PC vs PS5 vs Xbox Series X

I play Apex on PS4 and will get PS5.

Why:

1. Control : My left finger can't handle the load when run on PC.

2. Comfort:   With PS4/5, I can play on big TV, easy on my eyes.

3. Economy: Cheaper on PS4/5, $300 dollar investment then you're done for few years. 

@apostolateofDOOM

Cheaper

Easier

More casual

Don't have to compete with rich kids and their supercomputers with their fps advantages and processing

Don't have to continously upgrade to play newer games

Don't like playing games with anything but a controller

Dem hacks

I will get PS5. For one only main reason: exclusives. Sony has so many good games that i really love(no, not Apex lol), and they already showed some of them in their reveal event. I'd play on PC too but i don't have the time and the will to create my PC or buy a really expensive one.

@apostolateofDOOM  I reverted from PC to console lol.

Honestly speaking, I had a PC for years sheerly out of necessity. Mobile phones were pretty rudimentary and tablets didn't exist, so you literally needed one for anything internet/office related....naturally I'd use one for gaming too as I had one, Plus back then the gap between PC and console was much greater.

Nowadays I don't own a PC or laptop, and have no real need for one either so I play console instead.

@asukojo What's wrong with your left finger? Comfort is one i understand, being able to chill and slouch on the sofa instead of your ergonomic gaming chair with adjustable recline, head/arm/leg rest with added support and comfort cushions. :P 

With a TV it's fine playing an rpg at 60hz but an fps with the TVs input delay on top would feel horrible imo.  Upgrading from 75 to 144hz was a really noticeable difference for me.

I also understand the price but paying for the privilege of their network over a few years also adds up an extra few hundred bucks on top of the roughly 500ish the PS5 will likely cost.

@littlxr Hacking is the bane of PC without question. Your hardware will be outdated in couple years whereas with a PC you can upgrade the components. Consoles also still break easier from what i heard (remembering the red ring on the 360 which pushed me to PC in the first place). I got mine with a rtx 2060 quite cheap (saved me a few hundred that i'll put towards the 3080 when it's released and that should keep me going for at least another couple years.

@Cro_Pittt I was steaming when i watched it and don't remember most but the title that did stand out to me was Horizon Forbidden West.  Any others i missed?

@MandatoryIDtag Traitor!! 😛 I use mine for work so it's still a necessity for now.

It's just one of those things, I feel there are pros and * to both types whilst still having a "clear" winner in the most powerful PC, of course being a better machine than a one-size-fits-all console. 

But, like the fabled Android/Apple debate, it likely comes down to a lot more than that for people, hence the comfort thing, maybe even a social thing? Friends all don't play PC, therefore do I sacrifice all social abilities for hardware, or go "lesser" for the enjoyment with friends? I think ultimately it'll just be simple preferences here and there yano?

As for breaking easier, I'm not sure. I don't know any statistics for consoles/PCs breaking and requiring maintenance over the other. All I know is that, in my entire life, I've had one console "break" on me (which was the Xbox 360 due simply to poor manufacturing choices in the chipboard/clamps, and I fixed that myself in about 10 solid minutes never to be seen again). 

So again, I think ultimately it comes down to preferences, and personal experiences. I know a guy who's broken his last five phones in a row, claiming they've all been hardware faults, when I've seen the way he treats his stuff, so I dunno. We'd never get a fair test to make the relevant assumptions I guess. 

I'm currently on Xbox, just renewed my first release Xbox One with the latest model and will be getting next gen a while after they release.

• Any game I buy for my Xbox I know is gonna run well.
• I tried Overwatch on PC and it was embarrassing how bad I was. Prefer controllers in every way.
• When you play a game like Apex on console with everyone running controllers, everyone has similar skill when it comes to their aiming. Winning your battles then comes a test of your tactics and teamwork, which is what prefer to be my test of skill. On PC though, if you have god like reflexes and aiming where your can flick onto someone's head, you're going to win your battles no matter how poor of a tactician you are. There's just too wide of a skill gap for aiming alone that I'm going to stay at the bottom of.
• Much cheaper and little to no maintenance aside from charging my controller. And of course...
• Virtually zero cheaters.

