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

[Brandon237]

Pc for me, I switched to pc and am very happy to have done so. Mods are a nice perk with pc gaming. even with only 3 gigs RAM all my games look very good, I can store extra stuff for games in their folders if need be. I like my pc, and I like gaming on it. It does its job.

 

[DeadlyBritishDisease]

I started out this generation with a Wii, which is so meh-tastic it's not funny. Then I decided I'd get a PS3 when they released the cheaper slim SKU. Finally I got into TF2 (which has been out for ages, I know) which I bought off Steam. Steam has been really good to me, so I've been playing tonnes of stuff on PC, but I still prefer console for RPG's and 3rd person shooters.

 

[Bill Bread]

Since I moved to uni I've started playing more PC games (STALKER, dawn of war, etc) and love them to bits, but I miss my xbox badly.

 

[Trolldor]

I can play as a Jedi in Oblivion, force pushing enemies and cutting down foes with my lightsaber.

Give me the link to that mod. NAO.

Pretty please?

Shit... that's going back a few years now.

Two seperate mods.
One added force push, the other an (over-powered) lightsaber.
Got them both from tesnexus

As for the half-life thing, private mod a friend made.
Nothing fancy, fairly buggy, but the point is that there are potentials to mod-friendly PC games that consoles will never have unless they allow user-generated content.
Which they won't because that would detract from DLC.

 

[babinro]

I use both PC and console. Sites like Steam ensures that 90% of my purchases are through it due to great sales. However, steam only works with a very limited group of gaming developers at this time.

The console market covers what steam sales does not...so I buy game for console after price drops if I can stand to wait. For example, I just recently bought Heavy Rain+God of War3 for $40.00 through a future shop sale. These are games I wanted upon release but held out on and saved $80 for doing so. Now I just need to beat Dragon Age 2 and I'll start playing them.

 

[DanielBrown]

Well, I was a PS2-gamer back in the day, but went to PC when I discovered FPS and later on MMO's. After perhaps six years I got back to console gaming when I bought my 360. Now I only play PS3 with the occational MMO break.

 

[Stavros Dimou]

For years I was only a console gamer,and a Nintendo fanatic.
I have SNES,N64,GAMECUBE,XBOX,DREAMCAST,and now a Wii.
The first console of this generation I bought was a xbox360.
I gave 400 euros and bought it a couple of months after it was out.
Where I live new games for it had a starting price of 70 up to 75 euros,pretty high if you ask me.
Anyway,six months after I bought it I had my first RROD.
They changed it for me and gave me another one.
This happened 3 more times,and the last RROD happened out of warranty time.
At that point (2009)I became so much frustrated and dissapointed and I decided to not buy another Microsoft console again.
But I had no system to play modern games,and I had a computer that I had for doing other stuff.
And then I thought "Why not drop a graphics card in,to make it my gaming system ?"
And voila!
I bought an ati HD 4850 with 100 euros,and I could play all pc games,even Crysis at "very high" at my montior's resolution.
And then I saw the game prices.
Oblivion GOTY edition had a price of 25e for pcs,60e for ps3e and 75 for xbox360.
And then I thought "Wow with the money I would buy 1 xbox360 game I can buy 3 pc games!!"
And then I discovered FREE online gaming.
I could play every game I had for free,without having to pay subscription fees to anybody.
And then I learned about mods.
Additional stuff for my games for FREE ???
While console gamers have to pay to get such stuff ?
I downloaded doussines of mods for Oblivion including better graphics mods,ancient spartan armor,nude bodies,new races etc.
And I decided that PC will be my primary gaming platform.
I actually bought a Wii last year,but that was just because I'm a Nintendo loyal fan,and even I wouldn't buy it if I didn't already had a more beefy machine to play games like Mass Effec or Elder Scrolls.
I'm partly pc gamer and partly console gamer (wii) but my main platform is PC and wii is just supplemental.
So I believe I can say that I migrated to PC gaming after 16 years playing on consoles.

 

[Roxor]

The closest thing I can say I've had to a migration in any direction is adopting the use of emulators over the last ten years to play console games under Windows. That, and purchasing an Xbox 360 controller to use with Gamecube and PS2 emulation (good luck playing through some sections of Star Fox Adventures without one).

