Best Console to compliment a PC Gamer?

[aozgolo]

So let's hopefully avoid the PC vs. Console thing for a moment, and consider that many PC Gamers also enjoy consoles as well as many own both Gaming PCs and Consoles.

So the question is simple: If you own a gaming PC what console is the best to compliment your games?

I'm sure the answer isn't as simple for everyone.

For me it's surprisingly the Wii U, at least right now. Looking purely at the game library there are very few exclusives for XBOX ONE or PS4 that aren't available to a PC Gaming audience as well, and with the x84 architecture of their processors, there's far less reason for any game publishers to make anything exclusive for these systems without receiving a bonus from Sony or Microsoft for exclusivity rights.

The Wii U however not only has the most exclusives of any modern Console at the moment, it's also got backwards compatibility and the virtual store that significantly increases it's library. It's custom CPU significantly hampers the ease of cross-platform design for Wii U titles to some degree (which may explain in part it's rocky start).

For someone like me however who prefers playing games on a PC whenever possible, The Wii U is the clear winner for the sole sake of it's exclusives library. I'm interested to hear other people's thoughts on which system best compliments PC Gaming?

 

[Casual Shinji]

The Wii U however not only has the most exclusives of any modern Console at the moment, it's also got backwards compatibility and the virtual store that significantly increases it's library. It's custom CPU significantly hampers the ease of cross-platform design for Wii U titles to some degree (which may explain in part it's rocky start).

Yeah, but you have to buy a lot of extra bullshit for that backwards compatability to even work. It seems the only people to benefit from the Wii-U's backwards compatabilty are those that already owned a Wii prior.

Even some games on the virtual store apparently require you to purchase an extra controller to even play.

This along with the pathetically small hardrive is what's keeping me from investing in the system.

 

[aozgolo]

The Wii U however not only has the most exclusives of any modern Console at the moment, it's also got backwards compatibility and the virtual store that significantly increases it's library. It's custom CPU significantly hampers the ease of cross-platform design for Wii U titles to some degree (which may explain in part it's rocky start).

Yeah, but you have to buy a lot of extra bullshit for that backwards compatability to even work. It seems the only people to benefit from the Wii-U's backwards compatabilty are those that already owned a Wii prior.

Even some games on the virtual store apparently require you to purchase an extra controller to even play.

This along with the pathetically small hardrive is what's keeping me from investing in the system.

The Hard-drive and Accesory issues are a fair and valid point but due to the lower price of the console, even upon purchasing these you are only right up to the price of a PS4 or XB1's basic set (of course that depends on how many accessories and what size HDD you buy), it's not "ready out the box" per se, but I think PC Gamers who deal with upgrading PC Hardware will find it a minimal annoyance.

 

[DrOswald]

Wii U, hands down, no contest at all. It all comes down to the exclusives. If you are a PC gamer you just don't need a PS4 or Xbox one. The experiences you get on a PC are better than on those consoles and very similar. The Wii U, on the other hand, is doing stuff that no other platform is doing.

The Wii U however not only has the most exclusives of any modern Console at the moment, it's also got backwards compatibility and the virtual store that significantly increases it's library. It's custom CPU significantly hampers the ease of cross-platform design for Wii U titles to some degree (which may explain in part it's rocky start).

Yeah, but you have to buy a lot of extra bullshit for that backwards compatability to even work. It seems the only people to benefit from the Wii-U's backwards compatabilty are those that already owned a Wii prior.

Even some games on the virtual store apparently require you to purchase an extra controller to even play.

This along with the pathetically small hardrive is what's keeping me from investing in the system.

Points of clarification and comment:

All games on the Wii U virtual store (which is where you will actually be buying from) are all compatible with the Wii U main controller out of the box.

The hard drive is small, but it is not as small as you think. It will hold several games. Plus, hard drive space is not the massive problem it once was. The Wii U is compatible with off the shelf external drives so expanding that a terabyte of data is not exactly expensive. But certainly a point to mention.

The Wii U is fully backwards compatible with the Wii and the Wii virtual console, but if you are going to use those functions then you do need the controllers to do it. It is only $35-$45 to get everything you need (a remote, a nunchuk, a classic controller, all Nintendo brand) and all of those controllers are also controllers for the Wii U (so if you are going to be playing basically any multiplayer games you are going to want them anyway). I know the Wii was peripheral hell, but Nintendo has done a very good job on pulling that shit back. It is less than the cost of a single Xbox One or PS4 controller, and it is compatible with the modern gen.

Frankly, with Nintendo not requiring a monthly subscription for their console and the cheapest controllers, I think the Wii U clocks in at the least extra bullshit for a console. And it is optional, if you don't care about backwards compatibility you don't need to get those controllers at all.

