@alessandro They both do different things well.
Consoles play games. That simplicity is slept on until you spend an hour or more trying to configure a game on PC or diagnose a persistent "crash on launch." No modularity but cheaper initial cost.
PCs offer modularity, multiple controller types, mods, and free online multiplayer. Also better, faster adoption of things like higher framerates. Also offer higher performance and increased modularity at the cost of higher prices.
To me, strategy games, mainly the real time ones. Command and Conquer, Age of Empires, Warcraft, Rise of Nations. Not only that, a large number of games had online multiplayer (which I never played back then because dial up), with every player on their own machine and screen!? HOLY SHIT!!!
Oh, even better than any console for the longest time, a significant number of PC games could be SAVED ANYWHERE AT ANY TIME.
Then there was emulation, where even old '95 computers could easily run the majority of SNES/Mega Drive (Genesis) games and back.
Mods, so Stalker, bethesda, etc, hell Fallout London just release and it’s fantastic, I doubt it will ever be ported over and it will probably cost something.
Just wanted to mention, mods are non-official. Meaning they will never be ported over to console (bar a jailbreak and concerted effort, or acquisition of the mod or mod team.)
Oh? I’d not heard of this. Is it that they are actually porting the mods, or making mod tools available for the console? If it’s the former, it makes sense to me. If it’s the latter, I wonder how they work around mods technically being the IP of their writers…
Warframe. Played once on PS4 for a couple hours and thought, meh. Played it on PC and poured 800 hours into it. Mouse, keyboard and high refresh rate make a night and day difference in action games or any game that requires camera movement. And that something consoles will never have no matter how much they improve.
PC is superior in many ways, and console is superior in some others. It depends on what you value. The only reason my wife plays on PC is because I helped her get everything set up, but she didn’t need any help at all to play on the PlayStation. If you just want to play games and don’t care about tweaking things or getting the best graphics, consoles are better because they’re simple. I like to tweak and tinker and get the best graphics I can and play with mods, so I’ve always been partial to PC.
Dating myself a bit but it had to probably be the first Half-Life. It wasn’t only about realizing how limited and awkward a gamepad is, but the mods opened my eyes too.
I still to this day don’t see the point of consoles. They’re just a way for companies to try and silo off customers and get everyone on proprietary hardware.