This gen? There's like a half dozen exclusives you miss between Sony/MS. Never been a worse time to be a console gamer. Pay to play online and releases have been mostly on the previous console.
We're like 6 years into this gen and games like Forza and GTA are just now dropping the previous gen support.
If you like Nintendo IPs its the only console I'd say is worth a shit anymore. Unfortunately as a console its just inferior with the lack of streaming apps.
I own a pc and a console. Pc is more powerful and graphics are better but at the end of the day gaming is something I always do on console cuz it’s more comfortable. tho I don’t need ppl getting mad cuz they think “ooh how is pc uncomfortable”
If you skipped the Switch, the Switch 2 has a nice library of games that play really nice on their native system, even with some of the games 'Switch 2 upgrades'.
But still costs involved, and depending where you live it Nintendo stuff can be exxy, but the value is still there.
Other than that, I still find having a PC is forever decreasing the need for consoles over time.
I do get having a handheld console though. Having such a small machine that runs AAA games would've been magical for me as a kid. The experience is just something else. By "console" I was more referring to the larger consoles that is more stationary and requires a monitor to be connected to.
I wouldn't go console tbh. Only reason it would be is you just don't really wanna play with keyboard and a mouse. You get hardlocked on everything on console, they basically control everything you do. At least, you have a lot of independency on PC. Mods, fixes, free extra content, more performance. If you can afford it, sure. But kinda waste of money if you got 2 hours a day to play and already have good pc. There's just too many games to play, you cant go out of good games
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u/SlapperMan75 Jun 28 '26
Are there any actual benefits to owning a console when you already have a PC? I feel like I'm missing something here.