PC Gaming (pro) vs Console Gaming (con)

Let's get this heated debaet under way! ==============================================================================CostFact of the matter is that a PC Gaming is going to cost you less than Console Gaming in the long run. The reasoning for this is quite simple, look at this picture(If this picture is too small - then check out the website) [1]: Now this graph shows a couple of key things. It is more expensive to buy a gaming PC, the Consoles are definately cheaper. Then this chart shows that the average PC game is $40 and an average Xbox/PlayStation game is $60. The chart then uses an example in which someone were to buy 40 games between now and the next generation of consoles (buying 40 games in 8 years is quite common. That's 5 games a year). Here is where we start seeing the cost diferences. Since Console games are more expensive, in 8 years a person would spend $2,400 on games, where as a PC gamer would only spend $1,600. Furthermore, we must account for 8 years of Xbox live/PSN susbscription fees. One might argue that you don't need to buy any subscription fees, but let's be honest here. Buying a Console without having multiplayer is like buying a house without any furniture. You don't need to buy furniture. .. but at the end of the day it's pretty useless without it. Xbox will cost $480, while PS4 will have $400 with 8 years of paying the subscription. Considering everything that is present in the graph - taking the Route of PC Gaming will cost you $2,248 while Console Gaming will cost you $3,200 - $3,380. The chart also has some notes that it makes, and it's a good idea to go over these. First of all, the Gaming PC that was $650 is able to run games at 60 FPS, so we aren't talking about a crappy PC here. We are talking about something that can run pretty much every game. It's clear that a PC will save you money in the long run, but it will actually start saving you money as short as a year. Conclusion: While the intital cost of a PC might be more than the cost of the Consoles, the PC will start saving you money in as short as a year. Over the course of 8 years (until the release of the next generation of Consoles), you will save $1,036 (Xbox One) or $856 (PS4). No matter which way you look at it - taking everything into consideration , PC Gaming is cheaper than Console Gaming. ModsMods are modifications that players can make to games. Currently, none of the consoles have mod support. Mods add more content, and an enhance one's gaming experience. For example, let's take the game Skyrim. Skyrim is a great game, and it has hundreds of hours worth of content packed into it. However, as awesome as it is, the modding community makes it 100x better. Why? Because players can add things into the game that may not be there. Is there an item that you want in the game? Done. Are you done with the game? Do you want more content? There are mods that add more content than DLC's! Want a certain type of armor in game? Done. Practically anything you could think of can be added with mods. They enhance the user's experience with the game. Not everyone may like downloading mods, and that's fine. But we have to look at the whole community of gaming. Many people would like the opportunity to download mods so that it can enhance their game, and consoles just don't support mods. Conclusion: Mods are only supported on PC and not Console. Mods enhance the user's experience of the game by adding items, content, etc. (virtually anything). We can conclude that being a PC Gamer will envoke a better experience with games than a Console Gamer, because Console Gamers don't have access to mods. Game TitlesSome people think that Consoles have better exclusive titles than PC. However, fact of the matter is that PC has more exclusive titles than Consoles, and PC titles are often better than the Console exclusives.1. First of all it's worth noting that a LOT of popular games on consoles were orginially PC games. For example, Call of Duty [2], Battlefield [3], Minecraft [4], etc. 2. Furthermore, it is to be noted that there are many types of games that you can not play on Consoles. For example, MOBA's, MMORPG's, Point-and-Click Type Games (Ex. Diablo, Torchlight 2, etc. ).3. There are more PC exclusive titles than Console Exclusive titles (I couldn't find a smaller image) [5]: There aren't many Console Exclsives that grab my attention. The only titles I can think of are Gears of War or maybe Halo. But even these titles aren't as good as the PC exclusives such as, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2 (This game is 100x better than Halo). None of the Console titles truly are interesting to me - and the ones that are were once PC titles. If my opponent wants to make a list of good console exclusive titles and try to convince me that there are good exclusives on console, compared to exclusives on PC, he can [try