Unpopular opinion :

I don't believe that PC is the MR when it comes to gaming... Here me out.. 

So I totally get that PCs perform best, especially high end, and that PCs can be upgraded incrementally so it's not outdated after 7 years however, I believe that the model consoles follow create better games as a whole. 

1. Outdated hardware

To tackle the "outdated after 7 years bit".. Last of us came out at the end of the ps3 life cycle, and last of us 2 came out at the end of the Ps4 life cycle. You would imagine that the limits are hit at this point, but these games came out as some of the best looking and feeling games, even though the hardware didn't change. So I don't buy the outdated bit. 

2. Optimizing 

Developers can much easier build a game knowing EXACTLY what hardware it'll run on. They can stretch that hardware as far as it can go, particularly first party / exclusive developement. With pc, theres the lowest specs that holds back the games. 

3. The exclusive model

I know that most people hate exclusives, but they are actually an incredible system for creating better games. Sony and Microsoft are even looking at taking loses on hardware sales, because they know they will make profit on software / game sales. So they invest a ton into building the best games exclusively for their platform and sell the hardware at as low as possible amounts (even sometimes lower than the cost to build it)... This is obviously incredible for gamers both from a value perspective but also for quality. That amount of money being pumped into games and studios by Sony / Microsoft is a model that isn't replicated on PC. This is the primary reason I believe consoles have the best games 

4. Optimizing part 2

Following on optimizing, if a developer knows its working with, let's say ssd, then it can build know everyone playing this game will be on a super fast ssd. PC cannot do this because of minimum specs so all the very specialize hardware cannot be fully utilized or it'll cut off many pc players. So either pc games use the hardware a bit or don't rely on it. E.g. If you have an ssd on PC, it'll decrease the loading screen... It cannot change world design because that'll mean the game is only playable on PCs with an ssd. Whereas ps5, first party exclusives can design worlds differently now knowing thay the ssd is there and loads at a specific rate. Just knowing the hardware precisely means a lot. 

5. Controller

I enjoy controllers. I know I'd have better aim on keyboard mouse etc. I just enjoy the controller and everyone has the same limitations on controllers so that's cool. Plus the new ps5 controller is adding a few things that get me excited, especially adaptive triggers. 

6. I work (often from home) behind my PC. I don't feel like I'm chilling when I game on one as much as sinking into the couch. 

7. It just works 

For the most part. Little to no tinkering, and I experience a game as the developer intended it to be experienced 

So, although the best PCs are capable of more than the best consoles, I don't believe they are the master race of gaming. Specifically because the best games will not be created for them. The best games made will be exclusives for consoles (uncharted, last of us, horizon zero dawn, Spiderman to name few) 

Having said all this, I do understand pc allows much more diverse games - e.g. world of warcraft type games, dota etc (these are not very playable on a controller). 

note    I don't follow much gaming news anymore and so maybe I'm completely out of date with the best PC exclusives

note2  if it wasn't obvious I'm a ps fan, though I want all to do good because competition from Xbox etc means ps has to push harder, drop prices or make better games to stay on top and that's a win for all gamers)

@littlxr The original 360 was universally known to be of poor build quality and i heard no end of complaints about it. Went through 3 myself with 2 dying and selling the third.

At least the social factor has been addressed with crossplay as that was quite the divide back then.

@Srksii lol.

@Extremejinks Ease of use, price, comfort and equality appears to be big factors.

@RSArussian I'm in no way knocking consoles as i was ps fanboy back in the day and looking at the specs, an 8core16thread cpu , 16gb of ddr6 ram, fast ssd with a gpu that supports ray tracing is damn good at the 500 mark, PC or console.

I'm in a rush otherwise i would reply more in depth to your points so i may come back to this later today if i have time.