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favorite game console

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You can buy controllers for PCs, though I'm not sure if its worth the trouble or if they work for every game.

They don't.

PC games are designed to be played with a mouse and a keyboard. With a keyboard, every single button can perform a different action. If you include those buttons plus the Alt key, that multiplies the numbers of buttons on a keyboard. That means the number of actions that can be done on a game designed to be played on the PC are extremely high.

Console games are designed to be played with a controller. In the days of the NES, the controller had a D-pad and Start, Select, A, and B buttons. The controller for the Sega system added a C button.

Nowadays, consoles can expect to have a larger number of buttons on their controller. There's a D-pad, two Sticks, Start, Select, A, B, X, Y, R1, R2, L1, L2. Or, in the case of the Wii and DS, fewer buttons but there's movement sensors for extra gameplay. While that is a vastly greater number of buttons than before, it's still not as much as a keyboard.

Game designers take this into account when designing games for the PC and the console. Games designed for console games can be easily played on the PC. However, PC games are more difficult to adapt to consoles.

However, one reason why people prefer console games is because of the simplicity of it. I don't like games where I have to go all over the keyboard to do so. I prefer to have simpler commands, which is why I like console games.

However, if consoles became defunct, it's iffy if designers would continue to design games that were more simple to play.

So I continue to play console games over PC games because I prefer simpler games. I'm not saying PC games are bad - I'm just saying they aren't for me.
 
I too have to go old school - my SEGA Genesis still works after almost 16 years of playing on it.

[Genesis does what Nintendon't :D]
 
It depends. Of the current consoles out there (this gen), the 360 is the hands down winner in terms of gaming. It has the best library and is the most versatile. It's missing a Blue Ray player, but that's not really a gaming feature. It's nice if you wanted a blue ray player and a gaming system, but the PS3 doesn't measure up to the 360 in terms of gaming. Neither does the Wii, which is mostly just a casual gamer's console. It's fun, but it doesn't have the game library or the online capabilities that XBox and Playstation enjoy.

If we're talking over all, it's hard to surpass the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The SNES is probably one of the best gaming consoles to have come out. It's followed closely by the N64; which was able to take games out of the PC universe and embed them into console gaming. There's always the classics like the NES and the Genesis as well; one shouldn't over look Sega. The Dreamcast, BTW, was a fantastic system. One of the first to really push online gaming too...although the early days of PSO were fraught with hacks and all sorts of unpleasantries.
 
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