Nvidia says "PC is far superior" to any console gaming platform

I used to have a PC to play games, it has 500W PSU. It ate so much electricity, I felt it in my bills. Right now I work on my Mac, and frankly, I play many games on it. Still, it's not powerful enough for modern games, but why do I have to build a PC just to play games? I'm considering PS4, unless Valve comes up with something better. I do not need a huge, hot, power-eating, dust-collecting brick just to play games. I need something more compact and mobile.
 
I always enjoy people who seem to be OK with the fact that the average person's education is so low that we need gaming consoles because they are easier to use.

Then no one should have a computer because it makes writing and sending letters easier.
No one should use a remote control because it's easier to change the channel.
No one should use a smartphone because it's easier to store phone numbers.

No one is forcing anyone to buy anything.
 
Hello ...

A.G.R.E.E ! ... & with SteamBox coming out to ease things up (even if I prefer to build my own)

The reasons I keep to some consoles as secondary gaming machines would be for their exclusive games ... but PC for most other games ...

cheers!
 
Do they say that a 500 dollar PC is far superior then a 500 dollar console? or that a 1500 dollar pc is far superior to a 500 dollar console? Oh yea, damn how superior those 400-500 series nvidia users feel about their system since march 2013, when the last working nvidia driver has been released, all newer drivers do is freeze, give errors, crash the system in 1000 ways. I really don't see this superiority, especially not from nvidia these days.
 
I bet Nvidia is saying this just because both consoles are using AMD chips. I've known since the days of AMD K5 that PC is superior specially with AI. Excuse me, while I go talk to Cortana....
 
Biggest downside of PC towards Console for me is that the PC is huge and in another room than my TV. I also want to operate with a mouse and keyboard on PC and that requires a chair and desktop for me, from the couch it wouldn't work.

Finally Console is way more convenient than PC because you don't have to fiddle around with all sorts of configs and updates and hardware.

fun fact I used to like how consoles where simply: insert disc and play, with arcade titles just play while on PC you had to install games and have the CD. Now with steam its the opposite as console games now tend to require an installation.
 
Btw DOS PC had some phenomenal games so I really don't get why kids nowadays would start growing up loving the PC I know I loved it back then and so did I love my consoles and my handheld.
 
There are a few things I find pretty funny about this post.

For £420, you are building a budget PC. If you are building a budget PC, you get an AMD graphics card, because AMD blow NVidia out of the water for price/performance.

And at that price, don't expect it to last 6 years +, playing games on high. Or even low for that matter. The X360 had the equivilant of what you could call a radeon 1870. a 3870 can't play modern games, period. A 4870 can't play any games above low.

So expect to have to buy another graphics card (minimum £100 really) over the 6 years +. And then expect the processor to be a massive bottleneck by then (A Core 2 Quad Extreme edition, circa 2006 will bottleneck any modern GPU, and that was the equivalent of Ivy Bridge E in 2006 at about £800 for the processor. If we are still following Moore's law, expect the same to hold true). And with the new processor comes a new mobo. And then DDR4 RAM on top of that to replace your DDR3.

And the ENTIRE thing stinks of butthurt from NVidia's point of view.
 
Consoles have nearly ruined gaming. We were stuck with the last generation of consoles for almost a decade - this completely stagnated gaming technology.

Not only that, but I have a pile of PS2 games on my shelf that I can no longer play, but I can still play most of the PC games I bought over the last 20 years and they will remain playable for the next 20.
 
Consoles have nearly ruined gaming. We were stuck with the last generation of consoles for almost a decade - this completely stagnated gaming technology.
Consoles haven't ruined gaming, maybe slowed it down a bit because of old technology, but not much (only someone who believes that graphics are more important than gameplay would try arguing that). Developers like Activision and EA, who pump out rehashes and ruin games, are more to blame than consoles would ever be -_-
 
Comparing the Xbox One and PS4 to a gaming rig is like Comparing a bottle of Buckfast to bottle of Screaming Eagle(expensive wine). There may do the same thing but there is simply no comparison! ;) LoL
 
This is just another rant from NVidia being butt hurt over the fact that AMD got all the consoles graphics (2 got both processor and graphics). The thing is anyone everyone knows that PC's (well most people at least) are better than console in terms of hardware and thats why normally the PC version of a multi-plaform game looks better than its console counter parts.

But even with the ancient hardware in the PS3 and XBOX 360, look at the graphics on those from the most recent games and they still look really good in most cases because the programmers have gotten good at optimising the code to run on the hardware they know each console has. With consoles, you can guarantee each one has the exact same general hardware (Processor, GPU, etc) so you know where you can pull extra power from vs on a PC where theres a market of hundreds of different possible video cards and video card combinations that could be in each machine not to mention combining that with the wide range of processors, ram, HDD/SSD's, etc and you have to just generalize the performance of everything.

I like my consoles and my gaming rig PC's and laptops, they are have a place on the table.

NVidia could have gotten the consoles that they claim they dont care about (Even though they have the Shield...) if they could take the monocle off and put the tea cup down to realise that charging 30% more for a 5-10% performance increase is not enough to convince the most gamers/other companies. I loved NVidia for years and still do, but its at the point where I feel I cant justify the cost of their high end GPU's vs the competition.
 
You nailed it. I'm a PC only gamer and the whole elitist thing is stupid. No matter what you do to/on a PC, it will not equal the experience gamers get on consoles.

One thing I wouldn't mind having on PC that console gamers have, is one service that allows voice chat support in EVERY online multiplayer title with ONE friends list for all of them. I don't like having to flip flop from Skype to TS to Steam chat with friends lists for each of them. Even if would cost $60/year, I'd pay it in a heartbeat.


Is Steam not very close to making your dream come true?
 
It's kind of your own fault for getting rid of your PS2 then.
I can't say what NeurotechHD would have done. If I had a console and decided to get rid of it, I would have gotten rid of the games at the same time. The shelf full of games that can no longer be played, points to a possible console failure.
 
Consoles have nearly ruined gaming. We were stuck with the last generation of consoles for almost a decade - this completely stagnated gaming technology.

Not only that, but I have a pile of PS2 games on my shelf that I can no longer play, but I can still play most of the PC games I bought over the last 20 years and they will remain playable for the next 20.

You could simply buy a used ps2 online for like $20 or just use PCX2 emulator? You don't have to junk all your games.
 
Okay... So why the heck did Nvidia release the Shield console recently? Nvidia just themselves a sore loser by releasing the statements.
 
Question to all PC gamers. Can you guys play uncharted, Halo 5 or even Metal Gear. No right? It's ok. it's ok dont cry please. Point is PC can be millions times more powerful but when it does not have AAA games like these then what's the point. Btw, I use to have a gaming PC with Gtx 570, I am glad I sold it, I was getting tired of playing gta 4 with mods.
 
Okay... So why the heck did Nvidia release the Shield console recently? Nvidia just themselves a sore loser by releasing the statements.

Nvidia Shield is hardly comparable to the full sized consoles, more of a portable gaming device, aka PSP than anything else.
 
I would be assembling a gaming PC this coming summer instead of the next-gen consoles. And you know what? It isn't due to the consoles possessing inferior hardware. I am simply waiting for them to work out the kinks. The PC would simply be an emulator and rarely play PC-dedicated games. Because even if I spend (and I will) 1000$ on a gaming PC, you RARELY have worthy games for gamers that actually does care about gameplay.

Seriously, half of the PC crowd are graphic ****** that prioritizes it over gameplay that I often wonder where they get off calling themselves gamers. If you want unsurpassed graphics, play real life; you'll get mind blown.
 
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