PCs. Do. Everything.

If you can find three things that PCs can't do that other electronic devices can, I'll be genuinely impressed.

Make one look cool. just saying.

Cool is, again, subjective.

I used to mod cases for people. Gimme a Dremel tool, some spray paint, some Plexiglas. some LEDs.... I'll blow your mind

No, I don't have pictures. It was a decade ago. Although, I am working on a design to build my PC into the wall in my office.

My cousin has made some b*tchin' modifications to PS3 and 360 cases. I'll try to dig up some pictures if someone wants. So, easily doable, I'll agree with the point that you CAN make a tower look cool.

1) I can put my phone and my tablet in my pocket.

2) I can use said devices without plugging them into a power source for a considerable time(you said PC, not laptop).

3) I can use either one of those as a Frisbee with little effort.

PS, Blowout, your backlog argument is moot. I have around 100 games in my PS3 backlog as it is.

So, someone actually sell me a PC...

Total Biscuit, a PC gaming YouTuber, recently did a mailbag episode of "I am a console player; why should I get a PC?" and was fairly non-biased it in. You can find the video here.

Moot argument? Well, can you play your backlog on your PS4 or will you keep your PS3 around for when you want to wade through your backlog? I don't need to keep a obsolete PC around to play through my backlog of PC games.

You already use PCs, Personal Computers, and have been using them for years.

So, someone sell me a console.

Actually..That's what the PS NOW will address. Allowing you to play your gaming back log to any PS system.

And, if someone has no other use for a PC than gaming?

I graduated from college, so, papers aren't a thing (plus I wrote my Senior Thesis in a Google Doc on my Nexus 7 and my phone).

Other than papers, no one has given me a single other use for a PC. I use my laptop as a paperweight though.

So, for your, roughly, $900-$1000 I can play games... seems pricey to me...

So, someone actually sell me a PC...

If a game is on PC or a console, I get it on PC. The reason is generally a "no matter what happens to my PC, I can play it." In a year or two when this PC is dead, I will still be able to play X-COM on my Steam. In 5 years, I can load that bad boy up no problem. In 5 years, I wouldn't necessarily be able to do that as easily with a PS3 version of X-COM. As others have mentioned, a PC is generally better if you have the same library of games. I don't mean that as a "PC Master Race!" thing because that is just silly. No one would question that a console is more powerful than an iPhone game or have "Console Master Race!" thrown in their face. A PC is generally more powerful than a console with

Total Biscuit, a PC gaming YouTuber, recently did a mailbag episode of "I am a console player; why should I get a PC?" and was fairly non-biased it in. You can find the video here.

^ This

When the new X-COM came out I was very tempted to get it on PS3, because the way they adapted it made it seem very friendly to the controller input and it seemed like it would be fun to play on the couch. But in the end I got it through Steam, because I realized that like the original X-COM it was probably a game I would play again and again for more than a decade. I know that a decade from now, whatever happens with technology, that I'll be able to load up that game that I already own onto my PC and play it. Without having to pay for it a second time, and without hoping that a hardware vendor wouldn't decide that they couldn't do compatibility with old games. In the very worst case scenario I'd be able to fire up a virtual machine and play it that way.

This is why the only games I've bought for my PS3 have been PS3 exclusives, or second hand copies of assassin's creed (which I doubt I'll want to play again 10 years from now)

And, if someone has no other use for a PC than gaming?

I graduated from college, so, papers aren't a thing (plus I wrote my Senior Thesis in a Google Doc on my Nexus 7 and my phone).

Other than papers, no one has given me a single other use for a PC. I use my laptop as a paperweight though.

So, for your, roughly, $900-$1000 I can play games... seems pricey to me...

PS, Blowout, your backlog argument is moot. I have around 100 games in my PS3 backlog as it is. Also, poor choice for a Dev name if the community ever turns on you.

So, someone actually sell me a PC...

I used my PC all the way through university and the only real upgrade I needed to do was to buy a graphics card - I didn't run everything at max settings super awesome all the time, but the same thing that was churning out assignments in MS Word let me play games in 'glorious' 3D as well...

PC gaming can be a matter of as much or as little as you want to spend and you will reap the rewards accordingly. You can get AMD/NVIDIA-powered gaming laptops for the same price as a PS4, which have HDMI output for playing on HD TVs. They will run everything, but just not as beautifully. And while we are on the subject, I would hate to try get MS Office running on a PS4.

>See you don't have to buy the newest of the newest

That's kind of a key thing when you're building a PC if you don't want to really bling it out. Since you can change individual components of your machine there's a continual arms race between the manufacturers to release the biggest and bestest thing. This is most noticeable in video cards. That constant churn is enabled by charging a huge premium for bleeding edge gear, but you don't need bleeding edge gear since the most recent games were designed to run on far less powerful cards. If you compare the specs of video cards you'll find there's a point where a moderate increase in processing speed / power.

For example
http://www.ncix.com/detail/asus-geforce-gtx-750-ti-33-94339.htm
vs
http://www.ncix.com/detail/asus-geforce-gtx-760-directcu-de-85679-1396.htm
vs
http://www.ncix.com/detail/asus-geforce-gtx-780-poseidon-7f-95510-1226.htm

All the same make and brand, with very small differences between the first two and an extra gig of ram and a little more power on the third, but with huge differences in price. When I build a new machine (once every 8 to 10 years) or upgrade my video card, I go for one at about the relative price range of the first one on that list. Then I use it until it croaks or I literally cannot play a game I want with it on low settings. That takes about 4 years.

The two most important components to spend lots on are the motherboard, to make sure it has plenty of upgrade capability, and your power supply (because newer, bigger video cards need more juice). If you buy those two things top of the line, or at least not out of the bargain bin, a long time will go by before you need any major upgrades. A new video card every 3 or 4 years and possibly a better CPU at some point over the lifetime of that tower, and that's it. The only time it gets expensive is when you're no longer able to upgrade with the motherboard you have, because by that point it often turns out that the architecture of that board is obsolete and you can't re-use your cpu or memory.

Then you buy a new mobo, cpu, ram and video card...then reuse the old case, hard drive(s), power supply etc.

I do have a Twitter account although I don't use it very much.

I am hired by CCP to ensure things do not get too serious around here! International mod of hysteri.

... in my experience downloading patches and updates on PS3 has proven to be just as much of a hassle if not more so than automatically updating my PC games on Steam, for example.

So, for your, roughly, $900-$1000 I can play games... seems pricey to me...

give me the best sales pitch you've got.

to me, the most important thing is i want to know what games I'll be able to play other than Legion

i've never been a PC gamer. I've been a console gamer for almost 20 years and I never really bothered/had time for PC gaming

i'd also like to know what computer you have, how much it cost, how much you usually spend to upgrade it

61 FPS

pc's only excel in one area: multi tasking.

i've been playing both pc and console since 1996, and that is the only difference. on a pc you can watch youtube and have 5 windows of eve:online playing at once.

the actual 'gaming' part of it is not different at all.

Wow, just wanted to quickly chime in here and say I am impressed with the good responses you guys have been typing up here without reducing to console/PC fanboy childfights. Nice work, community members!

Hey Minor Treat - you can get a gaming laptop for $500-$600 these days - it won't play the top latest releases at 1000 FPS (let alone 61 FPS) but it will do all you need to. Just check Newegg, Amazon, Ebuyer, whatever.