{"id":989,"date":"2020-12-15T16:01:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T16:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cyberpowersystem.co.uk\/?p=989"},"modified":"2024-10-29T14:56:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T14:56:58","slug":"switching-from-console-gaming-to-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberpowergaming.co.uk\/gaming-pc\/switching-from-console-gaming-to-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I switch from console gaming to PC gaming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s an interesting time in the life cycle of the big games consoles. The new systems are here, and that leaves owners of older ones with a decision to make. Is it better to go for the Microsoft system or the Sony one? Or is it time to make the switch from console gaming to the wonderful world of PC gaming?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re here to make the case for the PC. Now, it won\u2019t have escaped the attention of astute readers that this is a PC gaming blog, running on the website of a business whose purpose is to sell gaming computers. Well, we hold our hands up \u2013 we have a financial incentive to sell you a PC over a console.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With that said, let\u2019s run through an easily-digested list of pros (and a few cons) of making the switch to PC!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Superior performance<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A decent PC will run games a lot better than even a brand-new games console can. Indeed, the new consoles have been around for all of five seconds, and already they\u2019re being overshadowed by desktop PCs. The console versions of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-2020-watch-dogs-legion-ps5-vs-xbox-series-x-series-s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watch Dogs: Legion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for example, are capped at 30fps, and will dynamically downscale the resolution to stay under the cap. A 2060 Super running equivalent settings will deliver much the same performance \u2013 while a 3080 or equivalent will go even further. For multiplatform games, you might find that the very best textures can only be found on PC. As time goes by, the gap between the two kinds of systems is only likely to widen.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More options<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the joys of PC gaming is the ability to dive into menus of graphical options and to tweak the settings to your liking. Maybe you don\u2019t like motion blur, you can simply turn it off. If you want the game to run faster, you can sacrifice a little bit of texture quality. You can even dive into config files and change things that aren\u2019t even in the options. That\u2019s how those Watch Dogs comparisons were made \u2013 the PS5 and Xbox settings are right there in the config!<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upgrades<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over time, new components may come out that will make your machine run that little bit faster. If you own a PC, you can simply buy them, plug them in, and enjoy the extra frames. Consoles tend to be a little more rigid.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Streaming<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re looking to share and record gameplay footage, the PC presents an enviable range of programs. Graphics card manufacturers are even bending over backwards to offer <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-gb\/geforce\/broadcasting\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">onboard video encoding<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which alleviates the strain from the CPU and allows for easy streaming. While similar leaps forward have been made on consoles, if you want to edit the footage and superimpose your own fancy graphics and titles, you\u2019ll need a PC that\u2019s up to the task.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The games<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are thousands upon thousands of PC titles to play, and you don\u2019t need to worry about compatibility issues between generations. What ran on your old machine will almost certainly run on your new one.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of the big hitters on console, like Player Unknown\u2019s Battlegrounds and Minecraft, got their start on PC \u2013 and you can be reasonably sure that the next cultural phenomenon will follow a similar trajectory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s more, there\u2019s the modding community. On PC, it\u2019s easy for technically-minded players to go under the hood and start tinkering with games, adding in character models and even entirely new modes of play.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You might think that this is a fringe thing, but consider the list of success stories. DayZ started out as a mod of Arma 2. Defence of the Ancients started out as a mod of Warcraft III. Counterstrike and Team Fortress stemmed from Half-Life 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re trying to persuade your parents that buying a PC is, in fact, a great move for your future career, then you might casually mention just how much money these franchises are raking in every year. It\u2019s not a trivial sum.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cost<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here we have something of a double-edged sword. If you want a machine that\u2019s specced the same as a console, you\u2019ll have to pay a little more. If you want a machine that\u2019s vastly superior to a console, you\u2019ll have to pay a lot more. That\u2019s even before you consider the cost of peripherals, monitors and fancy RGB lights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With that said, there are savings to be found on the PC. These mostly come from the price of the games themselves. Platforms like Steam regularly offer games at knock-down prices. At the time of writing, highly-rated games like Red Dead Redemption II, Disco Elysium and Control: Ultimate Edition are all available at heavy discounts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe you\u2019re getting through a lot of games, then the savings will quickly offset the price of entry. You might even find that you already own one or two PC games: CD Projekt have made The Witcher 3 on PC available for free to those who\u2019ve already bought it on other systems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then there\u2019s the fact that you have to pay a subscription to play online on a console. Xbox Live or PlayStation Plus will set you back around forty quid for an annual subscription \u2013 after five years, that\u2019s \u00a3200. What seemed like a good deal can quickly turn sour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re just coming up with a rough budget, then figure out what games you\u2019ll be playing, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">take a look at our PCs built to cope with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019re not taking the TV<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Say you\u2019re living with other people, then console gaming can create a problem. You want to watch the latest episode of the Crown; they want to beat the snot out of Yoshimitsu. On a PC, you don\u2019t have this problem \u2013 you\u2019re playing on an entirely separate system and monitor, and everyone\u2019s happy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Convenience<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you buy a console, you\u2019re buying something that\u2019ll work from day one. You plug it in, you accept the user license agreement, you wait for the day one patch to download, you restart the system\u2026you start to yearn for the days where console games came on cartridges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fact is that the lines between PC and console gaming are a little blurry these days, and the advantage of convenience isn\u2019t as significant as it once was. This is especially true when you consider all of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk\/category\/gaming-pcs\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prebuilt systems available from the Cyberpower store<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 they\u2019re ready to go in much the same way as a new games console, and they\u2019re a lot more powerful, too!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-879 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cyberpowergaming.co.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/UK_EZPC_Build-My-PC_Mobile-Banner_768x329-e1604073182155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyberpowergaming.co.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/UK_EZPC_Build-My-PC_Mobile-Banner_768x329-e1604073182155.jpg 760w, https:\/\/cyberpowergaming.co.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/UK_EZPC_Build-My-PC_Mobile-Banner_768x329-e1604073182155-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to get more out of gaming by making the switch from console gaming to the wonderful world of PC gaming. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174380893,"featured_media":998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1364,1361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming-pc","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Should I switch from Console to PC gaming? 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