{"id":123351,"date":"2022-01-27T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123351"},"modified":"2022-01-27T13:03:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T11:03:33","slug":"pc-vs-console-war-a-possible-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/123351-pc-vs-console-war-a-possible-ceasefire","title":{"rendered":"PC vs Console war: A possible ceasefire?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overall, PC’s are more expensive yet offer longer usability. Consoles have a better plug and play approach but go out of date quickly.<\/p>\n

Game stores like Steam increase PC owners freedom of choice, but consoles often have great exclusives.<\/p>\n

The newly released Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 have hardware that makes them very similar to PCs; deciding between gaming systems is now even harder.<\/p>\n

To hopefully bring peace to the internet for once and for all, we took an objective stance by looking at numbers and putting aside our personal biases.<\/p>\n

Costs<\/h3>\n

One of the undeniable factors that weigh into a players decision to choose between a console or a PC is the money they have to spend to play the games they want to.<\/p>\n

Usually, consoles are cheaper:<\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Console<\/th>\nPrice<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
PlayStation 5<\/td>\nR13 500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Xbox Series X<\/td>\nR11 998<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nintendo Switch<\/td>\nR8 999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
PC Type<\/th>\nPrice<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Entry level<\/td>\n+\/- R7 600<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Good<\/td>\n+\/- R13 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Enthusiast<\/td>\n+\/- R30 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Pricing PC’s is tricky.<\/p>\n

One must account for the various parts that can fluctuate in prices, such as the graphics card, CPU, fan, Motherb0oard, Ram, SSD, power supply and case.<\/p>\n

You don’t have to build your PC. For example, a prebuilt budget gamer PC with an i7 11700K RTK 3060 currently goes for R29 099 on Evetech.<\/p>\n

Bear in mind that the above PC prices exclude a monitor, mouse and keyboard, whereas traditionally, a console can be connected to the home TV and comes with a controller.<\/p>\n

Upgradability<\/h3>\n

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PC’s are entirely modular and can outlast consoles by constantly being upgraded. In five years, what you would spend on buying the newest console can be spent on a better GPU or cooling system for your PC.<\/p>\n

Consoles, however, do not provide upgradability; what you buy is what you get.<\/p>\n

Exclusive Games<\/h3>\n

Big triple-A adventure titles have often been console exclusives. Whether that is why a player buys a console depends on how badly they want to play the game.<\/p>\n

With consoles having more exclusive games, one must not forget that PC’s have more extensive libraries.<\/p>\n

Due to backwards compatibility, Steam, Epic Games and GOG enable players to play games from the early 2000s.<\/p>\n

Additionally, PC players have overall more games at their disposal.<\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Console Exclusives<\/th>\nPC Exclusives<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Forspoken<\/td>\nValheim<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Horizon Forbidden West<\/td>\nInscryption<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
God of War Ragnarok<\/td>\nWildermyth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Accessibility<\/h3>\n

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Consoles have prided themselves on having a plug and play approach to gaming. Within a few seconds from switching on your console, you and your friends can be playing games together on the couch.<\/p>\n

With a PC, it’s not uncommon for you to install drivers and manage files before playing.<\/p>\n

No matter the statistics, most of it comes down to personal preference.
\nBoth systems should be respected for their merits. The player has to make this decision.<\/p>\n

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Read: Why I could not stand Fallout 76<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is an objective approach to make peace between the “PC Master-race” and console lovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":123353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[21,9078],"class_list":["post-123351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-hardware","tag-headline","tag-pc-vs-console"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123360,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123351\/revisions\/123360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}