I play on Consoles since my childhood, but when PCs got into my life, it really flipped out. I play them both now, but i feel something special about PCs that i can't define.
I've found that both PCs and Consoles have their Pros, so i'm making a comparision between them.
Consoles Pros:
Simple to use: Anyone can turn on a Console and play a game. No need of installers, patches, massive set-ups. Just jump on and play.
Console-Exclusive Games: Some games are exclusive to consoles, not having PCs versions.
Console-Exclusive Accessoires: Kinect, Playstation "Wiimote Ripoff" Move, Wiimote, Wii Balance Board, Etc...
Mobility: Most consoles can be put on backpacks and can be transported easily. Note that Notebooks also qualify for this, but not all Notebooks are made to be gaming machines.
PCs Pros:
MultiTask System: A PC can be a gaming machine, but it's still a PC. This means you can search the intarwebz, download applications/games, send e-mails, do homework, listen to music, watch videos, view photos and a lot of other things. Some modern Consoles can play music/videos/photos, browse the web and send e-mails but not in the extent computers can.
Free Games: There's a lot of quality Free Games floating on the web, and you can download them all, or even play on the browser.
PC-Exclusive Games: Most of the games that make heavy use of the mouse (Strategy/Point'n'Click Adventure/Simulators/Some Puzzle Games) don't work well outside the PCs, so they are made PC-Exclusive.
Longevity: When a new console-generation comes, the gamer has to buy the new console to play new games. In PCs, the only thing you need to play new games are a new Video Card and some more RAM, not needing to buy a new one each generation. Eventually, you'll have to buy a new PC, but not every generation, for sure.
Backwards Compatibility: Old Consoles Games can only be played on the consoles they were made for, and not every console has backwards compatibility. In PCs, you can play from Commander Keen to Sonic Generations without loss of compatibility (You may need DOSBox to play DOS games, and some old Windows games may need special procedures to run on newer Windows, but nothing that can't be dealt with.)
Play Old Consoles Games(?): Well, this is it. Why will you buy consoles and console games, when you can download an emulator adn ROMs?
Well, it has Cons, though. Not all consoles have emulators, some emulators are not perfect and most Newer Consoles (PS1/PS2/GC/Wii) need a powerful machine to run properly. Besides, if you don't own the console/game you're playing, this is classified as piracy (Not that i'm against, i even have some NES/SNES ROMs on my PC).
So this is it. If you never owned a Console nor a PC, i would suggest you getting a PC first, then choose a Console you found intresting and worth paying for, then upgrading your PC to be a gaming machine.
However, the line between PC and Consoles is narrowing more each day. Consoles can do more things that PCs do and PCs can do more things a Console can do. For this, i don't care. If i can keep playing Quake on my PC, i'm fine with anything that comes.
Gaming: Consoles X PCs
Blog entry posted by TiagoDu, Feb 22, 2012.
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