 

[Irriduccibilli]

I'm migrating a little bit to PC with every passing day. Right now I am looking for a new gaming PC. I will probably use it for RPG's like Oblivion and Skyrim or Mass Effect 3 etc. I always prefered shooters on a console though, so those I will probably get for my PS3 or 360. I guess I will never go completely console free since I always prefered consoles

 

[Zantos]

I went from PS1/PS2 to PC back in the day when you needed a PC to surf the web and email and i liked the games on it. Nowadays though although I still use the PC it's for nostalgia purposes or stuff you can't even buy any more (and guild wars) and get new releases for the xbox360. Mostly because my PC is usually doing other things, but also partially because i wanted one and it was there.

 

[CAPTCHA]

Doing it right now. Sold my xbox for funds. So far I've got a Cooler Master HAF 922 case, Phenom II x4, Asus Crosshair IV formula and ATI Radeon HD 6950 and a copy of Windows 7. And you know what, it's costing me a fortune. I mean how much is that I spent already? About £700 and I've still got to buy a cooler, power supply, memory, HDD, CD Drive, Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor. So, another $400 to go roughly.

...sigh.

 

[Aurgelmir]

I knew, years ago, that buying sale games on Steam is many times cheaper than buying console games retail, or even Direct-to-Drive. I saved up for a desktop, got (what I thought) was a reasonable package deal, and even though I usually have to tone done the visuals (hey, let's see you do better with twelve hundred dollars and no starting components!), I haven't really looked back.

I legally own over a hundred games on Steam, and have spent, at my estimate, less than three hundred dollars. That would have gotten me six games on consoles. Even factoring in the cost of the desktop, bringing it to fifteen hundred, I'd be looking at a console and thirty games, if that. I've heard that games are where consoles make their money before, but looking at the numbers really drives the point home, and illustrates how a PC is a much more efficient investment.

Anyone else with me, here?

Not to that extreme, but I am spending more time using my PC these days. To me it is all based on what games I have for where. I currently have a good PC, but I also have good games on it SC2 DA2 Civ5 and so on that I like to play.

In a few months I might be playing PS3 again

 

[Azmael Silverlance]

I didnt exactly go from PC to console but recently ive been playing alot on my new PS3....but since the creators argument was price....the i dont know....i buy whatever games i want and dont worry about price so my choice was based on games i wanted to play.

But i agree PC market is better but most of those sales and packages you guys speak of are of old games. And altho you cant buy console games the same way online you still get packages of similar quality on Gaming Stores. So its pretty much the same thing. Older games get cheaper and get put in bundles and ppl buy em.

I think there alot of awesome console games right now and i dont know what all this fuss about consoles dying is.
But there is no way the PC will die....you need to kill the internet and microsoft word for that!

 

[moretimethansense]

I knew, years ago, that buying sale games on Steam is many times cheaper than buying console games retail, or even Direct-to-Drive. I saved up for a desktop, got (what I thought) was a reasonable package deal, and even though I usually have to tone done the visuals (hey, let's see you do better with twelve hundred dollars and no starting components!), I haven't really looked back.

I legally own over a hundred games on Steam, and have spent, at my estimate, less than three hundred dollars. That would have gotten me six games on consoles. Even factoring in the cost of the desktop, bringing it to fifteen hundred, I'd be looking at a console and thirty games, if that. I've heard that games are where consoles make their money before, but looking at the numbers really drives the point home, and illustrates how a PC is a much more efficient investment.

Anyone else with me, here?

That would have gotten you six NEW games on consoles, I thought I better point that out, thrifty shoppers can faind great games quite cheap if they don't mind waiting a bit.

As to your question, I comute.

 

[Cpu46]

I migrated more because of the fact that I chose not to bring my 360 to college with me this year. My computer kinda sucks as far as graphics go however so it limits the games I can get.

 

[hazabaza1]

I went from mainly console with PC on side to mainly PC with console on side.

 

[viranimus]

I legally own over a hundred games on Steam

I cant help but to say no you dont as you own nothing when you buy from steam outside of a long term rental license for access that can be revoked at steams discretion.

As for migrating? No, yes, maybe, not really. My first console was an Atari 2600. However I programed my first game on a tandy computer when I was 6. Granted I did own another computer until 1999 once I had access to it I used it for some gaming. I personally perfer PC titles when available but with exclusives I really cant see the logic in limiting ones self to one platform.

 

[HentMas]

I have, but its more an economic change than a preference change, i can buy a LOT of games via steam at prices much more accesible, a new game here in MX can cost up to 150 bucks, (or more) whilst in steam its much cheaper (i believe 99.99) and i dont need to go into the store to buy it

I still buy the ocasional exlusive, but i have being gameing much more in PC, when i was a full console fanboy.