 

[Godhead]

I would probably have to say the PS2, mainly because it has a fantastic library of games.

 

[DrOswald]

I would probably have to say the PS2, mainly because it has a fantastic library of games.

Ha! That didn't even occur to me. I was thinking current gen, but you make a great point. However, where are you going to get all those games? Can't download them and most of them worth playing are really hard to get a hold of for a reasonable price and without the risk of being in terrible condition.

 

[MetalShadowChaos]

WiiU for me. all I need is PC and WiiU. Anything good on Xbox One and PS4 I can play on PC as well, with the unfortunate and terrible exception of Bloodborne, and you could get a WiiU and every accessory available for it on the markey for less than the default price of an Xbox one or PS4.

 

[Godhead]

I would probably have to say the PS2, mainly because it has a fantastic library of games.

Ha! That didn't even occur to me. I was thinking current gen, but you make a great point. However, where are you going to get all those games? Can't download them and most of them worth playing are really hard to get a hold of for a reasonable price and without the risk of being in terrible condition.

Just a quick Amazon search and I saw a decent amount of games for under $20 (GTA San Andreas and GTA III are both under ten bucks), and I'm sure that your local Gamestop or equivalent would have a decent sized backlog sitting in the back.

 

[Casual Shinji]

and you could get a WiiU and every accessory available for it on the markey for less than the default price of an Xbox one or PS4.

Every accesory? Because that seems like stretch. The pro controller alone is 50 bucks.

Or do you just mean every necessary (for backwards compatability) controller?

 

[DrOswald]

I would probably have to say the PS2, mainly because it has a fantastic library of games.

Ha! That didn't even occur to me. I was thinking current gen, but you make a great point. However, where are you going to get all those games? Can't download them and most of them worth playing are really hard to get a hold of for a reasonable price and without the risk of being in terrible condition.

Just a quick Amazon search and I saw a decent amount of games for under $20 (GTA San Andreas and GTA III are both under ten bucks), and I'm sure that your local Gamestop or equivalent would have a decent sized backlog sitting in the back.

The gamestops around where I live don't have games from that generation anymore, and I am always very suspicious of buying used games from online retailers. I mean, you can do it, but it's a gamble every time. That is not to say that it isn't worth trying, I just wonder if that is really the best value these days. The true value of the PS2 was in it's vast and varied library of games, not in it's flagship titles. Getting a hold of most of those less famous games is going to be a problem or expensive.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I like my xbox because I feel like its the most likely console to have people I'll add and play games with on PC as well.
Also because it has my favorite controller and I'm the complete opposite to you and prefer to play on Xbox whenever possible. I only like shooters with a gamepad.
So that kinda rules out Wii U for me, unless I wanna shell out 50 bucks for a wired Xbox controller for my laptop. Between PS and Xbox I choose xbox because I have friends on it and other than bloodborne PS has no exclusives that interest me.

 

[Dragonbums]

It's gonna have to be the Wii U.

Most games that come out on the PS4 or Xbox One eventually make it to the PC anyway. The same can't be said about Nintendo products. Unless of course you are no stranger to emulators.

 

[Burgers2013]

I have a WiiU. No other current gen console. It's the only system that provides a different type of experience than the PC, and of course there are a lot of exclusives. If you already have a gaming PC, there's very little reason to get a PS4 or XB1 for now. Maybe in a couple of years when they have more exclusives and the price drops.

I also like that the WiiU still supports local multiplayer.

 

[XDSkyFreak]

As a owner of a gaming rig, a Wii, a WiiU and a gifted ps3 (though I'll sell it soon and get some new games+accesories for my WiiU), I have to go with the WiiU. Right now it's the only console that can mostly justify it's exclusive games (and by that I mean I can accept that porting them to PC would be a difficult process, as opposed to the "exclusives" of XBONE and PS4 which for me are games made by devs with allergy to common sense and money), and it actually has fun and unique games that don't get dragged down with useless DLC, bullshit microtransactions and retarded season passes. It seems nintendo is the only company that rememberes a console was a device invented to play games with friends in the living room and have fun, not some sort of bullshit all in one media-hub.

 

[Rylee Fox]

Wii U without a doubt. As has already been said, most things on Xbox One and PS4 end up on PC anyway. That's exactly the reason I bought a wii u. You'll never find Hyrule Warriors, Super Smash Bros, Bayonetta 2, or Windwaker HD on a pc.

 

[DrOswald]

and you could get a WiiU and every accessory available for it on the markey for less than the default price of an Xbox one or PS4.

Every accesory? Because that seems like stretch. The pro controller alone is 50 bucks.

Or do you just mean every necessary (for backwards compatability) controller?

