PC Gaming vs Console Gaming

Thank You for accepting. Let's Begin!===================================================================Let's start talking about the major thing that people seem to debate about; The PricePricing is what seems to turn many people away from PC Gaming, as PC's have a bigger initial cost. However, many people fail to realize that in the long run, A PC will be much cheaper. Allow me to go into expand upon this point.An Xbox One will cost you around $500 while a PS4 will cost you around $400. Now this is going to be cheaper when compared to a Gaming PC. But what exactly is a Gaming PC? And how much does one cost?A gaming PC is generally built by the person Gaming. This allows for great Custmozation. I could have gone onto PC part picker and built a $500 Gaming PC. However, for the sake of this debate, I'm going to be using a pre-built Gaming PC. This is so that my opponent will be able to see all of the specs of this PC, and how exactly it runs.The Gaming PC that I will be comparing these Consoles with will be: The Vanquish 2 Level 3 by Digital Storm (you can see all of the hard-ware components of this PC here: https://www.digitalstormonline.com...)This PC is priced at $979. As you can see, this is infact more expensive then the Consoles. Considerably more expensive. However, in order to play anything online (to play multiplayer) on a Console, there is a pesky subscription fee.The fee for Xbox Live is $60 a year and for PS4, it's $50 a year, respectively. Let's assume that we are going to own our Consoles and PC for 8 years (that's probably when the next generation of consoles will come out). We have to include $60 a year for Xbox Live, which means that would be $480. Now add that to the initial cost, and we get $980. If we look at the PS4, we would be looking at $400. Add that to the inital cost and we get, $800.But we can't just stop there. Just having a machine isn't going to be any useful unless we can play games on it. When it comes to the pricing of games, Console Games are going to be $60. Barely any sales are going to be involved. PC Games are going to be around $40. Now this is a very generous proposition, as PC games have TONS of sales and are generally quite cheaper than $40, but for the sake of this argument, let's just assume that PC games are around $40.Let's say that we get around 5 games a year (a reasonable amount). That would cost $300 a year for the Consoles. Again, we are going to keep these things for 8 years, so our total for the Xbox One would be $3,380 and our total for PS4 would be $3,200, respectively. For PC our total would be: $2,579.At the end of 8 years, you will spend:Xbox One: $3,380PS4: $3,200PC: $2,579Since we saved so much with the PC, I'll include some extra stuff in order to make this PC a full package. Let's include a: 1. 20 inch backlit LCD monitor for $90(http://www.officedepot.com...)2. A Razer Taipan Mouse, for ultimate precision while gaming, for $80 (http://www.razerzone.com...)3. A Razer BlackWidow Chroma Keyboard - An amazing Mechanical Keyboard, with some of the best mechanical keys on the market, in which every individual key can be custmozied to one of 16.8 million colors - for $170 (http://www.razerzone.com...)4. Logitech - Z506 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers 6-piece set, surround speakers to enhance the gaming experience with ultimate surround sound, for $70(http://www.bestbuy.com...)5. And lastly, let's throw in Logitech G230 Headset, an awesome headset for any gamer, for $60(http://www.target.com...)With all of these other accessories (Please note that I did go a little overboard with this. No one needs such expensive accessories to be a PC gamer. Some of these things are ridiculously expenive, but the only reason I stated them here was to illustrate my point.), our Grand Total would be: $3,049 - STILL CHEAPER!!!!!I was being generous too, by not adding the price of a TV in order to play a Console, but regardless - it's still cheaperNow let's go onto some other arguments:Mods:Mods and tons of hours of gameplay to a game. Take Skyrim for example; The game has many hours of content, but if you were to ever get bored, the mods add so much more gameplay. Mods add variety to a game that simply cannot be achieved on a Console.Playing on a Couch:A somewhat valid argument is that, with a Console you can play on a couch. However, this can be done on a PC as well. Simply connect your PC to your TV via HDMI cable and turn Steam on Big Picture Mode. Simple.Controls:I'm not going to get into the Keyboard and Mouse vs Controller argument, because that could be another debate in itself. However, fact of the matter is the Keyboard and Mouse can have better precision while gaming. Of course, even if you don't want to use a keboard and mouse, you can still use a controller to play on PC. Any controller you want. Want to play on the Xbox Controller for a particular game, and then want to switch to the PS4 controller? No problem.Emulation:Using emulation you can actually play any console game on PC. Including Wii Games.Backwards CompatibilityOn Consoles, you can't play games from the previous generation. A game that's released on the Xbox 360, but not released on Xbox One, will die eventually. However, you can play a game that was released on 2002 on a PC, and it will work fine.Exclusives:After seeing this Picture, you will change your mind about exclusives: Need I say more?Performance:The Hardware and Software on the PC is MILES better than the Consoles. You can't upgrade the Hardware on a Console, while you can do that on a PC. Of course, even if you don't upgrade the Hardware, the PC would KILL the Consoles in terms of graphics and just smoother gameplay. Here are the benchmarks of the PC that I used to compare to the Consoles (The Vanquish 2 level 3. Make sure you look at the level three specs): As you can see - the Consoles get wrecked in this area. The PC's performance is so much better.E-Sports:The Competitive Scene for Consoles cannot compete with the PC's competetive scene. games like LoL and Dota 2 have a much bigger fanbase and have much bigger prizes. The Prize Pool for LoL was 2 Million Dollars, while the Prize Pool for Dota 2 was a whopping 10.8 Million Dollars.Compare this with CoD's biggest tournament which was around 1 million, which is still respectable, and the Consoles aren't close to taking the biggest share of the E-Sports market. Also, look at how many fans this games have:LoL: Dota 2: =====================================================================I'm going to stop right here. I await to here my opponents opening arguments =)