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ConfusedTorchic posted...

the needing to endlessly fiddle just to get stuff to work on pc is just obnoxious, yeah

"Endlessly fiddling" is pretty rare unless you're either trying to get really old stuff running (which consoles can't even do in the first place) or delving into modding (in which case you're voluntarily wading into the fiddling), and for many games modding is considerably more straightforward now than it was even 5-6 years ago (like Factorio has a mod portal built right into the game and installing mods is a simple matter of picking from the list and restarting the game). The vast, vast majority of the time, starting a game on my PC is no more complicated than starting one on a console.

As a bonus, actually, being able to fiddle is handy when a game doesn't work. If a game isn't working on a console, you're pretty much SOL. If a game doesn't work on a PC, provided you meet the requirements (and even then there's quite a bit of leeway there), you can often fix the problem without having to send the system off for repairs/replacement.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

the only "pros" for pc at this point are just "xbox and some playstation games games are on pc anyways" and "you have mod options for some games"

Also 20+ years of backwards compatibility (more if you're willing to fiddle) and more control options.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

which the latter isn't as much of a selling point as a lot of pro-mod people think, since it involves fiddling, and needing to fiddle with things is exactly why people don't get a pc.

It makes for better games. That alone is enough to make it a major selling point. Sure, there are going to be people who don't want to fiddle enough to take advantage of that, but that doesn't make it any less of a selling point. There are just some people whose desire for a completely mindless experience outweighs the value mods could provide them.