I have no problem with him enjoying himself, and didn’t criticize that at all. If you spend $60 on a game, I want you to enjoy it even if I don’t like it. That’s not my problem.

No Man’s Sky ran like shit on PS4 too though, so I’m inclined to blame the game more than the platform.

?? Expect for the part where you have to install the game and then download updates. Steam automatically does both.

You kinda just disproved your own point. Car enthusiasts are a small section of the market. 99% of PC gamers don’t have to upgrade for a long time. you are trying to take PC enthusiasts as an example for the whole PC market and that’s just plain not true.

I bought a computer 5 years ago and only upgraded the graphic card once. Keep on drinking that console kool aid.

Just wanted to add my two cents because I also just built a gaming PC. I loved the ps4 but with these shorter upgrade cycles with consoles, I figured I’d be better off building my own machine and having control over what and when I can upgrade moving forward. The initial investment is costly but the performance is…

If you want to be on the bleeding edge it can be expensive, but most people don’t. CPUs and mobos will last a long time if all you’re doing is gaming. The video card ages out, but usually after 3 or so years you’re running games at high instead of ultra. I’m on a 5 year old cpu and the only reason I upgraded from a 5…

You will understand next year when you come to realize how many of the components of that gaming PC you just bought will need to be upgraded in order to keep up with the requirements of new games coming out.

What a load of rubbish. Thers a reason why pc games have options. Usually the question is how well do you want your game to run? Depending on what kind of pc or pc they built they could possibly be set for years. At with this mid generation upgrade you can’t sit there and talk about the simplicity of console gaming…

I’ve had a laptop for 4 years, and only now am I struggling to maintain 1080p/60, 1080p/30fps is EASY, and my stuff wasn’t even high end in 2012, and still outperforms a base ps4.

A well made PC build with proper parts could do high graphics gaming for 4-5 years, easy.

Uhhh, what? You can easily get away with not upgrading for 5 years if you by current gen components...

My GTX780s are almost 4 years old and they STILL runs games better than the PS4k or Scorpio ever will. If you invest the money, you can do just fine for a console generation. Only hardcore enthusiasts waste the money on the marginal increases between the high end card generations.

Spoken like someone who hasn’t built a PC recently or understands the current climate.

False, even in the super long previous gen, I only upgraded my PC once. Played all the console ports at far better settings. So no, just no. You’re wrong, exquisitely so.

No, you don’t have to upgrade every year to play new games; that is absurd. Maybe if buy the console level sub-$99 GPU each time, but who would do that? The sub-flagship model (e.g. 7950 vs. 7970, 290 vs. 290x) should last you three years. It is your own impatience that will get the better of you — that comes with the…

Gamers wanting to upgrade parts is very different from your original statement of needing to upgrade every year to meet the requirements of new games. I have several friends still running games on geforce 760s, a graphics card that cost around $250 in 2013 and still runs every game on the market just fine.

You need to stop listening to who ever is telling you this nonsense. No one needs to up something once every 5 years much less one year. Your entire post sounds like someone that’s been listening to the pcmr trolls and taking it as face value.

That’s not exactly a perfect argument anymore. The big publishers are willing to hurl out perfectly shitty ‘gold’ prints into the public and ‘patch it’ later; No Man’s Sky comes to mind as the most recent example of this. The PS4 version had a whole array of crashing problems out of the gate on THEIR exclusive.

What you’re providing is useless anecdotal evidence.

“Oh well I think from my friends...”

I am running a GTX 780. A card that’s over 3 years old. My PC does not in anyway what so ever struggle to run ANY game out right now. 5 minutes after I play this I will be continuing the Witcher 3 which is one of the most…

Yes. I stopped chasing the hardware years ago. This last gen PC gamers have been really lucky because their have been no real processor enhancement over the last 5 years (an I7k processor from 5 years ago performs almost as well as a new I7k processor from last year). Graphics cards have been updating as well but the…