles, PC have GPUs. That time was during the SNES/Genesis days

Im switching to pc all my friends did. I have no idea what to do luckily my friends are helping me build what they called a monster i cant wait to play tarkov

What sacreligous version of postal did bro get please help.

P.C.s have thousands of Exclusive to P.C. Games

I switch from pc to console because you would expect the way how things are connected or managed to change but they haven't and cable managing on pc is the worst and hasn't changed in the pass 20 years

honestly I haven't invested in any console post launch. I've never ever broke or repaired a console in any way and all of them still work. I get this isn't the usual case.

Why the hell would I switch to a console when I have a library that was putting consoles to shame for more than a year. Game pass has 400+ ps5 native games are 605 and my steam library is over 520. Not including the keys im to lazy to activate or emulators.

That doesn't make no sense even though I'm a console player you can play Nintendo games on a PC not only that Nintendo games run better on a PC

As someone who plays console I want to play on both console and pc they both have advantages and disadvantages. I can play with mods on pc and on console I can immerse myself into a game how it is

I’m a new pc gamer I just built a 4090 rig I got sick of games not running at 120 on console when that was the got dame promise I sold my series X I was hyped to play hellblade 2 then I heard it was 960p at 30fps wtf is that so I sold the series X now have a fire pc I still own my switch for Mario and other games I like and I own the PS5 for day one exclusives but for now my main gaining will be on my 3700$ pc build

9:19 Actually is confirmed that Postal Brain Damaged will get ported to PS4 & PS5 like Postal 4: No Regrets. But i love play Postal titles on PC (specially Postal 2 & Brain Damaged)

I find it hilarious when people say they don't want to sit at a desk using a mouse and keyboard to play games... If that's how they think it has to be done, ok. I'm just laid back on my bed with an old 360 controller lookin at a 4k projection of one of my three monitors playing Diddy Kong racing 64 on an emulator. I could be playing something new but I felt like goin retro.

Games have been badly optimized on console as well! I have an Xbox, PC and Steam Deck, the only time I have to mess with settings is on the Steam Deck

jokes on them. i have pcs and consoles. checkmate, corpo journos.

Funny when I built my first pc I spent a little over $500 dollars and just put it together. Like &530 bucks when all was said and done. Could have gotten it done cheaper but I gave myself a little headroom with my psu. Didn’t need the 750 watts but…

I dunno, I've built cheapo rigs for many friends and come in under console prices. This year, for work, I put together a workstation that has 14-cores, 128GB of RAM, and two M2000 GPUs -- all parts from eBay. It drives 8x monitors at 4K and all together was about $500. Granted, it's not a gaming platform and is geared toward productivity... but I think you can see where I'm going with this. I really disagree with "upfront price" argument to building a PC. So long as you're not trying to get brand new hardware, PCs are more affordable even up front.

Game anyway u want

what r u playing in the background

Using componentes less reduces the thermal stress by the cooling and heating cycles and by Electromigration, which basically is rhe diffusion of diferent atoms through the silicon due the electrical potential imposed by the currents used by the chip itself to work, eventually keading to shortcircuits and the inability for transistors to turn off given a conductive filament of diffused metal atoms through the gap in middle of the transistors. However all semiconductors are exposed to both problems, so consoles will suffer it too and even if you have your hardware turn 24/7, it takes decades for the problem to prevent itself, otherwise server hardware in daracenters would have a lifespan of months or a couple of years instead of decades. Hardware becomes obsolete way, way before thermal stress and Electromigration kills the component.

What game is that

The pc is only not simple to people with below room temp IQ. If something goes wrong with your console, you have to get an entirely new console. On pc you just have to figure out what part has stopped working and just swap it out and that process is literally as simple as unplugging something and plugging something new in.

"Split-screen co-op" - different monitors and controllers for everyone, maybe on the same system or different PC's .........

Console only has Some Games with Couch Co-op or Local Multiplayer

To me its very simple: Consoles: You want simplicity, a straight forward experience, you turn on the machine and you play, you'll have access to certain exclusive titles (in the case of nintendo) and you aren't willing to pay more than 500 usd for your gaming hardware. PC: You need to worry about the correct drivers versions, balance the best settings for your pc, balance your hardware (you can't pair a top end gpu with a crappy cpu or ram for example), the hardware costs more money and games are more buggy usually. But you get games from all companies (other than nintendo, at least legally 😂😂😂), with a decent rig you get better visuals/performance, you can update your hardware progressively with time, games are normally cheaper, you aren't tied up to 2/3 graphic settings chosen by the devs, you can choose which controller to use and you can use mods. People can choose whichever option and it'll be fine but they shouldn't be fanboys and say it's universally better because those are just preferences and there are pros and cons on each platform.

