Hi Fireskull ! (Happy B-Day;o)
An interesting question :
As far as I am concerned, I would choose PC for flight simulations ;o)
Even if with a console you don't have to upgrade it to play new games and you will surely have beautiful graphics, for simulations I prefer to use a computer:
- First because the good airwar simulations games are on computer,
- Secondly, on consoles you have mainly arcade simulations which i don't like,
- Third, you can manage a lot of things with your keyboard,
- You can use your computer for other things than gaming,
- And last, the price of a computer game is less expensive.
Ted ;o)
No contest, a PC anyday.
Consoles are a one-shot deal whereas PCs can do so much more. Consoles are clearly aimed at the younger set and there aren't many in-depth games but predominantly shoot-em-ups and the horrendous side-scrolling punch-up games (ackpth!!!). LOL.
PCs and graphics can be upgraded without much effort (usually) whereas Consoles are "what you get" etc. Consoles and their controllers are nowhere near as smooth as a mouse or a joystick. There is no real sense of immersion in consoles (and I don't think console programmers have any intent to do that).
Mods for games are more readily available for PC and have dedicated groups of people for that (e.g. IL2 1946, SH3 and 4, and so on). You can get more "thinking" games for PC than console.
Personally, I loathe consoles as I see them as the 21st century arcades for the junior set but that's my own opinion. To each his/her own.
It's pretty plain that most of the people HERE (including me), being IL-2 players, will vote for the PC. 8) I more or less agree with what others said above
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Hi!
A PC, because a game console is a kind limited and simplified PC, you can do a lot of things with a PC that you can not do with a game console.
A PC can emulate (simulate) a game console but vice versa is not possible, so inside a PC you have a game console too and much more,
you can technically change inside a PC and upgrade it if needed but this is not possible with a gaming console as I know, and most
important you can MODIFY (by modifying the game you can customize it as you wish like il2 sturmovik 1946) the most PC games but not game console games.
Hmmmmmmmm tough to say on which will out last the other
Having been around long enough to actually played Pong, owned an Atari 2600, an oringinal NES, and a Coleco system...Consoles were actually on their death bed in the mid 1980's with the explosion of the PC, via Apple, Texas Instruments, IBM, and Commodore.
But thanks to the Japanese ala Nintendo and Sony (SEGA) the consoles came back from the dust heap of technology...I am sure that the PC will be on top again for a while with gamers.
Also during the mid 80s it was the software people like Activision that kept some of the older systems going until something came long to replace them...
That is where the market needs flexibility...currently there are no crossover technologies...In the old days of 8 bit games...Commodore, Atari, and Coleco made there games adaptable to other systems...in other words you were able to play Atari Games on Coleco systems if you had an adapter...Atari 2600 games also worked in the 5200 with the adapter as well
Nintendo did that with their first two systems but stopped it.
THe question of economics that comes with the console why pay 50 bucks for a game that you will not be able to play on an updated version of the console you are using in a couple of years or so?
The PC has the option of gutting it, putting in an OS and adapting it to run the older game with in reason...
I will say overall cyclic nature of the gaming community that both will continue on growing and falling popularity, until they both become too specialized and rigid and end up on the dust bin of tech history, when replaced by some thign like Holo technology, or maybe people realize that are more life like ways to do shooter games, like participate in Historical Reenacting, at least in that hobby you usuallly have to put down a good deal of money in the beginning and except of travel...you never have to have a serious upgrade. Also you get the added advantage of meeting real people face to face.
When micro soft start supporting mouse and keybourds i guess.
Well, there are some pretty big name games available for PC and many guys prefer to plug their control gear into the computer, even a laptop, instead of using the keyboard.
Sometime in the last couple years I have tried both Valve and Steam. There are things which I liked about both of them and others not so much, but always thought Valve has a brighter future. I wonder if anyone else has the same impression. Valve wanting to be innovative fits my experience with their stuff, especially the user friendly aspects.
I prefer the keyboard for some things, by the way, so I'm not knocking it. Sometimes mixing keyboard and other controllers is cool to me, too. I really prefer to use both hands for flexibility, instead of having to take my eyes off the screen to search for a button.
Fireskull