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Sure, here's what's better about consoles.

They're cheaper. They just are. The cheap PC gaming thing is a myth. A console is $350. People talk about the $400 gaming PC that outperforms a console all the time, but 1) it doesn't and 2) it certainly won't In a year or 2. Consoles are reliable and "futureproofed" because the industry will continue to design for them for the rest of their active lives. We all (and by "we" I mean the game developer academia circle) thought/hoped that things like DX12 and Mantle would help shrink the massive gap in performance that happens on PC over consoles, and it might, but it hasn't happened yet, and the prospects aren't looking as good as they once did. Pound for pound, consoles wildly outperform PCs. As any good PCMRer will proudly tout, consoles run underclocked versions of middle of the road outdated chipsets. But they hit way, way above their weight class because of how much closer to the metal console programming is. Add in the sorts of optimizations that you can only perform with a completely uniform, standardized system, and your $350 machine gets you through 8 years of titles. Your $350 PC would be lucky to get you through 8 months.

What logically follows is ease of use. To use a console you 1) purchase it 2) plug it in 3) turn it on. And then it will work. Perfectly, with every game, with no fuss or input on your behalf, for the better part of the next decade. I mentioned before that I'm playing XCOM 2 on my PC, and it's great, but there was an issue between it and my card, so I had to update to a beta driver before I could get it to run. Then it was still sort of fucky until I messed with something in the (thankfully very open) ini file. Your average consumer isn't a game developer though, so beta drivers and ini files are more than just a minor nuisance for them, they're a major roadblock. Anyone who recommends PC gaming to non-tech savvy people is deluding themselves.

Beyond that, consoles are inherently more social. Whenever I play on console, I'm in a party with my friends pretty much constantly. We can pretend that PCs are the same way, but they're not. Unless you're raiding in WoW or something, nobody really goes on vent or TS or Skype or whatever. And way more of my friends are on console than PC. And that's not just a coincidence, it goes back to the former point that anyone on Earth can get a modern gaming console and expect to be able to operate it and any game they acquire adequately. Same can't be said in any way for PC gaming.

There's a bunch of other minor things. "Couch gaming" (because despite "big picture mode" and everything else, using a PC with just a TV and a controller is still a pain in the ass), the fact that I can also use it as a local multiplayer party machine, using it to control my TV/Netflix/music/whatever.

There's tons of reasons consoles are better than PC. Except they're not better. They're different. Which is the part that PCMR fuckwads can't seem to go through their greasy little skulls. PC gaming and console gaming are not in competition, they're completely separate things that each have their own awesome qualities, but you pieces of shit just have to insist on being superior, to the fact that you have unironically called PC gaming "objectively superior" several times in your laughable fountains of bullshit. So, once again, go fuck yourselves you PCMR shit stains.

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