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Message: [QUOTE="McDoob, post: 69671, member: 30263"] Wait, wait, wait. Let me just stop you right there. PC has always been the best way to game. Not just this year, but ALWAYS. Specifically for your Reason #5. The majority of (but not all) consoles can be emulated perfectly, or at least playably well. Why buy a bajillion different consoles, when you can buy just one PC? This has been the case for literally decades, with the first emulators coming out in the early '90s. And generally for the number of game titles available. PC-only games vastly outnumber console-only titles by a huge margin, and always have. Add in the ability to play those console-only titles on said PC, and there really is no contest. PC wins by default. But there's more! Is it cheaper to buy a console, compared to a similar-performance PC? Usually, yes. But again, you'd have to buy ALL the consoles (each one costing about as much as a period-correct PC), and you'd still be severely limited in what you can do. Which brings me to my next point (and your Reason #4). Is it easier to use a console? Again, yes. It requires very little effort to play a game on a console. And here comes the but: basically all you can do is play games; maybe watch a movie or listen to music as well. That's changed with more recent systems, for sure, but no console is a King-Of-All-Trades like the PC. I cannot think of one reason why any specific console has ever been or could ever be better than a PC. They have advantages, but their disadvantages are greater. /rant -McD [/QUOTE]

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