A gaming laptop ranges from 700-1000 dollars at that price range you might as well get a decent Pc for gaming

I would never change from my PC to an console. I plan to replay Oblivion again with Mods to make the textures less eye cancer causing after Cyberpunk 2077. Something I can´t do on an console.

Found this video while looking for other people's opinions on switching to console. While i agree that gaming on the PC is superior compared to consoles, i also don't completely disagree with the article. It is pretty expensive to keep up with the latest tech in PC hardware. Upgrading my graphics card and processor up to date would cost me more money than to buy an Xbox SX. Another thing i might add is that while it is possible to play local multiplayer on PC, it's much more convenient on console since it's already strapped to the TV. I enjoy sharing my gaming experience with my family but i don't have the luxury of my own gaming room. I have a bedroom where my PC stays, and i have a living room with a single TV. I often move my PC to play on the TV with family, but i'd be lying if i said that lugging my fairly heavy PC up and down the stairs is not tiring. I don't care much for exclusives, which is why i chose the Xbox SX. Backwards compatibility all the way back to the original Xbox discs is a very nice thing for me to have since i have some 360 discs that would become essentially trash after my 360 got RRoD. Some games were also never ported to PC, and if they were, i'd have to buy them again. Convenience is basically what i'm paying for with all of these services since i am completely aware that i can just pirate all of these games on PC if i wish to. I don't have plans on ditching my PC, but for the time being, it is nice that i have an Xbox that can run the latest games that my PC could not. Plus, my progress on Xbox syncs with my PC if i ever decide to use PC Game Pass in the future on a better machine. With that being said, i hope it doesn't discourage people too much to try consoles for what it's worth. My experience moving from my PC to Xbox has been pretty smooth sailing so far, and if there are some games i can't play on the Xbox, i can always get on my PC again.

They didn’t mention the Steam Deck because it would make their points invalid for supporting consoles

Facts! Game Journos are clowns.

nvm just the Steam Deck, Ive managed to get a modded Skyrim to run on my phone, bc cloud gaming on Steam is actually pretty nice

Only reason to switch to console is for 1st party exclusives.

couch coop is not that available on ps5 , barely anything has it , tried to play Minecraft at a friends house , couldn't without a paid account , or at least if you can he couldn't work it out , used to like consoles myself , its how i got into gaming og xbox was mind-blowing at the time lol , but then a couple of generations later paid online accounts and 50/80 dollar games made me move to pc , and building pcs is something i get a lot of enjoyment out of , designing and building your rig is so satisfying , and cheaper in the long run if you know what your looking for and when to buy , plus you can get new games running on a very cheap rig these days , wont look amazing , but you can still play , journos are so misguided

The entire argument about exclusives is entirely void. because Emulators exist, Software to 'rip'(pulls the ROM from the CD/Cartridge) from games you buy exist. There's entire markets for Arcade ROMs that fell out of copyright due to age etc, There's entire underground communities that even dedicate themselves to dumping ROMs. Like legality even in play or to the side, the entire argument is basically like a skateboarder eating the pavement when they mess up one of their tricks.

This _"Journalist"_ clearly wrote this article on a console. They didn't even try to hide they was shilling so hard for consoles 😂

I have been really enjoying Postal Brain Damage.

If you already have a perfectly capable PC and not a potato rig, there is no reason to switch to console. The only good reason i can think for why you'd buy a console despite owning a PC is because you want to be able to play your already-owned console games on capable hardware.

So it's Friday for you I must be in the future cuz it's Saturday

Honestly I'm more of a console player. If I allready had a far superior P.C to a ps5 or series x I wouldn't switch to a console. But If my P.C was old and outdated and I had to buy either a fairly expensive P.C or a reasonable console I'd go with the console. 2 main reasons why I like consoles. The price is good and i can share my games with others.

What’s that game, Joe?

This couch co-op on consoles arguement is bullshit. I tried to play black ops 4 zombies with a friend on ps4, couch co-op and it wouldn't let us because he didnt have a PlayStation network account and wasnt paying for PlayStation plus. If you're forced to not only use an online account, but to pay to even use it then couch co-op might as well not exist.

like trying to convince people to move from their decent, low-rent location to Ohio.

it's so sad that one can't game on an cpu, it would just be.... what? amd has apus that one can game on and can be used with a later dedicated gpu later on, and they are going to be releasing the phoenix apu to desktop, with a chance for a halo version, what? sounds like a better deal over paying for high priced network fees to play the online titles.

8:06 If you want to get that feeling, you should start playing niche games, that like 5 people even talked about. I'm happy (but also sad) whenever I play some game that is really great, real GOAT production, I look it up on YT and all I could find is like 2-3 videos with 100 views. Sony games are AAA blockbusters with most of them having +10mln copies sold, literally every person at least a little bit interested in video games know about them, maybe never played them, but at least they know.

