Has anyone else here actually migrated from console gaming to PC gaming?

[Wolfram23]

I did. Well, sort of. I've always had consoles. NES, SNES, N64, NGC, Wii. But I've also always had a PC to game on. Back in the day it was Duke Nukem and Quake and some Aces over Europe and X Wing and Tie Fighter and Mantis and Day of the Tentacle and StarCraft and... *ahem* anyway, I've been on both but mostly console. Then WoW came out and I played on my parent's PC until I had enough to buy my own. So then I was PC gaming mostly, played several good games after I quit wow - Dirt, Racedriver: GRID, Portal, Half Life 1/2, umm... others. Forget what.

Anyway but then my video card died. I still didn't know too much about PC gaming so I didn't play any games really for a while until I bought my PS3 Slim which I like a lot and had a lot of fun with. But then last May I built myself a fan fucking tastic gaming PC (initially ~$1000 but I've since almost doubled it just because it's fun and I was obsessed lol). I really prefer gaming on my PC now, almost always buying PC versions of games instead of the PS3 version but I still do play PS3 for some games, often because I have friends with PS3s and not gaming PCs.

Ugh but my PS3 now needs to go in for service, which will cost $135 because my 1yr warranty expired 4 months ago. FUUUUuuuuuuu!!!!

 

[baddude1337]

I've pretty much always been a console gamer but do play a lot on my PC. Mine isn't that great and can just about run Rome Total War with several thousand dudes and no lag. When I have the urge to play a heavily Modded Half Life 2, Combat Mission Shock Force, Rome: Total War (or rather, one of the 9 mods I have for it) I can easily spend a whole day playing it.

 

[manaman]

I was a console gamer to start with. The Atari 2600. Not longer after the NES I migrated to PC. I still had a Genesis, but by favorite games where on the PC. I moved back to consoles around the time of PS1, and the N64. Only to find myself once again mostly on the PC with this generation.

I go where the games I like are, and even through I spend more time gaming on the PC I also own a Wii, PS3, and 360. I even have a few games on my phone.

 

[Lbsjr]

I've done both for years. It usually depends on what game type, but once in a while I've had to flip a coin for which system gets the game.

 

[GiantRaven]

Not really. I've always been entrenched in both the console and PC domain. I've always preferred using a controller to using a keyboard/mouse though.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

I built a fairly beastly gaming rig last year, and have since moved almost entirely from 360 to PC. I still play Call of Duty on 360, mostly because all of my friends are there, but everything else pretty much is PC from here out.

 

[Cheesepower5]

Does anyone else here actually know you can play both?

Is morphing the title make as statement actually as douchey as it sounds?

 

[Berserker119]

I've always dabbled in PC, but for the most part, I've stayed with a console.

 

[Sixcess]

I never made the jump from the PS1 to the PS2. Fear Effect 3 would have been the only game that would have pushed me to shell out for a 'next gen' console, so when that was cancelled I drifted away from consoles... and gaming in general, really.

I got back into it once I had a half decent PC, at which point I discovered MMOs and (later) Steam, so I'm pretty much a confirmed PC gamer now.

 

[knight56]

I was originally a console gamer, and still am.

I do use the PC to play the total war series and league of legends.

 

[Sindre1]

Pfffffffffft, NO!
Other way around.
So glad I did.

Well, I guess I started off with a N64.
So I did once, back when PC-gaming was better.

 

[Rad Party God]

Heh, just 100 games?, I legally own 183 games on Steam alone and like 10 (physical, retail discs) games or so on the Wii, same when I had a 360.

I always had consoles, from the NES, to the SNES, N64, PS1, PS2, GameCube, Wii and (for a short time) a 360, but ~2004 I was sucked in to PC gaming, ironically, thanks to console games. First it was with Halo, later with Soul Reaver 2, and my love for PC gaming was cemented with Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, wich I still consider it as one of my top 10 favorite games of all time.

Buying a 360 was like a huge step backwards, compared to what I already had on my PC. First, yes, games on consoles are very expensive and they rarely drop their prices (not counting used games) and even if they do, they are still a bit expensive for my tastes.

And yes, on 2009 I only had like ~30 games on Steam, then I got a proper job, a debit card and lots of amazing sales later and my Steam library increased significantly. With that same money, I could've bought like ~10 new games on the 360, or I could've bought a PS3 and maybe a couple of games. A few months later, I sold the 360 and I never looked back.

Say what you want, that the PC has better graphics, consoles are better, shadda, shadda, but in price-value factor, the PC is a lot MUCH better.

 

[Kevon Huggins]

i did the exact opposite i rely wanted to play halo litllebigplanet and crysis 2 without having some kind of futuristic machine

 

[New Troll]

Have always played both, though I've always probably been more of a PC Gamer. Though I play more non-casual games on my consoles, I still consider myself more of a PC Gamer. And when Diablo 3 comes out...

 

[mireko]

I've sort of grown up with both, so I don't see any reason to stick to one in particular.

Can definitely see the cost-benefit of using a PC exclusively, though.

I never made the jump from the PS1 to the PS2. Fear Effect 3 would have been the only game that would have pushed me to shell out for a 'next gen' console, so when that was cancelled I drifted away from consoles... and gaming in general, really.

I got back into it once I had a half decent PC, at which point I discovered MMOs and (later) Steam, so I'm pretty much a confirmed PC gamer now.

You missed out. The PS2 has the best backlog of any home console since.. ever.

[sub]In my very humble and subjective opinion.[/sub]

 

[TheRealGoochman]

I went for PC pride to console pride. I rarely use my PC to game now (minus MMOs and RTS'.....and Combat Flight Simulator 3 (I love that game))

 

[DaHero]

I don't bother with consoles mainly because I needed the PC anyways. Now I'm in college with no real income save scholarship, not wasting it on consoles or new PC titles (except Skyrim, depends on what I get from tutoring in the fall semester)