AmytheTemperamental said:
I vote for a universal console. Not everyone likes playing on PC (although it would be great if everything was available on there). And I find emulators rather annoying. So Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo - get your stuff together and make me a mega machine!
Most of the people that I have met that don't like playing games on PC are labouring under several misapprehensions. I usually hear things along the lines of:
"I can't use a controller"
Yes, you can, and you can choose whether you want it to be an Xbox One/Xbox360/PS3/PS4 controller or something entirely different.
"I like to play on the couch and my TV not a tiny monitor"
Well, your TV is just a giant monitor with a TV tuner anyway, so it's just as easy to connect a PC to that. Wireless pads, mice and keyboards will handle the rest. I'm typing this sat on a leather recliner in front of a large LED TV.
"PC games need constant patches and effort."
True... but then so do console games. Steam/Origin/uPlay will handle any patches for you in the same way a console does.
"PCs are too expensive"
This is kind of correct. You can spend a massive amount of money on a gaming rig, but it is possible to build one for not much more than the cost of a PS4 that will perform in a similar way and it can do so much more.
If you choose to spend a bit more for a better system then those costs can be recouped from much cheaper games. You can pre-order Arkham Knight Premium Edition for £24 - it's almost 3 times that price on the PS4 at the cheapest place I can find it. There are also no yearly fees to play online.
15 years ago, all of these would have been valid reasons, but these days, it's as simple as clicking play and that's pretty much it.
It would be nice if all the 'exclusives' came out on PC, but I can do without the ones that don't.