This article looks like it's attempting to cater to Sony and Nintendo fanboys with the intention to dupe those idiots to spread this article around for ad revenue clicks. Also funny they are pretending you cannot hack a console while you can easily hack a console just as easily as you can hack a game on pc. Hell you can hack a switch and use it to put your games legally on pc and play it at higher quality legally. Also here is a counter argument to destroy this list and only need one reason: rather get a console and either spend $20 to $80 minimum a year in order to play your games online ontop of your internet bill? Or would you rather not pay a single dime for online play with access to games pass for cheaper than the console version and stick with your pc? In all honesty the only console worth value out of the three is the switch and that's only if you enjoy Nintendo exclusive games since most games on Xbox you have access to and Sony is putting games on Pc anyways.

He keeps talking about having PS5 and Switch for home and portable experience, that´s almost 1000$ entry to consol gaming. Thing is a lot of pc gamers don´t care too much about Nintendo games, maybe a few which are interesting but it´s a lot of kids games.

Big big mistake said here on cheating on console! Example:PUBG ranked is 80% cronus zen. No bans. The amount of cheaters on console is huge! Wall hack not to much, but aimbot and antirecoil is insane! 42 millions strikepack rolling...

if Microsoft acquires epic games next and then Roblox they could combine Roblox with unreal engine as well as epic game store and fortnite and Xbox game pass ultimate cloud gaming and then they should acquire kick live streaming and rumble and nebula

Yeah these clickbait BuzzFeed articles are always brain dead. I've been a console gamer for the majority of my life. I dipped my toes into PC gaming when I bought a very capable mid range gaming laptop back in 2020. Then the Steam Deck came out and that was the final nail in the coffin for me. I could play all the games I wanted with a console like experience. But I could also customize and tinker with it to get other stuff working on it as well. I looked at my Switch which had been gathering dust since I got the Deck, and at my PS5 which had been gathering dust even before that and decided to move fully to PC. Built a high end gaming rig this year, and I've definitely gotten more out of gaming than I have in years. Next console generation I won't even bother with PlayStation because most of the games I'm interested in are already on PC (even some of their exclusives so there's even less reason.) I will probably still play Nintendo consoles because I do like their games and while I know emulation is a thing (I emulate a lot of Nintendo games to begin with.) I still want to pay for the games before emulating, because I want to support the developers for their work.

I think about 90% of the games I own only run on pcs

I had my power supply die at one point I replaced my motherboard, my case and my CPU along side it Total: $150. Maybe less. I don’t remember for sure This was just after the first COVID vaccines came out. I replaced most of those as a precaution Computer has been running like a dream ever since

oh boy

It is just what poeple prefer

I can play every console game on my pc highly doubt it be better to go to a console..

I played Hogwarts day one on my 3080 and it worked fine 🤔

I need a PC but don't know enough to build one

My PC is plugged into my 55' 4K TV. and most of my games I play with controller. Right now I'm writing this from my couch. I will go back to PC-only because I just can't afford console gaming anymore additionally to my PC. Times getting worse thanks to Biden and Scholz. However. I also plant to get a handheld PC and sell my Series X one day in the near future. I'm not telling people to switch to PC, especially Xbox is a completely fine platform offering the best value of all consoles especially with gamepass. And I'll very likely miss my Xbox. However... life is about setting priorities and I can't afford to buy games for both anymore and I can't do without the PC because I need it for so much more than just gaming. The whole debate is useless, because what is best for yooou depends on your needs and your priorities.And i can still stay in the Xbox ecosystem with my PC. And my needs have changed too. I play less games. Literally 80% in the last 5 years I played Bethesda games, 5% Cyberpunk and 5% Mass Effect games and 10% everything else. I'm getting old and focus on what I really want and need The console vs PC war is as stupid as console wars. Before telling somebody to get a specific console or a PC ask them what they need it for and what is important to them. Freedom, safety, convinience always have been exchangeable currencies.

For me PC will always be the better option and they're getting more and more accessible for not knowledgeable people. I hated launchers but they did make it easier to search for games and download them, update them, etc. I'm ok with them now, sort of 😂 Drivers updates on PC annoy me a little too much because on console it's either a console update 3 months apart from each other or a game update, that's it. You won't get updates for the graphics card, displays, peripherals, etc every week or month. That has to be on my top 2 annoying things about PCs in general 😂 Online games full of hackers is probably number 2 🤷🏻‍♂️ not sure when/if that can be ever stopped, and it's sad 😔 Any other reason to "hate" on PC gaming I find it "skippeable" 👍🏻