The war between consoles and PC have been a gruesome one in the gaming industry, many people have debated which is the better way to play games, there are even a dedicated community on reddit called PC master race (https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/) with 3 million subscribers, the reason for such communities to exist is very simple, they believe that PC is better than console in general.
Let’s start this off with some history info, in 1972, the very first video game console was introduced, it was called Magnavox Odyssey, but the first real one to be purchased in many homes was the Atari 2600 that was released in 1977, it was known for classic titles such as pong, throughout the years, consoles have kept improving, currently the most popular video game console is the PS4, released in 2013.
Now let’s take a look at PC, computer gaming wasn’t a thing until the video gaming industry crash of 1983, after 1983, there has been a rise of “bedroom coders” that have made their own games but console games were still more popular then, PC gaming became popular and mainstream starting from 1990s and onwards.
Why do so many people believe PC is better than console nowadays? First of all, PC is a lot more flexible, when you buy a console, you may only select pre-assembled machines from companies when you try to obtain a PC, you have a variety of options and have the freedom to build it yourself. PC games are also very easy to mod, which have led to many player-created content games thrive such as Minecraft, gmod, Rimworld.
Do you prefer to play games on console or PC and why? And what is your view on the whole console vs PC war?
