There is no real limit to how powerful you can make your PC
Want to shove in some more RAM? How about spending a big chunk of change on two GTX 980s? Maybe a graphics card with more VRAM? Manufacturers are churning out bigger and better bits of hardware and software all the time. With money to pour into your obsession, it's always possible to stay ahead of the curve. You can build rigs of the future, right now, prepared to take advantage of things like 4K gaming, which is still in its infancy.Cheap PCs are better than consoles
You can build a respectable PC that matches the PS4 or Xbox One for around £400, and pushing your bank account another £100 or so will get you what you need to outperform the consoles. Not everyone’s a builder, though, and going through a PC building service will cost a bit more.You can decorate it to make it truly yours.
An Xbox One is always going to look like a glorified VHS player, no matter which way you look at it. Build a PC, and you have an incredibly vast selection of options on how your rig looks. Want a sleek, small, minimalist box for under your living room TV? We can do that. Prefer a monstrous behemoth with vents, digital readouts, and ambient lighting? That’s not even the most outrageous you can achieve.
There are more games for PC than there are for game consoles.
New AAA games might still be a bit pricey, but on PC you can expect to pick them up for about £10 less than their console counterparts. For every three games you get for you PS4 or Xbox One, you can get four on PC. There’s a bit more parity with indie games, though.
Games are more social on PC
Pretty much every multiplayer game on PC supports chat, in both text and voice. If you’re happy to talk with the other players on your team just plug in a mic and start jabbering. If you’d rather stay a shadowy virtual presence you can just type the odd ‘gg’ or ‘nice one’ into the text chat. However you like to socialise, you can do it on PC.
Portable gaming
While the Wii U and PS4 have some portable functionality through the gamepad controller and the PS Vita, respectively, it’s not the same as being able to take your PC library on the train with you. Want to know what games you should get for a laptop?
PCs can do too many things to list, even in this really big list
What we care about is gaming, but getting a PC means getting the best way to browse the internet, a word processor, a video editor and countless other things that we often forget about because we’re so busy playing games.
Mouse and keyboard offers more precision
PCs are all about options, and that extends to how you control your games. With a mouse and keyboard, things that are increasingly programmable and customisable, you have an almost bewildering number of options. A controller might sit comfortably in your hands, but it doesn’t come even close to the level of control and precision that you get with a mouse and keyboard.
Chatting isn’t a nightmare
If you see one of your friends playing a game you love on Xbox, you have to go through a rigmarole of sending requests and setting up parties to get in the same voice server as them. That, or send them a written message with the torturous on-screen keyboard. On PC, simply say hi using Steam’s chat overlay, and if they’re free to chat just call them using the VOIP feature in Steam or swap to something like Skype or Teamspeak.


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