[Closed] PC gamers

Not what you asked, but I went the other way ten years ago and never looked back.  I got tired of the arms race and having to worry about detail settings resolutions and frame rates.

I was sat there with £1500 worth of PC bits in an online shopping basket and suddenly realised, I'm about to spend a grand and a half on something to play World of Warcraft, this is bloody silly.  I bought a WoW-capable laptop instead, which I'm typing on right now.

Like Cougar I've gone slightly the other way, instead of upgrading I got an XBox One S which has kept me happy for now. When I do upgrade it will not be silly and will be for the long term, my current rig has a ten year old processor (albeit a really good one for the time) and about 8 year old GPU.

To be honest, it's easy to put down a console, less so a PC.

FWIW though, gaming and laptop are not words that should be used together.

Will keep the ps4 pro. To be fair I haven't tried the exclusives for PlayStation yet so give them a whirl. Keep the PC for Forza as forza horizon 4 looks good.

TBH it's really about the games you want to play. I lke strategy stuff, so PC. I don't do much arcade stuff any more, so no console. But even now neither can totally replace the other. I mean, they totally could, but the desre isn't there.

If you're going to have some kind of PC regardless then the cost difference between a console and a gaming PC is not that high.

Like with bikes and a lot of other hobbies - you can spend a lot of money on it but you don't have to.  I've spent a fair bit on my PC over the years but then I'm still using some parts I've had since the last console generation.

If you're not using the PS4 why keep it (says the guy with 6 consoles under the TV)?

£200 on a 6gb nVidea 1060gtx will sort you out so long as you are not wanting to run a monster resolution monitor.

Will play all modern games pretty much maxed out at 1920x1200

My PC is the same spec as the OP, it'll play anything at 1080p on very high or ultra settings.

Depends really, my PC is the center of my home entertainment, it hooked into a monitor and a large TV, I use it for TV, films, music, work and games. So for me it makes sense just to have a decent pc.

I bought a PS4 a few years ago and tried to like it but I just can't get on with controllers and the whole aim-assist thing in FPS games is just garbage, so gave it to a nephew and went back to PC gaming. If I could be bothered to spend the time adjusting to a controller I'd probably have a console as well as a PC but for most games a PC is the better option, it just costs a hell of a lot more.

Thankfully there's not really any console-exclusives that I'd really want to play anyway. The more annoying thing is when UIs (or games themselves) get adjusted so much to suit consoles that they're crap on a PC.

Always had both really, consoles and a decent spec'd PC.  Bought a PS4 for the exclusives, Uncharted, The Last of Us etc, as soon as they were complete the PS4 was just sitting not being used and collecting dust, the price of games shooting up so didn't buy anything for ages.

Like Cougar, I had a £1500 PC just for WoW, no longer play Warcraft but I feel now its just the same £1500 comp for GW2, D3 & Overwatch,  Its a pretty future proof spec (as far as that statement goes) so shouldn't need any major upgrades for a few years, unless something breaks.

Have contemplated moving back to a console to save space in the living room (where the comp is) and just getting a decent gaming laptop instead but i don't think i could cope with the tiny screen!!

Lost interest in spending hours or days playing games years ago. Last console was a Wii as that had the more short attention span / patience type gaming I'd do, but got bored with that also. I have a decent spec PC however for work/development purposes and while it's 5 years old now probably, it's high enough spec to play modern stuff with decent settings, so the odd few things I might want to take a look at I'll play on that (usually via Steam). Still though I buy stuff when they're super cheap, play it for an hour or so, and then never play it again.

I Use Console and Pc. When i play in strategic game or shooting games i use Pc becouse i prefer use mouse. But when i play in Sport game i use only console, in multiplayter are better players.

The gear/tech treadmill is only there if you get caught up in it.

I built my current PC about 6 years ago with an i7-2600k - I used an old GPU at the time. About two years ago I replaced the GPU with a GTX 970 and I bought a new PSU about 8 months ago just as a precaution.

Still get >100 fps in Overwatch, >150 in CS:GO. Some modern super graphics single player games (Deus Ex for example) do tax it a bit but it's still super playable 60fps.

I'll do the mobo and cpu some time this year, but not out of need, just out of future proofing.

Exactly the same as Cougar above - I shifted to a gaming laptop as my only PC and love it. Core i7, 16GB RAM, Geforce GTX970M plus onboard Intel graphics for non-gaming stuff. Upgradeability is pretty much nil, but in a sense it's easier to live with in that regard.

I'd have a PS4 for the Playstation exclusives; but anything that comes to Xbox will hit PCs at some point, and then you can run it through your TV with a controller anyway.