Top 10 Reasons Why PCs are Better Than Consoles

It's extremely rare to see mods get released for consoles, but look at the PC. There are probably thousands of Minecraft mods out there for PC. Skyrim also has a shedload of mods. The fact is, some of the PC community focuses on improving existing games by releasing free mods that the original developers make easy to install.

So many mods to download and experience for each game. I was so excited when I got my PC because of mods. There are so many more things to do in a game when you add mods, and it makes a game last longer and become more playable.

This is one fact you can't deny, console fanboys. PC has Steam, where you can get games that would normally cost a console user £80/$110 for the full game (including DLC), while on Steam the same game may go for even less than half of that with DLC included. There are also quite a few free games out there for PC, and many of these are actually good.

Not only can a PC perform miles better than a PS4, but you can also surf the internet how it's supposed to be surfed, create videos, record gameplay footage - everything.

The PS4 and Xbox One both use x86 architecture, which can also be found in many PCs, as x86 is a PC architecture. You can have your console banned if you modify it. If you modify your PC, you're fine and good to go. No worries because your PC is, after all, a personal computer.

Both the PS4 and Xbox One use x86 architecture - the same x86 architecture that is found in present-day PCs. The difference is that you can't customize your console, or you may risk having it banned by the company if they find out.

Not only do PCs have more freedom, but they also have better performance and graphics.

I love independently developed games because they're not likely to be shameless cash grabs, like Rollercoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile was. By the way, that is the worst game of 2014. I hate it and will criticize it any chance I get. Indie games tend to have a lot of effort put into them. Want to know a well-known indie game? Oh, I don't know... Minecraft? Yes! That was an indie game. Many indie games are growing and show a lot of promise. The best example I can think of is Next Car Game and BeamNG Drive.

People who play on consoles love to bring up the exclusives argument, but in reality, PC has a lot more worthwhile exclusives in the form of indie games. If indie games aren't your thing, PC also has other exclusives.

Consoles are starting to move in this direction, but for what? PCs have always been used for more than gaming. You can record game footage on a PC, edit the video to remove all the boring parts, and much more. PCs can do far more than consoles.

You will only have to upgrade your computer once in a while, between 10-20 years. That's a long time!
- 13-year-old computer expert.

What I mean is that you own all the parts in your PC. This is not so much the case with consoles. If your console breaks down, you have to send it back to the company for repair, like Sony or Microsoft, and these companies will charge you a lot because they can. If your PC breaks down, you can simply replace the broken part at the minimal cost of buying a new one, and you're good to go. There are also small PC repair businesses that won't charge you an arm and a leg to fix the part.

Most of these are indie games, as these are rare to see on consoles. Only the most popular ones end up on consoles, where they turn out inferior. Just look at Minecraft for a good example.

Actually, no. It does have way more exclusives than all Xboxes, all PlayStations, and all Nintendo consoles combined. Plus, after 4-5 years, when the company stops making games for that console, we have them, and they become our exclusives.

Idiotic console players who say "PC has no games" make me laugh.

So, you got your new PC for 500 bucks, which is the same price as an Xbox One. You can crank it up to high settings with 1080p easily and still run at 60 frames per second. Consoles don't offer these options - you're stuck playing with inferior graphics. It's not only graphics that make a game great, which is why this point isn't higher.

Computers have much better graphics than the crap consoles that are coming out.

When consoles get to the end of their lifespan, a new one comes out to take its place. But for PCs, they evolve, update their hardware, and still remain. PCs have been around for years and aren't going away any time soon.

Nintendo is about to add an online paywall to their consoles, so what better time than now to switch to PC?

Grand Theft Auto for $60. 75% off Steam sale: $15! Praise Lord Gaben!

Steam Sale. Humble Bundle. Shall I give more reasons?

Seriously? Not on this list? This is one of the major factors of why PCs are superior compared to consoles.

Can't a PC play really old games and new games? There is no "backwards compatibility" since there isn't such a thing as the PC 2 or the PC 500. There are no sequels to PCs, just different types that play the same games.

The Xbox One may have backwards compatibility now, but it still does not cover all previous-generation games. PC still reigns superior in backwards compatibility by far.

Just like with game controllers, this is a subjective preference. However, one thing anyone can note is that keyboards have far more keys than game controllers, and a mouse has a much wider range of motion than any analog stick ever will.

Yeah, there are a bunch of free games on PC. The free PC games on Steam are the only ones I play, too, in fact.