Poll: Why do you use the gaming platform you use?

[infohippie]

I play on PC only, because the games I prefer are more available on PC, are deeper/more fun/more involved on PC (Oblivion and all it's mods, for example) and I really dislike controllers. I'd be a lot more kindly disposed towards consoles if I could use a mouse & keyboard in most of their games. Finally, I don't watch much TV, almost none in fact. So my only TV is a shitty old blurry CRT. Console gaming would require me to buy a new TV, making console gaming more expensive for me than PC gaming currently is.

 

[Booze Zombie]

PC and 360 keep me going. Why? Because they're the two I invested in first and to be honest, I get all I want out of them.

 

[Cridhe]

I use PC because it is better than everything in every way possible.

I'll just add the "in my opinion" part in for you.

 

[Wintermoot]

PC 100% backwards compatible.
and fully upgradeable.

 

[Void Droid]

I use PS3 and nothing else. Played the Wii games I "needed" when I borrowed a friends, same with Xbox and after those 6 or 7 games there is nothing that I can justify buying each console for. PS3 has better exclusives I enjoy and any multiplatform stuff are on it too (obviously), timed exclusives for Xbox never bother me because I never buy games on release day anyway.

 

[Haz88]

PS3, PC, Wii, GC, N64, SNES. Right now I am a bit platform agnostic, though I used to swear by Nintendo.
I own a PS3 instead of an XBox since I thought that the exclusives appealed more to me at the time. I haven't been entirely wrong, but I would have loved to play Alan Wake and Gears of War. Oh well. I think the BluRay-player mellows it out somewhat. I play platformers(Mario, Outland etc.) and adventure games (Zelda, Darksiders, Ratchet and Clank etc.) on consoles as I like to use a controller for those games and I play FPS's, RTS's and puzzles on PC. I prefer a mouse and keyboard for shooters as I really can't figure out how not to die with a controller.

 

[Nouw]

Xbox:360 and PC.

Xbox because my T.V. isn't blu-ray and the fact that it has some great exclusives. The first part is the main reason but even if it is fairly minor I haven't regretted my purchase once. PC to play strategy games and to use Steam.

 

[ReaperGrimm]

Xbox at the time halo was the king (before cod4 came out and boot halo off that throne)Mass effect was still Xbox and pc only, and at the time I lacked the funds to get a good quality gaming PC, and still do. =(
Edit: PS2 still plugged in and going strong!

 

[CheckD3]

I'm a PS3 man, but I use my X360 occasionally, I also like to go retro and play my PS2, or my Gamecube. I use my PS3 more than anything, for movies, for games that are on both consoles, for netflix, for pretty much everything.

The discs run smoother, the online is free and the controls feel not only tighter by more natural to me, and I grew up on GC so there's no favoritism here, especially since after the GC, my 2nd home console was my friend's Xbox

 

[Nupu]

I use PC and nothing else because Im too poor to buy a console, and because all of my friends use a PC too.

 

[bakan]

I use my PC, PS3 and PSP - well, and sometimes still the PS2.
I like to to play JRPG's, or things like Shadow of the Colossus, 7 Killers etc which i can't get on the PC, so i have the playstations for this kind of games.

Oh and somewhere I have a SNES and N64 but they aren't in use

 

[Cprl Caboose]

I play PC for everything but console exclusives and sports games.

 

[Cridhe]

I prefer my Xbox, but I do enjoy some games on PC.

1) I find a handy dandy controller to be far more comfortable to operate than kb/mouse. I can lay back, sit back, even play upside down if I want to.

2) All my friends (real friends from actual life) own 360s and are on Live. I'm probably the nerdiest of the bunch and the only one of them that plays some of my games on PC. Since I moved away from them all for a job, I can still connect with them this way and play the multiplayer games we always loved this way.

 

[StormShaun]

All of the above BUT

PC: Beacause it is the MASTER of ALL

then
Xbox: Because Im used to it the most and most of my games are on it

then PS3: Because of blu ray and exclusive games for ps3

And thats it. (Exept I have WII and other but I dunno want to mention it)

 

[TiefBlau]

PC, Wii, and PS3.

I got the Wii because it is, by nature, something that can't be replaced by my rig.

I got the PS3 because it has a variety of interesting exclusives like Valkyria Chronicles, Heavy Rain, Uncharted 2, Super Meat Boy, Infamous, Red Dead Redemption, and other stuff I can't get on my PC.

I don't have a 360 because A) Microsoft engages in some pretty fucking unsavory business practices, B) They don't have many things I can't get in the other three platforms, and C) Xbox Live. It just...sucks.

Oh, and D) Holy shit do these consoles have shitty quality control. I hear about a red ring from my friends, what, once a month? And I've taken one apart once to take a look and it might as well have been put together with glue stick.

 

[ResonanceSD]

Most powerful hardware in the world, ability to multitask

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

I have the 360, PS3 and the Wii, so I'll instead make this about why I'm a console gamer rather than a PC gamer.

Mostly it's because consoles are easier, they don't require updates/high-maintenance, I vastly prefer a controller to a keyboard/mouse, I hate sitting hunched over my computer monitor, and would rather just kick back on a couch or bed and play games on my TV.

Like 98% of the games I want to play are on consoles. Some of them are also on PC, but like I said, the console is just easier and more convenient and more comfortable, so that's why I go with consoles.

 

[Stavros Dimou]

I use a computer because I already had a computer for work,and the only thing that needed to add to it to be able to play modern games was a 100$ graphics card.
The cheapest current gen console costed 200$,so I thought it would be better investment to pay half the money that I would spend for a console on a part for my PC that will let me play the same games.
It was a budget issue.

The mods,slightly better graphics,and lower prices for games are extras.