consoles are the poor mans PC.
that was the saying, as it was true back then.
now you can game with even better specs on a PC that costs just as much as a console.
and now with all the steamos and steam box stuff otw, its even more ridiculous to want an old fashioned console the these 2.
"we're making consoles more powerful and more like a pc!"
the console market will never understand
pc beats motherloving all
I'm like 90% positive consoles weren't made to be more powerful than PCs, and the fact that they get more powerful with each release doesn't prove anything, as that's literally how technology works.
Consoles were made for usability, as in, you can buy a game, pop it in, and play without having to need a high-end computer or worry about any system requirements.
That, and it's way easier to bring a console to a friend's house to play with them than it is to lug around a hugeass gaming rig. Yeah, you have laptops, and even gaming laptops, but there's still a pretty big decrease in that oh-so-fancy performance everyone seems to love bragging about.
That also brings me to the point of playing with friends. I'll tell you right now as a game developer, it's way, way easier to implement local multiplayer than it is to implement online multiplayer, and therefore, you'll find more local multiplayer options available for games in general than you will online multiplayer, and, well, a keyboard isn't exactly well suited to local multiplayer play.
You could buy joysticks for your computer, but as I've stated before, unless you're playing
Mari0, no PC game dev is going to be expecting multiple people to own a joystick, nor will they expect multiple people to huddle around a single keyboard. With multiple keyboards, it's just a huge awkward mess, and you'd need a stuffton of USB ports (or keyboard input splitter things, if those still even exist) to support them all.
Even then, games made for consoles are optimized for consoles, and you'll almost never experience any kind of lag with these games because of this fact, so performance doesn't even matter at all in the end. Less graphical capabilities? Who loving cares as long as the game's good?
And because of ^that fact, you're more likely to get a game that'll run like stuff on your PC than you will on a console, simply because not all PCs are high-grade Crysis runners, while consoles are all on the same level.
tl;dr Even if consoles cost a little more, there's usually less bullstuff involved in getting the fun you want out of your games.
* Kingdaro breathes
/endrant
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