to] do so. Conclusion: PC games have many more exculive titles when compared to Consoles. They have many more indie games that tend to come to consoles. Many popular games that are currently Consoles started out onna PC. Since none of the Console exclusives are very interesting, and since their PC counterparts are a LOT better. PC games are better than Console games. EsportsEsports are somewhat new, but they are defiinetely growing. I'm not sure how competetive Console Gaming is, but PC Gaming can get VERY COMPETETIVE. I'm sure that they are lots of competitions for prizes for Console Players, but there is just a LOT more for PC gamers. Some of the biggest Esports tend to be MOBA's such as League of Legends and Dota 2, which aren't availaable on the Console. And this is BIG. For example: As you can see there are a LOT of players that get involvedConclusion: PC gamers tend to be more competetive. As a result the Community of gaming tends to grow. Such big sporting events are not possible on Consoles. Backwards CompatibilityConsoles are not backwards compatible. That means that if I were to buy a game on PS3 it's not going to be available on PS4 unless I buy the PS4 version. I need to pay another $60 for a game that I already bought. This is not the case with PC. Steam will always sync all of the games that you have bought to any computer that you have. And for the games that are not on Steam - they all have accounts, and once the game is downloaded and you log into your account, all of the data will be saved, which is not the case with the ConsolesConclusion: PC games are backwards compatible which means that you don't have to rebuy the game if you were to buy another PC. Consoles are not backwards compatible, which means you must buy the game again if you want to play it on a different console or another generation of the same console. Obviously the PC is better in this regaurd. Hardware and Graphics:It is an undeniable fact that the PC has better graphics. I think my opponent is aware of this already, but I will elaborate a little bit:1. The Graphics are MUCH better. The $650 PC mentioned above should be able to run games on better graphics than the Xbox One/PS4.2. The Hardware on a PC is upgradable. With all of that money that you can save with a PC you can upgrade your Hardware every couple of years. Mind you that the PC will already be better than the Consoles from the get-go, but upgrading the Hardware will make it even better. Conclusion: The Graphics on a PC are much better than Console. Also, the upgradable hardware make the PC run better, where as you can't upgrade the hardware in a consoleSimplicityI conceed this point. I agree that a Console is more simple and straighforward. I 100% agree with that. Conclusion: The argument about simplicity goes to Con. I conceed that argumentCommunity:The PC community tends to be more mature than the Console Community. I don't mean to say that Mature Players don't play on Console or that Immature players don't play on PC. But the majority of PC players are going to be more mature than console playersConclusion: PC has more mature players, which means it envokes genearlly a better experience. Controls:This comes down to personal preference at the end of the day. But PC wins here because:1. Keyboard and Mouse is MUCH more precise than a Controller2. PC's will let you add controllers for games with controller support, but a Console will never let you add a Keyboard and Mouse to play withConclusion: Keyboard and Moues is more precise. Furthermore, PC will let you use controller while Console won't let you use a Keyboard. We can conclude that PC will allow for more vareity of controls and will be more precise when using mouse and keyboardCommunicating In-Game:Communicating in game can be done with Console and PC, but the PC wins here because it has the ability to text chat. The consoles have the ability to text chat as well. .. but it's pretty useles. It takes like 5 minutes to type a sentence. With a PC you can talk with a mic or you can type - where as in Console you are limited talking with a mic. So if you just wanted to tell your friend one quick thing, you would have to turn on voice chat instead of just typing it in, which would have taken only a couple of seconds. Conclusion: PC offers Text and Voice chat. While Console offers text chat, it's pretty much useless, and you can only use voice chat. ==============================================================================I will stop right here. Overall PC gaming is better for the reasons i have mentioned above. I look forward to my opponents arguments. Next round will be rebuttals =)==============================================================================Soucres:[1] . http://mp1st.com......[2] . http://en.wikipedia.org......[3] . http://en.wikipedia.org......(series)[4] . http://en.wikipedia.org...... [6] . http://www.redditian.com...