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Gaming Platform of Choice - Console

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-flame-war dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sick of PC snobs bragging about their "superior" gaming rigs? This opinion piece (a rebuttal lobbed at a previous article taking the opposite stance) presents the other side of the eternal debate over gaming preference — consoles vs. PCs. Get 10 good reasons why consoles are a better way to game with your hard-earned dollars. "

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  1. Did someone's cousin write this? by jandrese · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That article just wasted 2 whole minutes of my life. If you're brand new to the console/pc flamewar it'll give you the same arguments that everybody else has already heard a million times, but if not, don't bother.

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    1. Re:Did someone's cousin write this? by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh, I dunno, if you're double jointed or have a third arm, a console controller is not that big of a hinderance to playing an FPS game.

    2. Re:Did someone's cousin write this? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny
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  2. blah blah blah by Jerf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For any two items with varying characteristics in multiple dimensions where neither is obviously worse or superior, the decision about which is "better" says more about the decision metric/weightings than the items being judged.

    It's basically just a definition debate; once you accept a definition of "better", you almost immediately have your answer about which is better.

    Defitition debates can be dry, but productive. Defitition debates where the participants don't realize they're in a definition debate, and argue as if their definition is some sort of universal, are boring and stupid.

    Console vs. PC arguments tend to fall in the latter category.

    I really gotta write up "definition debate" so I can just link to it.

  3. Pointless by colonslashslash · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Neither is 'better'. They both have their merits, and generalising by claiming one platform is inherently better than the other is just stupid IMO. Serious gamers will have both anyway.


    Generally, I'm more of a PC gamer, but that's because I've always had a lot of PC hardware for work, home entertainment (yes, that's one way of saying high definition streaming porn) and the intertubes, so it's easier to grab a game for one of my boxes rather than run out and buy a console. Saying that, I still have quite a few consoles from years past. The NES still gets cracked out from time to time when I'm feeling nostalgic.

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  4. Re:Meat and Potatoes by nosredna · · Score: 5, Funny

    7. [...]No porn [...] 'Nuff said.

    Well, that's it. PC for me.