Depends on what he qualifies as an accessory for the Wii U:

Deluxe Bundle containing Super Mario 3D world: $300
Remote+ and nunchuk, refurbished: $25
Classic Controller: $10
Pro Controller: $50

Total: $385

And that is it for Nintendo produced general accessories for the Wii U. Now, we also can get the Mario Kart Wheel, the Wii Fit board, the Smash Bros gamecube controller adapter (if it wasn't completely sold out) and the Amiibos. But those are all game specific accessories, not Wii U accessories. You will only ever need the Wii Fit Board if you buy Wii Fit, so I would count that more as a $80 game, not an $80 dollar accessory.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Depends on what he qualifies as an accessory for the Wii U:

Deluxe Bundle containing Super Mario 3D world: $300
Remote+ and nunchuk, refurbished: $25
Classic Controller: $10
Pro Controller: $50

Total: $385

And that is it for Nintendo produced general accessories for the Wii U. Now, we also can get the Mario Kart Wheel, the Wii Fit board, the Smash Bros gamecube controller adapter (if it wasn't completely sold out) and the Amiibos. But those are all game specific accessories, not Wii U accessories. You will only ever need the Wii Fit Board if you buy Wii Fit, so I would count that more as a $80 game, not an $80 dollar accessory.

See, here's one of the biggest wedges preventing me from buying a Wii-U; The Wind Waker HD bundle.

I freaking love that game, and my current copy is hanging by a thread, not to mention my Gamecube is starting to show some graphical fits. So yeah, I would basically buy a Wii-U simply because I love Wind Waker so much. The problem is that that particular Wii-U bundle doesn't come with a physical copy of the game, but with a voucher. And for some odd reason this is the only bundle not to have the physical copy of the bundled game.

And then together with this accessory necessity hoopla compounding onto itself, I'm just like 'Ah forget it.'

 

[DrOswald]

Depends on what he qualifies as an accessory for the Wii U:

Deluxe Bundle containing Super Mario 3D world: $300
Remote+ and nunchuk, refurbished: $25
Classic Controller: $10
Pro Controller: $50

Total: $385

And that is it for Nintendo produced general accessories for the Wii U. Now, we also can get the Mario Kart Wheel, the Wii Fit board, the Smash Bros gamecube controller adapter (if it wasn't completely sold out) and the Amiibos. But those are all game specific accessories, not Wii U accessories. You will only ever need the Wii Fit Board if you buy Wii Fit, so I would count that more as a $80 game, not an $80 dollar accessory.

See, here's one of the biggest wedges preventing me from buying a Wii-U; The Wind Waker HD bundle.

I freaking love that game, and my current copy is hanging by a thread, not to mention my Gamecube is starting to show some graphical fits. So yeah, I would basically buy a Wii-U simply because I love Wind Waker so much. The problem is that that particular Wii-U bundle doesn't come with a physical copy of the game, but with a voucher. And for some odd reason this is the only bundle not to have the physical copy of the bundled game.

And then together with this accessory necessity hoopla compounding onto itself, I'm just like 'Ah forget it.'

I just kinda think you are making a mountain out of a mole hill with the accessory thing. You don't need the pro controller at all for any reason unless you are playing mulitplayer locally, and unless you are planning to use the Wii Virtual console (Again, I must stress that the Wii Virtual console is different than the Wii U virtual console, the Wii U virtual console is ready to go with the included controller and is where you are going to buy everything anyway) The only thing you need for backwards compatibility is a $25 dollar controller bundle.

I just don't see how there is an accessory hoopla. It isn't complex and it isn't expensive. I guess I can understand some sort of irrational discomfort from the idea that if you don't get all the accessories then your Wii U experience is somehow suboptimal, combined with a deeply ingrained dislike for console peripherals in general. Is that is what is up? I got a similar thing about branching conversation trees that drives me up the wall whenever I play a Bioware style RPG.

By the way, the Wind Waker HD is super good. It is a great port, looks fantastic, and fixes a lot of the major problems with the original (super sail is the best.) I got the downloadable version and I love it, though like you I would have preferred the disc.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Simply put, which ever has the best exclusives that aren't quite abandonware/possible to emulate yet. I may be in the market for a PS3 soon for that specific reason.

I'll also wait until the console itself is dirt cheap, like say, right now.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I just don't see how there is an accessory hoopla. It isn't complex and it isn't expensive. I guess I can understand some sort of irrational discomfort from the idea that if you don't get all the accessories then your Wii U experience is somehow suboptimal, combined with a deeply ingrained dislike for console peripherals in general. Is that is what is up? I got a similar thing about branching conversation trees that drives me up the wall whenever I play a Bioware style RPG.

Well, when I bought a PS3 I didn't get any means for HD display out of the box, just the standard three component cable. I had to go from store to store to find an HDMI or five component one. That royally pissed me off, and that nerv is still very raw.