Halo is essentially what kept me an xbox player for a bit more than a decade at this point. Now that almost all official Halo content is going to be available on PC; the exceptions being Halo 5’s campaign and matchmaking components and possibly ODST firefight, I’m debating whether or not to switch to PC entirely within the next few years and end my gold subscription.
What do you think? Better to switch to PC completely
or stick with xbox for longer?
That’s entirely up to you and the individual in question.
Consoles are dying out. There’s already too much redundancy in electronics - phone, tablet, laptop, desktop - but at least these have an innate difference we can’t overcome with current technology (screen size). Consoles are a completely artificial product, they don’t do anything a PC can’t do. Their only purpose is to come preloaded with an insanely locked-down OS that lets Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo squeeze money out of you via exclusive titles. They might appear cheaper than a gaming PC, but add the price of an Xbone onto your regular PC, then consider the bloated cost of each game, and it’s clear you’re losing money in the long run.
This model is unsustainable, sooner or later companies won’t be able to turn a profit by selling consoles. When that happens they’ll turn into very expensive paperweights, because unlike PCs they depend on the support of one centralised company to keep their online services running. The fact that Microsoft are willing to let their flagship console franchise launch on PC suggests this process has already started.
TLDR switch to PC.
Depends on what you want out of a game and budget I guess. I personally like the cheapness and convenience of consoles. I buy it once and know whatever game I get on it will run fine and I don’t have to upgrade until the next generation, so I stick with those. If I had unlimited funds and really wanted the best graphics/performance I’d probably go PC.
I personally have switched out to PC but put my gold subscription to Game Pass. That way I can play all my crazy high-end, multiplayer and important games on PC but still have a bunch of curiosities on Xbox.
Although after E3 that Game Pass sub might work on PC so I’m gunna have to ¯_(ツ)_/¯ this one.
My thoughts on this is that PC’s will always win in terms of performance, but whenever I take a foray into the PC gaming world, I have never managed to find a decent community to play with. Everyone is either hardcore gaming elite, or salty complaining morons (Again, personal experience, not opinion. I could have just missed the 99% of the other gamers that are chill.) But every time I jump into a lobby on xbox, within an hour I’ve made five new friends that are super chill and fun to play with.
If the sole purpose of gaming was to play on the best possible equipment and play the newest games at the highest settings possible, then everyone would be playing on PC. But a majority of players enjoy the communities they enter on Xbox, and the players they meet along the way. Of course, seeing as with the Steam release of MCC and the subsequent release of Infinite on PC, maybe a large portion of the Halo community will transition, and everything will be fine!
The other thing to consider is that even if Infinite is coming to PC, it might not be coming to Steam (I havens heard anything about that). If that is the case, it will only be playable through the Windows 10 gaming thingy, which I believe would mean that you would still need gold to play? (I looked into this once a long time ago, but I forget a lot of the details.)
Depends what you seek in a platform.
PC is definitely better in individual & online needs, as long as you are ready to keep the technicalities up to date and check the compatibility for desired games.
But if you are a social gamer, then a console can work better, they have been easy to use & are pretty certain to work with the desired games along with easy ability for “couch gaming” as in playing with group of friends in a same room. Sadly, with current gen that aspect has been dying out so if next gen consoles keep the same direction, only the certainty that games marked with accompanied consoles will work given fast and easy start to the games has been pretty much destroyed too with the need to install games.
So in other words, consoles have lost many of their social & easy gaming edges over PC over the years and are on the way to turning into rapidly outdated PC:s, which is sad to see.
Im just astonished how the ones developing & marketing consoles are so blind to see the direction which has been taken. The industry is choking itself out of the game, so to speak. Absolutely unbelievable.
Though that means, players could start to switch purely to PC side which could lead to gamers with more general technical knowledge of the machines they use and more players enjoying mods and such, for a while. Probably shortly after that some console aspects would be pushed to the PC markets as well in an attempt to choke out the PC market as well, by greed for money accompanied by ignorance of the trade the industry coul fall.
It was just so weird to see in E3 someone marketing scarlett by that it’s optimized for gaming. Wow, how long did that take to figure out? People buying gaming consoles to play games? Crazy, right? Apparently it took a development genius to figure that out after the Xbox One being marketed to do basically everything. Wonder when some sherlock will get that they cant beat PC in a long run with current day technicalities and parts that get outdated in no time.
Coming from a hybrid gamer.